SO many mistakes have been made in Nigeria over the years and perhaps the greatest tragedy is not only our penchant for repeating said mistakes but for excusing them, praising or encouraging them for the self-serving purposes of a few.

BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CAPRICORN RULER = AMBITIOUS SATURN-THE LAW. QUALITY = CARDINAL. ELEMENT = EARTH. SYMBOL = THE GLORIOUS MONTAIN GOAT. GROUP = FEMININE. ZODIACAL POSITION = THE 10TH. Because they rarely day dream, Capricorns are set of practical people. This is because Capricorn is ruled by Saturn – the planet of Career, material things […]

IT is best for someone who is 110 years old to speak about a 90 year old – he could then tell you that person’s early life – the rascality or good behaviour; that the person never came first in class as all the older people tell their children. (One bright child asked once – if you all came first, who came second?)

WHEN I wrote “Budget Without Planning ” weeks back in this column about the hollow ritual we have made of a serious business , I had no idea of what was coming our way in the 2017 version.

“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.”