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, February 28, 2012

NIGERIAN OR BIAFRAN FLAG, WHICH WOULD OJUKWU HAVE PREFERRED?

Icheoku curiously asks, were Ikemba to have made that choice, would he have elected for his casket to be draped with a green white and green Nigerian flag or the rising sun red, black and green Biafran flag? Where would his loyalty in death have otherwise laid or would it have been a flummoxed situation where the heart fondered in land so far away in a Biafra that could have been and the reality of his Nigerian-ness which fixated the feet somewhere different. 

Anyway Icheoku believes that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu personally rested the quest for Biafra the day he accepted a full amnesty from a Nigerian President Shehu Shagari; then returned to Nigeria and ran unsuccessfully for a Nigerian Senate seat to represent Onitsha NIgerian senatorial district. Ojukwu's new disposition was further made manifest when he later swore that his next war if ever, would be to fight to keep Nigeria one united country. His national discourses as well ever since, were always anchored on the need to ensure Nigeria unity. And to keep any doubting Thomas at bay, the Ikemba accepted and received his pension and gratutuity as well as accrued arrears from the Nigerian Federal Government as a retired army colonel of the Nigerian army, the rank he held before the outbreak of hostilities between the Federalist army of Nigeria and the Biafra separatist army. 

All the expressed sentiments notwithstanding, Icheoku makes bold to state that Ojukwu was a Nigerian and not a Biafran at the time of his death. So any doubt as to what Ojukwu would have done or preferred as to his nationality was well put to rest while he still had air in his lungs, alive and well. Therefore, Icheoku agrees that wrapping Ojukwu's casket in the Nigeria's national colors was a right choice as that would be the correct interpretation of the Ikemba's final burial wish. Quoting MASSOB's Ralph Uwazulike, the man trying to fill the oversized shoes of Ojukwu as putative Igbo leader, "MASSOB want the best for Ojukwu and people thought that when the government declared it will give Ojukwu state (military) burial, we should come out to oppose it. Between Ndigbo and Nigeria burying Ojukwu, we prefer Nigeria. So why then should I say no, when the president of Nigeria said Ojukwu should be buried by Nigerians. It is better than Ndigbo burying him alone. So I want the best for my leader, for my father. If you say Uwazuruike should not talk about Biafra on that day, all well and good. Let’s give him that state burial. After the burial we’ll start talking about Biafra." 

Icheoku says a very well articulated statement by Uwazulike and we shall begin to watch more closely the MASSOB's leader. Icheoku is also very appreciative of Nigeria's President Jonathan for being so magnanimous in according Ojukwu a deserved national burial. Adieu Ikemba.  

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