UN General Assembly
1962

91. Consequently, our six-year development programme is geared to creating a welfare State, and not a warfare State - one which will be of service to the people of Nigeria, to Africa and, in our humble way to the world community to which we belong. Anyone who is acquainted with our development programme will see that we lay great emphasis upon the development of agriculture — the wherewithal of existence — and of our educational institutions, because, with knowledge and trained personnel and a thorough understanding of our material and mental and moral environment, it will be possible for Nigeria to play the role which history and circumstances have called upon it to play on the African Continent. We cannot do that with empty minds. Man is not purely a material being.