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.

Issues from Obama’s visit to Ghana

Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, the twosome who rule two of the formerly greatest nations on the face of this planet are two of a kind. Both are lawyers, both are in their early forties, and both have told the world that they are unwilling to re-open the old wounds that capitalism and communism unleashed on post World War II affairs...

Unilag Monkey Village, “Waiting To Extinct”

Like their human cousins, the monkeys that live on the University of Lagos semi-Amazon forest exhibit traits of an egalitarian society which may not survive the onslaught of human and physical development...

Yar’Adua, Borrow A Leaf From Shell

For the federal government to continue to send soldiers to the Niger Delta simply means that the real problems that Boro, Wiwa fought and died for, have never been addressed...

Our Pastors, Imams Must Speak Truth To Power More

On a Sunday morning, you should try this experiment: turn your television on, sit back and listen. From some Christian synagogues, to some of the mosques that dot the Nigerian stratosphere, you find men of God playing hide and seek with the destinies of an already traumatized people...

Invasion from the West Coast!

In the wake of a spate of collapsed building in Lagos in recent times, Nigerians have resorted to using foreign builders mostly from the West African sub-region...

Ode To A Nation’s Neglected Economy

If there was anytime that Nigeria was truly good or great, it was in the vainglorious 70s, sometimes snidely referred to as the ‘oil-boom’ years. Those who experienced it describe it in superlatives and in platitudinous terms...

Emerging terror threats for Nigeria

Christian religious leaders in Bauchi who were in the thick of the action when the mayhem of February 22 lasted insist that the riots are the handiwork of terrorists in military uniform bent on perpetrating an agenda to unleash terror and to Islamize Nigeria...

Hope At Last For The Railways!

The Nigerian Railways is set to bounce back to life if the contract with CCECC as is being renegotiated by the transport minister sees the light of day...

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