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Reflections on the CIAPS International Tutor Certificate Programme – Georgina Phidd

The recent CIAPS training programme provided timely and relevant material as it reminded participants of the essential and enduring focus of instruction, which centers around individual learner needs. Unfortunately, this can sometimes get lost or de-emphasized...

How to maximise professional courses and trainings

CIAPS AdminNov 17 Professional courses, trainings 1 Comment

How to maximise professional courses and trainings

Tetsuyama-san’s quote, “The day you stop learning is the day you stop living” still holds true. From learning through every situation you go through in life, to learning from others, taking courses to advance yourself professionally, learning should...

5 ways to improve your confidence during a season of job search

CIAPS AdminNov 17 confidence, job search No Comments

5 ways to improve your confidence during a season of job search

“I love job hunting” says nobody. Job search is an emotionally, psychologically and physically draining experience for many. Precious (name changed), a former project manager at a production firm said: “I thought searching for a new job would...

Impostor syndrome; what it is and how to overcome it

CIAPS AdminNov 04 impostor syndrome No Comments

Impostor syndrome; what it is and how to overcome it

We all experience self-doubt from time to time. Maybe you got promoted to a senior role after just 1 year of being a junior, or, got a new job in a fancy, big firm. Feelings of inadequacy may hit you with thoughts like “are my sure I can do this?”,...

#EndSARS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Road to Lekki Toll Gate.

CIAPS AdminOct 22 #endsars, Epistles of Anthony Kila. Thisday Newspaper, Youths No Comments

#EndSARS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Road to Lekki Toll Gate.

Dear Readers I am sad to report that the #EndSARS protests we discussed in our last epistles have taken a bad turn and the streets of my Lagos and other parts of Nigeria have been turned into a camp of sorrow, tears and blood. The sorrow is of those...

#EndSARS. All Hail the Redeemers

CIAPS AdminOct 17 #endsars, corruption, Epistles of Anthony Kila. Thisday Newspaper, Prof Anthony Kila 8 Comments

#EndSARS. All Hail the Redeemers

Dear Readers #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality #EndSWAT #EndBadGovernance are some of the trending voices across Nigeria as you read today’s epistle, they are some of the rallying cries of our young people and not only them anymore. Regardless of how it...

IBB is Wrong – We Must Blame Military

CIAPS AdminOct 09 Democracy, Epistles of Anthony Kila. Thisday Newspaper, Governance, IBB, Ibrahim Babangida, Military Rule 10 Comments

IBB is Wrong – We Must Blame Military

Dear General Babangida Last week, you granted an interview in which you asserted: “It is silly to blame the military for Nigeria’s problem”. Well, General, lest we become guilty of what we accuse others of doing, it is important that we take time...

Sam Vaknin and Christian Sorensen on Narcissism

Sam Vaknin and Christian Sorensen on Narcissism

Sam Vaknin is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology at CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies), as well as a writer and the author of Malignant...

CIAPS AdminJun 24 Christian Sorensen, Empathy, Identity, Intimacy, psychology, Sam Vaknin, Scott Douglas Jacobsen No Comments

Time for a New Environmental Message

CIAPS AdminMay 22 Anthony Kila, COVID-19, Environment, Epistles of ANthony Kila, Noemi Kila, Thisday Newspaper 3 Comments

Time for a New Environmental Message

Dear Noemi Kila Today’s epistle is addressed to you partly because (generally speaking) charity begins at home and it doesn’t get homelier than with you; partly because even after my decades and miles of mental, as well as physical, vagabondage, you...

Medical Road of Victims to Villainy

CIAPS AdminMar 21 Anthony Kila, Dr. Francis Adedayo Faduyile, Epistles of ANthony Kila, Thisday Newspaper No Comments

Medical Road of Victims to Villainy

Dear Dr. Francis Adedayo Faduyile In the mind of most people, you as the President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), preside over the apex body of medical practitioners in Nigeria. It can be jokingly said that you are the Dr. of doctors in Nigeria....

Lessons from Kwara

CIAPS AdminMar 17 Abdulfatah Ahmed, Abubakar Sola Saraki, Anthony Kila, Epistles of ANthony Kila, Kwara, Kwara State University, Thisday Newspaper, Yakubu Salihu No Comments

Lessons from Kwara

Dear Rt. Hon. Yakubu Salihu This epistle is directed at you because you are the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly that recently passed into law the Kwara State University (KWASU) (Amendment) bill, 2020. Amongst other things, the bill in question...

Baba, This your Big Baby is Sick

Baba, This your Big Baby is Sick

Dear President Obasanjo Even for a detailed man like you, I am willing to guess that you would have by now lost count of the number of tributes and Happy Birthday wishes you must have received since yesterday. A guess, I said not a wager, yes, some of...

CIAPS AdminMar 06 Anthony Kila, nigeria, Obasanjo, OBJ, President 2 Comments

On the Tollgate Peculiar Mess

Articles, CIAPS ALert, Epistles of Anthony Kila, News

Articles, CIAPS ALert, Epistles of Anthony Kila, News

On the Tollgate Peculiar Mess

Dear Captain Yadudu, I write you as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the purpose of this missive is to call your attention to the peculiar mess at the tollgate of the Murtala Muhammed...

Centre DirectorFeb 23 Captain Yadudu, Epistles of ANthony Kila, FAAN, I-CUBE, Toll Gate No Comments

Challenging Opportunity for our Trade Minister

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