Abiola Dosunmu

“While other countries were granted debt reliefs, our lenders initially refused to grant same to us because they said we were a wealthy country, and didn’t deserve it. At the end of the day, we got it, had a clean slate and were not saddled by any loans.”

“I have been there and I believe in it; I believe that our culture, our tradition is what we are and is who we are and then if we make it second-class, then we will remain second-class people in the world"".”

“The territory of Lagos has always been an extension of the Benin Kingdom in the sense that they used it as a passage to the port for their trading and interaction with foreigners. We all know that foreigners visited the Benin Empire long before colonialism and signing of the treaty of Lagos.”