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.
Nigeria Matters

IBB, New UN Secretary-General

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
I see IBB as a man with a lot of self respect.  I suppose most Nigerians do too especially when we consider the fact that ‘little children’ like Nasir El-Rufai and Ribadu, who served in the Obasanjo government as FCT Minister and EFCC Chairman are also contesting with an agbalagba like him to be president...
Business & Economy

One Nigerians but two prisons

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Nigerians were angry that Cecilia Ibru got off as light as she did.  Over the past few months, she was vigorously pursued by the EFCC on allegations of abuse of office, granting loans up and above an approved CBN directive and using depositors’ funds for personal use...
Sports

Thank you, FIFA, but no thanks!

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
My parents did not teach me to be arrogant, neither did my teachers. Arrogance is something you could pick up along the road of life, and sometimes too when you seem blessed with the benefit of some hindsight...
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Message to October 1st Bombers

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
On my way to the office, a bit close to the Yar’Adua centre, I notice that the ground shook after a thunderous blast – twice.  I looked up in the sky. Unusual helicopters looking like giant dragonflies sped past...
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Death Of Our Big Men

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Nigerian leaders and big men dying on us is no news. In the days of the second republic, many governors affected by the Muhammadu Buhari putsch lost their lives just before or after their prison experiences...
Sports

World Cup: Folly Of Relying On Goodluck

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
I do agree that football certainly has a unifying character.  However, this lasts only 90 minutes and football has not emulsified us. We have spent billions of naira on football and the best we get is unnecessary heart attack...
Sports

Away With Foreign Coaches!

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
The man who became the Nigerian coach was a successful failure. Quite unlike Shuaibu Amodu, Lars Lagerback could not qualify his country, Sweden, for the World Cup. He and his managers took advantage of our unreasonable clamour for a foreign coach...
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Run, Jonathan, run!

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
A group of Nigerians is losing sleep over the speculations that Goodluck Jonathan may run for president next year. This group is jittery that if Goodluck Jonathan eventually decides to run, his ‘luck’ will shine again, thereby dimming the North’s hope of ever getting close to the corridors of power in the next decade...
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