My ex-German wife did not want children. According to her, she had sterilized herself before we met and her 13-year old cats were better alternatives to having children…
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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Some Nigerians who travelled to Europe in the hope of greener pastures are stuck there because the castles they built in the air have come crashing down on them…
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Can we give serious-minded rice and cassava farmers the encouragement they need? For many countries of the world today that import only a tiny percentage of their food, that was …
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“The issue of security in the Niger Delta is a collective responsibility for everybody. However, the JTF has been doing a lot to provide that sense of security…” – Rabe …
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Some Nigerians who are seemingly unqualified to drive but who obtain driving licenses indiscriminately contribute to the rise in motor accidents as well as swell the ranks of those who …
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There are allegations that some ghetto soldiers who fought so gallantly to highlight the plight of the ghetto in their songs seem to abandon it just as soon as the …
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What I visited Ikoyi, supposedly an exclusive area for the nouveau rich, an acrid stench pervades, and particularly at the Keffi and Awolowo Roads…
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Do the dirty looking barracks leave any impression or affect the psyche of the Nigerian Police? Is this dirty feature just one that occurs in the city of Lagos or …
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In a 5-day agribusiness seminar, organised by TELL and ACME consulting, in conjunction with Songhai Centre in the Republic of Benin, participants are exposed to the yet un-harnessed treasures of …
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Oil prices are not going up and down because wars and threats of wars are on the news. Nations of the world have done their arithmetic and come up with …
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Against the backdrop of the alarming increase in the number of Nigerians contracting HIV, investigations reveal that a high percentage of the population still hold on to age-old beliefs on …
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Fazed by mounting pressures locally and internationally, British American tobacco, BAT, now somewhat relies on smugglers to continue to flood the market with their wares…
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Arrested and abandoned ships, which are rotting away at the defence jetty at CMS, pose an environmental as well as health risk to the Nigerians who conduct their businesses at …
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Some topics covered at a two-month ‘Environmental Reporting’ training in Berlin, Germany, organised by the International Institute for Journalism, IIJ, of InWent, reveals that the world is at a’ tipping …
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With increased awareness in biofuel production, new players in the business like Indonesia and Malaysia have started a fierce competition with traditional biofuel producers…
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At the opening of the ‘Environmental Reporting’ programme organized by the International Institute of Journalism, IIJ, in Berlin, participants find out that environmental problems may not be peculiar to Africa …