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, September 27, 2009

PRESIDENT UMARU YAR'ADUA, A RELIGIOUS ZEALOT?

Reports reaching Icheoku.com confirmed that the sickly mallam from Katsina State and the man Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo used to punish Nigeria for aborting his third term bid; Nigeria's nemesis and unfortunate president, Umaru Yar'Adua has just sneaked back to Nigeria from his inexplicable visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Talk about priorities of a president? The Nigerian president would rather be cavorting amongst mullahs in Saudi Arabia, reading the Koran rather than be among the comity of nations, devising a way out of the present world's economic woods? He was too sick to fly to New York on behalf of Nigeria and thus, cost Nigeria the golden opportunity of 'shinning' before a tuned-in world audience and being heard; but hale enough to zoom into Jeddah to felicitate with a bunch of gown-wearing men with turbans on their heads? Icheoku asks President Umaru Yar'Adua, which one is a more important state function - Islamic allegiance visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or what should ordinarily have benefited Nigeria more and thus constituted a Nigeria's best interest at the United Nations and Pittsburgh, hanging out with the world's finest? His subterfuge for the trip was that he was going to the opening ceremony of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology? Icheoku says, tell that to a pack of hungry gullible hyenas?
Icheoku says, Nigerians should blame Olusegun Obasanjo for the nuisance of President Umaru Yar'Adua! An inconsequential former governor of very remote Katsina State and a teacher who never wanted any spotlight, but was forcibly conscripted by the devilish Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo and imposed on Nigerians? Now the man is using Nigeria's tax-payers money to propagate his allegiance to his Muslim faith by abandoning Nigeria's top priority and jetting on a frolic to just pledge allegiance to the custodian of the Muslim religion, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia? Should Nigeria treat this aberration with levity, Icheoku says, we do not think so and urge the National Legislature to caution such misplaced priorities of a sitting Nigerian president, irrespective of his illegality coming into office? At New York and Pittsburgh, at least he would have spoken to the world on behalf of Nigeria in NYC; and at the home of the Steelers, he would have emphasised the plight of African economies and ask for a bail-out! But none did he do, instead it was off to his holy-land to shake the hand of his "Almighty King Abdullah?
Icheoku asks, to who does this mallam owe allegiance - the Kingdom of Saud or the Nigerian people who he purports to represent? His shuttle to Saudi Arabia was a complete frolic which was uncalled for and could have been excused, assuming he was invited in the first place? Imagine, President Umaru Yar'Adua abandoning the 100 heads of states and governments who converged in New York for Saudi Arabia, to hurdle with a few 'yes-men' who do not necessary matter in political calculations in this world? Like the Igbo of South east Nigeria would say, "President Umaru Yar'Adua left where the 'ozo' (chief) title is being celebrated and instead went to where exorcism is being performed" and he is still president of Nigeria? What manner of people are Nigerians who are never moved or are incapable of ever being moved by the intransigence of their leaders?
This present miasma from this visit becomes more evident and thus deplorable, when one recalls that the same scarecrow President Umaru Yar'Adua, lamented Nigeria's non invitation to London's G20 Summit? A reasonable person in his position would have jumped at the second opportunity to participate, but now that Nigeria was invited, he chose to "snub" them back? What a "smart" man this Yar'Adua is? And this is despite the fact that Nigeria was formally invited to the summit and given a speaking slot, which many countries would die for; instead he chose to throw caution to the winds and escaped to Saudi Arabia. Since many pundits have failed to properly decode the sudden change of mind of President Umaru Yar'Adua with his scheduled appearance at the United Nations 66 summit as well as the G-20 at Pittsburgh, Icheoku has one theory - may be the president hates his sobriquet as an 'imposed president of Nigeria' who never won any election and hence still ashamed of how he got to the office and uncomfortable with the starring eyes of delegates to the conference? Just a theory! May be Umaru was simply too ashamed to mount the podium?
The irony of his Saudi trip is that whereas Umaru Yar'Adua's education-house is literally on fire, he was pursuing rat, attending the formal opening of Saudi Arabia's trumpeted citadel of learning? A shameless mallam and former university teacher who does not care if Nigerian students are not in school because of ASUU's unending strikes and work stoppages? According to one commentator, "if President Umaru Yar'Adua likes the hospitals in Saudi Arabia, he should try to replicate them in Nigeria? If he likes the magnificence of the newly opened King Abdullah University of Science and technology, he should transform the aging and dilapidated Nigerian universities to be their mirror-image? If he likes the ever present power supply in the Kingdom, why not import the expatriates to power Nigeria; after-all Saudi Arabia practically imports everything and every manpower they need?"
Now to the mother of all disappointments associated with this ill-advised trip to the Kingdom of Saud, Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua got only 5 seconds of the King's attention in the form of a passive handshake? Icheoku says, so much for the Nigerian tax-payers' money wasted to fuel the presidential plane and pay the crew that whisked him, Turai, his two governor inlaws and staffers to and from Jeddah? Just 5 seconds was all that Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua was worth to the King of Saudi Arabia? Nigeria's Umaru Yar'Adua was so low in the hierarchy of the King's important schedule that he sent only 'a governor to receive a president' at the airport? So much for reciprocity for and demand of protocol? So 'worthless' is Nigeria's president Umaru Yar'Adua to the Kingdom that his name was not even added to the scrolling text at the bottom of the simulcast, among names of "loyal" heads of states and government that came to pay homage and obeisance to the King; King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud!
However Icheoku briefly watched the opening ceremony of the university, and wish to congratulate the Arabian King, for such a magnificent edifice dedicated to learning!

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