Frank Talk

By Steve Nwosu There's a reason I don't want to 'overcelebrate' the outcome of the weekend's governorship election in Edo State. And it is not because I'd be accused of being a PDP apologist. It is also not because the courts and the…

By Steve Nwosu Anyone who dispassionately followed the facts that emerged from last week’s two-day ministerial performance review retreat, put together by the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, would, no…

My late uncle, Mr. Bonny M. Anokwuru, the man responsible for my upbringing and everything good about me today (God rest his sweet soul), had a humorous way of capturing situations. It was from him I learnt that it is usually those who…

By Steve Nwosu Take a good look at the attached diagram. Take time to study it, and commit as much of it as you can to memory. That is the Chinese alphabet. And you might need it sooner than you thought. Yes, with all this talk about…

By Steve Nwosu Much as we would love to believe otherwise, and without prejudice to the best efforts of our military, the honest truth remains that we have yet to retrieve Borno State from Boko Haram insurgents. The same goes for…

By Steve Nwosu Until Monday, I had erroneously thought that the title ‘Acting’ usually prefixed before an office, referred to an officer who stands in for a substantive occupier of the office, pending the confirmation of such ‘acting’…

By Steve Nwosu Irrespective of what the courts, including the apex court in the land, might have ruled, some of us believe that Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), won the 2016 governorship election in Edo…

By Steve Nwosu When PDP was ruling, we mocked them for their uncanny disposition to self destruct. We soon nicknamed them People Destroying People, Papa Deceive Pikin etc. The other opposition parties, especially the then ACN, and…

By Steve Nwosu If we must be honest with ourselves, the rumour of a strain in the relationship between the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his man-Friday, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has been…

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…