By Azuka Onwuka As AI dominates today’s communication, avoiding clichés is only half of the work for those who want to sound original. The harder and more useful task is knowing what to replace the cliches with. Many professionals delete overused phrases and then struggle to find the right words. Clichés are appealing because they […]
By Azuka Onwuka Not too long ago, corporate communication was littered with hackneyed expressions like “Think outside the box”, “It’s a win-win situation”, “Grab the low-hanging fruit”, “Take it to the next level”, “Image is everything”, etc. Today, AI-sounding expressions and overused expressions have flooded LinkedIn, making posts predictable and similar. If you want to […]
By Azuka Onwuka I was not a greedy child …😊 I never coveted scores or grades. Never craved for positions. I was satisfied with my position somewhere in the middle of the class – Between the 10th and 20th positions in a class of 30 pupils. Safe. Normal. Invisible. I didn’t want to be seen […]
President Donald Trump of the United States has made the Liberal Party of Canada win an election everyone concluded just in January that they had no chance of winning. Up until January, the Liberals were so unpopular that they were more than 25 points behind the Conservatives in opinion polls. After nine years as prime […]
By Azuka Onwuka I heard some people make snide remarks and unnecessary comparisons about the marriage of the son of the founder of Ekulo Group and the daughter of the founder of Nestoil, and I laughed in Nsibidi dialect. Our people say in pidgin: Person wey no know person dey call am “this person”. Chief […]
By Azuka Onwuka Definitely yes! I have heard some people dissing him on his Nobel Prize and literary works. You can disagree with him on his strange fixation on Peter Obi as well as deafening silence on Tinubu at a time Nigeria is in deep crisis, but it will be petty to argue that Soyinka […]
