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.

Portends of a Failed Election in 2007

There is a vital factor that makes any election credible and that one factor is that whatever it is that is put on ground to make that election credible must be absolutely transparent...

Naija Women Can Play The Game Too!

I don't think it is out of place for us to concede that a woman's brain is not an organ of her sex. If we keep saying that women are weak because of their physical configuration, how else can we reconcile this with how much they have held their own against us?

Shall We Also Impeach The Common Man?

The way it is today, if we impeach a governor because he refuses to dance to the familiar song of a godfather or that he is not our party man, it leaves us the common people in an impeachable position...

Should I go back home to Nigeria?

A good many thoroughbred professionals who have carved aniche for themselves in the US have become nostalgic and are actually considering coming back home to Nigeria permanently to carve another niche for themselves. They have been brainwashed that Nigeria is an Eldorado and that we are now an investor's delight...

Why Dem No Want Hep Me Enter America?

My friend would love to go live in the US too. He has played visa lottery since inception, has attempted serendipity, has made SOS calls, and now all he has in the American dream from his brothers are mere promises, promises and nothing but promises…

Why Are Our Children Performing So Poorly In Their Exams?

Examinations no longer are a true or efficient test of an employee's or candidate's ability...and a second class upper degree can go to the highest bidder. It is possible these days to rent other people's brains to write some exams here in Nigeria...

Ahonaruogho, Fashola and Kargbo: Icons of an Ivory Tower

If there is indeed any time and any moment in the life of any man to take up a lyre and compose a song of praise to God because of man, I think for me, this should be my finest hour...

Attending University Abroad…

No responsible person or government would encourage her people to go out if the schools in the country are in good shape. You don't have Americans, the British, the Canadians and Egyptians attending school here in Nigeria...

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