Anthony Ekata
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How to Be An Indispensable Employee
Read More: How to Be An Indispensable EmployeeBy 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
Read More: TODAY’S ANIMAL FARM By Tony EkataMy 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
Read More: NIGERIA: PARADISE LOST? By Tony EkataFirst 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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20 Interview Errors That Could Cost You That Dream Job
Read More: 20 Interview Errors That Could Cost You That Dream JobGetting a new job is increasingly more difficult just as hunting for one can be stressful. Once you’ve managed to secure an interview for your dream role, the nerves can really start to kick in. This is because selling yourself in front of a panel of strangers can be an incredibly daunting experience. But it…
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Tinubu, Buhari congratulate Edo Governor-Elect Okpebholo
Read More: Tinubu, Buhari congratulate Edo Governor-Elect OkpebholoBy Tony Ekata 22-09-2024 Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Senator Monday Okpebholo on his victory in the just-concluded governorship election in Edo State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced on Sunday night that Okpebholo, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won the election with 291,667 votes to defeat his closest rival, Asue…
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EDO NUJ COUNCIL CREATES SITUATION ROOM IN BENIN CITY
Read More: EDO NUJ COUNCIL CREATES SITUATION ROOM IN BENIN CITYBy Tony Ekata 21-09-2024 The Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists has opened an election monitoring centre at its secretariat in Benin City, the state capital. The Chairman of the council, Comrade Festus Alenkhe, disclosed in a statement issued on Friday that the monitoring centre was to ensure the seamless coverage of…
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WORTHLESS NOTE OR WORTHY SON?
Read More: WORTHLESS NOTE OR WORTHY SON?By Tony Ekata September 21, 2024 “Who get dis 20 nala?” The question came from the tiny voice of a little boy. As I looked up from the church programme I was reading, I could see that he was not more than six or seven years old. There he stood, a few paces from…
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Shettima to Represent Tinubu at UNGA in New York
Read More: Shettima to Represent Tinubu at UNGA in New YorkBy Tony Ekata 19-09-2024 President Bola Tinubu will not attend the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York this year. According to a statement on Thursday by Bayo Onanuga, special adviser on information and strategy to the president, Tinubu has directed Vice President Kashim Shettima to lead Nigeria’s delegation to the meeting. Reason…
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Edo Government Declares September 20 Work-Free Day For Guber Poll
Read More: Edo Government Declares September 20 Work-Free Day For Guber PollBy Tony Ekata 19-09-2024 The Edo State Government has declared September 20 a work-free day to enable workers and residents to travel to their voting areas ahead of the state’s governorship election on Saturday. The election is scheduled for September 21 across 18 local government areas in the state. Security In a statement on Thursday,…
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INEC Imposes Campaign Deadline on Edo, Bans Publicity Materials at Polling Units
Read More: INEC Imposes Campaign Deadline on Edo, Bans Publicity Materials at Polling UnitsBy Tony Ekata 19-09-2024 The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ordered political parties in Edo State to end their campaigns for the September 21 governorship election by 11h59 WAT on Thursday, September 19. INEC spokesperson, Sam Olumekun, reiterated provisions of section 94 of the Electoral Act 2022 in a statement on Thursday and called…
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7 Signs that Someone Likes You – Psychologist
Read More: 7 Signs that Someone Likes You – PsychologistEveryone likes to be liked. That’s just human nature. Whether it’s by your colleagues at work, friends old and new, or the hot Tinder match you’re going on a second date with, being liked is a natural desire that can be traced all the way back to our beginnings on this earth. This feeling not…
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Abuja Accord: Beyond the Hugs: By Tony Ekata
Read More: Abuja Accord: Beyond the Hugs: By Tony EkataWednesday January 14, 2015, will remain a major milestone in Nigeria’s political journey as, on that day, leaders of the country’s major political parties signed a peace pact, ahead of the February 14 presidential election, to reject pre and post-election violence. This was a pleasant turn of events for concerned Nigerians and the international community.…
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NEW TWIST IN THE CHIDIMMA ADETSHINA BEAUTY PAGEANT SAGA
Read More: NEW TWIST IN THE CHIDIMMA ADETSHINA BEAUTY PAGEANT SAGAIn a dramatic twist to the Chidimma Adestshina beauty pageant story, ActionSA, one of South Africa’s opposition political parties established in 2020 by Herman Mashaba, a former mayor of Johannesburg, has written an urgent letter to the Department of Home Affairs demanding answers regarding how Chidimma Adetshina’s mother travelled to Nigeria. Chidimma’s mother joined her…
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Buttock Enlargement: Risks and Management
Read More: Buttock Enlargement: Risks and ManagementA 36-year-old woman identified as Abiola died in Lagos last week while undergoing a buttock enlargement procedure at a clinic in the Lekki-Phase 1 area of the state. She was billed to undergo a Brazilian Butt Lift or buttock enlargement, also known as buttock augmentation. This surgical procedure involves removing fat from other parts of…
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Chidimma Adestshina Wins Miss Universe Nigeria Crown
Read More: Chidimma Adestshina Wins Miss Universe Nigeria CrownChidimma Adetshina was crowned Miss Universe Nigeria 2024 on Saturday, August 31 after her dream to win this year’s Miss South Africa was truncated by an identity crisis that made her withdraw at the top finalists stage of the competition. NewsPlus reported how the President of the Silverbird Group, organisers of the Miss Universe Nigeria…
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South African Hawks Committed to Fighting Serious Crime
Read More: South African Hawks Committed to Fighting Serious CrimeThe National Head of South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya, this week assured South Africans that the Hawks, as the directorate is known, are committed to the mandate of “investigating, preventing and combating national priority offences”. Lebeya was speaking during a media briefing to outline progress and milestones achieved during…
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South Africa’s Johan Rupert Becomes Africa’s Richest Person
Read More: South Africa’s Johan Rupert Becomes Africa’s Richest PersonJohan Rupert, the South African billionaire and chairman of Richemont, the luxury goods conglomerate, which owns brands like Cartier and Montblanc, has dislodged Aliko Dangote as Africa’s richest man. This follows a decline in the Nigerian industrialist and owner of the Dangote Group’s net worth by over one billion dollars ($1bn). Empirical data According to…
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Are You Abrosexual?
