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.

Tragedy Of The Unknown Nigerian Beauty

One is tempted to say that we are back in the days of the French colonial policy of Assimilation right here in Nigeria, where there is deliberate, sustained effort to brainwash black people, Nigerians, and make them aliens to their own ways...

Tragedy Of The Unknown Nigerian Beauty

One is tempted to say that we are back in the days of the French colonial policy of Assimilation right here in Nigeria, where there is deliberate, sustained effort to brainwash black people, Nigerians, and make them aliens to their own ways...

On Our Absence From The World Cup…

Most of us did not really care whether or not Nigeria was at the World Cup. In fact, some of us were happy that we were not there. We have weak hearts and we cannot stand the tension and the hypertension that our team puts us through in certain crucial encounters...

Seeing America From Their Eyes…

Quite a lot of us Nigerians who have not had the so-called good fortune to visit God's own country are often regaled with the phantasmagoria of what we miss. And indeed we do. The sweet stories vary from the real to the surreal...

Seeing America From Their Eyes…

Quite a lot of us Nigerians who have not had the so-called good fortune to visit God's own country are often regaled with the phantasmagoria of what we miss. And indeed we do. The sweet stories vary from the real to the surreal...

Dating Once Again…

I am a strong believer in telling the truth or being discreet from the onset whether on the Internet or elsewhere. The emotional bags of frustration that men and women carry along the journey of their romantic lives begin with those little lies...

What Makes A Married Man ‘Responsible’?

There are many reasons why we should adjust this thinking that the married fella is an absolutely responsible person or that being married is a prerequisite for somebody to be adjudged as 'responsible'

Letter to Chris Okotie, Presidential Candidate

Sir, do you really think that just sitting there probably in your plush pastorate, churning out one academic sermon or the other will make the change my generation expects of you?

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