
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.
OUR SHARED HUMANITY.
Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.
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.
Monday, October 19, 2009
DELE GIWA, 23 YEARS LATER STILL NO ARREST?

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Dele Giwa: IG Urged To Re-open Investigation
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Monday, 19 October 2009 20:28
The Inspector-General of Police, Ogbona Onovo has been urged to re-open investigation of the murder of Dele Giwa by a parcel bomb on October 19, 1986 during the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
Barrister Mohammed Fawehinmi made the call yesterday in Lagos during the 23rd anniversary of Dele Giwa's death as remembered by the chambers of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi.
He said: 'The trend set by Dele has been extended with numerous extra-judicial killings".
He noted that the inability of the police to produce any concrete evidence and culprits had become worrisome.
"Dele Giwa’s murder should be re-investigated and other Nigerians who were assassinated thereafter".
Mohammed complained that nothing has been done despite the efforts made by his late father, saying it was time to bring the culprits to justice.
He enumerated Nigerians who were assassinated without further investigation on their killing.
He, therefore, gave the IG one week to set up a committee to investigate the killing of Dele Giwa.
"The IG has everything in his purview to fish out those involved in the assassination of the foremost journalist ", he said.
Mr. Bamidele Adewunmi, who contributed during the event, urged Babangida to come out and exonerate himself from the allegation leveled against him during the assassination of Dele Giwa, adding that his confession would help the police.
Monarch Wants Dele Giwa Immortalised
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The traditional ruler of Ekperi, the ancestral home of slain journalist, Dele Giwa, has appealed to government at all levels to immortalise the latejournalist who, according to him, died while fighting against injusticeand corruption in Nigeria.
Egiegba of Ekperi, Yakubu Kanobamade, made the appeal when the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo state chapter, led by itschairman, Friday Obanor, and other executive members visited him at hispalace as part of activities lined up to commemorate the 23rdanniversary of Dele Giwa’s death.
According to him, Dele Giwa died when his dreams of attractingdevelopment to the kingdom was almost bearing fruits. "His death was adivine act to reveal hidden happening in the country," he said."
He died in thecourse of protecting the country against injustice and corruption."
His call, however, came as a Benin-based lawyer, Mr. Mr. Osaheni Uzamere, urged the Nigerian media to continue to be at the vanguard andthe fight against corruption in spite of the brutal murder of journalists.
Uzamere, who made the call yesterday at the 1st Dele Giwa Memorial Lecture organised by theNigeria Union of Journalists, Edo state Council in conjunction with Etsako local government council, laid the blame of corruption at the door-step of the military who were in power for 34 years.
He stressed that the military‘totally corrupted Nigerian beyond redemption” , holding Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Gen. Sano Abacha liable for putting “a seal on Nigeria’sfate for years”.
He observed that the problems faced by journalists in Nigeria were nodifferent from those faced by other professions, pointing out that theproblems were foisted on Nigerians by the manner the country attainedher so-called independence”.Uzamere who extolled the journalistic qualities of the lateGiwa, blamed the colonialist and past military rulers in Nigeriafor handing over the reins of power to their stooges who, he said, werenot prepared to take leadership responsibilities. “Nigeria is still acolony of the West”, he declared.Speaker , Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Zakawanu Garuba, whospoke through the House Committee Chairman on Information, Hon. BrightOmokhodion, called on the National Assembly to speedily pass theFreedom of Information [FoI] Bill, noting that with its passage, Giwa would not have died in vain.He said journalists’ occupation is critical position in any societyand called on them to continue t be alive to their responsibilities.In his comments, Edo State Commissioner for Information andOrientation, Hon. Abdul Oroh, said in celebrating the life and times ofGiwa, journalists should imbibe those virtues he was noted for,like investigative journalism