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.

Why We Are Cheap

I was just curious to know two things – one, what is that tangible thing that we as Nigeria or Nigerians have ever produced that is of benefit to the world? Two, what is it that Nigeria has ever produced that has come cheap and which is affordable like those Chinese phones?

Should We Go And Die Just Because Of Oshiomhole?

Nigeria is not a nation – not a nation like the English or French or the Welsh. It is a geographical entity and contraption sold to the British government by the Royal Niger Company...

Are Universities Still Universities?

I am going to tell you three or four stories about our universities. These stories are personal accounts of my experience as a university undergraduate. My plan is to use these stories as a periscope of what universities once were, what they are now and what they should be today...

What Was Wrong With Ayo Oritsejafor?

I did not know the extent of calumny and propaganda against the leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, over his response to the terrorist attacks in Nigeria until I spoke with a Nigerian friend who lives in Europe. That friend of mine was adamant that the CAN leader was reckless and irresponsible in his utterances concerning those attacks targeting Christians and churches...

Why the North is playing pranks with the presidency…

This is a product of my friendly Facebook spat with my oga. Recently, somebody posted on facebook that our president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had stormed out of a meeting with his political papa, Otunba OBJ...

We are Danbaba Suntai…

If anybody had told me that we would be playing a broken record of the antecedents of the unfortunate demise of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua so soon, I would not have believed it. But here we are...

Ese Walters And Her Pastor Boyfriend

Before I address the Ese Walter affair, let me first say that church goers today really do not understand what the church is. The church is not a place for only good people...

Fani-Kayode Should Shut Up…!

Let me take the very intelligent and master historian Fani Kayode on a historical journey as well and as much as he has taken everyone. If he remembers his history very well, he would just come to realize that the reason why Adolf Hitler killed more than three million Jews...

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