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.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

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

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.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

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.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

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.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

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

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
- Ibrahim Babangida Quote