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ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesWAFCON 2025: Nigerian players dominate victors’ podium By Chris Umosen, WatchmanPost sport editor. Nigerian players in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), concluded in Rabat, Morocco, yesterday, dominated most of the awards presented by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to players at the tournament. The Super Falcons goalstopper, Chiamaka Nnadozie, bagged the…

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Garba’s garbage rat story

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse – 22.07.2025           By Soney Antai  Garba’s garbage rat story One of the toughest jobs around is being a spokesman for an individual, corporate entity, or government. The job becomes tougher when the spokesman’s principal is avowedly low-flying pleonectic, defective, or kakistocratic. Sadly, many spokesmen are working for…

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ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesWAFCON 2025: Super Falcons rule Africa again, peck out Atlas Lionesses 3-2 in dramatic comeback   ● Win 10th title  Nigeria’s senior national football team, the Super Falcons, late yesterday, Saturday 26th July, staged a dramatic comeback from a two-goal deficit, to break the hearts of millions of Moroccan football fans to lift their record…

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Journalism like two-edged sword – Churchill Udoh

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesJournalism like two-edged sword – Churchill Udoh An Akwa Ibom State-born businessman, Obong Churchill Udoh, has described journalism as a two-edged sword that can create war in peace time, and peace at war and crises season, depending on how it is deployed by its practitioners. He said that his observation is borne out of…

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Seplat committed to strengthening education in Nigeria – spokesman

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesNews Seplat committed to strengthening education in Nigeria – Spokesman At a time when worries over poor public education funding, examination malpractices and general dip in education quality in Nigeria, Seplat Petroleum Energy Unlimited says it has invested hugely in the uplift of education in the country. According to its General Manager, Public and…

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ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesWAFCON 2025: Falcons book place in quarter finals Nine times WAFCON champions, Super Falcons of Nigeria, chasing a record 10th title, yesterday squeezed through a tight Botswana defence to take the day by a lone goal in their second match in the ongoing fiesta in Morocco. It look Chinwendu Ihezuo’s strike in the 88th…

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Acquired Defection Infection Syndrome (ADIS-25)

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesColumn  Bitter Pills  By Des Wilson  Acquired Defection Infection Syndrome (ADIS-25) When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law, we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long term interests. – J. William Fulbright…

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Brown breaks Uniuyo Inaugural Lecture attendance record, proposes ‘CAKE’ for all Nigerians.

ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares  Brown breaks Uniuyo Inaugural Lecture attendance record, proposes ‘CAKE’ for all Nigerians. The 1000–capacity TETFUND Hall, which has become the home for Inaugural Lectures in the University of Uyo (Uniuyo), overflowed with ecstatic listeners,Thursday, June 26, when Prof Aniekan Samson Brown took to the stage as the 114th Inaugural lecturer of the University….

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Nigeria’s Unresolved Assassination Cases

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesColumn  Bitter Pills     By Des Wilson Nigeria’s Unresolved Assassination Cases   Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic situations that create huge inequalities – Pope Francis   Writing about the subject of assassination is a tough social responsibility, especially as it has to do…

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