The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

We know the potentiality of Nigeria and the talent and the resources and to see it having no effect on the lives of the people, on the infrastructure, the roads, the hospitals, the schools, seeing no effect of these talents, these recourses is very frustrating. But it is the result of the damage that was done to the country, especially during the various military regimes.

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.