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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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One is tempted to say that we are back in the days of the French colonial policy of Assimilation right here in Nigeria, where there is deliberate, sustained effort to …
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One is tempted to say that we are back in the days of the French colonial policy of Assimilation right here in Nigeria, where there is deliberate, sustained effort to …
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Most of us did not really care whether or not Nigeria was at the World Cup. In fact, some of us were happy that we were not there. We have …