Frank Talk

By Steve Nwosu How can the classroom, the night club, the church, the office and the mosque all converge in one small place? Inside one small mobile phone! And they call it the new normal? Indeed the abnormal has become the new…

By Steve Nwosu Barrister Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State, is one politician many people love to hate. Even though his most acerbic critics concede that he has largely delivered on his mandate as governor, he has not won too many…

By Steve Nwosu As all manner of people took to the public space, either vilifying or eulogising Malam Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, with whose death, last Friday, the Coronavirus pandemic claimed its…

...Nigeria in a hole, still digging By Steve Nwosu Let me start by making two confessions. The first is that, like most middle-age and elderly people, I also have underlying ailments. Yes, those ailments believed to have the capacity…

By Steve Nwosu I’m not exactly a prophet of doom, but I’m frightened by the reality of the corona virus situation in Nigeria. To begin with, we are a travelling people, who jet out of the country at the drop of a hat, including for the…

By Steve Nwosu About the time reports about Chad executing another batch of Boko Haram members, sentenced to death for their roles in a series of bombings in the country were making the round in the social media, a few weeks ago, a…

By Steve Nwosu Up till this moment, I still don't know whether to celebrate or bemoan the turn of events in Bayelsa State. With less than 24 hours to the inauguration of Chief David Lyon as governor of Bayelsa state, on the…

By Steve Nwosu There is a great Okada debate currently going on in Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s Lagos. Sanwo-Olu’s government, with effect from February 1, 2020, has outlawed the operation of both the infamous commercial motorcycles…

By Steve Nwosu Let me begin by saying that President Muhammadu Buhari has never disappointed me. And the reason is simple: I have never expected anything, other than what we are currently getting, from him. Unlike millions of…

But for the fact that we have a country that is fast relapsing into the days of our past that we would rather forget and, therefore, in need of rescuing, I would have just dismissed the judgments, drama and melodrama recently emerging from…