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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 There is no Toilet…

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

    Most Nigerians, particularly in Lagos, from whatever social class they belong, have no access to toilets and no toilet culture, so they answer nature’s call anywhere they please…

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  • That Controversy Over Dangerous Masts And Towers

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 11, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The quarrel  between the Lagos State Government and  stakeholders, which  snowballed  into a  court case over the alleged  health  hazards and environmental unfriendliness of masts and towers may be  resolved …

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  • ‘Don’t expect green cards because of Obama’ – Dele Olojede, Pulitzer Award Winner

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 6, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Nigerians had already started to think that with Obama in the White House, visa problems don end, aid will come pouring in, and Green Cards will flood our streets…

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  • Interview with Obi Okaku, Nigerian Hotel Consultant in Germany

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 2, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    My ex-German wife did not want children. According to her, she had sterilized herself before we met and her 13-year old cats were better alternatives to having children…

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  • Welcome to Germany?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 31, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Some Nigerians who travelled to Europe in the hope of greener pastures are stuck there because the castles they built in the air have come crashing down on them…

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  • Danger of Food Insecurity In Nigeria

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 30, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Can we give serious-minded rice and cassava farmers the encouragement they need? For many countries of the world today that import only a tiny percentage of their food, that was …

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  • Security in the Niger Delta – An Interview with Col. Rabe Abubakar

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 30, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    “The issue of security in the Niger Delta is a collective responsibility for everybody. However, the JTF has been doing a lot to provide that sense of security…” – Rabe …

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  • Licensed to drive, licensed to cheat

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 27, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Some Nigerians who are seemingly unqualified to drive but who obtain driving licenses indiscriminately contribute to the rise in motor accidents as well as swell the ranks of those who …

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  • Galala, Alanta are Echoes Of ‘Suffration’ In Ajegunle

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 27, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There are allegations that some ghetto soldiers who fought so gallantly to highlight the plight of the ghetto in their songs seem to abandon it just as soon as the …

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  • Lagos Gas and Noise War!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 27, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    What I visited Ikoyi, supposedly an exclusive area for the nouveau rich, an acrid stench pervades, and particularly at the Keffi and Awolowo Roads…

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  • Police Barracks Are Collapsing

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 21, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Do the dirty looking barracks leave any impression or affect the psyche of the Nigerian Police? Is this dirty feature just one that occurs in the city of Lagos or …

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  • No More Waste!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 21, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    In a 5-day agribusiness seminar, organised by TELL and ACME consulting, in conjunction with Songhai Centre in the Republic of Benin, participants are exposed to the yet un-harnessed treasures of …

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  • Solving Nigeria’s Energy Crisis

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 13, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Oil prices are not going up and down because wars and threats of wars are on the news.  Nations of the world have done their arithmetic and come up with …

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  • Still In The Dark About HIV/AIDS

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 13, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Against the backdrop of the alarming increase in the number of Nigerians contracting HIV,  investigations reveal that a high percentage of the population still hold on to age-old beliefs on …

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  • Tobacco Smuggling: The Seme And Cotonou Connections

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 13, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Fazed by mounting pressures locally and internationally, British American tobacco, BAT, now somewhat relies on smugglers to continue to flood the market with their wares…

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  • Dangerous Ships!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 7, 2008
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Arrested and abandoned ships, which are rotting away at the defence jetty at CMS, pose an environmental as well as health risk to the Nigerians who conduct their businesses at …

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