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 14, 2015

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI DOUBLES DOWN, GIVES NDIGBO MIDDLE FINGER?

Icheoku says fifteen appointments so far, yet none for Ndigbo, as no onye-Igbo (person) in the eyes of President Muhammadu Buhari is qualified enough to make his cut thus far? A people who constitute more than 1/3 of the country's population, being marginalized so blatantly in this manner, thus begging the question are Ndigbo still part of Nigeria or are they still in the dog house as a result of the supposedly 'no victor no vanquished' Biafra war of forty years ago? This is the president who said that he is president of everybody and for everybody; except that his actions so far seem to suggest that his 'everybody' excludes some people who in his eyes still remain suspect and not Nigerian enough nor worthy to be trusted with core appointments? 

As if tone-deaf to all the cries of marginalization and concentrating of all his appointments so far made in the North, President Muhammadu Buhari announced the appointment of six military and security chiefs with four of them from the North, one from the Yoruba Southwest and one from Ibibio South-south leaving the entire Ndigbo of Southeast with no appointee? Defense chief Olonishakin is Ekiti Southwest; army chief Buratai is Borno Northeast; Navy chief Ekwe-Ibas is Cross River Southsouth; Airforce chief Abubakar Dauda is Bauchi Northeast; Defense Intelligence chief Riku is Benue Northcentral and Security adviser is Borno Northeast. Three Northeasterners without even a single Southeasterner? This is the same pattern they did during states creation, giving Northwest seven states while Southeast was pegged at five. Icheoku asks has Ndigbo's fate in Nigeria so degenerated to such lowly level of nothingness that even Ibibios are now considered more important for appointments than Ndigbo? 

It is possible that this president is clueless about the tripod on which Nigeria used to rest upon or he does not really give a damn about what anyone thinks or could care less if an entire one third of the country's populace are left out in the cold of his government, holding the plate. Fifteen appointments, eleven from the North, two from the Southwest, one from the Southsouth but none from the Southeast? Icheoku asks where are Igbo leaders of thought, especially Oha na Eze Ndigbo on this or are they waiting until it is too late to start their protestation for inclusion in their own very Nigerian government. It is high time Ndigbo started re-articulating their politics and alliances in Nigeria if they are to still matter and in order to remain somewhat relevant. Imagine the entire ethnic group which make up more than one third of the country's population being so relegated to the background in the affairs of the land that even Ibibios are now considered far more important to and above them? Needless to add that an Ijaw minority was first considered and allowed a five year stint at the presidency before an Igbo person. 

May be it is about time Ndigbo drops their buying and selling hustling for more political activism and participation; and instead of making the pure-water money they are currently getting from their shops, learn how to plug into the hard currency machine that have made hard currency billionaires out of so many Northerners and Westerners alike that they can buy and command such enormous power and influence in policy-making decisions in Nigeria. Icheoku asks how much spare parts does an Igbo man hustling at Nkwo Nnewi or Idumota market needs to sell in one year to be able to make the same amount of money a Kano oil-well owner makes just within only twenty four hours? Or a Miyetti Allah who owns thousands of heads of cattle grazing freely on Ndigbo soil at 265,000 Naira each makes after selling the same cattle to Ndigbo during Christmas for example? If these cattle are grazed in the Southeast Igboland and sold to Ndigbo, why can't Ndigbo start their own cattle rearing operation and save for themselves all these money they are pouring into some Alhaji's pocket somewhere in Kaura Namoda? 

It is just a radical thinking forced on some militating circumstances and this is what can truly and competitively reposition Ndigbo in Nigeria and not all these hustling in Alaba or Idumagbo or wherever the heck the trading is going on, who cares even if it is in Mars? Icheoku does not know about you but this shabby fifth class citizen treatment being meted to Ndigbo in Nigeria is driving someone crazy here; yet Ndigbo are supposedly bona fides Nigerian citizens? It is becoming too shameful that fellow citizens of a country are treating fellow citizens as unequals, while still claiming that Nigeria is one? Icheoku recalls the genocidal Yakubu Gowon claimed he waged his atrocious war against Biafra in order to keep Nigeria one and you ask as what type of one? An Animal Farm type one or what? After the loss of the war, Icheoku has been a huge advocate of one Nigeria; but if these people don't want Ndigbo in Nigeria they should simply let them go but must stop all these disparate treatment of Ndigbo in the affairs of Nigeria. 

Icheoku says all these their attitudinal "we don't want you, we don't like you, we hate you, we detest you" which they manifest in everything they do and that goes on in Nigeria, especially on issues of positions and authority in Nigeria, must STOP. Indeed the Biafra war is apparently still going on, admitted in a cold fashion; otherwise how can anyone explain the President Muhammadu Buhari's FIFTEEN appointments so far that actively excluded the entire Ndigbo? Therefore, it might be a good hedging of bet if Ndigbo started seriously thinking home and start fixing their homeland just in case the inevitable happens someday down the road. But Icheoku says all these "you don't count, you don't matter in Nigeria" must stop and stop, it should and NOW. Whats going on Ndigbo or is no one putting his or her thinking cap?

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