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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.

  • Will The Election Tribunals Deliver?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 11, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    What learned people of the law are saying is that all over the world, elections aren’t 100% s perfect and if we have ours declared as 80% perfect, why don’t …

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  • I Believe Atiku!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 27, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    A lot of us hardly took Atiku seriously even when he apologized to the nation for assisting President Obasanjo put us through some very harrowing reformatory experiences…

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  • How to Handle Imagery in a Poem or Passage

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 27, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Imagery works by means of analogy. It is a broad term used in describing all the images, figures and pictures of the mind present in a poem or passage…

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  • What’s Your Age Got To Do With Your Participation In Politics?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 22, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    A lot of the governorship aspirants fall within the forty or forty something range. I hope you realize what this means in terms of the kind of parentage and the kind of …

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  • How Do Ideas Come To You?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 22, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The one thing about thoughts in the loo or in the bath is that they are usually very distinct. They are clearer than the ones you have in your sitting …

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  • Are Nigerians Actually Poor Losers?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 22, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The experts believe that because many Nigerians cry foul at losing the elections in favour of the dominant political party, then, they really must be poor losers…

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  • How Cole Porter Got My Student Interested In Poetry

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 22, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Most of the students I’ve taught Literature-in-English in my school come in expressing an aversion to poetry or poems. So, to get them involved and interested, I try to convince …

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  • Can You Cope With A Long-Distance Relationship?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 8, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There are two kinds of relationships we talk about: those who are married, and those who’ve made a commitment to each other to love and to hold but circumstances make it …

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  • When A Woman Makes The First Move…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 8, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    It does not happen in Lagos everyday like it does in other parts of the world, where it is perfectly normal if a lady makes the first move…

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  • My Biggest Secret

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 4, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    My father had been diabetic and because he was not particularly a man of some means, the disease wore him out. My father became paralyzed losing the use of most …

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  • How To Pass Your Cambridge A Level…In 9 Months

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 1, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    If you successfully pass your A Level exams with three straight As, there should be no school anywhere in the world that should take you for granted…

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  • Clinching a Scholarship via the SAT

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 1, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I am writing this to shed light on the heavy shadow of ignorance among students who wish to obtain a scholarship to attend university in America and expect to do so …

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  • What It Means To Be Calm Before The SAT…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 1, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    It is important that we clarify what we mean when we tell our candidates to be ‘calm’ before a near syllabus-less exam like the SAT or TOEFL…

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  • My Niger-Delta: A Marshall or Master plan?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 1, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There is almost nothing anybody can do now about the imbalance that all the years of oil exploration and exploitation has exacted on the ecosystem of the Niger Delta and …

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  • How To Be A Journalist

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku March 31, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    No matter who you are as a journalist, you are very, very dispensable. And because of your dispensable status quo, you find that you may have to change jobs every …

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  • Musings of a Bachelor…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku March 28, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Getting hitched has never solved anybody’s problems. In fact, marriage increases a man’s troubles and problems and frustrations and responsibilities…

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