Nigeria

Capital:             Abuja
Government:     Republic transitioning from military to civilian rule
Currency:         Naira ₦ (NGN)
Area:                923,768 km2
Population:       131,859,731 (July 2006 est.)
Language:         English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani

Nigeria Quotes

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.
-Peter Akinola

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
-Chinua Achebe

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
-Ben Okri

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
-Chinua Achebe

You cannot roast corn with two eyes. 

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
-Ben Okri

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. 

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
-Wole Soyinka

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
-Olusegun Obasanjo

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
-Chinua Achebe

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
-Chinua Achebe

The frog does not jump in the daytime without reason. 

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
-Nnamdi Azikiwe

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
-Chinua Achebe

When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby. 

It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.
-Helen Araromi

A traveler to distant places should make no enemies. 

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
-Ben Okri

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.
-Peter Akinola

A hungry man is an angry one.
-Buchi Emecheta

If a blind man says, "Let's throw stones", be assured that he has stepped on one.