Dyslexic children are a little hard to come by in my part of the world and I guess this is why I’ve not run into one yet…
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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Our students no longer can register for the TOEFL computer based exam from Lagos, Nigeria. Go to the TOEFL webpage and Nigeria is blacklisted as one country where you cannot register …
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In today’s Nigeria, twin children are very attractive and somewhat celebrated. The parents of these children usually get some kind of support from neighbours and friends particularly when it seems …
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A speech by a leader or one who aspires to lead should galvanize: it should inspire confidence in all who listen to it and chart a course of hope in …
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I have never been to Ghana but those of my acquaintances who have, summarize their experience in a sentence made up of only two words: GHANA WORKS…
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I wish you could be here to see these fellows who send you letters of urgent business proposals. They are school drop outs, unemployed graduates, homeless tramps and victims of government insensitivity…
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Nigeria’s political history cannot be taken as complete without a reference to its history of political party decamping…
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Nigeria’s educational position, vis-à-vis countries within the West African sub-region, is an embarrassing one to say the least. Some states in the North are very well known to have the …
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Why should I go out this time to cast a vote that seem to have already been compromised by people like Adedibu who have registration materials right in their homes? …
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This is my story concerning how I managed the wildest and craziest class in my school. I must let you in on it that my methods were a little crazy …
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We do not need an EFCC list to know that almost all the major players in the political arena, particularly the governors, in seven years plus did not give a …
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We from the Niger-Delta should carry this consciousness about and around us: that anytime Asari Dokubo is put in chains and locked up in a Black Maria, it is we …
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Emeka dead? Emeka? What happened? Why? How? God, Why? These were the initial questions that made my heard swim around and around… This could not be. This na the guy …
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I believe that the presence or absence of conflict is a vital element in the determination of the relevance or irrelevance of a work of art…
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You stand a very good chance of getting a lot of things done better and faster if your mother, your wife and your sister are favourably disposed towards you…
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There are so many things you should have in mind before you go for a major or minor intestinal surgical operation in a private clinic in my country…