After reading Udongo Itiaita, one comes off with the impression that this is a radical departure from the run-of-the-mill treaties that prescribe paternalistic, holier-than-thou admonitions on how to stay free from getting …
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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Nobody, seeing Oyetunji, well-built and dressed in a T-shirt and jeans could imagine that he had managed to carry on without an organ that served as both his urinary tool …
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Some rich people are by far the most vulnerable victims of malnutrition, going by the dictionary definition that malnutrition could be ‘’an excessive intake of unhealthy foods, leading to bodily harm”.
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An interview with Sam Kargbo, counsel to Kebbi State governor, Alhaji Sai’du Dakinkari, at the election petition tribunal, Kebbi…
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Teachers all over the world apart from, perhaps, Japan and China, are poorly remunerated and that is why Nigerian teachers should not in any way be seen as an endangered …
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85% of those seeking political office mostly as governors were people who claim their ages fall within the era of Nigeria’s political independence…
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November 29, at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, turned out to be a unique day in the annals of international diplomacy…
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Any time that James Akpanudoh has his favourite meal of Eba, gari soaked in hot water, particularly in the evenings, he found out that his whole system shut down…
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It has to do with Abiodun Ibrahim, who claims he is a naturalized American who served time at the Harris County Jail in Houston Texas, after he was beaten to …
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Every year now since 2004, Mercy Foundation, MF, an NGO based in the US, has collaborated with Pro Health International based in Jos, Nigeria to bring local and international professionals …
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Is there anything intrinsically wrong with the manner of dress of students who live in a city such as Lagos that’s adjudged the closest to the Western world? If there …
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Arsenal FC fans like Ben Ejimandu believed that Thierry Henry has all the makings of a consummate and an international football marksman…
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Between Yar’Adua’s asset declaration and Jonathan’s intransigence in declaring his publicly is a battle for legitimacy. Both of them were not really what we wanted. Believe me…
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What learned people of the law are saying is that all over the world, elections aren’t 100% s perfect and if we have ours declared as 80% perfect, why don’t …
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A lot of us hardly took Atiku seriously even when he apologized to the nation for assisting President Obasanjo put us through some very harrowing reformatory experiences…
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Imagery works by means of analogy. It is a broad term used in describing all the images, figures and pictures of the mind present in a poem or passage…