Quite a lot of us Nigerians who have not had the so-called good fortune to visit God’s own country are often regaled with the phantasmagoria of what we miss. 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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Quite a lot of us Nigerians who have not had the so-called good fortune to visit God’s own country are often regaled with the phantasmagoria of what we miss. And …
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I am a strong believer in telling the truth or being discreet from the onset whether on the Internet or elsewhere. The emotional bags of frustration that men and women carry …
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There are many reasons why we should adjust this thinking that the married fella is an absolutely responsible person or that being married is a prerequisite for somebody to be …
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Sir, do you really think that just sitting there probably in your plush pastorate, churning out one academic sermon or the other will make the change my generation expects of …
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We mostly allow the most mundane and the most primitive issues swallow and engage our sensibilities, I guess because we still are unsure what we want of ourselves and of …
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There is a lot of ignorance today concerning the HIV-AIDS pandemic in spite of all of the publicity and the interest it generates with the world’s governments. There is also …
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It is important to state that with Nigeria’s fabled human and natural endowment, we have no business whatsoever sending our students to any school within the West African sub-region for tertiary …
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There really was good reason for Sierra Leoneans in the Nigerian Diaspora to let go and unwind the way they did recently: it was the annual Independent Day Celebration…
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You may not be able to imagine the frustration we feel sometimes at being bandied about as the third biggest or largest movie industry in the world and yet have …
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There is always something in the swashbuckling of a carpetbagger that predisposes him to exhibit an avaricious a personality. There will never be a respite from the original sin that Ngige …
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The power play in Nigeria is beginning to jar the nerves and jolt the sensibilities of the vice presidential camp. Some hold on to the view that the vice-president was …
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People have said that the riots in Nigeria were generated and influenced by a semi-literate elite that needed to show solidarity with the rest of the Muslim world. Why they …
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Mr. Obasanjo has, in various capacities, served his country for most of his life in what many would agree, in a creditable manner. He was there during the civil war. …
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The Niger-Delta. My Niger-Delta. Why has it been difficult for me to jump in the fray for as long as the conflict in that area has lasted? Am I immune …