Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.

I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.

Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't. You just say, am going to allow the law take its course; I am going to empower the agencies which has been set up for such specific purpose of stemming the corrupt out flow of resources from this nation and don't even talk to me about corruption beyond saying you going to strengthen existing institutions.

There's a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions - like this anti-gay law you alluded to - and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people's emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.