OCCULTIC NIGERIAN LEADERS?

And you are wondering why Nigeria is stunted when this man is a representative of the kind of men that preside over its affairs! Nigeria Saturday Sun Newspapers is reporting that about one billion Naira ($100,000.00) was invested in a voodoo (juju) project by a Nigerian government official and this is in a country where more than 80 percent of the population lives below abject poverty line (on less that 50 cent a day). At the centre of the storm is Mr. Sam Edem (pictured here right) a former diplomat and chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), an agency responsible for Niger Delta. What manner of man would engage in juju in this day and age of IPhone and Ipod, with men living in Space Stations? Addressing newsmen in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Monday, August 4, Mr. Edem admitted that a medicine man collected money running into hundreds of millions of Naira from him. And in a handwritten statement to the police, Mr. Sam Edem volunteered that the amount of money the "fraudster" collected from him was about N800 million Naira".
But the medicine man claimed that it was payment for a job he did for Mr. Sam Edem and by him. According to his statement to the police, the medicine man claimed that Mr. Sam Edem contracted him to eliminate or incapacitate, by diabolical means, Mr. Timi Alaibe, Managing Director of NDDC and Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa-Ibom State as well as “work on the Vice President, Jonathan Goodluck (so that he can always obey him (Edem) and always support him if there is any plan to remove him from office)”. Continuing the medicine man said,that the petitioner used his own hands to burn the sum of two hundred and seventy million Naira while naked in a cemetery in Port Harcourt as part of the ritual. Based on the seriousness of the task he asked me to perform, I charged him N570 million wherein he paid N310 million deposit leaving a balance of N260 million. But after the expiration of the period within which the said Timi Alaibe was to die, the petitioner came to ask why the charm did not work and I told him that his (Alaibe’s) spirit is too strong. On Governor Akpabio, Mr. Edem demanded a charm of influence which I prepared for him. I told him clearly to use the charm to touch Akpabio’s drink after which he should use it to touch the ground. Th charm affected the governor adversely that he was flown abroad for treatment. Being afraid that the governor may die, Mr. Edem came back for me to dilute the spell for which I charged him extra 50 fifty million Naira to secure the governor's life, which he gladly paid.

Denying the allegations, Mr. Edem retorted, the whole thing has a lot to do with 2011, which

they think I will contest the gubernatorial election. But I had told the governor that I will be one of those to lead him back to the government house in 2011. I will be a fool to try to destroy the governor whom I helped to bring to power. I don’t believe in pull-down syndrome. Akwa Ibom should rise as a group and condemn this syndrome. There is a campaign of calumny to smear my name. I can’t start now at 58 to plan killing somebody.”

Many people in Nigeria are outraged and scandalized that at this age, the country's leaders remain avid patrons of juju practitioners. Government by jujumen in Nigeria is the rock-bottom of a society dangerously accelerating towards a precipice. Not too long ago, Nigerians were treated to a macabre drama when the then godfather of Anambra State politics, Chris Uba told a bewildered nation that pursuant to making Dr. Chris Ngige governor of the state, the governor took an oath of loyalty at the notorious Okija shrine in Ihiala, Anambra State. Also a photograph showing the present
governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji in a fetish mode (here left pictured) going through power rituals in a shrine is equally instructive of the abysmal crass leadership Nigerians are punished with. One commentator said that the juju saga is a sad commentary on the country’s leadership-content. Continuing, it is indeed a great tragedy that in this 21st century where contest of ideas make the difference, those occupying offices in this part of the world still pander to the queer and mundane. It is even more confounding when you consider the fact that many of the juju patrons are "educated" people, "enlightened" people who ought to know better. To which Icheoku asks what manner of primitive leaders do Nigerians have in their country?

