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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
