Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

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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.
Africa

Like Tunisia, like Egypt, like Nigeria?

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
You Nigerians are very good when it comes to religious riots and the pursuit of ethnic acrimony. You don’t look at the bigger picture. And that perhaps is the real reason why you may never bring change and development to your people....
Nigeria Matters

Our hopes for 2011…

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Rather than mouth the Happy New Year greeting like I used to at the beginning of each year, I’d rather keep my mouth shut.  And pray and hope harder. Pray and hope harder? Yes. Pray more for myself and for my country and hope that the 2011 general elections will actually be free and fair...
Nigeria Matters

Death of zoning…!

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
For me, the bombs that were flying around, the killings that wore the hood of religion, and the kidnappings that resonated across the land, were all symptomatic of the disease brought by the zoning clone...
Nigeria Matters

Journalists on SSS radar…

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Look at the predicament of the Nigerian-American columnist and professor who came home recently. The security people seized both his passports and asked him to report for an interrogation. When he showed up, the SSS made him understand that his name was on a watch list simply because the government of Umaru Yar’Adua did not like him...
Nigeria Matters

Who benefits when Nigerians bomb Nigerians?

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Bombs first became instruments of assassination in Nigeria on October 19, 1986. The target then was Dele Giwa, a journalist. According to available records, forty eight hours before, the SSS summoned him to their offices for questioning on allegations that he was smuggling arms into the country. They said that his motive was to launch a social revolution...
Africa

Dick Cheney, come to Nigeria!

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Before his tenure as vice president to George W. Bush, Cheney became chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Halliburton, a Texas-based oil prospecting firm. He continued to hold this position even as vice president. Perhaps that is why he is being criticized...
Nigeria Matters

Nigerian Roads: the Abuja disgrace

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
We just want to bring to your attention something much worse than the Lagos-Shagamu-Ore-Benin road or the Serengeti. You won’t believe it but the place I am talking about is nowhere else than Nigeria’s so-called capital city, Abuja...
Nigeria Matters

Is the contest for president a war between North and South?

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
A documentary I saw recently by Africa Independent Television, AIT, had Raymond Dokpesi threatening everyone that if his man did not win, there was going to be a coup. Others are baring fangs and making it clear that if Goodluck Jonathan becomes president next year, Nigeria will disintegrate...
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