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, November 17, 2015

JOE IGBOKWE, WHERE IS HE NOW?

Icheoku says where is that piece of excrement who sold out on his umunna (kindred) for a plate of porridge? Whether his name is Igbo-kwe or Igbo-ekweghi or even Yoruba-kwe or Yoruba-ekweghi, Icheoku does not really know; but that APC son of a gun worked his behind off for nothing during the last Nigeria presidential democracy election. At least for his effort, Lai Mohammed was rewarded with a ministerial appointment as Minister of Information; but Joe Igbokwe was not considered good enough for any position, not even for an "ordinary"  commissionership portfolio in Lagos State? 

Their thinking possibly, Joey is "dem people" who are to be drowned in the Lagos lagoon had Ambode not won; and therefore not being a "shon of the shoil", has no business being appointed Commissioner of Information in their Lagos State government? Probably too their Oba Akiolu who threatened the lagoon drowning equally decreed the entire exclusion of Igbo people from the Lagos State cabinet, leading to the ouster of the only Igbo person to ever serve as commissioner in Lagos State, Ben Akabueze. Yet some people are chastising President Muhammad Buhari for appointing only Northerners as his trusted advisers and overseers of all government key positions; while overlooking the fact of Governor Ambode's Yorubas-only appointments in Lagos State. 

A state as cosmopolitan as Lagos State with a very multi-cultural mix of people, who  own properties and pay their taxes therein, with many of them born in Lagos and see Lagos as their home, yet they were considered outsiders not deserving of appointment as commissioners therein. Query:- where then lies the unity of Nigeria when people who call Lagos home, own properties therein and paying their taxes too, are excluded from appointments and kept out of governance simply for having "other peoples' sounding names? Needless to add that Governor Ambode himself was not born in Lagos but in Ondo State; likewise his godfather Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu who was born in Osun State. 

Icheoku asks if Joe Igbokwe, instead of answering his father's tribal name, had a name like Joe Ogunowe, would his fate have been any different? If an Adebayo Ogunsawe had put in as much effort as Joe Igbokwe did, selling the propaganda of the APC leading to the last election, to the extent of even denigrating his father's people, would he not have been considered worthy and rewarded with a commissioner appointment as a deserving stake holder in the APC Lagos State government? But hell no, Joe Igbokwe, no matter how he tries to Yoruba-nize himself or lapdog Bola Tinubu and crew, he is still seen and treated as an Igbo-outsider never to be trusted with a key commissioner position. 

Icheoku does not know what moves other people or what stirs their inner being; but an Icheoku who dutifully carried the waters of the APC as Joe Igbokwe did during the last election and was not rewarded with a commissioner appointment would have gone publicly rogue on Bola Tinubu and his APC. But hey, to each his own and possibly Joey Igbo-ekweghi is content with being seen as in the good books of Bola TInubu or rather the perception of being seen as within the corridors of power, no matter how peripheral? Icheoku asks has anybody seen the Lagos State APC Publicity Secretary lately and if yes, what is he doing now and how is he sulking his 'used and dumped' treatment by Bola Tinubu and crew. Too bad, some people allow themselves to be so lowly treated and still bow and salute with inner painful disgust but outwardly smile. Icheoku says when next you see him, please say hello to Joe! 

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