According to reports reaching Icheoku.com, the Federal Governmentt has directed the police and the EFCC to thoroughly investigate how the NDDC chairman, Mr. Sam Edem made the kind of money he allegedly lost to the sorcerer. It was gathered that the Presidency reasoned that if Edem could spend such amount, it means he has much more money than that while the people of the Niger Delta are wallowing in abject penury which feeds the militancy.

JOHN EDWARDS, VIVA VIAGRA!

Mr Pretty Face, $400 a piece haircut Senator John Edwards has finally come around to admit what the National Inquirer has been strung on for so many months now. According to his admission, he had an affair in 2006 with his campaign staffer while his wife of so many years was battling cancer. Just like we posited during the "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms Lewinsky" episode with Bill that the only victim was Hilary; Icheoku emphatically says that the only wronged party in this disclosure is John Edwards' wife Elizabeth, who is fighting for her life against incurable breast cancer. However as a media outlet, Icheoku owes its teeming visitors a duty to inform them on political and social developments and therefore must fulfil this duty accordingly:- Senator John Edwards had an affair!

His paramour, 43 year old New Yorker Ms. Rielle Hunter, pictured here right was a video segment producer, former employee of John Edwards' campaign; and travelled around with him during his aborted primaries campaign for United States of America presidency. Like Monica Lewinsky who "confided" in Linda Tripp, Ms. Hunter also confided in "a close friend" that she was pregnant for Senator John Edwards, which baby she has since delivered.

It will be recalled that John Edwards previously tried every antic under the sun to deny that a relationship existed between him and the home-wrecker Rielle; including outright flat denial, dismissive stare-downs, defensive stone-walling and evasive responses to the allegation. It will also be recalled that John Edwards most recently, also tried to shake off National Inquirer journalists at Beverly Hills Hilton Hotels after sneaking up to his lovers' hotel room to see his alleged love-child. But his private affairs should remain his private concern for he and Elizabeth to deal with; but everybody is thankful he was not elected president otherwise the "blue dress" would have become "purple"! Icheoku says that now that Mr. Handsome has come clean, it is time to move on and leave the rest of the detail for his sick wife to deal with. But was it unconscionable, considering that his wife was waging a war of her life against cancer while he was "getting some"? But he is a virile handsome man and he did not want to bother his sick wife! May be he was just a very caring and considerate, but unfortunate husband of "christian marriage"?

10,000 NIGERIANS DIED ON HIGH SEAS!

And you ask yourself why? The contemptible, corrupt and horrible governments of Nigeria, made up of several decades of military and "unelected but selected" politicians who do not care a hoot, about the welfare of their country men and women! This is the root cause of the wanton and unwarranted loss of human lives on the seas between North Africa and Europe; Nigerians who perished in their last-ditch effort to escape the harsh conditions back home. One is forced to ask, why would the people in government care about improving conditions in Nigeria when they are not "atypical" Nigerians? They do not shop in Nigeria! They do not live in Nigeria, strictly speaking! They get their medical treatments overseas! Their families do not live in Nigeria! They jet out to a "German" hospital at the slightest symptom of "malaria" or to Dubai for shopping or to treat a simple "knee-dislocation. With several homes overseas and their children and wards studying or living in opulence abroad, why would they care about what the "ordinary-Joe" in Nigeria is going through?

The state of acute joblessness and hopelessness in Nigeria is the major driving shaft pushing this many Nigerians into taking such extreme measures, which sometimes involve criminality, in their attempt to literally speaking, be able to put food on the table, hence the desperation to survive by all and any means possible! And if it means "EUROPE BY ROAD" so be it. If it means sailing to Europe in a dinghy raft, so be it. If it means losing one's life in the daring escape from the hell-hole called Nigeria, which Nigeria has been turned into by reason of crass leadership, so be it. Their conclusion is that it could not be worst from the conditions they are escaping from; after-all life in Nigeria is so hellish for the majority of the people that any other thing else is an "improved" condition. What manner of men are running this kind of place, Nigeria? Shameless and unabashed nincompoops whose patriotic credentials is so thin otherwise why would they allow the condition to so deteriorate that the citizens are prepared to brave the rough seas and tidal waves on a mere non-seaworthy contraption to try to find succour elsewhere in some strange land? "Get a break in life or die trying" and they chose to try!

