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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.

  • What is inside the pack…?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku March 10, 2010
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Experts and ordinary Nigerians worry about how their foods and medicines are being packed by food processors…

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  • We must stop insulting Niger Deltans

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku March 2, 2010
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    By this piece, I wish to recommend to anyone who is not familiar with the Niger Delta to be a little more circumspect in discourse related to determination of issues …

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  • Broken Records for Goodluck Jonathan

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku February 22, 2010
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I say so without blinking that our Constitution is useless because it was foisted on us by a power mad military despot, and determining our fate on that paper alone …

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  • The University of Abuja Disgrace

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku February 16, 2010
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The images that rushed at me when I heard the name, University of Abuja, were images redolent with the Abuja razzmatazz. I had reckoned that as the nation’s capital and …

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  • While we pray for Mr. President…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku February 9, 2010
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Power is everything. Without it, we revert to living like the Neolithic and the Neanderthal, stone age people who eked a living hitting rocks against each other to produce weak …

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  • The Other Side of Abdulmuttalab

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 20, 2010
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Abdulmuttalab is now more popular than Barack Obama and Michael Jackson put together.  He has completely changed how the world and our international friends view Nigeria and Nigerians. He has …

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  • Metaphor of a Beleaguered Journalist

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 29, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    When I penned A vote of no confidence in the NMMA a fortnight ago, I didn’t think anybody’s ox was going to be gored. I didn’t expect too that the …

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  • Swearing in public servants by Juju

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 29, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Our country still suffers a lot of poverty in the midst of plenty and it seems to me that only something as radical as the total annihilation of corrupt people …

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  • A vote of no-confidence for the NMMA

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 1, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    With this write-up, I intend to demonstrate how the Nigeria Media Merit Awards and their organizers mistreated us.  I want to talk about it because I hope they would read …

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  • Saving Abuja’s Trees

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 27, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Even though there has been a lot of money and effort put in by the Federal Capital Territory to green Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, activities of another federal government agency, …

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  • Climate Change Conspiracy against the African Child

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 22, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The world’s decision-makers and decision-influencers are gearing up to confront the coming cataclysm of climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark this December 2009…

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  • Avoiding the pitfalls of relying on renewable energy

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 22, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    One thing that Nigerians have always wished for and never got in the past decade is steady power supply. Governments before and after now grappled with the problem but nobody …

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  • Can the National Assembly save Abuja?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 18, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    We must be able to say it straightaway that these people resemble carpetbaggers than anything else. And rather than think this is an irresponsible or cheap shot at the honourables, …

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  • Why Niger Deltans must continue to fight

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 15, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Conflicts take place all over the world because you and I want to control the things that generate money and wealth. Now, since we cannot have everything we want, and …

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  • To a Nation of Stereotypes…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 15, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    For us Nigerians as a people, the time has come for us to realize that anytime we fan the embers of ethnicity and tribalism we easily wind the clock of …

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  • Washing out West Africa’s coastal cities

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 15, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Even though the Clean Development Mechanism, CDM, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, began three years ago in Kwale, Delta State, with the aim of mopping …

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