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Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

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.

  • How UNICEF, WORLD Bank Became WAEC & NECO in Edo

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 10, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There are two well-known local examination bodies in place West Africa. The one is the West African Examinations council, WAEC, which started operations in 1952, and the other is the …

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  • Sam Kargbo to Celebrate Conferment as Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 22, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Abuja, Nigeria…On the 28th of November 2022, all roads will lead to OAS Lounge, B9 Street, Behind Estate Shopping Complex, CITEC Jabi Airport Road, venue of the celebration of the …

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  • Barde, Inuwa: who better to run Gombawa from 2023?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 20, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    November 16th 2022, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman wrote Nigerians a letter. In that letter, the INEC chairman said that there were only a hundred days left to the General …

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  • Gombe needs a New Hand

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 11, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Gombe needs help.  It really does, but not just because available data says that it is the one state in Nigeria with the second lowest GDP in the whole of …

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  • The Nigerian Catholic Priest Challenging Stereotypes of African Medicine

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 8, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Adodo Anselm Gbenga is a Nigerian scholar who is a pioneer of Alternative medicine in Africa. He is also a Benedictine monk and priest of the Roman Catholic Church in …

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  • World Forestry Congress XV for Korea organises social media reporters group

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku March 29, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Activities leading to a successful World Forestry Congress, WFC, billed to take place May 2-6, 2022 in Seoul, Republic of Korea, are already in top gear. The Congress is being …

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  • 10years after, confusion reigns over N19.9billion Mbora Abuja Development Contract

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 21, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Jabi Abuja Airport Road presents very beautiful scenery. What makes the environment beautiful are the ornamental flowers which deck both sides of the road, together with the cluster of trees …

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  • To Your Farms O Nigerians…!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 8, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I have read certain sections of JL Austin’s work, How to Do things with Words. I did not read that book because I qualify to be described as a bibliophile; …

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  • Interrogating Alternative Rhetoric to Ending Nigeria’s War in the North East

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 7, 2022
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Anyone who has read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, or listened to its audio derivative would have met that unmistakable axiom in its early chapters. Because I cannot regurgitate …

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  • How Politicians ‘Hijacked’ NUJ

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 15, 2021
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Whenever Nigerian politicians resort to thuggery, blackmail and vote buying in elections in Nigeria, journalists usually write about and criticize them to no end. In recent times however, political activity …

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  • ‘What you have in Edo today is not a government but a scam’ – Pub. Sec. Edo APC

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 1, 2021
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Bar Peter Uwadia is an erudite scholar and lawyer. When you are in his office, you easily know that he is a very busy man, what with the pile of …

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  • How Weak Edo Response to FOI Requests Undermine Open Governance

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 1, 2021
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    One of the states in Nigeria with a strong record of as a champion of transparency and accountability in the conduct of governance was Edo. Just two years after the …

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  • Death of Edo State Procurement Law 2020?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku October 3, 2021
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Section 10 of the Edo State Public Procurement Law 2020 mandates the Edo State Public Procurement Agency, EDPPA, as a regulatory body to publish details of major contracts awards in …

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  • Unfulfilled Promises to Light Up Benin City’s Airport Road

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku September 3, 2021
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Years of neglect of the lighting-up project of airport road, a long stretch of road with large traction of socioeconomic activities at the heart of Benin City of Edo State, …

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  • Come to Benin City Window on America, improve your chances of studying in the United States

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku July 7, 2021
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    In an ‘Open letter to America’s Secretary of State, John Kerry, American Corner Come to Edo-Delta’, in March 2015, I had said that ‘materials in the American corner cover a …

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  • Insecurity in Nigeria: CONGOs takes a stand against insecurity and mass poverty

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku June 1, 2021
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    That Nigeria is adrift today is no news, what with the near total breakdown of law and order. What is news though is that while there appears to be a …

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