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.

Before The 2007 Election Melee…

We mostly allow the most mundane and the most primitive issues swallow and engage our sensibilities, I guess because we still are unsure what we want of ourselves and of those who claim they want to represent us...

AIDS in Nigeria: the Ignorance Factor

There is a lot of ignorance today concerning the HIV-AIDS pandemic in spite of all of the publicity and the interest it generates with the world’s governments. There is also a lot of ignorance and controversy too concerning its origin...

Nigerians Attending Universities In Ghana

It is important to state that with Nigeria’s fabled human and natural endowment, we have no business whatsoever sending our students to any school within the West African sub-region for tertiary education...

Freetown Night Or What You Will…

There really was good reason for Sierra Leoneans in the Nigerian Diaspora to let go and unwind the way they did recently: it was the annual Independent Day Celebration...

Nigerian Movies: Adaptation or Echolalia?

You may not be able to imagine the frustration we feel sometimes at being bandied about as the third biggest or largest movie industry in the world and yet have a plethora of movies that will hardly justify this tag...

On The Anambra Non-Sequitor

There is always something in the swashbuckling of a carpetbagger that predisposes him to exhibit an avaricious a personality.  There will never be a respite from the original sin that Ngige was the one selected as a willing tool of plunder of my kinsmen in Anambra...

What If Atiku Becomes President?

The power play in Nigeria is beginning to jar the nerves and jolt the sensibilities of the vice presidential camp. Some hold on to the view that the vice-president was a little out of line to openly criticize an administration of which he is an integral part…

Aspects of a Cartoon Riot

People have said that the riots in Nigeria were generated and influenced by a semi-literate elite that needed to show solidarity with the rest of the Muslim world. Why they would encourage the talakawa become as demented as they were we cannot tell...

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