A common issue concerning the distribution of the things we all aspire to in our country has been a denominator dominated by unevenness. There has never been any kind of …
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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There is a certain group of our Naija countrymen who automatically switch on to hibernation mode whenever our national football team plays. Most of them insist that they have very …
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A true journalist is desirous of collecting a generous envelope from history as reward for professionalism and ethical conduct, he must be balanced and objective almost to a fault. Pundits …
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It has been more than 80 days after terrorists in the guise of Islamists kidnapped over 200 school girls in Chibok Nigeria. And it goes without saying that the unprecedented …
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One of the things that I cannot do as a discourse analyst involved with public issues and policies is to focus unnecessarily on personalities or personal attributes of prominent people …
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In Nigeria it is not only with the Christian religion that unscrupulous persons operate. They are there in Islam as well. Very well educated Muslims who got their education from …
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Why did the Americans agree to this unusual swap of prisoners, even in the face of their very harsh criticism of the way we have handled the kidnapping of 230 …
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If you were to review the activities of the Boko Haram, and in spite of the fact that these killers have no clear cut demands apart from demanding a suspension …
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We are sick and tired of politics of you-chop-I-chop and politics of exclusivity. And just like the days of Chief James Otobo, one voice which all Isoko people and all …
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On the 20th day of May, 2014, a Judge at the Federal High Court delivered his judgment in the celebrated case between Sanusi Lamido, struggling and erstwhile former commander-in-chief of …
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Our President is under some very strong pressure to travel to Chibok, venue of the abduction of 230 school children. The people that are putting this unnecessary pressure on him …
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After the bomb incident of 14th April that took scores of lives and maimed many, the government let out a plea asking kind-hearted Nigerians to come donate blood to victims …
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General Buhari took his misfortune and fall from grace to grass like a stoic to the extent that he kept mum when his new boss Sanni Abacha killed Nigerians at …
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Most disgruntled Nigerians consider themselves quintessential whistleblowers. And there can be none who is the undisputed champion of the lot than Lamido Sanusi, the suspended commander-in-chief of the Central Bank …
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The theory behind an emergency rule is hinged upon a hypothesis of taking actions necessary for peace and security, irrespective of what the constitution says or is not saying. And …
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We recommend to Mr. President once again: declare a full and total emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa…