ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Special Report How cost of fuel is affecting Nigerians Nigeria is the sixth largest exporter of petroleum in the world. As a result, a commodity that can easily define Nigeria’s economy is petrol. Thus, any change in the price of petrol can affect the nations micro and macroeconomic indices because crude…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares A’Ibom Veteran Journalists Get New Interim Exco The League of Veteran Journalists in Akwa Ibom State is currently being repositioned to engage more in the affairs of the state, and in mentoring young journalism professionals. To this end, the League has constituted a four-man Interim Executive Committee to pilot its affairs and chart…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares• Strike compliance 99.9% – JAC chairman Okon Workers of Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) today, began strike as the state government, sponsor of the institution, failed to meet their demands. Speaking with WatchmanPost Monday morning, the chairman of the institution’s Joint Action Commission (JAC), Comrade Emmanuel Okon, said that even though they were…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares• We are denied Eno-mber, new minimum wage – JAC chairman Okon Staff of the Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) are bracing up to shut the gates of the institution to academic and allied activities come Monday, 17 February, except the state government moves fast to appease them by addressing their grievances. Workers in…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Corruption: Understanding a hydra Because the statute is so vaguely worded, award decisions are habitually based on case law, the growing mountain of which is a hydra of rulings that point in so many directions that almost any decision can be defended or…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares NGOs, CSOs collaborate to uplift vulnerable citizens •Embark on training stakeholders By 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…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse Soney Antai Our Uyo night road lords It is surging, and while the commoners like you, concoursites, may hardly know their reasons for operating at night, they seem to be on this for some reasons only they and members of their group know. And perhaps security men also know….
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Ernest Udoh-Robert Savannah Energy, an oil and gas company operating in Akwa Ibom and Cross River States, has offered full scholarship to 50 indigent students to undergo courses of their choice in any Nigerian university. Through the Savannah Energy Education And Internship Training SEE-IT Programme, the company, January 31, 2025, at Ibom Hotels…
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…
