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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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Benue burning; it shouldn’t be buried

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Benue burning; it shouldn’t be buried For most folks, only news with geographical and consanguine proximity to them is what attracts and keeps their attention. Man’s innate selfishness makes this so. But Johnn Donne disagrees; I also disagree. Writing in his “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions”, Donne postulated that, “No…

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ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares­ EDITORIAL Nigeria must not become a-one-party State? The current gale of defections by politicians from the opposition parties in the country to the All Progressives Congress (APC) is concerning to lovers of political pluralism, and by extension, democracy. In fact, some observers see this as smacking of a drift from multi-party system that…

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Israel launches airborne onslaughts on Iran,takes out top military officers and nuke sites

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesOn a scale yet unprecedented, Israel, Friday, 13 February, by about 3 a.m., Israeli time, launched a blitz of air assaults on the Islamic Republic of Iran, killing scores and destroying military assets worth billions of dollars. In an operation dubbed in Hebrew, “Am KeLavi” (Rising Lion), Israel sent virtually its entire air force…

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Children’s Day and matters arising

ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares   The Concourse – 04.06.2025 – By Soney Antai Children’s Day and matters arising   As it has been doing since 1964,Nigeria, last 27 May,celebrated Children’s Day. That’s a day marked annually in honour of children with regards to their concerns: security, education, care, challenges and prospects. But its observance dates vary among countries….

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