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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.

  • Issues from Obama’s visit to Ghana

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 13, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, the twosome who rule two of the formerly greatest nations on the face of this planet are two of a kind. Both are lawyers, both …

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  • Unilag Monkey Village, “Waiting To Extinct”

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 13, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Like their human cousins, the monkeys that live on the University of Lagos semi-Amazon forest exhibit traits of an egalitarian society which may not survive the onslaught of human and …

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  • Yar’Adua, Borrow A Leaf From Shell

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku June 23, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    For the federal government to continue to send soldiers to the Niger Delta simply means that the real problems that Boro, Wiwa fought and died for, have never been addressed…

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  • Our Pastors, Imams Must Speak Truth To Power More

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku June 20, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    On a Sunday morning, you should try this experiment: turn your television on, sit back and listen. From some Christian synagogues, to some of the mosques that dot the Nigerian …

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  • Invasion from the West Coast!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 16, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    In the wake of a spate of collapsed building in Lagos in recent times, Nigerians have resorted to using foreign builders mostly from the West African sub-region…

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  • Ode To A Nation’s Neglected Economy

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 16, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    If there was anytime that Nigeria was truly good or great, it was in the vainglorious 70s, sometimes snidely referred to as the ‘oil-boom’ years. Those who experienced it describe …

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  • Emerging terror threats for Nigeria

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 15, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Christian religious leaders in Bauchi who were in the thick of the action when the mayhem of February 22 lasted insist that the riots are the handiwork of terrorists in …

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  • Hope At Last For The Railways!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 15, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The Nigerian Railways is set to bounce back to life if the contract with CCECC as is being renegotiated by the transport minister sees the light of day…

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  • Refurbishing A Nation’s Nasty Reputation

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 12, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Everybody thought that if there was any other assignment that Nigerians desperately needed Akunyili to handle, it could have been as health minister, mostly because of the relationship that NAFDAC …

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  • The Age of Stupid in Nigeria

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 12, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Every day that this nation flares its gas, it blows about $4million. Juggle that number by 30 days and you get $120million…

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  • Why The Nigeria Railways May Remain Dead!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 25, 2009
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    With the total collapse of the road network in the entire country, Nigerians who anticipated that the recent interest in the railways would provide an alternative will have to wait …

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  • Homelessness in Nigeria, the Growing Scourge

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 17, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    More than three quarters of Nigerians who sleep outside daily have found themselves in that condition from a variety of factors, but mostly because the government seemingly has no place in …

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  • Is Mother Really Supreme In Africa?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 16, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Most Ghanaians are not expected to live longer than 50. This is what the United Nations, UN, life expectancy Index, 2007 says…

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  • Will Oshiomhole Survive Edo State

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 13, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Everyone with an eye on the ground watching the nation’s political landscape knew that November 11 was pregnant. And when the day delivered in the form of a judgment by …

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  • Nigeria’s Sick Refineries…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 12, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The nation’s refineries are still comatose despite huge amounts of money thrown at them…

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  • Nigeria’s Sick Refineries…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 12, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The nation’s refineries are still comatose despite huge amounts of money thrown at them…

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