Bill Gates, AI and returned Nigerian Loot
Last month, March, a self-driving SUV knocked down and killed a pedestrian trying to cross the street in downtown Arizona, USA. That incident came at a time when UBER was…
MajiriOghene Bob
Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, freelance journalist, runs a private media outfit, Bob MajiriOghene Communications, Abuja. He received training in ECOWAS institutions in Accra, Ghana and in environmental journalism by the International Institute for Journalism, IIJ of InWent, Berlin Germany all in 2008. Bob is the author of Deep Sighs, Tears for A Birthday & other poems, Secrets of a Diary, SAT/TOEFL Essays: lesson notes questions & answers, and has concluded the draft of a children's book, Mamud & the Moringa Tree in August 2013. Other manuscripts he is working on include HOLY LIES, (a play), Once upon a Dog and Other Stories, and I WANT TO LICK MY UKODO & OTHER POEMS. He lives in Abuja, Nigeria and is facilitator for the prose fiction module for the monthly writing workshops organised by the Abuja Writers Forum, AWF. His opinion pieces have been published by Nigerian newspapers like Vanguard, ThisDay, Daily Independent, The Guardian of Nigeria, and by international publications like Equatorial Press, YahooVoices and in a German periodical, KULTURAUSTAUSCH. He can be reached on 07031068186 - majirioghene@yahoo.com. Visit his blog.
Looking for oil in the North
A few days ago I was rummaging through some national dailies. One of them, The Guardian of Nigeria, carried a very curious story on its front page. The news item…
Encounter with Dirty Fuel
If there are about 20 persons in Nigeria today who should know the deadly impact of the importation of Dirty Fuels to West Africa, I should be among the lot.…
Workshop for CSOs on OGP and UNCAC: Welcome Address by Rev. David Ugolor
The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, is currently implementing the Civil Society Advocacy Support for Anti-Corruption in Nigeria CASAN. As part of activities lined up, ANEEJ has…
ECOWAS EU Energy Wars
I have been reading former Secretary General of the OPEC Abdalla Salem El-Badri’s interesting piece, Security of energy supplies inextricably linked with demand. That piece, published in the ‘G-7Germany: The…
Before the Marrakech Accord: why were we silent?
In the days before the Climate Change Conference COPP 22, lovers of our home the earth went to town soliciting support for a 50% plan for mother earth. According to…
Use GMO for Electricity and Gas, not Food
In my days in secondary school, one of my best subjects was integrated science. That subject had Biology, Physics and Chemistry all fused in one even though we didn’t know…
Unholy Grail of Whistle-blowing in Nigeria
Several Nigerians recently expressed a good measure of outrage at what was perceived to be the laidback disposition of the National Judicial Commission and the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, with…
FG: Re-open remaining High-profile Corruption cases
Two weeks ago, I read a report by Premium Times of September 27th, 2016, that Ex-governor Orji Kalu of Abia State has been re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
NJC: Automate the Clerks after Sacking the Justices
In contemporary political philosophy, John Rawls is the last man standing on the idea of justice. He said that justice is akin to the processes involved in the distribution of…