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, November 29, 2009

CHIEF (DR) AUSTIN CHUKS-ORJI, A MAN OF GREAT HUMILITY, A TRIBUTE!

To the many well-wishers and sympathisers who thronged the hall of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Antioch, California, USA to pay him their last respect on November 28, 2009; he was that affable and amiable man who always wore a smile. So many of them gathered did not really know the gravitas and accomplishment of the man lying prostrate and face-up in a beautiful brown casket?
Dressed up in death as he would while alive, impeccable and immaculate, in a well matched two piece suit with a neck-tie and his trade-mark fedora hat lying next to his body. He was as restful in his eternal sleep as he was while alive. The morticians did a perfect job and his body did not in anyway betray his looks while alive. Every mourner was satisfied in the job that was done to preserve his body.
The wake-keeping was well attended with over five hundred people taking up every available seats, some standing and spilling the hallways and even into the outside of a cold wintry Bay Area night. There was a funeral mass, followed by performances of traditional African music and masquerades; funeral orations, eating and dancing, while the gathered celebrated the life and times of a man many people in Bay Area of Northern California affectionately knew as GQ! He was a man of good character and unfathomable humility.
Chief (Dr) Austin Chuks-Orji, the Ogbuenyisiogu 11 of Obe, Nkanu, Enugu, Nigeria obtained a PhD in Finance way back in 1971. But the way and manner he carried himself, mixed and mingled with even the lowly, never betrayed his attainment of the apogee in academic pursuit. He once owned and operated four McDonald's Franchises, a Ford/Lincoln/Mercury car dealership in America; as well as the then Macons Nigeria Limited, which bakery arm made the popular and delicious Macon's Bread in Enugu, Nigeria; (anyone who grew up and lived in Enugu back in the eighties would attest to the popularity and quality of this bread). He was also the national vice chairman of the then Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe-led Nigerian Peoples Party (NPP), - a very high political party office in NPP and second only to Chief Adeniran Ogunsanya - the very chairman! He was also chairman of then Anambra State Housing Development Co-operation. He was an author. He was a member of board of directors of so many companies and government parastatals. He was married and blessed with eight children and some grandchildren. He was a successful man. To Icheoku, GQ was a good man!
Chief (Dr) Austin Chuks-Orji died in the United States of America on October 26, 2009 following complications from surgery. He was born at Aba, in present day Abia State, Nigeria on May 29, 1943. He was highly educated. He was a politician. He was a businessman and entrepreneur. He was a husband, a father and grandfather. He had brothers and sisters including nieces and nephews. He was good dresser and dapper, which earned him the acronym GQ! He was also an African high chief. He was loved by his family and so many friends and admirers. Chief (Dr) Chuks-Orji lived in the Bay Area of Northern California United States of America for quite some time; but in a somewhat humble and meek manner. Icheoku says, but for his eulogy, many would not have known who he really was and/or his actual worth? And so it was that Chief (Dr) Austin Chuks-Orji lived and mingled with all without isolating or segregating himself from the proverbial commoners; some of who did not know or could careless that in their midst was such a great-man of no mean worth and contacts; a reminder of the Igbo aphorism that in a strange land, people usually do not recognise the proverbial "big-man" from another land (mba ama onye ukwu)?
So as Icheoku mourns the passing of a very good-man, fondly called GQ; a man who lived a short fulfilled and fruitful life of 66 years, we pray that his soul rests in peace! May the Almighty God forgive him his sins and reward him accordingly for his fairness; and for lack thereof in the treatment of his fellow human-beings, show him mercy, Amen! We shall all miss his fondness, care and empathy; and above all his mentoring! A man of great humility, which humility masked the worth of the man, whose name was Chief (Dr) Austin Chuks-Orji. So long, GQ!

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