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.

Monday, June 1, 2015

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI'S ANTI-CORRUPTION WAR, FINALLY TAKING SHAPE?

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Icheoku says in just two days, post inauguration, Nigerians are beginning to have a glimpse on how the planned crusade against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari will be prosecuted? Forty eight hours and four casualties already; except it is in the inverse proportion form. It appears that the new Nigeria's president is going to be all hot-air and no real action on fighting corruption in Nigeria because he greatly compromised himself, accepting campaign funding from notoriously corrupt Nigerians, and now seems to have inadvertently bound himself to them? So Icheoku says with this four developments so successively registered just within forty eight hours of his being sworn in, is anyone in Nigeria still in doubt that it is going to be all the same this inbound four years of his presidency. 

First the president makes a secret declaration of his assets and you wonder why bother to declare at all and not, like the former President Jonathan, tell Nigerians that he does not give a damn, if the content will be shrouded in secrecy and not made public?  Icheoku asks of what use then is the asset declaration if it is not a real open declaration in the strict sense of that word? Second his wife Aisah Buhari, wore a thirty four thousand pounds (34,500 pounds) Cartier Baignoire Folle 18-Carat White Gold Diamond Ladies wristwatch to his inauguration? Meanwhile this were the couple that campaigned on their being penniless and as poor as church mouse and you wonder this catapulting to the world's 1% of the 1% just within forty eight hours of ascending the presidency? And assuming for purposes of playing the devil's advocate, this ultra expensive wrist watch is a gift, who gives such stratospheric high end gift if not for the purposes of corruptly mining something out of the new administration? Icheoku says a trite rule of law has it that not only must justice be done, but it must be seen to be manifestly done; so President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be preaching war on corruption while an immediate member of his family, his wife, is accepting corrupt gift from parties wishing to corruptly milk the administration. 

Third, his government immediately directs the EFCC to drop the case against former Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Silva's N2.5 billion corruption charges; and of course then the anti-democracy Zimbabwe's strong man Robert Mugabe, was invited to witness a democratic change that took place in Nigeria without abstracting commitments of his own country being allowed to freely elect its leader. Icheoku says gradually but surely, the Pharisee in President Muhammadu Buhari is beginning to crawl out of its shell and for Nigerians and the whole world to see. But hey, a gullible Nigerian polity bought into the snake oil that was Muhammadu Buhari and handed power  over to him because of his fake vaunted credential of being an anti-corruption crusader. And this is only just within 48 hours in a four years term. Icheoku says, like the Ota deity, Baba Iyabo, many discerning Nigerians just dey laugh oooo!

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