Still on Uromi 16

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai, serial award-winning columnist Still on Uromi 16 The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government and …. S.14(b) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) On 28 March this year, news of the killing of 16 northern Nigerians…

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Wrong trading spots: Win-win situation possible

ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares  The Concourse     By Soney Antai, serial award-winning columnist Wrong trading spots: Win-win situation possible It’s not for nothing that the ancients told us that a hungry man is an angry man. Such a man is not interested in the niceties of sanitation and hygiene when he sees food. He’s not also interested…

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Abodunrin as metaphor

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By award-winning columnist, Soney Antai Abodunrin as metaphor (First published in WatchmanPost edition of 02.04.2025) As you are reading this, Joseph Abodunrin is no more. Well, what does it matter? You don’t even know who he was, or do you? I bet that more than  98% concoursites never knew him, and never…

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Ibaka Road notes

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse         By Soney Antai, Award-winning columnist          Ibaka Road notes Death, the ice-old bastard, again struck in Oroland. This time, it snatched away an officer and a gentleman, a titled chief and knight of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Eyo Inuekim, who worked with the Nigerian Customs and…

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Musings about life

ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse  By Soney Antai, award winning columnist             Musings about life The present is a reality, death a certainty, Life a swiftly passing possession. They who enjoy know what they are getting. The rest is dismissed as altogether in the air    –  R. A. Watson As a…

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ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Two months, two dictators A few days before last month ended, former President Mohammadu Buhari was quoted in the press as saying that Nigerians are difficult to lead: “Nigeria is a difficult country to govern, but most Nigerians are unaware. You will not understand the complexities of leadership and…

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Corruption: Understanding a hydra             

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…

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Our Uyo night road lords

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….

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When addition is also subtraction

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…

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The Concourse

ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares     The Concourse             By Soney Antai Can your president walk to work? Late last December, a video featuring the immediate past prime minister of The Netherlands was posted online. The Dutch head of government and most powerful political figure in the country was walking down the street…

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