And this minister of External Affairs in Nigeria, Ojo Maduekwe is opening his loud mouth to shamelessly acknowledge to the world that Nigerians have been turned into desperadoes by conditions at home; and are now going through hell in search of any place they could find succour. Which patriotic citizen in a position of authority will not fight to ameliorate the situation back home, through job creations and some other form of welfare assistance, to cushion the harsh conditions and by extension curtail this "wildebeest-exodus" of Nigerians to foreign lands? Could this Minister tell the world how many jobs his government or the ones before it created to absorb the manpower being churned out in Nigeria at an unparalleled speed? Could this minister tell the world what wattage of electricity his government or the ones before it is generating in Nigeria to assist small scale industries power on? Could this minister tell the world how many kilometers or miles of road his government or the ones before it has constructed in Nigeria to help move people and commodities from one place to another; and by extension, fire the economy to employ these people? Could this minister tell the world how many programs of welfare and social security his government and/or the ones before it put in place to help the suffering Nigeria masses? Could this minister tell the world how many times his government or the ones before it has ever played a big-brother or fatherly role in the interest of any Nigeria in trouble in any foreign land? Why would they not escape? Like a drunken sailor, this minister is atop his "sailing mast" telling the whole world that his country men and women, 10000 of them, perished while escaping untold hardship in his country, Nigeria? Icheoku says SHAMELESS!

The minister who was giving a keynote address in an Immigration conference, noted that the issue of "forced (economic) immigration" has taken a moral and cultural dimension which must be tackled at that level for any meaningful progress towards halting it." Icheoku will like to remind the minister of a popular aphorism which says that "he whose house is in order does not loiter outside". Mr. Minister of External Affairs, tell your Umaru Yar'Adua to address and fix the root-cause of the desperation rather than you rant about it! These are Nigerians who are dying and some of these deaths are preventable and could have been prevented! Icheoku will also like to add that the exodus has not petered-off yet. The minister also queried why the nation’s youth could engage in such risky adventure that most often resulted in their deaths, all in the name of traveling abroad in search of greener pasture. In response, Icheoku says that is the only meaningful alternative as the other option is to stay back in Nigeria and slowly starve to death. The Minister further stated that no one would love the country more than its citizens, as such, only they could build it to become a great place. To which, Icheoku says, but will you hijackers of government allow people with the know-how to freely return, thrive and fix the problems? Where is the freedom and security? Where also was the free elections that produced Umaru Yar'Adua, whom you are serving as his Foreign Affairs minister? Have you made the conditions safe and viable for such peoples' endeavour to take root? The answer is of course capital "NO"! Mr Minister, please enough of this tortured admission that the leadership of Nigeria has woefully failed her citizens. The only credible course now, is for the old leadership to yield way for new more vibrant and patriotic fresh-minds to mount the saddle and fix what is broken! Salute!

BEHOLD, THE FACE OF TERROR!

This racist bigot red-neck, Mr. Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, pictured above was arrested in Miami Florida by the Secret Service and charged in court for threatening to assassinate our dear Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Such a miscreant is probably a victim of the hate-filled radio talk-shows constantly permeating the airwaves and possibly, literally consumed such inciting banters as a clarion call to arms; because a blackman was about to take what is rightfully "theirs"?

According to someone familiar with the development, this monster allegedly referred to Obama with a racial epithet and continued, "If he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself." The charge of threatening a major candidate for president or vice president carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. In the interview with a Secret Service agent, Geisel said "...........he simply would shoot him with a sniper rifle!

