On my way to the office, a bit close to the Yar’Adua centre, I notice that the ground shook after a thunderous blast – twice. I looked up in the …
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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Nigerian leaders and big men dying on us is no news. In the days of the second republic, many governors affected by the Muhammadu Buhari putsch lost their lives just …
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I do agree that football certainly has a unifying character. However, this lasts only 90 minutes and football has not emulsified us. We have spent billions of naira on football …
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The man who became the Nigerian coach was a successful failure. Quite unlike Shuaibu Amodu, Lars Lagerback could not qualify his country, Sweden, for the World Cup. He and his …
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A group of Nigerians is losing sleep over the speculations that Goodluck Jonathan may run for president next year. This group is jittery that if Goodluck Jonathan eventually decides to …
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As far as I am concerned, anybody can be corrupt whether you are a journalist or not. Everybody, even the Pope or Obama, has a price. Whether you are a …
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Just after the president died, those who took one cheap shot or the other at him and at his family are the very ones now praising him to heaven and …
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For years since independence, the North has always insisted on controlling the police, the army, the petroleum that they do not produce and even produce the president. Where this whole …
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The sad reality of our common existence on a common platform makes it imperative to use the right terms, if only so that everyone really understands what is happening. That …
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At this ‘critical’ period of our life as a nation, those whom chance thrust on us as leaders should have no need of the former templates of religion or our …
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When a person of Gaddafi’s pedigree begins to suggest that we must jettison the federal character principle and allow merit and achievement to be the templates for our march forward, …
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What is rampant in Nigeria today are major cases reminiscent of the kind of ethnic cleansing that took place in Burundi, the Sudan and in Kosovo. Usually disguised as tribal …
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One thing I know is that if we were in the same condition and have wives who truly loved us, wives or daughters whom we have given love, wealth and …
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Experts and ordinary Nigerians worry about how their foods and medicines are being packed by food processors…
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By this piece, I wish to recommend to anyone who is not familiar with the Niger Delta to be a little more circumspect in discourse related to determination of issues …
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I say so without blinking that our Constitution is useless because it was foisted on us by a power mad military despot, and determining our fate on that paper alone …