34 Nigerian Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian. Goodluck Jonathan

Worth Ambition Nobody Always Blood Any Nigerian

Because of my Nigerian heritage, Jumia's use of technology to deliver innovative online services to consumers and improve the quality of everyday life in Africa is very important to me. I'm thrilled to be a part of this unique enterprise that is shaping the future of digital Africa. Andre Iguodala

Life Future Me Technology Quality Digital Everyday Life Important Heritage Everyday Innovative Enterprise Online Thrilled Deliver Consumers Shaping Part Because Very Improve Africa Use Unique Services Nigerian

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup. Ben Okri

You Restaurant Pepper Having Come Without Soup Cannot Nigerian

Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things. Ben Okri

Words Believe Some Reactions Still Very Things Nigerian

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever. Buchi Emecheta

World Somebody Whatever Rather Developing Like Than Nigerian Third Third World

I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them. Burna Boy

Me Relationship People Feeling Relate Reciprocal Say Though Feed Lot Off African Apart Them Nigerian

I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them. Burna Boy

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Myself Home Eyes World Will Half Year Live Other Consider Through Look Comfortable Always Who Nigeria Nigerian

My dad was this pint-sized Nigerian with an oversized personality. My mother is a tall six foot something Irish-English woman. Us walking down the street was quite an unusual sight, when I was growing up. Chuka Umunna

Woman Personality Mother Down Sight Something Foot Unusual Tall Up Walking Quite Six Us Dad Growing Growing Up Street Nigerian

Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants. DeObia Oparei

The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone. Ed Royce

Preserving Considerable Sierra Sierra Leone Stay Cost Instrumental Been Dollars Encourage Very Stability Done Us Should Lives Nigeria Nigerian Nigerians

The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established. Ed Royce

Government Other Other Countries Ghana Sierra Sierra Leone Stay Support Countries Until Also Umbrella Stability Established Should Including Nigerian

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. Ibrahim Babangida

Alone Government Progress Other Collaboration Reconcile Relying Fact Remain Could Merely Come Fellow Him Himself His Provide Person Hands Essentially Social Average Social Progress Her Nigerian Nigerians

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. Ibrahim Babangida

Freedom Democracy Natural Challenge Free Market Appropriate Project Saw Emergence Direction Restructure Free Market Environment New Economy Cultivation Modern Order Social Social Order Nigerian

Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy. Isaac Yeffet

Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history. Jidenna

Music Me History Father Made Single Every Melodies Bay Bay Area Would Would-Be Brooklyn Atlanta Vocal Area Fellow Smooth Am His Up Legacy Chiefs Sitting Artist Grew Place Groove Trap Now Nigerian Funk

My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria. Kehinde Wiley

Family Mother Father First Met Before Broke Born Angeles He Returned Los Los Angeles Go His Texas Up Where African-American Flew Nigeria Nigerian University

I knew I was Yoruba and Nigerian for the first 9 years of my life. I did not become conscious of my color and all that came with it until I moved to the United States with my family. Luvvie Ajayi

Life Family My Life First Become States Color Knew Until Came Years Did Moved United United States Conscious Nigerian

The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram. Muhammadu Buhari

Government Military Resources Unable Weapons Beat Provided Means Nigerian

Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time. Pamela Meyer

I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on. Sophie Okonedo

Me Culture Sense Draw Those Embedded Inside Practising Am Lot Very Handy Which Acting Things Nigerian Jew

I'm proud of being a Nigerian international and am always committed to playing for my country. Victor Moses

Country Always Proud Am Committed Being International Nigerian Playing

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

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