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.

Showing posts with label A personification of audacity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A personification of audacity. Show all posts

Friday, March 22, 2019

SUCCESS ADEGOR: A GREAT STORY OF PERSEVERANCE WHICH PAID OFF.

ICHEOKU says what a heart riveting story, told in characteristics that spelt a determination to succeed and her name is Success, Miss Success Adegor. It is a story about a 7 year old, third  grade school girl from Nigeria, who was sent out of school because her parents could not afford the $3 (three dollars) school levy, which she was required to pay before being taking her school test. 

She was captured on video, after being sent out of school and as she walked home,  soliloquizing and agonizing about what happened to her; bitter that she was prevented from taking her examination. She was so incensed that she was prevented from taking her test, which she had prepared so well for and was ready to ace it, that she lamented that she would have even been happier if she was flogged with a cane and allowed to take her test, rather than sent out of school just because she had not yet paid her examination levy. 

According to her, the fact that she has not yet paid the fees does not mean that she does not want or intend to pay it; only that the money is not yet available and that she will pay as soon as it becomes available. Continuing, she said that she would have even taken any amount of flogging, corporal punishment, in order to buy her time to make the payment; provided that she was allowed the opportunity to remain in school and take her test, rather than being sent home. In her own exact words, speaking in local pigeon English, she said, "I never pay, no be say I no go pay" and that her parents have not been able to come up with the money. With those words, she catapulted herself into national and now international limelight, as that little girl who wanted to be educated so much, that she was prepared to endure physical bodily pain in order to get it. 

A personification of audacity. She was bold; she was audacious; she was brave; she was courageous; she was expressive as she looked into the eyes of her interviewer and unabashedly registered her frustration. ICHEOKU says watching the viral video, one could see the fire burning in her eyes with the desire and determination to succeed. She was not ready to let a little problem, caused by her parents extreme poverty and inability to pay her $3 (three dollars) school levy stand in her way. She was prepared to make whatever sacrifice, endure whatever pain and punishment, including torture and abuse, just for an opportunity to get educated, that she could pass for a Malala Yousafzai of Nigeria. The world admires her courage and zeal to succeed and have since rallied around her to ensure that she gets the education which she wants so badly. 

What an uncommon valor; a quality not often present nor prevalent in the African continent; the reason their rulers readily abuse them and stay glued to power until death do them apart. The people are often timid, deathly afraid and so traumatized by their life experiences, that they easily cower and sheepishly follow orders, with their chins tucked in, as they are tossed around by their heartless and ruthless rulers. But not Little Miss Success, who has shown that she is not afraid and that her voice will not be taken away nor silenced by circumstances.  She was prepared to pay the price of success, to sacrifice in order to succeed. She is a living testament that in order to succeed, one must want success so badly that they are ready and prepared to make the required sacrifice, including enduring pain and suffering. 

ICHEOKU says thousands of Little Miss Success are what Nigeria, in its present state of miasma really needs; people who are not afraid to dare and who are courageous enough to state their mission statement. Such people would have since forced Nigerian leaders to do right and better for and by Nigerians, at the pain of something untoward happening if they don't. Nigeria currently lacks brave and courageous folks, the reason leaderships are always toying with everybody, as well as the overall general fate of Nigeria as one undivided country; admitted some oafs would rather call it "indivisible", a blustering arrogance, in view of the fact that anything and everything with feasible parts, can easily be divided. 

ICHEOKU says that nothing will stop Little Miss Success Adegor from succeeding. She has all it takes to succeed, the bold audacity and intelligence. She has already telegraphed her presence to the world, that she is around and that they will be hearing more of her and from her, in so many moons to come. She is an example of a person driven and definitely a statement that there is something in a name. ICHEOKU says Little Miss Success Adegor will succeed and have already succeeded, especially now that she has interacted and integrated with a pathway to success with the many scholarship offers and funds raised for her education. The little girl made ICHEOKU and the rest of other appreciative human beings, really proud. ICHEOKU loves her to the moon and back; and prays that financial hardship shall never constitute a road block to her educational endeavors. What a story; a story of a little school girl who just want to get educated.