QUOTES OF THE WEEK   

Alfa Begore

Is our present constitution really working? My answer with the greatest respect is that it is far from working.
The framers of the 1999 Constitution certainly looked across oceans to borrow a constitution totally irrelevant to us. Even if we may make one thousand amendments in our present constitution, we shall still remain with an irrelevant document as our fountain of law.
– Alfa Belgore, former Chief Justice of Nigeria, faulting the Nigerian Constitution.

Dora Akunyili

That you conceive, design and produce is not enough for us. We are suffering from huge unemployment in this country. If you produce abroad, you will not be different from automobile manufacturers.
Come home and produce and you will employ our youths roaming the streets.
– Professor Dora Akunyili, Minister of Information and Communications, calling on manufacturers to establish plants in the country to help check  the high rate of unemployment.

Bisi Akande

We shall not limit our search to politicians or members of the party alone, because the problems of our country are of such a magnitude that they cannot be left to politicians. We are, therefore, calling on Nigerians in the academic community, business/industrial community, the corporate world, youth and civil society to join in making this paradigm shift, this generational shift, a reality.
– Chief Bisi Akande, National Chairman, Action Congress of Nigeria, explaining the party’s decision to field the best candidates in various elective positions during the 2011 elections.

We get letters from various ministers, senators, governors, House of Representatives members pleading that we should allow certain players into the national teams, and if teams fail, the blame always comes to us as the sports administrators.
–Amos Adamu, accusing government officials of interference in the administration of football in the country.