Zitat des Tages von Yemi Osinbajo:
There must be more rigorous enforcement of rules promoting transparency in the international banking and financial systems, especially more stringent KYC rules on customer identity, source of wealth, and even country of origin.
You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people.
If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.
It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.
Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development.
We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.
Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.
An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.
We don't have all the time in the world with oil. We have to use oil while it makes sense to do so.
The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits.
I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays.
We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down.
It is not possible for one tribe to dominate another based on the way God has structured the country.
Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.
We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked.
If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society.
The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity of the church is that there is no Jew or Gentile.
Our vision is for a country that grows what it eats and produces what it consumes. It is for a country that no longer has to import petroleum products and develop a lucrative petrochemical industry.
The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.
Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes.
The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.
Many would say the reason why they steal is because they want to have an arsenal for future political exploits. It is a lie. It is greed. In any case, even if you want to do that, you have no right to do it.
Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials.
No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work.
As you fight corruption, it fights back.
You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity.
Nigeria's unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made.
If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.
