Armed Forces Remembrance Day
In spite of the sacrifices our soldiers, there are those who would rather want them maimed and killed and their killers rewarded by government. One of such persons is Sheikh Ahmed Gumi.
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Armed Forces Remembrance Day & The Enemy Within
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Editorial Armed Forces Remembrance Day & The Enemy Within Another Remembrance Day for our men and women under arms is here. Nigeria celebrates the Day on 15 January every year. The date replaces the Armistice or Poppy Day which used to be celebrated on every 11 November when the country was under British…
The love of God
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Prof. Des Wilson “If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.” (1 John 4:19-20, The Catholic Rainbow Study Bible.) Love has been the theme of various homilies, songs, poems, prose…
Nigeria’s new Tax Law: Facts, figures and controversies
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Pius Ebong Nigeria’s sweeping tax reform, signed into law in June 2025 and scheduled to take effect from January 1, 2026, is one of the most far-reaching fiscal changes since independence. Designed to modernise tax administration, widen the revenue base and ease the burden on low-income earners, the new framework has been promoted…
The highest form of deception
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai, serial awards-winning columnist The highest form of deception Deception is a deliberate lie, by words or actions, that we tell or do, to masquerade something from others so that we could have an undeserved advantage. It is a mask we present to manipulate others for our self-centred purposes. A…
Our self-sabotage and the foreboding future
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse Our self-sabotage and the foreboding future By Soney Antai, a serial awards-winning columnist Whatever folks allow or relish in over a long time oftentimes become a culture that may define them and shape their future. At that point of ritualised usage, the utility of activities, practices, and observances may not count, but…
Insecurity and the misery index
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesBy Prof. Des Wilson There was a time Nigeria was touted as one of the happiest nations in the world. This was not because they enjoyed the most glamorous lifestyle in the world. After all, the worlds Human Suffering Index (HSI) showed Nigeria high up the ladder of misery. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the indomitable and…
Trump’s tweets and twisted tongues
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai Trump’s tweets and twisted tongues Saturday, 1st November, began as a day when the unusual of monumental proportion wasn’t likely. We in our beloved country went about our businesses, just as others may have done same in their now disgraced country. If anything occupied the minds of the masses,…
If and when death dies
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares The Concourse By Soney Antai Serial award-winning columnist If and when death dies If there was no dying for man, and no glitches and switches in life, the world would have been, in one breadth, hell and heaven. For the…