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…
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,…
