Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

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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.
Nigeria Matters

Justice for Sale?

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
A common issue concerning the distribution of the things we all aspire to in our country has been a denominator dominated by unevenness. There has never been any kind of justice in this Nigeria. In times past, some of the things that we should all aspire to were either in the hands of one strong man and his linguistic or regional divide...
Sports

Salute to our World Cup 2014 Footballers

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
There is a certain group of our Naija countrymen who automatically switch on to hibernation mode whenever our national football team plays. Most of them insist that they have very weak hearts that cannot withstand the rigour and tension that soaks anyone foolish enough to invest interest in a team as unpredictable as Nigeria’s senior football team...
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Amaechi’s Jet and Death of the Nigerian Newspaper

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
A true journalist is desirous of collecting a generous envelope from history as reward for professionalism and ethical conduct, he must be balanced and objective almost to a fault. Pundits argue that there is a thin line separating subjectivity and objectivity with reportage, and balance or imbalance in the way a news and its writing is handled...
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The Hashtag should be #BokoHaramBringbackourgirls!

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
It has been more than 80 days after terrorists in the guise of Islamists kidnapped over 200 school girls in Chibok Nigeria. And it goes without saying that the unprecedented outcry from the rest of the world over the incident has also put tremendous pressure on the Nigerian government to rescue the girls...
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Memos to APC its new chair

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
One of the things that I cannot do as a discourse analyst involved with public issues and policies is to focus unnecessarily on personalities or personal attributes of prominent people or their failings...
Faith & Philosophy

Using Religion to Promote Greed and Terror

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
In Nigeria it is not only with the Christian religion that unscrupulous persons operate. They are there in Islam as well. Very well educated Muslims who got their education from the civilized world support an antiquated and cultural system that undermines the education of children, preferring to keep these children in perpetual ignorance as servants and yokels...
Nigeria Matters

Mr. President Negotiate with Boko Haram

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Why did the Americans agree to this unusual swap of prisoners, even in the face of their very harsh criticism of the way we have handled the kidnapping of 230 girls in Chibok by the Boko Haram?
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Boko Haram Is Revenge Politics – Like It or Not

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
If you were to review the activities of the Boko Haram, and in spite of the fact that these killers have no clear cut demands apart from  demanding a suspension of the Nigerian constitution, a surrender and transfer of the instruments of power from Mr. President to them, and the closure of schools, two things stand them out as well...
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