Nigeria

🇳🇬Chinua Achebe

Literature

1930–2013

"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."

🇳🇬Thomas Babington Macaulay

Politics

1826–1878

"We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation."

🇳🇬Peter Akinola

Religion

b. 1944

"a misfit, a wolf in shepherd’s clothing and one of the end-time agents of the devil sent to lead astray those who would have believed in God."

🇳🇬Yemi Osinbajo

Politics

b. 1957

"The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture."

🇳🇬Wole Soyinka

Literature

b. 1934

"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."

🇳🇬Leo Igwe

Social Activism

humanism

b. 1970

"Human beings are social beings with or without religion."

🇳🇬Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Literature

b. 1977

"“I don’t think I’m more inherently likely to do domestic work, or childcare ... It doesn’t come pre-programmed in your vagina, right?"

"Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."

🇳🇬Nnamdi Azikiwe

Politics

1904–1996

"My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?"

🇳🇬Slim Burna

Music

b. 1988

"Take a little rewind back to 1999, It's not the same place don't look front, better look behind"

🇳🇬Ruggedman

Music

b. 1976

"You either love me or hate me in peace and war."

🇳🇬Umaru Yar'Adua

Politics

1951–2010

"Yar'Adua wins Nigeria elections APRIL 23, 2007"

🇳🇬Chuba Okadigbo

Politics

1941–2003

"I think the first thing is to warn INEC to be careful. It is in their interest to be good neighbors to Nigerians and prove that the country was not a banana republic as the ruling party is making us believe."

🇳🇬Obafemi Martins

Sports

b. 1984

"I am happy at Newcastle. I love the city and the people. Our fans are the best in the world. Even if we are losing or not playing well there are still 52,000 backing us and I respect that."

🇳🇬Buchi Emecheta

Literature

1944–2017

"Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us."

🇳🇬Muma Gee

Entertainment

b. 1978

"One needs to take one’s time because good work takes time. But it must be worth the wait in the end."

🇳🇬Bukola Saraki

Politics

b. 1962

"Many times in history, people have voted our people they didn't want and ended up with people they didn't need. But let me assure you that you have not voted out one bad government only to end up with another."

🇳🇬Aliko Dangote

Politics

b. 1957

"In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it."

"Sometimes you have to take a hard decision and when you take such decision, you have to stand by it. It’s not everybody who sees what you are seeing."

"Men may rule the world, but women rule the men who rule the world."

"If the people in power don’t do enough to integrate Christians then they give oxygen to Islamism. If they have countries where everybody is Muslim in power then you give vent to the idea that Islam should be supreme."

🇳🇬Chigozie Obioma

Literature

b. 1986

"There are some rhetorical moves that I wouldn’t be able to make if I didn’t know these languages. In terms of writing figurative language, I probably pull a lot from Yoruba imagery…"

🇳🇬Philip Emeagwali

Science

b. 1954

"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it. It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."

🇳🇬T. B. Joshua

1963–2021

"“Adopting a lifestyle that is on purpose provides an opportunity to enrich others by leaving your imprint in a positive way."