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.

Monday, November 17, 2008

BABANGIDA ALIYU AND HIS NORTHERN COMPATRIOTS SHOULD JUST GO AWAY!


For the umpteenth time the northerners in Nigeria have made a disclaimer that they are not leeches on the rest of Nigeria, claiming that they are not parasites and that they can stand on their own. Icheokudotcom now asks, were this assertion to be truly the case, what are they waiting for to just go away since nobody really want them in Nigeria? They should just secede from Nigeria and form an Islamic Republic of Arewa for themselves and live in a stone-age like manner as obtains in Afghanistan and some other medieval places including Western Wazaristan Pakistan. Nobody in Nigeria really wants these mallams because majority of them are primitive, back-ward, retrogressive, uneducated, religious zealots and fanatics, women-subjugators, social miscreants, lazy, non-industrious and for most part are the reason why Nigeria has not taken flight since independence in 1960.

The amalgamation of 1914 was a mistake and the Independence of 1960 a monstrous missed opportunity to just let these guys go away. These mallams have been in charge of Nigeria virtually since her independence in 1960 and today the comatose state of nearly everything in Nigeria is a testament to their inefficiency in running things. Without the rest of Nigerians contributing to the GDP who knows whether these guys would have still been alive. The south -south contributes their oil, the west contributes their bureaucracy as well as VAT to the federal purse, the east contribute their enterprising spirit as well as a sizable amount of VAT to the economy only for the North to act as the Master doling out other peoples money to their lazy folks up there in the Sahara desert.

When someone observes their dependency on Nigeria, some of their loud mouth-piece like this Niger State mallam rushes off to tout, a non-existence participatory of the North to the economic welfare of Nigeria. It is a generally agreed position that the forced marriage existing between the various nationalities in Nigeria is a ruse, which nobody wants. This newly found position of the North that they are capable of independent living, should be what the rest of Nigerians are waiting for! - a catalyst to quicken the dissolution of a non-functioning Nigeria. Under the family law, marriage could be dissolved on ground of irreconcilable differences and so should the Nigeria state. If the North, despite their flaunted declaration of their ability to exist without assistance from the rest of the country, in truth knows that they were merely faking it, then they should simply hush and continue their milking of Nigeria. Since nothing lasts forever, they can continue to ride the donkey until the emergence of a truly patriotic leader in Nigeria, who can ask some very tough questions regarding existing crass unfairness, tribalism and nepotism being perpetrated by the North ever since they usurped power in Nigeria in 1960. Gideon Orkar's attempt at addressing this most excruciating of Nigeria's problems was ill-managed otherwise the problem would have since been long solved; but until then, let the North know that it should not continue to be business as usual and that it is not yet uhuru!

On November 8th, 2008, one AbdulAzeez Sanni, reporting from Minna quoted Babangida Aliyu of Niger State as saying that northerners are not parasites, that the region has the comparative advantage, potentials and the resources to stand on its own. To this, Icheokudotcom asks, what then is the North waiting for, to simply take the hike and never come back? They should put their money where their mouth is - just prove it! The North should take that bold initiative of walking away from Nigeria - nobody really will mind their long-awaited departure from Nigeria. According to Babangida Aliyu, all they need to do is to identify and harness their comparative advantage in agriculture, arguing that the North has remained stagnant because the leaders have refused to challenge the people so as to bring out their potentials. Icheokudotcom responds that the North has no potential whatsoever to bring out and will remain in their abject want until their social and cultural perspective is changed for the better; wherein the ingrained cultural practises of almajiris, purdah, sharia law of stoning women to death for merely having sex and conscripted marriage of twelve year old girls to 70 year old grand-fathers is changed. In addition the North must learn how to separate their religion from the state and stop seeing in their rulers, gods who must be obeyed and worshipped. Until such epiphany takes place, there will never be any meaningful way forward in the quest to effect the fortunes of Northern Nigeria.
Until these fundamental medieval mindset of the Northern Nigeria society is radically shaken to its roots, nothing meaningful will ever come out of even the best intentions, such as was espoused by Babangida Aliyu. Aliyu said the Northern Nigeria region will only get out of its quagmire if it accorded education a priority attention, revealing that the 19 northern state governors have agreed to provide free and functional education in their respective states. To which Icheokudotcom says, it is not the lack of free education that is the impediment in the North, since the North does not pay school fees anyway. The albatross of Northern Nigeria is a classroom which is not usually filled by smart and bright students eager and ready to challenge their intellect. Also the North does not educate to really evaluate their folks, hence the low qualitative products from their schools which can hardly maintain their manpower need. The North is afraid of competition and they need to develop that knack to be a fierce competitor in a winner takes it all world. Mediocrity is the bane of the north! Icheokudotcom hopes that Babangida Aliyu now gets the true picture and will refocus his satellite on the real issues afflicting Northern Nigeria. This is the right thing to do, instead of his current feel-good speeches, patronising his people with an unfounded, unmerited make-believe self-sufficiency capabilities! Get it, Mallam Babangida Aliyu?

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