ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Goodbye 2026! It’s a curious topic, and so if you ask if it’s a mistake, or wonder if I have set out to be looking for the nonexistent or invisible, I cannot blame you. But in The Concourse we do our hardest to stay human and real; so pay…
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Akwa Ibom @ 38: A reflection
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse – 22.09.2025 By Soney Antai Akwa Ibom @ 38: A reflection You are probably familiar with the saying that ‘birds of a feather flock together.’ Never mind the unconscious polemicists who tell you with some sense of alpha knowledge that the saying is rather, ‘Birds of the same feather flock together.’ It’s…
What is man?
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse – Published 30th July 2025 – By Soney Antai What is man? Psalm 8:3-4 AMPC [3] When I view and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained and established, [4] What is man that You are mindful of him,…
Garba’s garbage rat story
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse – 22.07.2025 By Soney Antai Garba’s garbage rat story One of the toughest jobs around is being a spokesman for an individual, corporate entity, or government. The job becomes tougher when the spokesman’s principal is avowedly low-flying pleonectic, defective, or kakistocratic. Sadly, many spokesmen are working for…
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…
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…
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…
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….
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares 05/25 Bitter Pills – By Des Wilson President, Governor and LG Chairman as shepherds! ‘A good shepherd always feeds his sheep first, even when he himself is hungry’. – Matshona Dhliwayo The Holy Book draws from the cultural experience of the Jews where it uses the metaphor of a shepherd to glamourise and…