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"I really don't believe that money should be wasted, not in a country like ours where we are told that so many live below the poverty line."

— Remi Sonaiya

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It is time to step up the game. For a country that has 70% of its population as young people, that 70% has no business being quiet.

"When do we begin to understand that we need a fundamental change in our political structure?"

"In the next couple of years, if the young people of Nigeria decide that something will happen in this nation it must happen, because the number is overwhelming, there is too many of you."

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