Communication

By and large, communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share"^[1]) is a purposeful activity of exchanging informationand meaning across space and time using various technical or natural means, whichever is available or preferred.

Communication requires a sender, a message, a medium and a recipient, although the receiver does not have to be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver understands the sender's message.^{[citation needed]}

Discursive communication three primary steps:^[2]

• Thought: First, information exists in the mind of the sender. This can be a concept, idea, information, or feeling.
• Encoding: Next, a message is sent to a receiver in words or other symbols.
• Decoding: Finally, the receiver translates the words or symbols into a concept or information that a person can understand.

There are a range of verbal and non-verbal forms of communication. These include body language, eye contact, sign language,haptic communication, and chronemics. Other examples are media content such as pictures, graphics, sound, and writing. TheConvention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also defines the communication to include the display of text, Braille, tactilecommunication, large print, accessible multimedia, as well as written and plain language, human-reader, augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and communication technology.^[3]Feedback is a critical component of effective communication.

Jonathan Threatens To Voice No Confidence In INEC

With just less than three weeks to the 2015 presidential elections, the reality of losing may probably be dawning on the incumbent president, President Goodluck Jonathan who today, January 28, 2015, threatened to indicate his voice of no confidence in INEC.

SaharaReporters reports that the PDP presidential candidate in a news conference held today in Abuja was considering voicing a vote of no confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Evidence of Mr. Jonathan’s anxiety can be traced in a statement released by Femi Fani-Kayode, the director of media and publicity for the PDP presidential campaign organization.

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Speaking in a news conference held in one of the houses owned in Asokoro, Abuja by Tony Anenih, the PDP board of trustees chairman, Mr. Fani-Kayode said the PDP was not happy the way INEC has been dealing with the issue of academic credentials of opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In his words; “The electoral body must come clean on this matter; otherwise we will be compelled to pass a no-confidence vote in it,” the president’s publicist said.

“If INEC is complicit in the desperate and despicable attempt to extricate General Buhari, without compliance with the provisions of the law, from this lingering embarrassment, we will have no other choice than to harbor the suspicion and fear that the electoral body is already compromised and can lend itself to the ungodly agenda of truncating our victory when our candidate wins.” 

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It would be recalled that,The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday January 27, insisted that his academic certificates were submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).