Frank Talk

By Steve Nwosu I had delayed the writing of this column until Wednesday, when I expected that ministers designate would be handed their portfolios. But I waited, glued to the TV, all morning until the end of the event. Yet, I did not see…

Nothing better captures the above headline than the attached photograph, which I stumbled upon on one of the numerous social media platforms. It is that of a thoroughly battered policeman, gasping for life, and leaning on an officer of a…

By Steve Nwosu In these times when police and armed robbers show espirit de corps to one another, pick pockets and politicians extend the same courtesies to one another, and even lecturers and student cultists peacefully co-exist, just as…

Who can honestly swear that the circus that has been happening inside the upper chamber of the National Assembly since last week Tuesday is indeed a screening? But, before I’m mischievously misinterpreted, let me make haste to note here…

A few days to the 2011 governorship re-run election that saw the Okorocha and his lynch mob sack Chief Ikedi Ohakim as governor of Imo State, I had done an article (on the back page of The Sun newspaper) entitled, “Before Imo goes to the…

BY Steve Nwosu Now, don’t go looking for the meaning of Ruga in your Michael West dictionary. It is not there. Just ask any Fulani or Hausa-speaking person near you. But one thing is for sure, a Ruga is not the same as a ranch. It is way…

When was the last time you really felt like beating up a NEPA staff? Or when was the last time you swore under your breath for these people in charge of our public power supply? Now, don’t tell me they’re no longer called NEPA o! We’ll…

Having followed, with great heartache, how  Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the then Central Bank Governor, literally undermined his principal and then President, Goodluck Jonathan, I had silently prayed that a day like this would come,…

Since last Wednesday, I had resolved that I would dedicate this week’s article to begging President Muhammadu Buhari to relocate to Lagos and work from here. And that if he would not, he should work out an arrangement to enable him visit…

I spent all of penultimate Saturday shuttling between two UTME examination centres in the FESTAC and Ojo parts of Lagos, as a pseudo official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB). I also had a brief stop-over at another…