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Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

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 08156171133  -  majirioghene@yahoo.com. Visit his blog.

  • When Will The Igbo Become President?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 24, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I believe that the time has come for Nigeria to move from being a giant on paper to being a real one in Africa. I believe that to do this, …

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  • Where is the Book File…?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 19, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    At the inception of the administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, he initiated a ‘Bring Back the Book’ programme – the assumption once more was that our people had replaced the …

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  • Metaphor for Olaitan Oyerinde…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 19, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Since February 14 when the National Assembly conducted a public hearing on the dastardly murder of Olaitan Oyerinde, we have not heard the outcome. And that is why we must …

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  • Oyerinde: Between David and the Behemoths

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 19, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    In this land of ours if the police breach your rights, the intervention of deities cannot save you. Woe betides you therefore if the police and the lawyers take you …

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  • Nigeria does not have insecurity problems

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 19, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Are we indeed vulnerable individually and collectively? For me, if I am to respond to that question, I would do so first of all by juxtaposing and contextualising the idea …

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  • Let Jonathan and Amaechi fight…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 13, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    What is the cause of the fight? Simply and again, speculations are rife that Ameachi, once a close confidante and a member of Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet is nursing a vice …

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  • All the Yak About Homosexuality…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 15, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Now some people are not wired the same way we are. For them, and unfortunately, their parentage may have been responsible for their being born with irregular mental and sometimes …

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  • What does Obama mean to Nigeria?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 15, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    At the onset of the presidential debates between the Republicans and Democrats, I found most Nigerians still making the same mistakes we made in 2008, when the enigma that was …

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  • Our Clueless President…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 15, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I first saw that irresponsible phrase on Facebook after those bokoharamic bombs began to fall on churches in the North. Our people were aghast at the seeming inability of the …

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  • Facebook etcetera, the new Zapitski

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 12, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Who really is Mark Zukerberg, aka the founder of Facebook? How old is he? How possible is it for a school drop out and for a chap less than forty …

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  • My Farm, your country

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 12, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    About two or three weeks ago, one court in one oyinbo country gave judgement against four Nigerian farmers in the Niger-Delta. Their farms, their only sources of livelihood were destroyed …

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  • Abati bashers exist in an unreal world…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 11, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Before I walked the corridors of power briefly in 2010, I wrote articles as sharp as barbed wire nearly all a denunciation of government. I was saying all of these …

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  • Breaking the rule of the Rule of Law

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 11, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I believe that the office of president anywhere there’s a democracy is a weak office. The chap occupying it equally is weak as well if truly the principles of fiscal …

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  • Collapse The States

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 11, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Nigeria is presently governed and populated by rudderless leadership – and as well by such terrible followership to the extent of being led by the nostrils like some Elizabethan or …

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  • New Pope, new churching…?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 11, 2013
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    If you are in any position of leadership whether physical or spiritual,  the litmus test to the efficacy of your leadership or the legacy you leave behind is in your …

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  • Redefining our sports agenda

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 23, 2011
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I belong to the school of thought that avers that football has an over bloated ego in this country of ours. I do not believe that football engenders unity, or …

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