Every bit of human knowledge is from the past whether immediate or distant. Just like historians would say, what happened long ago matters in our present lives.

The pension scheme has a tremendous ability to provide the working class comfort when they retire. Over time, government has rolled out policies, the PenCom Act 2004 as amended in 2014 being one of them, to enhance workers welfare, especially when they retire, but many small businesses neglect or dodge their implementation.

The President advised all of us at the recently concluded Economic Summit to start patronising made in Nigeria products. I am sure many Nigerians in this harsh economic climate will not need too much prompting if the products are available and affordable. It is both patriotic and prudent to so do.

President Muhammadu Buhari last Monday solicited Germany’s assistance in the areas of equipment, training and sharing of intelligence with the Nigerian Navy to curb oil theft in Nigeria. He spoke when he received the German Foreign Minister, Dr. Frank Walters-Steinmeier at the State House, Abuja.

When Jesus chased away those who had made the defilement of the temple their occupation, he was perhaps short on due process. But that is what rottenness and wanton impunity invite – drastic intervention. If that synagogue were a Nigerian institution, many would have flung his rule of love at Him. And labeled him a rascally hypocrite – preaching love and ruthlessly whipping elders.