It has sadly become a tradition for annual fiscal plans to be packaged with flowery phrases which elicit hope for rapid improvement in social and economic enhancement, with the expected budget implementation.

The scriptures tell us about the thousand-year reign of Christ. (Revelation 20:4-7). Is this something that has already taken place or something that will take place in the future? If it has already taken place, when did it start and when will it end?

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.