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.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

SURVIVING BUHARI'S PRESIDENCY, NDIGBO NEEDS A NEW STRATEGIC THINKING.

Icheoku says an aphorism has it that "it is either you are sitting on the table or you may be on the menu as part of the dinner." This reflects to a great extent the current state of affairs of complete exclusion and fate of Ndigbo in Nigeria under the present government of the man from Daura. The lanky one; the Cassius of Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari, who has successfully and audaciously excluded Ndigbo from all the very important positions of government so far filled. A matter made worse because neither the president nor the vice president nor the senate president nor the speaker nor the chief judge is an Igbo person. The result, there is no single Igbo person in occupation as head of any of the three arms of government - the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. 

Then add the Inspector General of Police; director general of Customs and Excise; Immigration chief; National Security Adviser; head of State Security Service; head of Army; head of Navy and head of Airforce - all positions filled without any Igbo person? Icheoku queries who will therefore get Ndigbo's back when matters affecting them as integral part of Nigeria is being deliberated on, at their back, without any of them being present? The signs are ominous and only a strategic thinking on their part will see Ndigbo through this very insensitive government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Ndigbo will need to adopt a "clever and smart" app in navigating the minefield that is President Muhammadu Buhari's presidency in order to survive the evil being hatched against them. Icheoku is not a seer but prophesies that he is evil that will so exclude an entire one third of a country's population and in this brazen manner of "to hell with you, Ndigbo." It is grave and it does not bode well for Ndigbo,  being so blatantly marginalized in this manner and you wonder whether President Muhammadu Buhari is by his actions so far, telegraphing a sinister message of "NOT PART OF OR WANTED IN NIGERIA" to the people of Southeast Igbo? 

Icheoku only prays that this latest anti-Ndigbo actions will help in galvanizing Ndigbo into a more cohesive and united people they used to be, who will once again start speaking with one voice of IGBO KWENU; and it does not and should not matter whether Joe Igbokwe decides not to "kwe" alongside. But whatever provocations of marginalization, Ndigbo must not bite the bait and give this proven demon an excuse to go ballistic on them with his dogs of war and instruments of mass destruction since he cannot wait to finish his unfinished business against Ndigbo. Ndigbo must think outside the box and play to survive the next four or eight  years, assuming brief illness does not intervene earlier and on their behalf. What a time to be a Nigerian when nobody wants you in Nigeria including a president who had sworn under oath to respect the tenets of the constitution, promised to be president of all and everyone; but who unfortunately is now showing his true colors, baring his fangs against a people many of whom gave him and his party their votes. Icheoku says the cattle-man President Muhammadu Buhari is simply wasting his time as no weapons fashioned by anyone including himself and/or Bola Tinubu shall prosper against Ndigbo, the God's anointed people of Nigeria IJN. Icheoku says "IGBO KWENU, KWESI ENU IKE.....IYOOO!!! IYAAAA!!!!!"

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