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Jan 10, 2025 | 
allafrica.com | Ruth Oji
I trust you have been applying strategic pausing in your speaking and writing engagements. I had noted that this week's article will cover other pertinent areas of deploying silence. Recall that silence isn't just about how we present information; it's also a powerful tool in how we receive it. This week's article thus focuses on how to use silence in active listening and in negotiations. We will also consider how to overcome discomfort with silence and common pitfalls to avoid.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
punchng.com | Ruth Oji
As Nigeria joined the global community to mark World Press Freedom Day, it confronted critical issues such as the fight against fake news, the evolution of media accountability, and the challenges of adapting to the digital age. These dynamics are reshaping journalism, demanding a proactive approach to uphold press freedom and democratic engagement.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
afropages.fr | Donu Kogbara |Ikechukwu Amaechi |Ruth Oji
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
jimidisu.com | Ruth Oji |Omoniyi Osadare
Lokoja—Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have laid siege to the Abuja residence of the immediate past governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. According to eyewitnesses, EFCC officials stormed the ex-governor’s residence around 9am, yesterday, and barricaded it since then. Some supporters of the former governor were seen in front of the house.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
jimidisu.com | Ruth Oji |Omoniyi Osadare
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, said yesterday that the apex bank is not defending the Naira with the nation’s foreign reserves. He was speaking against the backdrop of the recent decline in Nigeria’s foreign reserves corresponding with massive appreciation of the Naira in the foreign exchange market (forex), fueling speculations that the apex bank pumped forex into the market to dwarf demand pressure and shore up the value of the local currency.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
jimidisu.com | Ruth Oji |Omoniyi Osadare
Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting, a former National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of trying to create a crisis to make himself relevant before President Bola Tinubu who is “already getting fed up with his nuisance of bringing politics into the governance of the FCT.”Secondus said Wike was trying hard to create a non-existent crisis in the party.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
jimidisu.com | Ruth Oji |Omoniyi Osadare
The Allied Peoples Movement, APM, in Osun State has described the design of the new state logo by the state government as a waste of taxpayers’ money. In a message signed by Wale Adebayo, the chairman of the party, he said that the whole idea about the new logo project was misplaced, as it amounted to climbing a tree from the top. DAILY POST had reported that the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, on Wednesday, signed a bill adopting a new logo for the state.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
jimidisu.com | Ruth Oji |Omoniyi Osadare
Some employees of the Landmark Beach Resort in the Oniru area of Lagos, staged a protest on Wednesday, as the federal government begins the sand filling of the beachfront for the construction of the coastal highway. Scores of employees at the beach resort carried placards with inscriptions ‘#SaveLandmarkBeachResort’ and ‘Save Our Jobs’, and chanted songs of dissent in unison.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
jimidisu.com | Ruth Oji |Omoniyi Osadare
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has urged the federal government to constitute a technical task force of professionals to address the reoccurring national grid collapse. Obi spoke in a statement signed by Yunusa Tanko, his spokesperson, on Wednesday in Onitsha, Anambra. The former Anambra governor spoke amid the incessant reports of national grid collapse.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
jimidisu.com | Ruth Oji |Omoniyi Osadare
I HAD wanted to comment this week on the feigned surprise by the former Accountant General of the Federation, AG-F, Ahmed Idris, that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, decided to prosecute him in court after he cooperated with the sleuths probing his alleged theft of N109 billion from the public till.
