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.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

ABUJA TRAFFIC GRIDLOCK, DEFEATS PURPOSE OF RELOCATING CAPITAL OUT OF LAGOS?

One of the principal reasons adduced by the promoters of Abuja, a new Federal capital city, was to de-congest Lagos and establish a new capital city that will be more sanely and orderly. 

Unfortunately it seems that their dream have been aborted as the new capital city, Abuja, instead of just remaining merely the envisaged political capital of Nigeria with elected government officials, bureaucrats, their support staff and very restricted number of the general public, has turned into another mega city, with all manner of people and businesses struggling for the use of the infantile limited amenities and infrastructures currently available therein. One of such over-burden infrastructure are the narrow roads of Abuja (Icheoku used narrow roads in context to what a capital city really deserves) which are now heavily burdened with all sorts of vehicular contraptions. Regrettably, the authorities in Abuja do not seem to be alarmed enough to do something very drastic to address the emerging problem with the urgency and seriousness it deserves and before it reaches the stifling condition that forced the move out of Lagos to Abuja in the first place. 

Pictured above is the cataclysmic essence of daily-life for so many who call Abuja home - a picture which told the wonderful story of a typical day for so many Abujaites. The picture was taken at a time and/or moment when the military jackboots descended on an Abuja road to frisk out Boko Haram and their bombs from the hundreds of thousands who ply that Abuja road? One wonders what type of military would carry out such "stop and search" security operation without first taking into account that such traffic nightmare scenario was a great possibility in the city? Further, seeking out Boko Haram and their bomb amidst this madhouse is akin to locating a needle in a haystack. 

But in Nigeria, leadership is somewhat completely detached from the lead aloof; hence the usual rowdy and disorderly manner of doing things; including constructing roads without taking into account the exploding number of road-users or causing such great inconvenience to attempt nabbing some Boko Haram members and one wonders if those terrorists wear a tattoo on their foreheads? Icheoku laments that Abuja is gradually losing its pristine allure and speedily metamorphosing into another Lagos with its horrendous traffic. It would seem that by relocating to Abuja, the Nigerian government sold a monkey and bought a dog as a trade but forgot that it still has a four-legged creature in its house. A city in gridlock is a city in chains and every effort should be made by the necessary authorities to put some wider lanes or even ten-lane freeways in and out of the city of Abuja; for it to remain attractive and competitive. What a nightmare on Abuja road!

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