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.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

SARAKI AND DASUKI TRIALS, SOMEBODY IS FINALLY IN CHARGE IN NIGERIA.

Icheoku says one thing President Muhammadu Buhari must be given credit for is that he has brought some gravitas back to the presidency. Now Nigerians and the whole world are no longer in doubt who the lord of the manor in Nigeria is. It is no longer business as usual or a situation where former President Jonathan Goodluck of Otuoke so debased the presidency that he went about publicly kneeling down before some Yoruba traditional chiefs as well as some religious leaders, begging for mercy. 

The pandering was simply too obvious; but should not be at the expense of the institution of the presidency of Nigeria which he held in trust for Nigerians who elected him president. Icheoku has nothing against any pious president observing his religious rites or displaying his faith but not to the extent of publicly kneeling down in such display of hopeless humility, that does not befit the presidency of any country. A situation where a president goes abut begging an ordinary citizen to please take a ministerial appointment is very untoward; talkless of the so many other undignified actions he took which brought great disrepute to the office and thus drastically watered down both his standing and authority as president. He became a joke of some sort that then ordinary citizen and now President Buhari gave him an ultimatum to release then detained and current Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir el Rufai or he will see pepper; and Jonathan timidly obliged his release. Now Icheoku has been waiting for the same Jonathan to demand the release or at least voice his condemnation of the continued detention of Biafran Nnamdi Kanu but to no avail. 

But be that as it may, Icheoku makes bold to say that were Jonathan still in charge today in Nigeria,  there is no way in hell Sambo Dasuki and/or Bukola Saraki would have been standing trial today for their disingenuous service to Nigeria. Imagine a sitting senate president and a former National Security Adviser charged and possibly facing conviction. Icheoku says regardless of the final outcome of both trials, what is imperative is that both men were charged not minding their storied pedigrees as well as positions being held and/or was held by them respectively. 

Fortunately for Nigerians, there is a new sheriff in town. A  sort of a King who does not know Joseph who has mounted the saddle and called for the rendering of account. Icheoku says kudos to President Muhammadu Buhari for courageously exercising the office of the presidency and leaving no one in doubt as to whose desk the buck stopped and ended. Now Nigerians know they have a president who truly sees himself as the first citizen above whom there is no other superior authority in Nigeria. Icheoku salutes the courage of  President Muhammadu Buhari and prays he continues to rankle these previously untouchables of Nigeria; people who consider themselves rather too big to face justice. Icheoku says way to go Mr President in rebuilding a ravaged country by imbibing in everyone the cultural decency of submitting oneself under the law. Icheoku says once it is established that everyone is equal under the law, life will become much easier for Nigerians as the rascality and impunity that drives those oppressors against the oppressed of Nigerians will become tamed and forever be consigned to the waste heap of distant past history.

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