The images that rushed at me when I heard the name, University of Abuja, were images redolent with the Abuja razzmatazz. I had reckoned that as the nation’s capital and …
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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Power is everything. Without it, we revert to living like the Neolithic and the Neanderthal, stone age people who eked a living hitting rocks against each other to produce weak …
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Abdulmuttalab is now more popular than Barack Obama and Michael Jackson put together. He has completely changed how the world and our international friends view Nigeria and Nigerians. He has …
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When I penned A vote of no confidence in the NMMA a fortnight ago, I didn’t think anybody’s ox was going to be gored. I didn’t expect too that the …
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Our country still suffers a lot of poverty in the midst of plenty and it seems to me that only something as radical as the total annihilation of corrupt people …
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With this write-up, I intend to demonstrate how the Nigeria Media Merit Awards and their organizers mistreated us. I want to talk about it because I hope they would read …
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Even though there has been a lot of money and effort put in by the Federal Capital Territory to green Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital, activities of another federal government agency, …
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The world’s decision-makers and decision-influencers are gearing up to confront the coming cataclysm of climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark this December 2009…
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One thing that Nigerians have always wished for and never got in the past decade is steady power supply. Governments before and after now grappled with the problem but nobody …
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We must be able to say it straightaway that these people resemble carpetbaggers than anything else. And rather than think this is an irresponsible or cheap shot at the honourables, …
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Conflicts take place all over the world because you and I want to control the things that generate money and wealth. Now, since we cannot have everything we want, and …
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For us Nigerians as a people, the time has come for us to realize that anytime we fan the embers of ethnicity and tribalism we easily wind the clock of …
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Even though the Clean Development Mechanism, CDM, of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, began three years ago in Kwale, Delta State, with the aim of mopping …
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Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, the twosome who rule two of the formerly greatest nations on the face of this planet are two of a kind. Both are lawyers, both …
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Like their human cousins, the monkeys that live on the University of Lagos semi-Amazon forest exhibit traits of an egalitarian society which may not survive the onslaught of human and …
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For the federal government to continue to send soldiers to the Niger Delta simply means that the real problems that Boro, Wiwa fought and died for, have never been addressed…