Month: October 2024

  • How to Be An Indispensable Employee

    By Tony Ekata Congratulations! You’ve crossed the interview hurdle and secured the job you’ve always dreamt of. Now it’s time to prove to your employers that they made the right choice by impressing them and possibly making yourself indispensable.  How do you do that? Here are 22 professional tips to guide you: Be an expert…

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  • TODAY’S ANIMAL FARM By Tony Ekata

    My son has just put Matric behind him, and I am very happy – perhaps happier than him. For one, the haunting spectre of having to cough up some seven thousand rands (about 500 US dollars) to re-enrol the National Senior Certificate examination, if he had failed, has been put to rest. In addition to…

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  • NIGERIA: PARADISE LOST? By Tony Ekata

    First published January 5, 2017    The tale is told Not by a few About days of yore When our land was covered with dew And with milk and honey. The days when money was not our problem but how to spend it: When a few naira flew you to New York and back. The…

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