“I reassure you that government is determined to bring succor to our people and the only way we can do this is by taking strong action to change, in a fundamental way, the current trajectory of the Nigerian economy.”

The Nigerian Public service is reportedly heavily burdened with a ghost population, who not only unexpectedly write job applications and present themselves for interviews, but who also open bank accounts and collect salaries, despite their human shortcomings! Curiously, the CBN’s “know your customers” directive to banks was obviously no deterrent to the establishment of bank accounts for such ghosts!

I HAVE spent years studying governance in Nigeria and reached the conclusion that even if I spend the next century, I will remain unschooled. I have many teachers, but my favourite is 54-year old Rochas Anayo Okorocha the charismatic Governor of Imo State. He started out early in life as a trader and the survivalist instinct has seen him navigate through many waters.

Taurus although, second sign of the zodiac, is the first of the earth signs, and that means leadership ability especially when it comes to reckoning with who is who among people that have staying power and those that can be regarded as serious minded (hard workers) and practical set of peop1e.

In a series of essays I wrote about Easter several months ago, I argued that the biblical story concerning the arrest, trial, crucifixion and purported resurrection and ascension of the character named Jesus is a myth.