Seven words that quietly damage credibility, by Ruth Oji
I was reviewing a colleague’s presentation draft when I noticed something curious. She had written, “I just think we should maybe consider this approach,” in a slide note, which she planned to say aloud. This was a senior consultant with fifteen years of experience, presenting a recommendation she had spent weeks developing. Yet her language […]
Affirmative Action and the danger of mediocrity
LAST Saturday’s Action Congress meeting was successful on many accounts, not least of all in terms of correcting prevalent perceptions about the relationship between the governor of Lagos State Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) and his predecessor, the Ashiwaju.
Achebe is Timeless….. Ruth Simmons, President Brown University
The eerie voices of countless spirits, the bells that clattered behind some of them, and the clash of matchets as they ran forwards and backwards and saluted one another, sent tremors of fear into every heart. For the first time in living memory the scared bull roarer was heard in broad day light.”
Random musings
TODAY my mind roves around. My mind seems suddenly on exile. In my thoughts I have traversed regions and cannot find a place of rest. I move as if without purpose, without a sense of direction.
The Law and Gospel views on Christian marriage and divorce (8)
IN his teaching on the fact of canality Paul says he is speaking by permission not of commandment. The church is now in the realm of the resurrection and “…… in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
ACUTE UNEMPLOYMENT AS W.N.D.
An idle mind is the devil’s workshop’ or ‘the devil finds work for idle hands’ are popular aphorisms which have equivalence in several languages and cultures.
