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.

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

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.

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.

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

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think of it as a kind of relational glue.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'