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Remi Sonaiya
7 quotes
“It is time to step up the game. For a country that has 70% of its population as young people, that 70% has no business being quiet.”
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“I decided to run for office because the people who were running our affairs over several decades were not doing a good job of it. We were living through a shameful and incongruous situation where we were known to be a country with huge resources, but where the overwhelming majority of the people lived in abject poverty... It weighed on my heart that the students I was teaching could not enjoy the same standard of education I had.”
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“In the next couple of years, if the young people of Nigeria decide that something will happen in this nation it must happen, because the number is overwhelming, there is too many of you.”
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“I really don't believe that money should be wasted, not in a country like ours where we are told that so many live below the poverty line.”
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“When do we begin to understand that we need a fundamental change in our political structure?”
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“I would tell my 20-year-old self… To read much more widely. Being a student of the Arts meant that I read a fairly decent amount of literature, but I could have ventured more into other areas – philosophy, biographies of great people, etc. Of course, I’ve done a bit of catching up, but there’s no doubt that some ground was lost.”
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“We must be ready. Women are human beings just like men.It is probably our cultural and traditional ideas and practices and customs that are keeping us down, really. We have seen that women are making important contributions to our lives as a nation and in private sector and in government.”
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