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.

When Will The Igbo Become President?

I believe that the time has come for Nigeria to move from being a giant on paper to being a real one in Africa. I believe that to do this, we must dismantle all of the perceptions and chains that hold us in captivity. Nigeria should be a mighty cauldron of boiling beans...

Where is the Book File…?

At the inception of the administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, he initiated a ‘Bring Back the Book’ programme – the assumption once more was that our people had replaced the love they once had for books for love for money and the acquisition of material wealth...

Metaphor for Olaitan Oyerinde…

Since February 14 when the National Assembly conducted a public hearing on the dastardly murder of Olaitan Oyerinde, we have not heard the outcome. And that is why we must make calls to the Inspector General of Police...

Oyerinde: Between David and the Behemoths

In this land of ours if the police breach your rights, the intervention of deities cannot save you. Woe betides you therefore if the police and the lawyers take you on - your own don finish...

Nigeria does not have insecurity problems

Are we indeed vulnerable individually and collectively? For me, if I am to respond to that question, I would do so first of all by juxtaposing and contextualising the idea of ‘insecurity’ with the acts of violence unleashed on us all by the Niger Delta militants vis-à-vis that of the Boko Haram Islamic sect...

Let Jonathan and Amaechi fight…

What is the cause of the fight? Simply and again, speculations are rife that Ameachi, once a close confidante and a member of Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet is nursing a vice presidential ambition together with a candidate from the North. If that is true, it would be a strong challenge from one ‘brother’ to another.

All the Yak About Homosexuality…

Now some people are not wired the same way we are. For them, and unfortunately, their parentage may have been responsible for their being born with irregular mental and sometimes physical and emotional morphology...

What does Obama mean to Nigeria?

At the onset of the presidential debates between the Republicans and Democrats, I found most Nigerians still making the same mistakes we made in 2008, when the enigma that was Obama reared its enigmatic head...

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