“When you’re consuming and you’re devaluing, you’re only digging your own grave.”

“Going forward, we need to really rethink how we fund a lot of things in education in our country.”

E“What is at stake here is the ego of the people involved. Every war can be ended with a dialogue from the beginning.”

“I can pardon the president who adds three or four new ministries but I want to see definition. What is it that these ministries are supposed to do differently?”

He also said that the mandate of ECOWAS, as an economic community, is not to impose themselves on a sovereign country.

He promised to work with all partners to redefine the future of the economy with gas.

“We’ve already agreed and fine tuned what will be required for the intervention,” they said.

“He has bought 80% of his needs from me. It’s not bad that he took some from any other place to make sure his security is working.

The high commissioner said the conflict should be resolved, not through one group’s beliefs, but in a way the world will benefit.

He said the youth need to look up to a leader that would be a role model and that is who Momoh is for them.

“NNPC is now a limited liability company. How come we still have a sole owner? Is it a one-man business?”

It also released 100,000 bags of rice to states as the states insist World Bank’s $800m support should be through cash transfers.

He said that the bandits were taking advantage of the situation to instill fear in Nigerians.

She described the coups in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea as  ideological realignment.

“The only places you will not hear of military aircraft crashes are in places that do not have the aircraft to fly.”

He said majority of Nigeria’s refineries are obsolete.

The Macroeconomics professor also said that deregulation of the oil sector, considering the current realities, will lead to an oligopolistic market which will not benefit the economy.

The former regent stated that there was no connection between politics and the attacks on the kingdom.

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