Icheoku says to you Mr. Raymond Geisel, quit being a hater; wake up and smell the coffee of change and hope currently being brewed in the country! Please do something with your life rather than stay in South Florida bemoaning a supposed loss of what does not necessarily exclusively belong to you. You are a despicable fellow and may you forever be tormented for even nursing that devilish thought in the first place. Do you know how many millions of people both in America and the world at large that you nearly snuffed out their hope? It shall not be well with you goddamn racist mogrel!

AXIS OF RACISTS COMMENTATORS!

Just in case you have been wondering who in America is continuously fanning the embers of hatred and racism, look no further as Icheoku has unravelled the mystery. Take a good look at these munchkins hereunder following; they are the protagonists of racism in America! They talk hate; they breathe hate; they advocate hate and Icheoku wonders how do they go to sleep knowing that their words have festered more divisions in America!

Their names are Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs! Many will be wondering why Icheoku left Rush Limbaugh out of the list - the answer is that Rush stands several miles apart from these other mongrels. Rush is at least entertaining and sometimes educational that I have been listening to his program these past four ears. Although I am not a DIDO-HEAD but I admire how he always manages to wriggle himself out of some tight corners with disagreeable callers to his radio talk-show program. Rush also researches his subject area and comes on air well prepared to navigate his sometimes very touchy subjects. But if only Rush is as influential as his talk-show pretends to be - in 2006, all his preferred candidates lost elections; in 2007 the same thing happened; and in 2008 Republican Primaries his preferred candidate for the presidential nomination Mitt Romney equally lost. I remember he vilified John McCain but surprisingly is today campaigning for him and castigating Barack Obama. Icheoku is still waiting to confirm whether his vituperation is a racially induced bigotry or he honestly believes John McCain is a better candidate.

The other talk show mad dog, Micheal Savage is as savage as his name suggests on his gig at AM910 between 3-7PM and will not be dignified with further mention here.

Sean Hannity is a vermin I have tried to listen to several times but could not stand his hate filled rantings; more-so as he pretends to be half smart. A Rush Limbaugh wanna-be, this imbecile need to be taken off the airwaves immediately and consigned to an airless windowless office somewhere in Siberia. He is not the Great American he clams to be as many Great American are much more tolerant and accommodating. AM560 should find something better to fill their 3-5PM weekday slot.

Bill O'Reilly is someone I used to admire and listen to regularly especially his No Spin Factor Fox tV program. However he has morphed into a hypocritical racist and Icheoku heretofore condemn his antics. His fight against Pepsi Cola to withdraw an ad by Ludacris because of his bad moral impact on the society while at the same time not say a thing when Ozzy was chosen as his replacement rubbed Icheoku on a wrong side. Also he settled a sexual harassment charge and yet pretends to be a moral compass for America. This is not fair and balanced and must be condemned. AM910 should find a replacement program for his 12-3PM slot. Bill O'Reilly is manifesting his racist's tendencies with his recent comments attacking Barack Obama and for no justifiable reason whatsoever.

As for doll-baby Lou Dobbs, everyone in America has baptised him the arrowhead of all that is wrong with America. CNN's Lou Dobbs represents the face of bigotry in America and he appears to be love-deprived. He can never say a word or two without manifesting his red-neck hatred of all immigrants in America which he tries to sometimes justify by saying that they are talking about illegal immigrants. To Lou Dobbs, Icheoku says, which native American Indian authority gave your Mayflower pilgrims' forebears, visa to come to America? Lou Dobbs, please get a life and tone down your rabid hatred for people of color especially the Mexicans. May be you can use some love!

These talkers are maligning the American people and may one day create some serious trouble egging people on. Although they may deny that is what they are set out to do but any person with some grey matter listening to these talk-shows will understand the subliminal message of hate therein continuously expressed. Only a meaningful avenue for rebuttals will counter-balance the effect of these warped minds radio talk-shows. A level playing field is necessary for expression of different viewpoints! Federal Communications Commission, please do something to save America from these hate-filled talkers on the airwaves!

