Secondly, we have human passion. Hegel correctly observes that human desires, passions and personal aims, people’s drive to satisfy their selfish interests – which means the entire infrastructure of our subjective wills – are the most effective springs of human actions. In apparent agreement with David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who claimed that reason is the slave of the passions and can pretend to no other office, Hegel affirms that passion, not rationality, motivates human beings, that “nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” It follows that human beings are propelled to action by their own inner subjective wills to satisfy their natural instincts, inclinations, interests and needs.

Nigeria’s television news leader, Channels Television, is 21 years old. Last Wednesday, it closed trading at the Nigerian Stock Exchange as part of a week-long line up of events to celebrate its 21st anniversary.

Success is earned and so it should be. It takes a long time to be successful and of course, if you are successful, then it is only right that you deserve all trappings that come with your hard work. Nothing comes easy in life and there is no overnight success, it is blood, sweat and toil.

While others had their eyes glued to the pages carrying the President’s budget address to the joint session of the National Assembly, NASS, some of us were paying greater attention to movements in the global oil sector. Like it or not, the volume of oil exported next year and the average price per barrel will still be the major determinant of how the Nigerian economy performs next year – just as it was in 2016 and years before it.

I have always eagerly looked forward to Christmas. Not for what I can get out of it, but for the juiciest events I usually find myself smack in the middle of. Take the last Christmas eve, for instance.