Nigeria needs help. Like seriously and fast. We all must accept this, especially from the many intractable issues of insecurity, infrastructural decay and the political anemia of the present dispensation. …
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.
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Among the states that Nigerians adjudged to have proactively managed the Covid 19 after it hit Nigeria in March 2020 was Edo. One of the first things the state government …
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One of the reasons why Muhammadu Buhari was said to have ‘chosen’ Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, to be his running mate for president of Nigeria was that apart from being …
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Are there any indications that Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki may walk his policy talk concerning human capital development in Edo State? From inception as governor, Mr Obaseki had relocated …
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The Environmental Rights Action, ERA & Friends of the Earth Nigeria FoEN, has removed Nnimoh Bassey as chairman of its board. This followed resolutions taken at a General Assembly of …
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Umar Yahaya, 28, is an environment manager and toxicologist from Kano State. After he graduated from the Federal University in Dutse and served his fatherland in 2018, he began to …
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Matters related to Freedom of Information denials by the EFCC reared a head recently at a seminar organized by an NGO in Benin City. Since signing up or onto the …
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By the time you read this, my guess is that the FFK gaff would have simmered and we would have moved on. When things like this happen in certain places, …
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The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has concluded a 2-Day capacity programme, tagged ‘Workshop for CSOs and Journalists on Procurement Monitoring , Observation and Open Contracting, held …
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I have often heard that politics in Nigeria is a game of ‘numbers’. For anyone who needs to understand what that metaphor stands for, they should know that democracy is …
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At a time when Covid 19 has paralyzed all educational institutions and youth capacity building engagements the world over, the Environmental Rights Action, ERA, brought together over 150 children and …
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Benin City Nigeria…The Environmental Rights Action, ERA, has asked the Federal government of Nigeria to consider the restructuring of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, so that proper clean-up of …
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Title: No Clean Up, No JusticeAuthor: Godwin Uyi Ojo, ERA executive directorNumber of Pages: 39Publisher: Environmental Rights Action, ERAReviewer: Bob MajiriOghene Communications, Nigeria. Serious discussion concerning abstract concepts as ‘justice;’ …
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Prologue In the early 90s, he took the music industry by storm with hit singles like Madam, You Is the One and Say Me Well. Born as Olalekan Fadeyi, he …
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