GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

ELENDU REPORTS PUBLISHER HELD IN NIGERIA!

Reports reaching Icheoku Publishing indicates that the publisher of ElenduReports, Mr Jonathan Elendu is being held in Nigeria by the Nigerian authorities. His alleged crime is exercising his fundamental rights of expression; which the Nigerian authorities insists consists of reporting very embarrassing news-story about very corrupt Nigerian prominent political "leaders". However they are not denying that his reports are true but that they are embarrassing to the Nigerian political "leaders" hence a threat to national security?. Mr. Jonathan Elendu, was also accused of sponsoring a guerrilla news agency?

Mr. Jonthan Elendu is being held in solitary confinement by the State Security Service (SSS) without charge following his arrest at Nigeria's Abuja International Airport upon arrival from the United States of America, on a vacation via KLM Airline around 7.30 p.m. on Saturday 18th of October 2008. Mr Jonathan Elendu’s arrest is coming in the heels of the closure of John Momoh's Channels Television, another independent media outlet based in Lagos, because it speculated that Umaru Yar'Adua might resign the presidency because of his failing health? Icheoku says that the era of press-muzzling is back in Nigeria! What a vicious cycle?

Icheoku says that despite the war-cry of "rule of law" by the current Yar'Adua's administration, it would appear that nothing has changed from the days of the military juntas including the last ignominious Olusegun Obasanjo regime. When the Nigeria National Assembly voted down Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, little did we know that the chickens has come home to roost with another reign of press strangulation. Why would a citizen be held for reporting what is true and commonly available in the public domain, if not to silence his effort to reach out to the millions of information-deprived Nigerians whose source of information is practically restricted to the government megaphone Nigeria Television Authority and News Agency of Nigeria? If Umaru Yar'Adua is sick and it is reported, so what or does the reportage make Umaru Yar'Adua no longer deathly sick? Please give me a break!
These gumbahs holding Nigeria hostage all these years since independence must be held to account. It is not a civilized act for Nigerian authorities to try to shield her leaders from the populace, including what ailment the sick Umaru Yar'Adua is suffering from! Icheoku calls on the authorities in Nigeria to release without any further delay Mr. Jonathan Elendu so that he can continue the pursuit of no-holds bare reporting he is doing; trying to educate and inform Nigerians on the foibles of her supposed leaders. Nigerian authorities are like the Ostrich which buries its head in the sand pretending to be hiding; but unbeknownst to them the whole world knows of their decrepitude and highly corrupt profile. Their reasoning is that since the Nigerian populace are ignorant of their activities, it is all well and dandy and the party can continue as an uninformed masses can do no mischief.
However Icheoku affirms that this intimidation cannot work and urge Umaru Yar'Adua to reign in his henchmen and order the immediate release of Mr. Jonathan Elendu. An informed nation is an empowered nation! Hopefully, with the help of the ElenduReports of this world, the Nigerian populace will one day be empowered to engineer a real "Green Revolution" which will sweep away the old ways of doing things in Nigeria; so that Nigerians will be truly free and for Nigeria to finally be able to move forward. It happened in the Baltic States with "Orange Revolution", in Pakistan with the "Lawyers Revolution" and in Thailand with the "Peoples Revolution". The Russian Bolshevik and French Bastille are now more of historical facts!

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