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.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

NIGERIA'S POWER PROBLEM SOLVED, USING JAPAN MODEL?

NIGERIA\ Icheoku says the intractable power problem in Nigeria afterall have a solution - the Japanese way. Ten privately owned and operated electric companies providing power, from generation to distribution as well as supply to their delineated areas of the country. They are divided into ten sub-nationalities electric power companies of Hokkaido, Hokuriku, Chubu, Tohoku, Tokyo, Chugoku, Okinawa, Kansai, Shikoku and Kyushu.

The authorities in Japan had since figured out that because each area of the country has certain peculiarities, with varying climate and geography, it would be foolhardy and unproductive for one company to manage the entire country's electric supply. Therefore since supplying energy to each region has its own special characteristics, they reasoned that in order to meet each local requirements, different companies has to operate as independent generators and suppliers, forging close relations with local entities towards each regional development. These companies also "cooperate with each other to ensure a stable and efficient nationwide electricity supply;" which transcends their allotted service areas for the benefit of the entire electric power industry in Japan. These companies collaborate among themselves to exchange electricity, to provide power efficiently, to cope with emergency situations such as power outages or failures or to meet peak-hour demands such as during heat-waves. To ensure the smooth operation of power exchange amongst these various providers and suppliers, extra-high voltage transmission lines connect the entire country from Hokkaido in the north to Kyushu in the south. These companies similarly partake in the cooperative development of electric power technology and the sharing of resources. 

Icheoku says, Nigerian government this one is for you to adopt in order to solve the lingering problems of the power sector which has defied every solution thrown at it in the past. Just emulate the Japanese, divide up the country and farm out each division's electricity requirement to different companies respectively. The Japanese have shown it can be efficiently done, so why not replicate same in Nigeria. Each contracting company will decide how best to generate its own electricity from nuclear to hydro to thermal to wind to solar and/or gas turbines. So with the problem solved, no one will ever complain that PHCN or NEPA has struck again or shout for joy each time light comes on. Nigeria is almost twice the size of Japan landmass although both has practically about the same population; so it makes for perfect replication for Nigeria to hug the Japanese way. Electricity is almost at par with fundamental human right in so many functional countries run by reasonable and rational human-beings; but in Nigeria, such officials as would make this possible are in the back pocket of generator mafias who profiteer from selling noisy polluting generating sets in Nigeria. It requires a president with some back-bone but Icheoku is afraid President Jonathan might not be able to stare down on these peddlers of death and dry their swamp by solving Nigeria's intractable power generation and distribution problem once and for all.

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