Retirees of 16 companies, who bought houses under the owner-occupier scheme in 1976 under the General Olusegun Obasanjo regime, battle their former employers over ownership of the housing units in …
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.
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‘My great-grand parents were taken to Brazil during the slave trade. Today, my family house in Brazil is Abule-Bamgbose in Bambgose Street in Salvador, Bahia. My cousins live there. Brazilians …
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The eight-year long battle between Commandclem Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Limited, over ownership of patent and intellectual rights to a chemical invention for offshore drilling seems in sight…
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‘’Everything you call illegitimate is legitimate here in Idi-Iroko’’, a source who did not want to be named insists. According to him, what takes place in Idi-Iroko is a mere …
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Nobody can tell if Samuel Peter’s parents peered into a crystal ball before they named him Okon (nightmare). For the boxer known worldwide as the ‘Nigerian nightmare’ beat the living …
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Anybody who is stressed can be compared to a laboratory rat that constantly gets a dose of electric shock…
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One significant thing that took place at the ECOWAS ordinary summit in February 7, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, was that member-states decided to speak with one voice concerning the Economic Partnership …
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Ghana is the hottest in West Africa where international drug smuggling is widespread because of its perceived stability…
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Nobody could believe it. That the man who ambled easily into the breakfast lounge of the La Palms Golden Beach was Michel Platini…
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Recently, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation released its rating of what it considered ‘good governance’ in African countries with indexes based on security, legislation, transparency and corruption, human rights, poverty and health, …
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We thought that all hell was going to break loose again when the election tribunal in Anambra state upturned the purported ‘victory’ of one of Olusegun Obasanjo’s godsons, Andy Uba …
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The time has come for Nigerians to begin to express a good measure of pessimism concerning those who put themselves up for public office. And that is because the Nigerian …
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After reading Udongo Itiaita, one comes off with the impression that this is a radical departure from the run-of-the-mill treaties that prescribe paternalistic, holier-than-thou admonitions on how to stay free from getting …
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Nobody, seeing Oyetunji, well-built and dressed in a T-shirt and jeans could imagine that he had managed to carry on without an organ that served as both his urinary tool …
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Some rich people are by far the most vulnerable victims of malnutrition, going by the dictionary definition that malnutrition could be ‘’an excessive intake of unhealthy foods, leading to bodily harm”.
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An interview with Sam Kargbo, counsel to Kebbi State governor, Alhaji Sai’du Dakinkari, at the election petition tribunal, Kebbi…