"The sure thing about your luck is that it will definitely change." "A week man has doubts befoe a decision, a strong man has them afterwards." Karl Kraus. " A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." . Sir Francis Bacon. "Your best teacher is your last mistake." Ralph Nader. "A ko gbodo fi ejo si orile sun." (Yoruba proverb)

"What do you want me to say that I have not said before. I am insisting that Jonathan can not make any meaningful impact on the power situation in the country. I was the Minister of Power and Steel before and I know the enormity of the situation in that sector.So, I would say it anywhere that he can't perform any magic within this period. This brings me to what Bola Ige told me when he was the Minister of Power. He told me that within six months, he would fix the sector. And I told him "Uncle Bola, you can't be able to do that. It is impossible. I told him that he can't even do it within two years. I was talking to him with my experience and knowledge as a former minister of that sector. If he says he would take up issues like electoral reforms, I believe he can do that. But for power, he cannot make any appreciable progress. With my experience and the level of decay in that sector, Jonathan is going no where on it. But if he tries to make people believe he can do it, he is going to soil whatever good policy he made at the end of the day. It will spoil whatever positive achievement he might be able to get within his few months tenure. I am not saying that he should shy away from it. But there are a lot of things to be progressively achieved within this short period. Power requires time and sincere commitment. So, the time is too short for him to perform wonders. Even with good intentions and total commitment, he lacks that luxury of time. He can't do it within eleven moths or one year. To solve the problem of power, Jonathan needs at least two years..."

Professor Tam-David West. Excerpt of interview. April, 2010.

"Beware, I say; time may be short. Do not let us take the course of allowing events to drift along until it is too late. If there is to be a fraternal association of the kind I have described, with all the extra strength and security which both our countries can derive from it, let us make sure that that great fact is known to the world, and that it plays its part in steadying and stabilising the foundations of peace. There is the path of wisdom. Prevention is better than cure."

" Wiston Churchill. Excerpt of speech in Fulton. March 5, 1946.

"The moment any authoritarian regime is deprived of the freedom to do whatever it wishes, is is right at that moment - strategically and historically - the process of unprecedented accelerated economic growth begins." Egor Gaidar. Russia's former Prime Minister.


"Russia saw more protests in the first three months of 2010 than it has seen over the past few years. A wave of demonstrations swept from one end of the country to the other. From Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, demonstrators for the first time made both economic and political demands, shouting 'Down with the tariff increase!' and 'Putin must go!' Putin's power vertical is built on a foundation made of sound. All that it takes for the structure to completely collapse is a few more convulsions - that is, a few more protests that are expected in the coming months. Despite the sky-high ratings for the ruling tandem, the people gave only a "C" grade for the effectiveness of the country's political system, and 60 percent of those questioned expressed dissatisfaction with the development of democracy in Russia. Russians hold deep reservations concerning the legitimacy of the current authorities. Only 38 percent of respondents believe that Russia's leaders - including those at the top - are voted into office through free and fair elections, and fewer than half believe that the modern Russian state is democratic..."