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.

I thank God for fuel subsidy removal!

I have read a lot of the rubbish flying around as arguments in favour of the fuel subsidy removal. The most puerile of them is that with the removal, government will have more money to tackle problems of our collective infrastructure...

A city afraid of its water…

Mama Ekene is a 35-year old mother of three - Wisdom, Chinwe and Junior. She lives behind Babangida Market in the Federal Housing Estate, FHA, Lugbe, Airport Road Abuja, with her husband Emeka. Every morning, she is roused from her bed by a persistent Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka, ka-ka-ka-ka-ka, ka-ka-ka-ka-ka sound...

Nigeria: long, long overdue for an overhaul

Is the president elect responsible for Borno State and most states in the North having the worst Human Development Index, HDI, in the whole of West Africa?

Issues with the non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB

Our emphasis for now should not be on expanding oil and gas production, no. It should be on providing legislation for monies that come in from oil and gas to be spent in repairing the damage to the oil and gas producing areas...

We are Bode George

I have read some of the outrage some of us have expressed concerning the lavish and tumultuous reception that heralded Bode George’s release from prison. While some can be excused for the honest expression of their outrage, others are just being good old hypocrites. You want to know why?

Babatunde Fashola, SAN, for President!

But wait till you hear what others have to say about Babatunde Fashola as Lagos Governor. For a prominent Nigerian musician who does not want his name mentioned, Fashola is ‘Up NEPA! – to mean that he does what he does for the good of Lagos and wants to be noticed doing so...

Abuja Roads: ‘Constructions’ without end!

What story would I be telling to draw attention to the roads taking forever to construct in ‘Abuja’? Hmmm, let me think. Yes, I will tell two, no three...

Julian Assange raped my prostitute too!

There are several aspects of the rape story against Assange I find incredible and just plain silly. First, Assange is not so physically well endowed as to have subdued two lusty women and whammed them, just like that.  How then did he do it?

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