T. BOONE PICKENS, A BIG THINKER?

Who is T-Boone Pickens? What is T-Boone Pickens about? T-Boone Pickens is an 80 year old Texas oil billionaire who is championing the cause of redirecting United States of America's dangerous dependence on foreign oil to other alternatives particularly wind energy. His mantra is that with wind energy, America will save several billions of dollars now sent overseas to sometimes unfriendly nations in exchange for their oil. T. Boone Pickens wants to replace Middle Eastern oil with Midwestern wind. T. Boone Pickens wants to exploit the country's "wind corridor" from the Canadian border to West Texas to produce 20 percent of the country's electricity.
If wind farms are built to generate power, at least the oil need for such generation will be curtailed hence saving money which would otherwise have been spent in that direction. To some people T-Boone Pickens is "crazy" while to some others he is a trailblazer who is pioneering an industrial revolution of energy generation with wind turbines. Icheoku says such a move is worthy move in the right direction which should be encouraged by every American as well as their government in Washington DC. Icheoku says that T-Boone Pickens, a billionaire with an energy plan, is a visionary!

CHINA HOSTS THE WORLD!

After seven (7) years of preparation and Forty (40) billion dollars USD in expenses, China is finally ready for the world! The XXIX Olympiad starts on August 8th, 2008 in Beijing China; with opening ceremony scheduled to hold in their newly completed construction-marvel, the $400million dollars USD National Stadium aka Peoples' Bird Nest. China has pulled it off again and the National Stadium speaks volume that this country of about 1.5 billion people has finally come to stay as a major world player indeed. Despite her shortfalls with human rights violations, China has been able to maintain her 1.5 billion people; feeding and clothing them. With what they have put together within a period of 7 years preparatory for the Olympics, historians and writers alike will judge the administration in Beijing fairly. According to one analyst, it is supposed to be just games but in reality, the modern Olympics is both symbolically and materially a political event; simply stated, it is a competition among nations. Icheoku therefore congratulates the Chinese people for their wonderful effort at putting Beijing in an Olympic state - magnificent edifices put in place for this great Olympics are marvelous wonders to behold! Icheoku heretofore wish them a hitch-free successful hosting of the world. Once again, Congratulations, Chinese people!

WHAT A NIGERIAN DILEMMA? - an article by Vicky Awuzie!

Back in the 1990’s when most of Nigerian “so called” non profit organizations emerged, the three most pronounced objectives were: (1) To Foster & Promote Unity amongst our people by respecting, supporting and living in harmony. (2) The other popular one was to teach our children and generations to come our culture. (3) And the most popular of all was to build a Community Center which we can call our own.

Regrettably, to date all these objectives has eluded us. None has been achieved by Nigerians especially those that reside in the Bay area in California, they are still searching and in need of those intentions to fructify. Interesting, instead of supporting and living in harmony we are in disarray. Fighting and throwing jabs at one another at any cost. We have lost focus on why we started the various organizations in the first place and the objectives have become unattainable. One of the shameful reasons we can’t reach any of these goals is for the simple reason that we can’t seem to agree or disagree in a civil manner when someone else’s opinion did not jive with ours all hell will break loose. We risk losing friend’s just for the simple reason that our thoughts were not in line with theirs. This is the state of our Nigerian community and it is pitiful.

