Favourite Quotes

“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 […]

“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 for anyone’s trouble and more often than not we turn the other cheek as our bible requires us to do. We are indeed very slow

“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. How can I thank God enough for the flowers in my garden? for the wonderful and beautiful lives he has given me to tend? for

“A man who does not know anything about the events that took place before he or she was born will remain forever a child.” ______________ Herodotus, 418 B.C, the Greek philosopher that is known as the “father of history”.

“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 Tuchman.

“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 he’s in a hurry to debunk those who consider him too colourless and uninspiring to represent Nigeria at the international forum. If he thinks the

“It is only the truly evolved mind that can see beyond the narrow horizons of race, ethnicity or religion and that can demand and propose fair treatment for all regardless.” ______________ Christie Akumabor, August 2010.