Read More: Are You Abrosexual?What does ‘abrosexual’ mean? TikTok users are educating others on “LGBT terms you may not have heard of before,” with more and more people identifying as being abrosexual. You must have heard of bisexual, asexual, heterosexual, and homosexual. To many, it is an abomination to talk about LGBTQ+, not to mention supporting or having anything…
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Voice of Nigeria to Start Broadcasting in Chinese Language – DG
Read More: Voice of Nigeria to Start Broadcasting in Chinese Language – DGVoice of Nigeria (VON), Nigeria’s statutory external radio broadcasting station, is working in partnership with China to begin broadcasting in Mandarin. VON Director General, Mallam Jibrin Ndace, disclosed this on Saturday evening in Abuja, while speaking at a dinner organised by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) group of ambassadors and high commissioners. Ndace said…
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Look Before You Marry!
Read More: Look Before You Marry!Look before you marry so you don’t lose everything after you marry! Here are examples of popular soccer stars who lost almost everything to their wives in divorce or separation settlements. Emmanuel Eboue Ivorian soccer star, Emmanuel Eboué, spent most of his career, from 2005 to 2011, with Arsenal of the English Premier League, playing…
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Who Wants to be a Billionaire?
Read More: Who Wants to be a Billionaire?Do you want to be a billionaire? Who doesn’t? You can be one if you follow these 8 ‘SIMPLE’ RULES! Watch and share, please.
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How Chidimma Adetshina Got into the Miss Universe Nigeria Pageant
Read More: How Chidimma Adetshina Got into the Miss Universe Nigeria PageantHow Chidimma Adetshina Got into the Miss Universe Nigeria Pageant It is no longer news that Chidimma Adetshina, the Nigerian model who withdrew from competing in this year’s Miss South Africa Beauty Pageant at the top finalists’ stage, was invited to contest in the Miss Universe Nigeria Pageant. What may not be common knowledge is…
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Andropause: What it’s all about
Read More: Andropause: What it’s all aboutNEWSPLUS TIT BITS Andropause is defined as “a syndrome associated with a decrease in sexual satisfaction or a decline in a feeling of general well-being with low levels of testosterone in older men.” Some call it the Male Menopause. It is common knowledge that erectile dysfunction is not a palatable topic among men. Erectile dysfunction…
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The Edo 2024 Gubernatorial Election and the Debate Imperative: Part 2
Read More: The Edo 2024 Gubernatorial Election and the Debate Imperative: Part 2One may ask, “How do we know that Senator Okpebholo will allow the people currently speaking for him to manipulate him for their personal benefit if elected?” It is simply because he said so himself in the public space. He pledged at the APC State Secretariat Benin City on Tuesday 30th January 2024, when he…
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Edo 2024 Gubernatorial Election: The Debate Imperative By Tony Ekata
Read More: Edo 2024 Gubernatorial Election: The Debate Imperative By Tony EkataThe Edo State 2024 off-season gubernatorial election is barely one month away. Each passing day comes with renewed campaign vigour by the candidates and their supporters. It is difficult to say if the campaign frenzy is more on the ground or on social media platforms, where friends are turning into temporary enemies because of different…
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Power and Insularity: By Tony Ekata
Read More: Power and Insularity: By Tony Ekata“I’m not worried about the exchange rate they are pursuing because your salary should be in Naira and you are not an importer or exporter, are you?” – APC National Leader, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu I am worried. Very worried. It’s long past midnight where I am and I’m unable to sleep. I had been…
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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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