If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years without self-improvement

You will always have time for what you make time for

A man in love does not notice the cut of the dress, but rather a face of a beloved.

He's (God's) always preparing you for that glorious life, even in your tough times.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.