QUOTES OF THE WEEK   

They sent me out of Nigeria, I have six children, I have a wife that I did not see for close to two years. And when they took me to Kuru, I spent one year and I graduated, and did well, but they stood in front of my graduation class and they said they could not give me my own certificate and it is the same people who took me to court and said I did not declare my assets.

– Nuhu Ribadu, former chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, stating that his attempt to fight corruption nearly cost him his life.

Buhari

If the Independent National Electoral Commission needs N100bn to conduct a free and fair election and Nigeria can afford it, so be it. We must know that elections must hold next year. There is no doubt that we need to have elections next year.
– Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, former Head of State saying no amount of money is too much for INEC to conduct free and fair elections in the country.

In Nigeria today, 49.9 per cent of the youth between the ages of 15 and 25 are unemployed, that is the blueprint for insecurity.
– Sanusi Lamido, Central Bank Governor, deploring the high rate of youth unemployment in the country with its implications on  security.

The issue is that we have to be very mindful of FIFA statutes. If we yield to the pressure to dissolve the state FA boards just to allow their elections to be conducted before ours, that will amount to extending the tenure of the present NFF executive committee, and that’s exactly what FIFA does not want.
– Aminu Maigari, acting President, Nigeria Football Federation, stating that the 36 state commissioners for sport that directed the NFF to dissolve the boards are ignorant of the rules of the game.