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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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  • 20 Interview Errors That Could Cost You That Dream Job

    Getting 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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  • 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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  • Buttock Enlargement: Risks and Management

    A 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

    Chidimma 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

    The 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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  • 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

    Voice 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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  • 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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  • Andropause: What it’s all about

    NEWSPLUS 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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  • 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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  • The real tragedy of the Fourscore building collapse – By Tony Ekata

        “Buildings collapsing are a regular occurrence in Nigeria.” – eNCA   The above is the thrust of eNCA, South Africa’s foremost private television network’s coverage of the Fourscore building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria’s Johannesburg. It is no doubt a damning and rather hyperbolical synopsis of the tragic incident that changed the skyline of…

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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…

  • NIGERIA: PARADISE LOST? By Tony Ekata
    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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