Quotes by Muhammadu Buhari - Page 1

I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Ghana
Inauguration
Presidential
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I belong to everybody, and I belong to nobody.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Everybody
Nobody
Belong
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Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Boko Haram
Collectives
Haram
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We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Corruption
Economy
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Those who embezzle public funds should be ready to face the consequences.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Consequences
Funds
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We know we are on the right path. Our journey is not finished, but we have come a long way.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Journey
Finished
Long
Long Way
Path
Right Path
Come
Right
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The U.S. government understands the importance of Nigeria in Africa and the world at large.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Nigeria
Understands
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We will encourage our countrymen to stay at home, work hard, and make a respectable living at home.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Countrymen
Respectable
Work Home Will
Encourage
Work Hard
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I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Living Room
Party
Belongs
Room
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The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Military
Resources
Weapons
Beat
Nigerian
Provided
Unable
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We are going to secure this country. We are going to manage it properly. We will continue to improve the situation, security, economy, and fighting corruption.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Corruption
Country
Economy
Fighting
Manage
Secure
Situation
Continue
Improve
Properly
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A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the vice-president to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Ill
Assumed
Deputy
Hoped
Reached
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The thing that the Nigerian government will do is to secure the environment. If the environment is not secured, then unfortunately, the investments wouldn't be coming in.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Environment
Secure
Unfortunately
Investments
Nigerian
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People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party, not even APC
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Choices
Party
People
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I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Display
Precedent
President
Proud
Setting
Statesmanship
Jonathan
Nigerians
Our People
Thank
Wherever
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A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Office
Past
People
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I think, technically, we have won the war because people are going back into their neighbourhoods. Boko Haram as an organised fighting force - I assure you that we have dealt with them.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Fighting
Organised
War Fighting People
Assure
Dealt
Won
Technically
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I think we should be very worried because, with technology, Boko Haram and other terrorists have become very mobile in all continents, not only in Africa but also in Europe, America, and Asia.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Asia
Continents
Europe
Mobile
Worried
Africa
Terrorists
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There are about 100 German companies in Nigeria, and German investors have earned a lot of respect from Nigeria because of the quality of the manufactured goods they produce, especially machinery.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Goods
Machinery
Nigeria
German
Earned
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We should have solved the current insecurity in the Northeast and South by now. Are the states able to shoulder the burden of the police? You cannot just give someone guns and ammunition, train him, and refuse to pay him.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Ammunition
Burden
Insecurity
Guns
Current
Northeast
Shoulder
Solved
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As long as we can establish the bona fides of the leadership of Boko Haram, we are prepared as a government to discuss with them how to get the girls back. But we have not established any evidence of a credible leadership.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Leadership
Credible
Evidence
Prepared
Established
Bona
Discuss
Establish
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I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Commitment
Country
Movement
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We are asking Nigerians for their cooperation. They shouldn't expect miracles to happen a couple of months after we've taken over because the destruction took so many years - 16 years of the ruling party's rule of this country.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Cooperation
Destruction
Ruling
Miracles
Nigerians
So Many Years
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How is it that Nigeria's military, which has a good record across West Africa, cannot claim back to 14 out of 774 local governorates from Boko Haram? They have to ask for mercenaries from South Africa? How the mighty has fallen!
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Fallen
Mercenary
Nigeria
South Africa
Claim
Good Record
Mighty
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The federal government of Nigeria has always preferred to talk to bona fide Boko Haram leaders about the release of the Chibok girls, but we must have a credible person or persons that will intervene, preferably United Nations or NGOs.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Credible
Federal Government
Nigeria
Release
United Nations
Government Always Will
Government Always Must
Bona
Bona Fide
Intervene
Ngos
Preferred
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As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Trust
Government
Abuse
Constitution
Country
Governance
Levels
My Own
Trust Me People
Government Me People
Accountable
Allow
As Far As
Watch
Ensure
Far
Nigerian
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Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Education
Girl
Citizens
Direct
Educate
Empowered
Nigeria
Poverty
Young
Education Learning Must
Appeal
Grow
Through
Part
Full
Ensuring
Grow Up
Must
Pull
Themselves
Young Girls
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There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Belief
Groups
Ignorance
Poverty
Western
Among
English
Brings
Indeed
Join
Opportunities
Reasons
Roughly
Sinful
Young People
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The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Dream
Believe
Passion
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If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Alluring
Answers
Difficult
Fanaticism
Former
Fundamentalism
Members
Promise
Starving
Young
Admitted
Fact
Group
Mentors
Minds
Search
Twist
Young People
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The foreign companies, especially oil prospects and development companies, have been in Nigeria for about two generations - 40 years and above and so on. So, they know the environment. They stayed that long. They continue to invest because they know the potential Nigeria has in oil and gas and the capacity of the people to learn and work hard.
Muhammadu Buhari / Former President Of Nigeria
Capacity
Gas
Generations
Nigeria
Prospects
Work Long People
Invest
Stayed
Work Hard
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