In this land of ours if the police breach your rights, the intervention of deities cannot save you. Woe betides you therefore if the police and the lawyers take you …
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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Are we indeed vulnerable individually and collectively? For me, if I am to respond to that question, I would do so first of all by juxtaposing and contextualising the idea …
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What is the cause of the fight? Simply and again, speculations are rife that Ameachi, once a close confidante and a member of Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet is nursing a vice …
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Now some people are not wired the same way we are. For them, and unfortunately, their parentage may have been responsible for their being born with irregular mental and sometimes …
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At the onset of the presidential debates between the Republicans and Democrats, I found most Nigerians still making the same mistakes we made in 2008, when the enigma that was …
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I first saw that irresponsible phrase on Facebook after those bokoharamic bombs began to fall on churches in the North. Our people were aghast at the seeming inability of the …
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Who really is Mark Zukerberg, aka the founder of Facebook? How old is he? How possible is it for a school drop out and for a chap less than forty …
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About two or three weeks ago, one court in one oyinbo country gave judgement against four Nigerian farmers in the Niger-Delta. Their farms, their only sources of livelihood were destroyed …
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Before I walked the corridors of power briefly in 2010, I wrote articles as sharp as barbed wire nearly all a denunciation of government. I was saying all of these …
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I believe that the office of president anywhere there’s a democracy is a weak office. The chap occupying it equally is weak as well if truly the principles of fiscal …
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Nigeria is presently governed and populated by rudderless leadership – and as well by such terrible followership to the extent of being led by the nostrils like some Elizabethan or …
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If you are in any position of leadership whether physical or spiritual, the litmus test to the efficacy of your leadership or the legacy you leave behind is in your …
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I belong to the school of thought that avers that football has an over bloated ego in this country of ours. I do not believe that football engenders unity, or …
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I have read a lot of the rubbish flying around as arguments in favour of the fuel subsidy removal. The most puerile of them is that with the removal, government …
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Mama Ekene is a 35-year old mother of three – Wisdom, Chinwe and Junior. She lives behind Babangida Market in the Federal Housing Estate, FHA, Lugbe, Airport Road Abuja, with …
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Is the president elect responsible for Borno State and most states in the North having the worst Human Development Index, HDI, in the whole of West Africa?