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.

What is inside the pack…?

Experts and ordinary Nigerians worry about how their foods and medicines are being packed by food processors...

We must stop insulting Niger Deltans

By this piece, I wish to recommend to anyone who is not familiar with the Niger Delta to be a little more circumspect in discourse related to determination of issues that affect that hapless region...

Broken Records for Goodluck Jonathan

I say so without blinking that our Constitution is useless because it was foisted on us by a power mad military despot, and determining our fate on that paper alone is not acceptable. My country, our country was on a precipice. We were the laughing stock of the entire world...

The University of Abuja Disgrace

The images that rushed at me when I heard the name, University of Abuja, were images redolent with the Abuja razzmatazz. I had reckoned that as the nation’s capital and centre of unity, its university should be a reasonable representative of the city’s ambience...

While we pray for Mr. President…

Power is everything. Without it, we revert to living like the Neolithic and the Neanderthal, stone age people who eked a living hitting rocks against each other to produce weak fires to roast a cob of maize for dinner...

The Other Side of Abdulmuttalab

Abdulmuttalab is now more popular than Barack Obama and Michael Jackson put together.  He has completely changed how the world and our international friends view Nigeria and Nigerians. He has caused a diplomatic row between two birds of unlikely feathers...

Metaphor of a Beleaguered Journalist

When I penned A vote of no confidence in the NMMA a fortnight ago, I didn’t think anybody’s ox was going to be gored. I didn’t expect too that the owners of the supposedly gored oxen would react the way they did...

Swearing in public servants by Juju

Our country still suffers a lot of poverty in the midst of plenty and it seems to me that only something as radical as the total annihilation of corrupt people can save us...

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