DONALD Trump ran a brilliant campaign in the last US elections. Apart from the issues around Hillary’s private email, he attacked the Clinton Foundation, accusing it of selling access to Mrs. Clinton, US Secretary of State for money. He hinted that Mrs. Clinton lacked stamina for the job of President.

AS I landed in Abuja on February 9, from Lagos, a senior journalist on board with me wore a pensive mood as he said the following words to me: “I am pan-Nigerian but certain things shake your faith like the advertisement in today’s edition of the Daily Trust”. It was an Obituary on page 46 of the paper by 70 members of ASP COURSE 14 for the late Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Francis Mobolaji Odesanya.

WHEN Buhari announced his cabinet members and granted the Ministers portfolios, nobody could have selected the Minister for Transport, Rotimi Amaechi as the minister most likely to succeed in the first term. Compared with appointees from the Southwest and Southeast who had received rave reviews as governors of their states or prolific National Publicity Secretaries, Amaechi apparently had no chance to top the class of 2015 Ministers.

THE Finance Minister, Olusegun Aganga and his entourage have planned roadshows traversing markets in Europe and the United States to promote Nigeria’s credit worthiness and facilitate popular subscription of a proposed $500m/Euro loan.

If Saro-Wiwa had a quiet, reflective side, Ilenre was it, often, you could see them together in Lagos; in those days, if you ran into Ilenre, Saro-Wiwa was not likely to be far away, or Ilenre could tell you what part of the world his bosom friend could be found