Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.