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 resurrection of Lazarus, dead for four days remains one of the most remarkable miracles of all time. Apparently, it is not only dead souls that are capable of being revived after being given up as dead. The Board and Management of Skye Bank Plc have embarked on a bold programme of bringing the bank back from the brink. They have started in a remarkable way.

THE story by Anna Okon quoted a report titled The Nigerian Hospitality Report by Jumia Travels recently. That should not surprise those of us who travel all over Nigeria extensively every year. This writer visited only twenty seven states last year. That has been the lowest number in the last ten years; unlike 2011 when at least one visit was made to all the thirty-six states of Nigeria.

LAST year, the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, emerged as the worst global exchange, shedding a little bit over N1 trillion. Those who lost money on the exchange last year have only themselves to blame because they can now add that loss to the list of “everything that could have been avoided”.

It is sad that in 2017, one has to repeat the same warnings to those with investments on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE. For three or four years in a row, it has been in steady decline. Yet some people still place their funds in it or leave them there. Last year, investors lost over N1 trillion on the aggregate. They are set to lose more in 2017. but first read a previous warning. Then we meet again next week.