I was military president. I ruled as a dictator and what you must understand then was that I was accountable to myself and not to any House of Representatives or …
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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A ‘good’ political record is a relative item and term that can be bought and sold in the supermarket of politics. The good records that these presidential aspirants parade is …
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To the honorable members of the Edo State House of Assembly: it does not give me any pleasure to write these lines to you. What I have to say to you …
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Life is a journey. And all of the men and women who traverse its length and breadth are merely sojourners…
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My colleague says no matter the political and historical and economic value that his sweetheart’s name may bring to his life, he would not allow his wife to keep her daddy’s …
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Part of the reason why a lot of my sisters are not married and are unlikely to find that Mr. Right who would occupy that special place they have reserved …
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Let us make it categorically clear to the exponent of power shift to the North that the people of the Niger-Delta as well as other stakeholders in this country were …
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There is a vital factor that makes any election credible and that one factor is that whatever it is that is put on ground to make that election credible must …
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I don’t think it is out of place for us to concede that a woman’s brain is not an organ of her sex. If we keep saying that women are weak …
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The way it is today, if we impeach a governor because he refuses to dance to the familiar song of a godfather or that he is not our party man, …
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A good many thoroughbred professionals who have carved aniche for themselves in the US have become nostalgic and are actually considering coming back home to Nigeria permanently to carve another …
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My friend would love to go live in the US too. He has played visa lottery since inception, has attempted serendipity, has made SOS calls, and now all he has …
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Examinations no longer are a true or efficient test of an employee’s or candidate’s ability…and a second class upper degree can go to the highest bidder. It is possible these …
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If there is indeed any time and any moment in the life of any man to take up a lyre and compose a song of praise to God because of …
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No responsible person or government would encourage her people to go out if the schools in the country are in good shape. You don’t have Americans, the British, the Canadians and …
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What Celtel as a new player in the Nigerian telecoms industry is doing today is ignore one of the most powerful structures in English syntax, the simple sentence, to appeal …