ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai, serial award-winning columnist A case for Nigerianomics In 1969, during the first year of Richard Nixon’s presidency in the United States, the neologism, Nixonomics, created by combining “nomics” (taken as representing economics) and Nixon, was used to describe Nixon’s economic policy. Doing so was a convenient way of labeling…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares. The Concourse By Soney Antai, serial award-winning columnist When the 19th-century Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard remarked that “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards,” he was, as I understand it, saying, among other things, that whatever we do or plan today for the future can…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesNGOs, CSOs collaborate to uplift vulnerable citizens •Embark on training stakeholders Ernest Udoh-Robert Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) including Lawyers Alert and Media Health and Rights Initiative of Nigeria (MHR) have called for a more responsive, equitable, and sustainable health system that would ensure that the most vulnerable in society are not left behind, and…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares The Concourse By Soney Antai, serial awards-winning columnist Road to some-no-where A key infrastructural landmark of hamlets, towns, cities and countries is the thoroughfare network they boast of. It goes without saying that roads (including streets, lanes and avenues) are key drivers of commerce and social interaction among people and communities. They…
The programme, designed to empower lives, build skills and create opportunities, provided beneficiaries with support in areas including scholarships, information technology, fashion design, cosmetology, automotive maintenance, repair and logistics.
It was aimed at equipping young people with relevant knowledge and practical skills to improve their educational opportunities, become self-reliant and contribute meaningfully to the development of Akwa Ibom State.
We came here from the then Cross River State with only 10 local government areas, which were, like their kindred, intended to be centres of development, not just growth. From that initial number, we are now 31. But have they met that expectation? Your answer is as good as mine. For me, it is a case of you win some, you lose some.
Today, our concern is the unintended consequences of the phenomenon of roadside food trading, or what is better known around here as street trading. We tackle its health and physical-safety implications and then offer our recommendations.
Four litigants—comprising two civil society groups and two individuals—have dragged the House of Representatives and its Speaker before the Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging the legislative procedure adopted in passing the constitutional amendment bill seeking to establish State Police in Nigeria.
The Akwa Ibom State Government has taken measures to prevent any future flooding at the Arise Palm Resort, built on a former erosion site.
What does a president, vice president, governor, minister or commissioner who, before attaining office, could not afford two functional vehicles, do with a convoy of several or dozens of vehicles?
