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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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African governments urged to fund public broadcasters to sustain their relevance
Read More: African governments urged to fund public broadcasters to sustain their relevanceAfrican governments have been urged to adequately fund public radio broadcasting stations to enable them to keep pace with emerging trends in the mass communication sector and remain relevant. Mr Tony Ekata, the Convener of the Broadcasters Global Forum, a virtual body of media professionals committed to promoting journalism standards across the world, made the…
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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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