ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai (Multiple times winner of NUJ Columnist of the Year Award) When addition is also subtraction Life is a mosaic of mixed and at times confusing incidents, experiences and activities. Sometimes what gave us joy yesterday becomes the source or cause of our sorrows today. At other times our current condition…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBreaking: Israel releases 200 Palestinians By WatchmanPost As widely expected, Israel has in exchange for four of its four female soldiers released by Hamas earlier in the day, freed 200 Palestinians held in its prisons. The freed prisoners were received by elated Palestinian crowds welcoming them back home, Al Jazeera…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesGaza ceasefire: Hamas frees four female Israeli soldiers By WatchmanPost As part of the ceasefire agreement they reached with Israel on 10th January, 2025, the jihadi group in Gaza, Hamas, has released four female Israeli soldiers they kidnapped from Israel on October 7, 2023, The kidnappees were, Saturday, 25th January 2025, released to the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesTrump and World Peace: Can he Help save the World? By Eno Udo US President Donald Trump is one of the classic and archetypal existentialist heroes who always believe they can single-handedly save the world. As the 47th president of the United States, he now has the world at his feet….
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares The Concourse By Soney Antai Can your president walk to work? Late last December, a video featuring the immediate past prime minister of The Netherlands was posted online. The Dutch head of government and most powerful political figure in the country was walking down the street…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Trump takes office as 47th US President • Signs several executive orders, recognises only two genders By WatchmanPost, with agency reports The 47th President of the United States (POTUS), Mr. Donald J. Trump, was yesterday, 20 January, 2025, sworn in for a second term by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Trump, who…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesHamas-Israel peace deal – Hamas releases first three Israeli hostages, as Israel releases 90 convicted Hamas terrorists After 471 days in Hamas’ captivity, three Israeli hostages were released by the terror group, Sunday. This followed a ceasefire deal cut by Qatar, the US and Egypt in the Qatari capital, Doha, earlier last week. It…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesSome pastors threatening me – Gov Eno Barely two years in office, it has emerged that some pastors in Akwa Ibom State have fallen out with their fellow cleric and governor of the State, Pastor Umo Eno. The governor himself made this known, Sunday, 29 January, 2025, during the year’s Thanksgiving…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Special Feature How floods, explosions, stampedes, others struck Nigeria in 2024 By Mukhtar Y. Madobi As 2025 begins, it is crucial to reflect on the significant events that shaped Nigeria’s emergency and response sector over the past year. The year 2024 was marked by numerous tragedies, including devastating floods, building collapses,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesClergyman urges journalists to practise ’empathetic journalism’ A clergyman and chaplain of St. Bernard Army Chaplaincy, Ibagwa, Abak LGA of Akwa Ibom State, Rev. Father Christian Usungurua, has called on journalists to embrace what he calls, “empathetic journalism”, as a means of building a better society. Usungurua made the call Sunday, 12 January 2025,…
