Quotes 4th August, 2008

This preparation is just too poor and to know that we are going for the Olympics Games makes it worse. We were on tour for two months before the 2003 All Africa Games, and now we are still in Nigeria preparing for a global event. It is bad.

– A distraught athlete bemoaning their fate as the 2008 summer Olympics draws near

We are looking forward very strongly to bringing Nigeria’s glory in broadcasting back to its proper place. Nigeria, in the continent of Africa, started television broadcasting in October 1959, but today we have to depend on South Africa and other African countries for modern day television broadcasting.

–Chief Raymond Dokpesi, chairman, Daar Communication plc, speaking on plans by his company to put Nigeria on the world map of television  broadcasting.

Ninety per cent of companies operating in Nigeria are briefcase companies without any identifiable contact.

– Mr. Bello Mahmud, Compliance Director, Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, during the review of compliance level of firms to the provision of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA.

You can imagine how much manufacturing companies spend on diesel now that it is N160 per litre. In an economy where 80 per cent of power need is self-generated from diesel, many companies, small and medium scale, have either collapsed or are on the verge of shutting down owing to the high cost of diesel.

–Alhaji Bashir Borodo, president of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, lamenting the effect of the high cost of diesel on the manufacturing sector.