The most expensive communication mistake professionals make, by Ruth Oji
A colleague once sent me a project brief that was, by any measure, impressively detailed. Three pages of specifications, timelines broken down by week, deliverables listed with precision. When I asked a clarifying question about the project’s underlying purpose, she seemed surprised. “It’s all in the document,” she said. And it was. Every word was clear, […]
Executive presence: Pulling it all together, by Ruth Oji
Over the past few weeks, we have examined the dimensions of executive presence. If you recall, we described executive presence as the often-intangible quality that separates leaders who merely occupy positions from those who inspire confidence and command respect. We began with vocal authority and physical comportment, exploring how your voice and body language create immediate […]
On good governance and accountability: Recipes for rescuing Nigeria (2), by Usman Sarki
“But an active despair has often triumphed over the assurance of indolent success”— Edward Gibbon The sense of active despair is the only resort that Nigerians are left with, to exhibit their repudiation of their state of anonymity and conditions of restless search for solutions to their pathetic and abject nothingness. Having been reduced to the […]
Is El-Rufai also among the prophets? Perhaps when he makes Obi president, by Rotimi Fasan
Since Nasir el-Rufai, the disaffected former governor of Kaduna State, lost his mojo after being played by his former friends in the All Progressives Congress, APC, he has assumed the status of a prophet. With all the petulance he can muster, he has promised to send President Bola Tinubu back to Lagos, away from the soft […]
Broadcast flakes in a season of optimism, by Okoh Aihe
Broadcasting has enjoyed some enormous coverage lately. Can you imagine that tweak or little speck of irony! The broadcast media itself enjoying the limelight in what may qualify as inversion of service delivery. From nowhere, a state governor generated a needless controversy by reclining on his imperial powers to order the closure of one of the […]
The Dwindling Standard of Education in Nigeria: The Way Forward (4), by Afe Babalola
WHY STUDENTS JOIN CULTISM Why do students join cultism? Many reasons can be proffered but I will attempt just a few. Some of the reasons are: i. Desire to obtain undue privileges ii. Desire to have a sense of power; influence and prestige among fellow students iii. Desire to command undeserved authority and respect within the […]
