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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
