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.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

"EXTREMELY RICH" SARAKI, A PITIFUL AND PATHETIC PERSON.

Icheoku says in a civilized clime, the Nigerian Senate president would be forced to disclosed the source of his supposedly stupendous wealth and how much taxes he paid on it. But it is Nigeria and another story is being told of a man who does not manufacture nor produce a thing; and who did not write any successful app, yet parading himself rather boisterously as being richer than the state he governed. In his own testimony, Bukola Saraki, stated that he was "extremely rich" before becoming governor of Kwara State. Icheoku queries if this man is indeed as rich as he declared, why did he collect his monthly salaries and allowances as governor? Why is he also presently collecting pension from the same impoverished Kwara State, post his governorship?  

Here is a man, who according to his filed court papers, "had $22million, about £12million, 2.6m Euro and about N4billion in cash in his various bank accounts. He also possessed landed property estimated at N2billion and 15 vehicles valued at about N263.4 million" prior to becoming governor of Kwara State. So what need does Bukola Saraki has, collecting from a state he is richer than and still have the mouth of saying that he cares about the little people. Icheoku says baring crass greed and mean-spiritedness, nothing else explains his collection of his salaries and allowances plus pension as governor of Kwara State. What does this man need fifteen private vehicles for? Imagine how many jobs he could have help create in Nigeria had he invested part of his stash in business ventures in Nigeria. But instead he slushed it overseas in foreign banks.

New York City once had a mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a very wealthy humble man, a billionaire, who never described himself as "extremely rich"; but who as mayor of the richest city in America personally paid himself while discharging duties as the mayor for twelve long years. To avoid infringing laws against servitude and indenture, he received one dollar (100 cents) per year remuneration from the city as full salary and allowances. Whenever he traveled overseas, like to China on official business for the city, he flies his own private jet, personally pays allowances to officials in his delegation as well as their boarding and sustenance. The city of New York can afford to pay this team ten times over; but here is a man, truly committed to service of the people and who indeed selflessly served the people. MB is a good man and he gave it his all serving New York, including spending his own personal money in service thereof. 

Then Nigeria is cursed with people like this man, Bukola Saraki, who claimed he is "extremely rich" and richer than his home state of Kwara, yet shakes down his extremely  impoverished people of Kwara State, nickling and diming them for every and all expenses he made, genuine and otherwise; and you wonder what is wrong with Nigerians, especially the ruling class that beget this Bukola Saraki. Icheoku says if Bukola Saraki is "extremely rich", what need does he have of the extra peanuts he collected from Kwara State in salaries and allowances as well as security votes throughout his eight years as governor of Kwara State.

There is also a former governor of California, Arnold Schwazzeneggar (Terminator) who for the eight years he was governor never collected a dime for his job governing the richest state in America and the sixth largest economy in the world. He flew his private jet from his home in Brentwood (Los Angeles) to the state capital Sacramento for work. He lived in his private home and commuted to work on his own expenses and never collected reimbursements from the state. Such person is a blessing to the state or country they served; but definitely not a person as horrible as Bukola Saraki, who despite being "extremely rich", was yoked to greed. Why Nigeria is cursed with his likes, only God can tell; but surely with leaders like Bukola Saraki, Nigeria might as well become a wild wild West with no laws nor rules at all. What benefit does a society then derive from having "extremely rich" people like Bukola Saraki in their midst, one may ask.

Anyway, while Icheoku is not begrudging Bukola Saraki for being "extremely rich", Icheoku would rather he kept it to himself and not be too puerile bragging about it. Worse still, he did not disclose how he amassed such wealth and it was okay for Nigerians to hail him as rich, without veering into its source. But regardless, if this qualifies for Bukola Saraki as being "extremely rich", how would the Dangotes, Otedolas, Orji Kalus, Danjumas, Adenugas etc of Nigeria then qualify their wealth? Icheoku purposely limited the comparison to Nigeria where it is acceptable for people to boast and brag about their questionable resources; otherwise when moved to global riches, Bukola Saraki might be as merely rich as a hustler in the world of the rich and wealthy. It is rather very unfortunate and regrettable that such an "extremely rich" Bukola Saraki was so callous to deprive Kwara State money, he does not need and which the state could have used to take care of their poor and needy workers and civil servants. What a jerk he is.