We were (and still should) supposed to support one another – that goal has become a far fetched idea. Rather, what we have successfully achieved is have cliques or as we would normally say “fractions.” It is disgraceful; we’re like bunch of high school scholars. The only way we would patronize a Nigerian business is when that business is a monopolized business. For instance those businesses that sells our Nigerian food stuff. We cannot get it at Lucky’s so we faithfully march to those few Nigerian stores to buy our craw/clay-fish and pounded yam. The other few times we would think of patronizing a Nigerian business is when we are in dire need of some inside information. At that junction we would seek out our people for they can speak our tongue. Everyone has their opinion as to why we’re in this state since I’m the one writing, I’m stating mine, we can state yours later. As Nigerians, we do not trust one another. Rightfully so, unfortunately, a lot of us have been burned in one way or the other, the fear of ones private information being given to the other in the name of business is mind wrenching since, some of the business people have loose lips. Imagine giving papa Ebere the business owner your confidential information and before you know it you and your family becomes the HOT topic in town? No one in their right mind wants to deal with that unless your name is Britney and you are in dire need of some attention. In that case, I’d suggest you dance at the Golden Gate Bridge for all to see. That would sure get you some desired attention.

In retrospect, a lot us have benefited by patronizing a Nigerian based business. My personal experience has been rewarding. And I encourage those that fear to pull themselves together and do so. My account is when the fear of patronizing a Nigerian business is ignored – we benefit. We just have to find the tight lipped ones and trust our information with them. Alternatively, you can bring glue with you when giving your confidential information. Living in harmony is probably a thing for the next generation. How can we achieve living in harmony when there’s an unexplained jubilation in our people to antagonize one another? The present generation (my generation) those of us between the ages of 35 to 50 years are in a state of pandemonium that achieving harmony will be like chasing rainbows. I have dissected this with some of my friends and we each come up with plenty of reasons. Interestingly, one of the reasons we all echoed is that we scream discrimination when the white people do something to us, but the internal discrimination and hatred we contain for one another is unsurpassed. We are a society stultified by class. Those that make more dollars than the rest want to be bowed to. I can tell you now that you will be waiting for a long time for that to happen for I will only bow to God.

Until we recognize and deal with our internal tribulations living in harmony will be for Hitler. Whatever the reason may be there’s absolutely no reason bunch of adults who left their motherland several years ago should come to a foreign land and have this amount of chaos that we have. Now, talk about confusion, it is unfathomable to begin to comprehend why we are willing to spend thousands of dollars to rent a space for our various events, but we are not willing to collectively put that money together to buy our own community center when we can afford to do so. In the year 2005, I kept record of some of the events that I was aware of that commenced in our community. By the end of October of that year I had calculated that we spent $43,000. Remember, these were events that I was aware of. If you take into account the ones I was not aware of your lovely head should start spinning. When you total this amount year after year it is VERY clear to the blind person that we can erect a place of our own. Our people just don’t know how to collectively do anything as a nation. We believe in one man standing theory. As one man standing we can beat Mike Tyson, but as two or more people we won’t even agree on who should throw the first punch. By the time we had finished arguing as to who is entitled to throw the first punch Mike Tyson would have bitten off our ear and ran. Some people have come up with ideas and ideas and ideas pertaining to how we can go about acquiring a community center, but all has failed. We are stubborn and will not accept an idea that is not consistent with ours. Without having the community center we have disagreed on who should be the manager, how it should be run, who we should rent or not rent to.

As I ponder this madness, I can’t help but wonder if this is a curse? Does it mean that we cannot figure things out in a civilized manner? Does it mean that we are not sophisticated enough to deal with our differences? My people, have I just hit the nail in the head or what? I wonder about all the charlatans’ that call themselves our leaders and I scratch my head. I haven’t claimed to have answers to our massive problems, but I hope that one day Nigerians will come together and do things as one people, one nation. There’s a lot of power and strength in a union. I haven’t completely lost hope, I think this is attainable. My ultimate joy will be the day I see a Nigerian Community Center.

What are your thoughts? Please leave me your comments!

AS CLINTON WENT, SO WILL McCAIN!

This is our "Dear John" letter to Senator John McCain!

