It has become an embarrassment to us liberal, progressive thinkers from the region who have tried to articulate the problems of the region to the outside world. How do we explain the criminal behaviour of some of our boys in the name of militancy? How do we tell the world that fellow Niger Deltans are being kidnapped by rogue elements in the beleaguered region, seeking outrageous sums from families of the kidnapped?

 Professor Hope Eghagha of the University of Lagos, condemning the activities of Niger Delta militants.

We have had cause to inform the Ministry of Education about the proliferation of secondary schools. They don’t just stop there, they call themselves international schools… These are not schools, they are just examinations centres

The All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools, urging the government to arrest the decline in education.

While the House Committee returned theirs, the Senate Committee presided over by the applicant bluntly refused to return the stolen money to the Federal Ministry of Health. The idea of expending the money in late March 2008 on a trip to Ghana was an afterthought.

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,on the need to prosecute Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello.

Any person who is saying that elections can be held in the country at any level is just deceiving himself. We will never have any credible election in Nigeria until something is done fundamentally about the system.

Former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, giving his reasons why it will not be possible to have credible elections in the country.