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.

Friday, November 28, 2014

BOKO HARAM HITS KANO, DISUNITY FUELING THE INSURGENCY?

People gather at the site of a bomb explosion in Kano, Nigeria, Friday Nov. 28, 2014.


Icheoku says the continuing menace that is Boko Haram is still wrecking havoc in Nigeria because Nigerians have not decided to come together to fight it as a united people. Icheoku says but for the joint effort at tackling Ebola Virus Disease, may be the virus disease would have completely devastated the whole Nigerian populace by now. But Nigerians saw it as a national emergency problem which would afflict all Nigerians if unchecked, and decided to come together to tackle it as a one people and it was defeated and gone. Icheoku says this is the same attitude that Nigerians need to approach Boko Haram with and in order to similarly get rid of it. 

But a situation where some people think and perceive Boko Haram as a sectional problem or some people see it as a problem for the PDP and President Jonathan alone to fight, then Nigerians, we have a problem. Some critics of Jonathan's administration,  instead of speaking directly to Boko Haram and condemning their nefarious activities, are rather busy blaming the president for not timely solving the problem? icheoku emphasizes that such attitude emboldens Boko Haram as they see themselves as fighting a cause on behalf of some people and/or that some people at least tacitly support their activities. 

Icheoku says until this "all of us are in it" approach is adopted, with every section of the country and peoples, sitting down together to marshal out a plan to uproot these mad dogs, the problem of Boko Haram will continue unabated. Like cancer, it is metastasizing and rearing its ugly head in various parts of the North and tomorrow it might spread to other parts of the country. A matter made worse because all the key security agencies in the country are headed by Northern Muslims, yet they cannot seem to have a handle over this lingering problem caused by their fellow Muslims, the fanatical Boko Haram zealots. Icheoku says if not them, who else can speak the language these animals would understand to make them see the need to stop their campaign of impunity and great devastation. 

Icheoku queries if indeed Boko Haram is fighting for Muslims and Islamic domination of Nigeria, why are they killing their fellow Muslims who were praying to their Allah in their mosque praying grounds? If Boko Haram war-cry "Allahu Akbar" means anything to them, why are they making people who similarly believe that their 'God (Allah) is Great' suffer such avoidable and needless deaths and devastation as was witnessed today in Kano? Today over 100 Nigerians' lives were wasted in Kano under the continuing siege of the country by these faceless and cowardly miscreants. Again, Nigerians are mourning and afraid of what is becoming of their dear country. Icheoku says it is not only Kano people that the devastation happened to, it happened to the entire Nigerian people, whose fellow countrymen and women were  so callously and needlessly blown to pieces and shot with automatic weapons. Something need to be done to stem this mayhem or at least clot the bleeding. 

Icheoku says it is about time this madness is stopped and to do this, all Nigerians should see themselves as having a skin in the game; otherwise the effort to rid Nigeria of this scourge would linger on for a long time to come if not forever. Nigerians, Icheoku says, please let us all come together and join hands and give Boko Haram a concerted chase, similar to that which saw Ebola Virus Disease roundly defeated. Let us all, once and for all, rid the country of the Boko Haram continuing reek of goriness and take our country back from these bloodthirsty marauding jackals. Enough of the partisanship; enough of the sectionalism; enough of the political cum religious undertone; enough of the blame game; enough of passing of the buck and of course enough of the tepid approach, all of which are bedeviling the current effort at crushing Boko Haram! This bloodshed must end and now is the time to end it. Away with Boko Haram and may such primitive ideology, driving this lunacy, be mightily crushed and NOW.

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