IN my crawls at the back of British taxis in London a fortnight ago, the radio stations never seemed tired wailing about United States (US) Republican presidential front runner, Donald Trump.

Barack Obama and his top aides struggled to fend off questions about Vice President Joe Biden’s possible 2016 run Monday, as rampant speculation threatened to eclipse the White House’s political message.

POLITICS is not a game for the feint of heart. This truism has been reiterated in various shapes and forms. American politics is one of the most brutal. Nobody comes out of it with his reputation intact. Your political adversaries will pound at your name until it reeks of filth. Barack Obama confessed that he usually hides the Newspapers from his children, because he hates their reaction when they read the hate filled diatribes against their father.

GLOBAL leaders, who were at the memorial ceremony for former South African President, Nelson Mandela, yesterday in Soweto, were unanimous in their tributes to the late anti-Apartheid hero, who they described as a gift to humanity.

The United States President, Mr. Barack Obama, described Mandela as a giant of history.
Speakers at the FBN Stadium venue of the service were given three minutes each.

US President Barack Obama led world tributes Tuesday to Nelson Mandela, hailing him as “a giant of history” at a rain-soaked memorial attended by tens of thousands of South Africans united in proud, noisy celebration.