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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…