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.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, MORPHING INTO A PETTY DICTATOR?

The traits are there and recent developments suggest that the Nigerian president by providence, President Goodluck Jonathan, has been bitten by the bug which afflicts most African leadership and transform them into sit-tight, never leaving dictators. First he is running for president in 2011 against the odds of his party's zoning system which currently places that office in the north; next he declared Raymond Dokpesi a persona non grata in the Niger Delta just for pitching his tent with Babangida; then he would not allow some Igbo elders to peacefully meet and deliberate at an Igbo hotel in an Igbo city of an Igbo State simply because his security details erroneously informed him that the meeting was to benefit Babangida's candidacy.
Now, the latest of his dictatorial shenanigan is the putting of his cross-hairs on the back of Babangida through the proxy of his campaign director, Raymond Dokpesi; whom he has just arrested based on a phantom allegation of some bomb blast in Abuja. Icheoku says, President Goodluck, show Nigerians the evidence; otherwise back-off from the present course of political intimidation of the opposition as Nigeria is now democratic and no longer under the jackboot of a petty military dictator.
Icheoku
could care less if Babangida is served his cold strange dish, being the bomber numero uno of Nigeria and the man to first introduce bombing in Nigerian lexicography - Dele Giwa. But justice and fairness demands that Babangida should be allowed to contest the forthcoming election without unnecessary and unusual road-blocks being thrown his way, such as the present arrest and detention of his campaign director. Icheoku says, President Jonathan should have nothing to fear about Babangida's chances in the forthcoming election as Nigerians know better and will vote wisely; hence he must desist from his present approach of trying to hound Babangida out of contesting simply because he can, using the enormous powers of incumbency. President Goodluck, Icheoku implores you to please back off your oppositions or present Nigerians with the incontrovertible evidence as to Dokpesi's and by extension, Babangida's complicity in the Independence day celebration bombing at Abuja.
As far as Icheoku is concerned, the text message "Have you collected the balance from Dokpesi" is fantastical and the work of an amateur; as in typical Nigerian parlance and the tense situation considered it would have read "Have you collected the balance from Oga?" To mention Dokpesi in such a way is simply fishing the evidence that is desired. Also the other alleged text message "Lets meet at IBB campaign office" is just a rude joke as no reasonable conspirator would so blatantly give itself up in this manner. The ideal text should have read "Lets meet at the place or the office or even the campaign office; but excluding IBB." Such unintelligent forgery smells of the phantom coups with which Babangida killed Mamman Vasta etc and should not find a place in today's Nigeria. Icheoku says if this is the only evidence the Jonathan government has, then they have not found the real culprits as they may, like the president asserted, be still somewhere outside the country! What a pitiful cheap forgery and we hope that the telephone operators whose phones were used would with the help of transcripts, throw more light on whose phone sent what message. Icheoku is not buying into this two text messages as being the smoking gun for Babangida's involvement in the bomb blast, nope!

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