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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.

  • Tragedy Of The Unknown Nigerian Beauty

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku July 21, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Tragedy Of The Unknown Nigerian Beauty

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku July 21, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • On Our Absence From The World Cup…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku July 9, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Seeing America From Their Eyes…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku July 5, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Seeing America From Their Eyes…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku July 5, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Dating Once Again…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku June 30, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • What Makes A Married Man ‘Responsible’?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku June 29, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Letter to Chris Okotie, Presidential Candidate

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku June 5, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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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  • Before The 2007 Election Melee…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 28, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    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 …

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  • AIDS in Nigeria: the Ignorance Factor

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 28, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There is a lot of ignorance today concerning the HIV-AIDS pandemic in spite of all of the publicity and the interest it generates with the world’s governments. There is also …

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  • Nigerians Attending Universities In Ghana

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 4, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    It is important to state that with Nigeria’s fabled human and natural endowment, we have no business whatsoever sending our students to any school within the West African sub-region for tertiary …

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  • Freetown Night Or What You Will…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku May 2, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There really was good reason for Sierra Leoneans in the Nigerian Diaspora to let go and unwind the way they did recently: it was the annual Independent Day Celebration…

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  • Nigerian Movies: Adaptation or Echolalia?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 20, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    You may not be able to imagine the frustration we feel sometimes at being bandied about as the third biggest or largest movie industry in the world and yet have …

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  • On The Anambra Non-Sequitor

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 17, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There is always something in the swashbuckling of a carpetbagger that predisposes him to exhibit an avaricious a personality.  There will never be a respite from the original sin that Ngige …

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  • What If Atiku Becomes President?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku April 15, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The power play in Nigeria is beginning to jar the nerves and jolt the sensibilities of the vice presidential camp. Some hold on to the view that the vice-president was …

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  • Aspects of a Cartoon Riot

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku March 30, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    People have said that the riots in Nigeria were generated and influenced by a semi-literate elite that needed to show solidarity with the rest of the Muslim world. Why they …

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