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, April 1, 2021

RECRUIT 50 MILLION YOUTHS INTO THE ARMY - BOLA TINUBU.

ICHEOKU says “Recruit 50 million youths into the army to battle insecurity” should  automatically disqualify Ahmed Bola Tinubu from his presidential ambition. The statement portrays him as a thoughtless buffoon with a mind of an imbecile, whose mouth simply gushes out without any deliberative assessment. How could any seriously minded person, particularly someone who wants to be president of Nigeria and be in charge of over 200 million Nigerians lives, contemplate and utter such simplistic idiocy. 

At just 30.28 million (30,277,850) people serving in various armed forces in the world, all the armies of the world combined are not even up to 50 million in numerical strength,  but here is a man who wants to be president of Nigeria saying that 50 million Nigerians youths should be recruited into the Nigerian armed forces to help combat insecurity and Boko Haram insurgents. Not even China with the largest population in the world of about 1.6 billion people has a number that close with its 2.035 million armed forces personnel; ditto the richest country in the world, the United States of America, with about 350 million population and only 1.37 million armed forces personnel. 

But an impoverished Nigeria with a mere 200 million population and which cannot even conveniently pay, train and equip the less than 100,000 armed forces personnel it currently parades, will now, according to Ahmed Bolaji Tinubu, surge its armed forces personnel to 50 million people. ICHEOKU says really; and it must either be that Ahmed Bola Tinubu is putting something right up into his nostrils or he has no clue at all about anything, including a mathematical impossibility. 

Hopefully, he misspoke and what he said will be dismissed as an outburst borne out of frustration because of the parlous state of affairs in Nigeria caused by the worsening state of insecurity in the country. But if indeed he said it and actually meant it, then it definitely undercuts any argument in favor of his competency to preside over Nigeria as president. How can anyone with such a mindset or cavalier solution to serious security problems afflicting the country, be allowed to preside over a country as complex and polarized as Nigeria with so many intractable religious and tribal problems. May be he could also some day call for the ban christianity in Nigeria so that there will be no more conflict with Islamism.

What was he thinking and what state of mind was he in when he uttered such words or is he also dysfunctional upstairs just like the man he wants to succeed. And yes, speaking of Muhammadu Buhari being bereft of mental astuteness and here comes a total dullard, if measured by this statement, now scheming to take up residence at Aso Rock after Buubuu. ICHEOKU says Nigerians must by all means necessary, reject Ahmed Bola Tinubu presidential foray and prevent him with whatever it takes from ever materializing his presidential ambition. To do otherwise will be a case of Nigerians jumping from the frying pan Buhari into the open flaming fire of Tinubu as such a trade off will be worse than Hades and therefore greatly discouraged. 

But playing the devil's advocate, assuming that what Ahmed Bola Tinubu said is even somewhat tenable and a magical possibility, how does he plan to pay, train, equip and maintain the 50 million youths he wants recruited into the Nigerian armed forces? Where is the Nigerian resources which Ahmed Bola Tinubu wants to deploy in mission accomplishing this his utopian imbecility when even the richest nation on earth, the United States of America, sustains only 1.36 million soldiers. 

But it is Ahmed Bola Tinubu and he keeps disappointing Nigerians, one issue after another. Fulani terrorists are wrecking havoc in Nigeria and he has, for the most part, remained mum about it because he does not want to upset his Fulani overlords so that they may not put spanner in the works against his presidential ambition. Anyway, if the boycott of his 69th birthday celebration in Kano, which was passed off as bad weather related, is anything to deduce from, then hell will first freeze over before he will ever be elected president of Nigeria. Just say no to the crook, reject his presidential ambition. Ahmed Bola Tinubu is not good for Nigeria. 

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