ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse Rumble, yes; thunder, no – By Soney Antai Finally, Nigeria has arrived at a pregnant, make-or-mar week, when the President Bola Tinubu government is about to face its toughest leadership test yet. In spite of the ill-advised grandstanding by folks like Messrs. Dave Umahi, Nyesom Wike and Bayo Onanuga,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares • Deaths reported in Kaduna, Niger States •Lagos, Ibadan, Jos peaceful • Uyo, Lokoja missing from action •Abuja, Kaduna, Kano violent The #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria nationwide protests scheduled to begin today and to last through 10 August, in spite of official warnings started off in different states of the country, including Abuja, the Federal Capital…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares• Security agents warn against violence •Planners rebuff appeals to stay action •Govt Security agents on high alert, take over Eagles Square Abuja 46 months after the bloody #EndSARS protests of October 2020, Nigeria, baring any unexpected change, seems set to witness another round of nationwide protests, starting from today. With the hashtag, #EndBadGovernance,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Full text of Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the American Congress on 25 July 2024. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Senator Ben Cardin, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senators, Members of Congress, Distinguished guests, Mr. Speaker, I want to thank you…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Is Kenya visiting Nigeria? Henry Kissinger it was, who once said, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” While it’s not too clear what the renowned diplomat and scholar meant, the meaning seems to be that just as aphrodisiac offers a temporary inorganic surge of emotions, power makes its wielder believe…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe president general of the pan-Igbo social cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, is dead. The Frontier online newspaper quotes his son, Jude, as making this information known in a statement. Publisher of Champion, the late business mogul was a chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and a popular face within…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ernest Udoh-Robert This July makes it exactly one year since Gov Umo Eno toured Ibom Power Company, assuring his compatriots of improved power generation and distribution from the state-owned power facility located in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area. He said that he was not among those who merely acted on reports from the…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesUS President Joe Biden, Sunday 21st July 2024, finally announced his exit from the November 2024 American presidential race, ending weeks of calls from donors, supporters, and party chieftains that he should drop his reelection ambition. Biden, who is serving his first term as president, had sought re-nomination to serve a second term through…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares•Says it’s becoming Tinubu’s puppet It seems like the ripples evoked by the removal of the Borno South senator, Ali Ndume, as Senate Chief Whip, are not about to go away anytime soon. Besides Ndume himself doubling down on his condemnation of the Tinubu administration’s response to the economic situation in the country, former…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Senator Ali Ndume has shrugged off his removal as Senate Chief Whip and Vice chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations. Addressing the press today in his Maiduguri country home, about 48 hours after he was stripped of his position as Senate Chief Whip, the senator said that he was still of the view that…
