"The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership."

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Source : Chinua Achebe (1984). “The Trouble with Nigeria”, p.1, Heinemann

Chinua Achebe

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“My goal in writing for teens and tweens is to help my audience feel inspired and empowered today, to find their voice today, to believe that they can truly design the life of their dreams...today. I mean seriously...why wait?”
“You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.”
“In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.”
“Not the ones speaking the same language,Â but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.”
“The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.”
“He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”
“There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability.”

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“Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.”

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