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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Saturday, January 10, 2009

NIGERIA, A REQUIEM OR NUNC DIMITTIS?

Are these signs of the times or the things yet to come? Icheoku is talking about the status of Nigeria? The unity of Nigeria? To remain an entity or not? To be or not to be? Whatever finally becomes the resolution, one thing is clear - the present high agitation is very ominous! Yakubu Gowon, a former head of state of Nigeria was the first person, chorusing the Sarduana of Sokoto Ahmadu Bello refrain, to question the continued existence of Nigeria as one entity. In his famous diatribe, the Plateau State born army man, posited that there is no basis for the continued existence of Nigeria as one entity.
Odumegwu Ojukwu took up arms against the rest of Nigeria because it was his understanding that Nigerians, through their inordinate actions, no longer want the Igbos within "their" country, Nigeria. The father of the recently slain NYSC member, Pa Josiah Akande empathised that the recent mayhem in Jos poses a major threat to the touted unity of the country. According to him, the leadership of the country should re-examine the workability of the said Nigeria unity. Simon Kolawole of Thisday Newspapers commenting on the recent Jos riots, wrote, "Nigerians once again, are questioning the very essence of our union."
"There is no hope for Nigeria" was how a one time senator, Francis Spanner Okpozo who represented Delta South Senatorial District in the Senate during the General Ibrahim Babangida’s transition to civil rule programme, put it. According to the senator, there are a lot of irreconcilable fundamental differences among the various ethnic groups that make up the present Nigeria. Continuing, the senator said, the people of Nigeria are merely pretending on the unity question and unnecessarily delaying and avoiding the evil day.
The former Nigerian Petroleum Minister Tam David-West has it that a very dark cloud is gathering over Nigeria. According to the ex-minister, Nigeria has an illegitimate presidency - Yar'Adua is a legal president because the court has made him so, but the court cannot confer legitimacy on anybody. Continuing Mr. West said, "We have reached the worst; I have never seen Nigeria as corrupt as it is now, and if we don't take time, this country may not survive the next sixty years."

Now that the agitation for Nigerians to go their separate ways has gone a full circle, from the north to the west to the south to the east, Icheoku asks, what is then holding it up? Let the truth be told, none of the component constituents which make up the present Nigeria is impressed with one another - no, they resent each other and very much. They hold one another with a contemptible suspicion and will not hesitate to stick it to one another whenever the circumstance present itself. The supposed harmony and peace of the grave-yard in Nigeria is based on the existing leech-like relationship between the arid north and the richly-endowed south. The lazy parasitic north depends on the resources in the south south to survive, hence will not accede to balkanization of Nigeria because they will starve to death. But should the rest of the country be continuously held hostage by the selfish northern oligarchy? Only time will tell!
Icheoku commends the present bravery of some southerners who are now beginning to openly discourse south's discontentment with the present status-quo of things in Nigeria; and prays that it will not take up to the Tam David-West's projected sixty years before it could bear fruit. The north is singularly fuelling this flamed agitation for "separation" due to their crass arrogant usurpation of what belongs to all Nigerians. All the key parastatals and ministries of the federal government of Nigeria including the customs and excise, the supreme court, the appeal court, the EFCC, Abuja FCT, works and housing, agriculture, justice, finance, defence, national planning, petroleum, are all appropriated by the north; leading one to ask, what then is left for the rest of the country? Nothing but scraps! And who says this condition will remain tolerable and for how long in Nigeria anyway?
The northerners bleed the same blood as the southerners, so why should the south be so afraid to bleed some blood that they concede to the north all that their arrogance desires? The north are brigands who populated the military and uses it as an instrument of cohesion to keep the south in perpetual subjugation and servitude in Nigeria. Enough should be enough of this imbalance as Icheoku would rather, these mallams are stopped either through a peaceful dialogue or using whatever means necessary.
The south shouldn't be the one making all the concessions and all the time, no, things have to change and should change! How can a Fulani man from far away Katsina State be tele-guiding the resources in Bayelsa State when no Bayelsa man has ever had a voice on how the cattle in Katsina is reared? It is a complete absurdity and smacks of stupidity on the part of the south to continue to tolerate this lopsidedness in Nigeria.
Why would the south or some of their leaders be content with just receiving simple handouts from these mallams who blatantly arrogate to themselves the rights to every resources in Nigeria including the oil which is in the south? If this is not a conquered and vanquished state of siege of the south by the north, then nothing else so qualifies. It recently came to Icheoku knowledge that Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida once paid a 250,000 pounds Sterling medical bills of a sick southerner in London and you ask yourself, how much is left from where that one came from? If a panhandler asks you for a quarter and you oblige him, that leaves you with 75 cents plus whatever other money you are with. To the panhandler, he got his 25cents but he was oblivious of the depth of the pocket of his benefactor. This is gradually becoming the fate of the southerners in Nigeria and the matter gets even more maddening when it is the panhandling-south that rightfully owns the source of wealth of the benefactor-north; but is deprived of it by shere brigandage. Icheoku says, Southern Nigeria, it is time you stood up to the north and reclaim your God given natural resources and its concomitant wealth! Any other approach is simply slavish!