The parable of Palm Tree as told to Obafemi Awolowo
 
“Among the groups that visited me on 6th June were AG [Action Group] members from Owode in Egba Division – Owode was the Constituency of Chief [Ayo] Rosiji. They came in four lorries, about one hundred of them – men and women. They were led by Chief Lajiga (of blessed memory). He was an elderly man of well over eighty years of age, and the AG Chairman for Owode area. He made a moving speech, in the course of which he gave two parables which I considered most fitting to the prevailing circumstances,

What My Father Taught Me -HRH Lamido Sanusi

"I remember in 1978 or 1979, I was an undergraduate and my father had retired from the Foreign Service and we were having a conversation in the car. And at that time I was all over the place; I wanted to be a professor... I wanted to be this and that. But he said to me, 'This is not how to be somebody if you really want to play a role in history, you need to define yourself; pick one or two or three things and do them constantly. And these things don't have to be big things.'