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.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

PRESIDENT JONATHAN SAYS NOT TO PANIC, TALK IS CHEAP!

PRESIDENT JONATHAN SAYS NOT TO PANIC, TALK IS CHEAP! "This terrorist act should not be viewed as an attack on the police, but on the entire nation. I don't think the IG was the target of the explosion. Terrorism is a global phenomenon not peculiar to Nigeria. All over the world nobody is free as everyone is a target for them, but Nigerians should not panic; the security agencies will contain the situation. Let us be calm, we will get to the root of the matter" - President Goodluck Ebelesimi Jonathan. 

Icheoku says the president once again fumbled, in a manner reminiscent to when he prematurely absolved those Niger Delta MEND from the first Abuja bombing, on who the target of the latest second Abuja bombing was; as Boko Haram expressly stated that the IGP was their primary target. Secondly the president appears to want to excuse the ineptitude of his security team in failing to nip this terrorist incident in the bud by stating that terrorism is a global phenomenon not peculiar to Nigeria? Icheoku says if this president does not understand that his primary responsibility as the chief executive of Nigeria Plc is to protect and safeguard Nigerians; then he has a wrong job and no amount of passing the buck or trying to explain the inexplicable shall suffice as Nigerians demand a solution to the now intractable Boko Haram menacing terror in Northern Nigeria! 

instead of the usual pontification and photo-up visits to the hospital to see the wounded, President Jonathan should have done what any reasonable man in charge of affairs ought to do faced with similar circumstances - FIRE THE DAMN IGP HAFIZ RINGIM for incompetence, period! But no, instead, the president is being conducted around the bomb blast site by the same IGP Ringim, whose failure in this incident is so glaring that every Nigerian should demand his exit and NOW! How can the IGP explain that a terrorist found his way into his police headquarters and detonated his deadly cargo without being stopped or arrested earlier on his approach? If it is "wetin you carry egunje" harassment of innocent Nigerians going about their business by the Nigerian police, his police would have perfected their game; but stop a terrorist before he blew the police headquarters up in smoke, the police could not do anything to stop it. Icheoku wonders what else the Nigerian police is capable of doing if they cannot protect their own personal turf - their headquarters? 

Icheoku reaffirms that Nigerians have heard such a hollow assurances to get to the root of the matter and punish the culprits from the president in the past. Over two years has since past when the same president empaneled an investigative committee on Jos Plateau State security disturbances and several years has equally passed since the committee delivered their findings; yet President Jonathan is to make good his promise to bring the culprits to book no matter how highly placed they may be. Now he is assuring Nigerians as has become his stock in trade and should Icheoku say that those who killed the NYSC people have not been apprehended nor prosecuted yet? So a man who could not deliver on his promises and who could not constitute his cabinet, one month after his inauguration, might as well be incapable of doing anything holistic to arrest the insecurity situation in the country. The president appears to be full on promises but short on delivering or fulfilling them

May be President Goodluck Ebelesimi Jonathan should himself even consider resigning his office since he does not seem to be equal to the task of governing Nigeria and providing security for its citizens. Icheoku calls on Nigerians to stop passing the buck elsewhere but to leave it squarely on the president's desk as the chief executive officer of Nigeria Plc. If Mr. President cannot select a competent and well qualified officer to head and provide leadership for the police to do their job of providing security, then let the president take the blame for these security lapses. A man who failed as AIG in charge of Zone 6 when Abia State became inhabitable because of hoodlums was elevated to the IGP by President Jonathan and Icheoku wonders whether the president rewards mediocrity instead? Anyway, the choice is the president to make - either he fires the Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim for a colossal failure of security or he himself throws in the towel and vacate Aso Rock for men with balls to run things the way it should be. Mr President, whatever you decide to do, please do it fast as Nigeria must not be allowed to metamorphose into the Pakistan of Africa with bombs going off at every nook and cranny of the country. Please not under your watch, President Jonathan;  - hopefully IGP Ringim was pointing at his exit in the picture?

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