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Optimising emotional intelligence in communication, by Ruth Oji

Optimising emotional intelligence in communication, by Ruth Oji

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognise, understand, manage, and utilise your emotions and those of others effectively. It involves key components and concepts in navigating social complexities and making informed decisions that affect you and others around you. Emotional intelligence is fundamental in both personal and professional settings because it drives how you are […]

Dangote Refinery: Sandwiched between plenty and want (2), by Afe Babalola

Dangote Refinery: Sandwiched between plenty and want (2), by Afe Babalola

NIGERIA has produced 236 million barrels of crude this year, yet it is unable to supply the 650,000 barrels per day needed by Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals company to run at full capacity.  Consequently, Dangote had to source for crude oil elsewhere, thereby increasing the cost of production.  Some of the factors responsible for these as […]

Why ethnic profiling must stop! By Ochereome Nnanna

Why ethnic profiling must stop! By Ochereome Nnanna

IT would have been funny if it were not so DANGEROUS! When Muhammadu Buhari was in power, there was ethnic profiling of the Igbo people in the North. Some sponsored “youth coalitions” gave Ndi Igbo quit notice in 2017 because of Biafra agitations in the South-East, which arose from Buhari’s 97%/5% formula of Igbo exclusion. Buhari […]

Technology, the tortoise in every story, by Okoh Aihe

Technology, the tortoise in every story, by Okoh Aihe

WHEN we were small children still in primary school, we would gather once a week under the big umbrella tree on the left end at the approach of the school compound to tell stories under the auspices of very strict teachers who would later turn out in life to be very good people. Those teachers, they […]