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

A vote of no-confidence for the NMMA

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
With this write-up, I intend to demonstrate how the Nigeria Media Merit Awards and their organizers mistreated us.  I want to talk about it because I hope they would read my story and improve...
Environment

Saving Abuja’s Trees

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Even though there has been a lot of money and effort put in by the Federal Capital Territory to green Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, activities of another federal government agency, the Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria  and other companies threaten the existence of the trees...
Environment

Climate Change Conspiracy against the African Child

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The world’s decision-makers and decision-influencers are gearing up to confront the coming cataclysm of climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark this December 2009...
Technology & Science

Avoiding the pitfalls of relying on renewable energy

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
One thing that Nigerians have always wished for and never got in the past decade is steady power supply. Governments before and after now grappled with the problem but nobody has come up with the panacea to that seemingly intractable problem...
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Can the National Assembly save Abuja?

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
We must be able to say it straightaway that these people resemble carpetbaggers than anything else. And rather than think this is an irresponsible or cheap shot at the honourables, we must be able to expatiate.  Think back at the several times when the National Assembly has insisted that it must be ‘carried along’, in the execution of certain brilliant ideas and innovations that do not emanate from the hallowed chambers of the legislative bodies...
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Why Niger Deltans must continue to fight

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
Conflicts take place all over the world because you and I want to control the things that generate money and wealth. Now, since we cannot have everything we want, and get everything we have, states put institutions in place to ensure a reasonable distribution of the commonwealth to all...
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To a Nation of Stereotypes…

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku -
For us Nigerians as a people, the time has come for us to realize that anytime we fan the embers of ethnicity and tribalism we easily wind the clock of our progress back, back to the days before we were colonized by the Brits...
Environment

Washing out West Africa’s coastal cities

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Even though the Clean Development Mechanism, CDM, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, began three years ago in Kwale, Delta State, with the aim of mopping up all associated gas from oil prospecting communities that would otherwise be flared,  investigations reveal that apart from the gas flaring threat, there are other less known factors that exacerbate climate change, increasing the risk that West African cities close to the coast will soon be submerged...
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