In those pleasant days when Nigerian schools still taught kids anything worthwhile, Romeo and Juliet, was every secondary school student’s favourite love story –irrespective of gender. The name given to the nation’s latest attempt to re-introduce fiscal discipline should induce in those old enough to remember when budgets were sacrosanct the quip, “What’s in a name?”

Prof. Akpan Ekpo, Director General, West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM), owned by the Central Banks of Anglophone West Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Gambia and Liberia)

If only the residents of Alimosho knew that living in that area would pose unending hardship on them, they would rather have taken a second thought. The burden of living in that area is so unbearable that lots of people have either lost their jobs or resorted to taking their fate within their hands.

The storm is already gath ering once again over the Federal Government’s recent decision to remove subsidy from the price of fuel from next January.

Lab results presented Thursday at Dr. Conrad Murray’s involuntary manslaughter trial show that Michael Jackson’s fingerprints were not found on medical evidence taken from his bedroom at a rented Holmby Hills mansion.