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If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society.
Yemi Osinbajo
Government
People
Nation
Society
Our
Resources
Ministers
Stealing
Attacks
Taking
Judges
Existence
Authority
May
Whether
Persons
Bribe
Whoever
Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials.
Yemi Osinbajo
Will
Our
Diversify
Network
Support
Economy
Efforts
Export
Enhance
Railway
I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays.
Yemi Osinbajo
Today
Future
Time
Spiritual
Law
Tomorrow
Delay
Reap
Every
Too
Every Time
Tremendous
Back
Must
Physical
Delays
Implications
Understand
Till
Leaving
Sowing
Sown
Experiencing
Hold
Frustrate
Reaping
The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture.
Yemi Osinbajo
Agriculture
Industry
Sustainable
Fundamental
Growth
Nigeria
Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail.
Yemi Osinbajo
Integrity
Will
Nation
Fail
Emphasize
Does
Always
Any
Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.
Yemi Osinbajo
Women
National
Society
Increasingly
Borders
Civil
About
Civil Society
Rising
Stepping
Global
Beyond
Also
Governance
National Borders
Improving
Going
Confident
Africa
Much
Standards
Who
Businessmen
Youths
We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down.
Yemi Osinbajo
Best
Down
Beat
Know
Hands
Anywhere
Rice
Nigerian
If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the 1990s convinced that China was going nowhere. How wrong they were.
Yemi Osinbajo
You
Sidelines
Would
Would-Be
Wrong
Like
Around
How
Were
Truly
Gets
Going
Stood
Africa
China
Much
Convinced
Who
Nowhere
Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries.
Yemi Osinbajo
Difficult
Cases
Exceptionally
Countries
Most
Freezing
Tracing
Return
Proved
Stolen
African
Many
Assets
We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked.
Yemi Osinbajo
Financial
Seen
First
Difficult
Ought
Back
Those
System
Financial System
Most
First Place
How
Were
Questions
Get
Stolen
Just
Banks
Place
Asked
International
Even
Assets
Routine
Received
Nigeria
Funds
There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.
Yemi Osinbajo
Wisdom
God
Man
Change
Men
Power
Nations
With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent.
Yemi Osinbajo
Hope
State
Total
Per
Potential
Feed
Mass
Continent
Greatness
Cent
Which
Land
Nigeria
Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.
Yemi Osinbajo
Government
Negative
Consequences
Members
Between
Industry
Still
Juicy
Contracts
Senior
Themselves
Use
Grappling
Awarding
Nigeria
The values of integrity and hard work are necessary for the development of our nation.
Yemi Osinbajo
Work
Hard Work
Integrity
Values
Nation
Our
Development
Hard
Necessary
The Nigerian economy is a huge one.
Yemi Osinbajo
Economy
Huge
Nigerian
Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development.
Yemi Osinbajo
People
Diversity
National
Our
Resources
Mineral
Potential
Development
Also
Same
Transform
Use
Large
United
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
Yemi Osinbajo
You
Man
Money
Church
Will
Earning
Our
Everywhere
Says
Civil
Civil Servant
More
Steal
Allowed
He
Him
Houses
Does
Salary
Up
Account
Than
Did
Hold
Public
Midst
Should
Measure
Found
Servant
The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance.
Yemi Osinbajo
Balance
Christian
President
Muslim
Vice
Vice President
Reason
Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits.
Yemi Osinbajo
Great
Prosperity
Men
Spirits
Great Nations
Abundance
Economies
Nations
Created
Communities
No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work.
Yemi Osinbajo
Work
Hard Work
You
Matter
Country
Our
Some
Without
Makes
How
How Much
Pray
Nations
Cannot
Deciding
Us
Much
Hard
Grow
Fast
The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.
Yemi Osinbajo
Quality
Potential
Investors
Quantum
Huge
Africa
Nigeria's unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made.
Yemi Osinbajo
Generation
Women
Will
Made
Men
Men And Women
Country
Lost
Unity
Enough
This Generation
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Those
Has-Been
Spilled
Thousands
Sacrifices
Wrong
Goodwill
Toy
Been
Blood
Which
Us
Paid
Many
Lives
Nigeria
You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people.
Yemi Osinbajo
You
Change
People
Mind-Set
Corrupt
Born
Want
We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.
Yemi Osinbajo
Government
People
Criticism
Advice
Our
Our People
Policies
Continuous
Government Policies
Committed
Explain
Engagement
Receive
As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil.
Yemi Osinbajo
Our
Out
Diversify
Economy
Particularly
Get
Move
Oil
Aware
Need
It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation.
Yemi Osinbajo
Integrity
Will
Nation
Approach
Our
Threatening
Laws
Wrong
Us
Disobey
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