"Exposed to the same fire gold grows red but chaff smokes, and under the same threshing sledge the straw is broken to pieces but the grain separated...in the same affliction…
"The truth is that in order to keep the peace you must prepare for war. That is the whole essence and spirit of the principle of ''deterrance'' and the philosophy…
"As long as the security agencies allow this sort of thing to go on unabated without stopping it or bringing anyone to book after it happens and as long as the local people themselves are not well-armed with sophistcated weapons and well-trained in maintaining and using those weapons to defend themselves, the sectarian killings, the maimings and the barbarity will continue in Jos and in Plateau state. And the truth is that no-one is really interested in the causes anymore. It has now turned into nothing but a bloodfest
"Please try and understand the Fani-Kayode's: we are humble, peaceloving, accomodating, easy going and respectful people. That is the way we have all been brought up. We do not look…
"In my time, I have felt great pain and much grief I have endured, but I must thank God that joy, laughter and wholesome love have never left my doors.…
"A man who does not know anything about the events that took place before he or she was born will remain forever a child."
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"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."
______________ Dapo Ojora, May 2010.
"The famous seven (F7) are a delightful bevy of well-bred royal beauties and thoroughly refined queens."
______________ Femi Fani-Kayode, July 2010.
"Books are the carriers of civilisation. Without books history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
______________ Barbara…
"The secret to a lasting marriage is to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty."
______________ Kevin Bacon.
"While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas."
______________ Thomas Sankara.
"I hope that he (President Goodluck Jonathan) is not a victim of witchcraft because most of his desperate opponents are specialists of the spiritual realm. There are no signs that…