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.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

POWER IS TOO EPHEMERAL!

Who could have imagined in his wildest dream that the medicine man of Otta, Babalawo Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo would one day be so sidelined from power that his daughter Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello will be hiding in a basement somewhere trying to evade arrest by EFCC for her role in a 300million Naira corruption scandal?
Now who could have imagined that an "ordinary" Abuja chief magistrate court would order the arrest of the national coordinator of Police Equipment Foundation (PEF) and a brother in-law of former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr. Kenny Martins, over allegations against him bordering on fraud and misappropriation of N50 billion meant for the purchase of police equipment.
Who could also imagine that Babalawo Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo's own title "UBANYAKIN ZURU" could be taken away from him and bestowed on his former jailed-enemy, Retired General Bamayi by the Gwandu Emirate of Zuru? Emir of Zuru, Alhaji Muhammadu Sani Sami Zuru disclosed that the emirate council has withdrawn the traditional title of Uban Yaki conferred on former President Olusegun Obasanjo and conferred same on the former jailed Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ishaya Bamayi.
Not this blogger in his farthest dream! That men could go to the extent they go in search of power even if it means dining with the proverbial devil just to get it is beyond every sensible imagination of this blogger. This is so because of the ephemeral nature of power and Babalawo Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo is a living example of a man presently without power, who has fallen from grace to grass. Gradually but surely, the matching boots of the arresting enforcers of the state are closing their distance from his Otta farms to finally seal up his faith as a powerless ex-dictator. That Obasanjo will be arrested, is just a matter of time. And Arewa Consultative Forum has also decreed so!
Now the former chairman of PDP and one of the henchmen of Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Ahmadu Ali is also piling up on Obasanjo. This is very regrettable because this very Dr Ali been an Obasanjo man-friday since the seventies when he served Obasanjo's regime as Education Minister and earned the infamous "Ali must go" war cry of rioting NANS students. How is the mighty fallen and why is everybody deserting this Titanic? It is the foolery of men of power who think that they are beloved only to be left marooned when the power goes out!
If anyone has been wondering why the death grip on power which African leaders has been known for, they should look no further but at Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo. Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo is a case study that once you are out of power, you become a mere sitting quarry whom the new men of power can decide to "incinerate" at any time. In other words such an ex-leader is chased away into the jungle where he is left at the mercy of vapid vampires eager at the slightest sign of weakness or vulnerability to make a mince meat out of such a walking cadaver. Imagine Zuru Emirate Council stripping an Olusegun Obasanjo of a title which they had hitherto conferred on him; and just to spite him further, re-conferred that same title on an Obasanjo-jailed enemy General Bamayi. Bamayi it would be recalled has been a prison-guest of Olusegun Obasanjo, throughout his presidency, but was recently freed from detention after eight years of just awaiting trial. In essence Bamayi was in detention throughout Obasanjo’s eight years in office between 1999 and 2007, only to be finally set free because the grounds for his initial detention was frivolous.
And Icheoku would like to ask, how does one get compensated for a lost eight years of his life especially when there was no basis both in law and in fact for the initial detention and loss of liberty?

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