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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.

  • Portends of a Failed Election in 2007

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 12, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Naija Women Can Play The Game Too!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 6, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Shall We Also Impeach The Common Man?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 6, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Should I go back home to Nigeria?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 31, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Why Dem No Want Hep Me Enter America?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 27, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Why Are Our Children Performing So Poorly In Their Exams?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 25, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Ahonaruogho, Fashola and Kargbo: Icons of an Ivory Tower

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 19, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Attending University Abroad…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 13, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Celtel’s indiscretion with language

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 19, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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 …

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  • Obasanjo and Atiku should fight!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 19, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Our political stratosphere once more is awash with the expectation that because two clumsy elephants are fighting, it is either that the grass would suffer a loss or the heavens will fall…

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  • ‘Romancing’ Our Women

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 14, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Give the average Nigerian girl a bouquet and she’ll want to know if it is your intention to feed her on flowers…

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  • Doing Funny Business In Jesus’ Name

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 2, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I think it is such a shame that people would exploit a peoples’ vulnerability and poverty of mind to use the name of God or of our messiah, Jesus Christ …

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  • I am for IBB…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 31, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I do not feel any qualms anymore in letting the world know that I am an IBB lover and had been a secret admirer of our one and only former …

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  • Killing For The Sake Of Power

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 22, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    At the end of the day, what we should tell those who are getting into politics because they have a passion for the upliftment of humanity is not to be …

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  • The Calamity Of An Endangered Profession…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 18, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There is no way anyone can tell me that the greatest nations of the world as at today and yesterday are in any way better endowed or strategically positioned than …

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  • Beginnings with Philately…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku August 13, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    My country and our men and women have a passion for football. Even the kids. And that is why I sometimes wonder why the postage stamp on my snail mail …

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