ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Des Wilson “No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one”. – Sir Archibald Wavell, London Times, Feb, 17, 1941 Several writers and scholars have pontificated on what constitutes the qualities or character of a leader or what constitutes the goals…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesColumn Bitter Pills By Des Wilson African Christmas Give me An African Christmas We’ll spend it together In Peace and Love To heal our land Ed Jordan, Lyrics of song African Christmas (2011) It seems we are at the beginning of a new era, or the end of an epoch. Strange and happenstance…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesHave you ever spoken with a dead man? I guess you haven’t. But today, I invite you to share in my extraordinary experience—a 40-minute dialogue with Engr. Koko Bassey a man whose spirit still resonates deeply within the hearts of many. He passed away just a few months ago, and today, Saturday, December 21,…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse My Man of the Year! In fewer than 14 days from now, the year 2024 will roll by. By then, it would become history only to be remembered for what its rememberers experienced while it lasted. For some, the year has been one wherein so many untoward…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesOn Tuesday, 26th November 2024, the Akwa Ibom state governor, Pastor Umo Eno presented the 2025 fiscal year budget estimates of N955 billion to the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly. The budget size is made up of N300billion recurrent expenditure and a capital expenditure of N655 billion. According to the governor, projected revenue…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesSo much has taken place in the country’s sociopolitical- economic landscape in the last 18 months that it is difficult to keep pace with them, if you are, to borrow the exaggerated self-intro of many a media writer, a public affairs analyst or commentator on public issues. The speed with which many of these…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares“Darkened by our dumping, thickened by our stains, rich, rank, beautiful, and unending as all life, all living, the river, the dark immortal river, full of strange tragic time is flowing by us by us by us to the sea.” – Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River These immortal words of Thomas Clayton…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares The Concourse – By Soney Antai The enemy is within Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Of citizens, cows and country “Cows are not citizens of Nigeria. Did you hear what I said? [Senator Aliero interjects] Senator Aliero, are you arguing with me? The section you are referring to is talking about citizens of Nigeria. And cows are not citizens of Nigeria.” – Senate President…
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Engaging our emergency medics There are certain issues that a columnist may not proficiently comment on. Among them are issues in such specialties like medicine, aeronautic engineering, high tech, among others, except they are learned in those fields. If not, a columist should…
