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…
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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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 …
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Quite a lot of us Nigerians who have not had the so-called good fortune to visit God’s own country are often regaled with the phantasmagoria of what we miss. And …
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Quite a lot of us Nigerians who have not had the so-called good fortune to visit God’s own country are often regaled with the phantasmagoria of what we miss. And …
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I am a strong believer in telling the truth or being discreet from the onset whether on the Internet or elsewhere. The emotional bags of frustration that men and women carry …
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There are many reasons why we should adjust this thinking that the married fella is an absolutely responsible person or that being married is a prerequisite for somebody to be …
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Sir, do you really think that just sitting there probably in your plush pastorate, churning out one academic sermon or the other will make the change my generation expects of …
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We mostly allow the most mundane and the most primitive issues swallow and engage our sensibilities, I guess because we still are unsure what we want of ourselves and of …