Nigeria’s political history cannot be taken as complete without a reference to its history of political party decamping…
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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Nigeria’s educational position, vis-à-vis countries within the West African sub-region, is an embarrassing one to say the least. Some states in the North are very well known to have the …
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Why should I go out this time to cast a vote that seem to have already been compromised by people like Adedibu who have registration materials right in their homes? …
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This is my story concerning how I managed the wildest and craziest class in my school. I must let you in on it that my methods were a little crazy …
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We do not need an EFCC list to know that almost all the major players in the political arena, particularly the governors, in seven years plus did not give a …
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We from the Niger-Delta should carry this consciousness about and around us: that anytime Asari Dokubo is put in chains and locked up in a Black Maria, it is we …
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Emeka dead? Emeka? What happened? Why? How? God, Why? These were the initial questions that made my heard swim around and around… This could not be. This na the guy …
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I believe that the presence or absence of conflict is a vital element in the determination of the relevance or irrelevance of a work of art…
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You stand a very good chance of getting a lot of things done better and faster if your mother, your wife and your sister are favourably disposed towards you…
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There are so many things you should have in mind before you go for a major or minor intestinal surgical operation in a private clinic in my country…
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The one thing I know now is that life is a precious, precious gift from God that we must do all to live, safeguard and treasure. Our life does not …
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As the days turn into weeks and as the weeks turn into months, inexorably dragging us all to the semi-evil days of Nigeria’s election in April, it is not a …
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The period of gunboat and bazooka diplomacy died a dishonourable death a long, long time ago with Lord Palmerston, Otto Von Bismarck and Adolf Hitler. Today’s wars are usually wars …
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One of the reasons that one can safely adduce for the seeming numbness and complacency of the elite, the hoi polloi and the international community against the oppressive tendencies of …
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The sun has arisen daily from the East and has set in the West since the turn of the century bringing with it a lot of changes, but the poor …
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Tell you what…the man who has been picked as the PDP presidential candidate is really no different from the Shehu Shagari of our Second Republic…