Icheoku has been watching the political sparing from the Republican Party's camp of Senator John McCain for sometime now and has come to the conclusion that as Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton lost the Democratic Party's primaries, so will Senator John McCain lose the presidential election to Senator Barack Obama in November. Like the old saying, as Hilary Clinton goes, so goes John McCain! Icheoku came to this conclusion having observed the same trend and pattern employed by both Hilary and McCain's campaigns - instead of telling Americans what they will each do to help alleviate their suffering, Senator John McCain is currently towing the ill-fated path of Hilary Clinton which led her to no where. Senator John McCain is spending his "precious" campaign time attacking Barack Obama and majority of the times controverting his own very earlier held positions. Humanity usually do not learn much from history and Senator John McCain will fall victim to his feigned ignorance of historical facts, should he persist on his present course. Icheoku hopes that it is not just a bunker mentality approach which is propelling Senator John McCain to continue on this path of old politics-themed "attack your opponent" tactics. This is now obsolete and does no longer work, as America is now listening more than before; - the primaries and recent elections should have convinced you that old things have passed away in American politics. Please Senator John McCain, you have been around the block for so long to know that things are no longer what they use to be; that we are in a different time in our politics now. That whatever that was left of the old politics went away with the defeat of the Clintons in the last Democratic Party's primaries; so change your old ways or be penalized with a trouncing defeat at the polls in November. Admitted it is very hard to teach an old dog new tricks and your over twenty-six years in Washington eminently qualifies you as one; but at least you have to try, Grandpa!

Ordinarily, Icheoku would have let this phase of the campaign play itself out until both candidates select their vice presidential candidates; but Senator John McCain's constant bashing of Barack Obama against all he, McCain swore to uphold - that their campaigns will be solely based on issues important to the American people. What do we have now? What are we saddle now with? A page from Karl Rove's take no prisoner politics! Advertisements comparing Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Brittney Spear? John McCain should know better! John McCain got it all wrong and Icheoku says that such a campaign ad is too puerile to be taken seriously by any discerning reasonable person. How dare John McCain's campaign equate our dear Senator Barack Obama with Paris Hilton and Brittney Spears - two bimbos who have nothing to their name except for their famed "notoriety"? Barack Obama is a lawyer for crying out loud! Barack Obama went to Harvard Law school too - one of the best there is in the world and came up tops, making the editorship of the reputable Harvard Law Journal! Barack Obama was a State of Illinois Senator! Barack Obama is a family man proudly raising his two daughters with dear wife Michelle Obama and very well, Icheoku must add! Barack Obama is now a United States of America Senator representing the State of Illinois in Washington DC! Barack Obama has authored two best sellers! Barack Obama is now the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, having defeated a retinue of other egg-heads contestants during their primaries, including former first lady now Senator Hilary Clinton; and you are comparing him with Paris and Brittney? Barack Obama is an inspirational speaker whose oratory skills is yet to be matched and definitely not by your stammering! Barack Obama embodies all that is good about America! Barack Obama represents the future of America and you are so ancient! Barack Obama is an object of true admiration and adoration by so many peoples of this world! Barack Obama was not a child of privilege unlike Paris Hilton who still did not even complete her High School and yet you are comparing her with our dear Barack Obama, who in spite of many odds is a Harvard Law School trained Lawyer? Barack Obama is not a paparazzi made personality like Brittney Spear but someone whom America discovered after he gave that powerful, standing-ovation speech in Boston 2004 Democratic Party's convention. So it is an arrant nonsense for you, Senator John McCain camp to try to compare two polar opposites as there is no basis both in fact and politics to make such perfidious comparisons. Why dear John did your campaign descend so low after-all your initial promises to keep it real and straight with the American people? How would you feel if by the same token, you are compared with the late Estelle Getty, the diminutive octogenarian Sofia of the "Golden Girls" TV show? The difference between your two presidential candidacies is that whereas the crowd follows Barack Obama, Grandpa John McCain struts after any seeming crowd. The crowd be it at Oregon or Berlin goes to hear Barack Obama deliver his message of hope and change while John McCain inserts himself wherever he anticipates any crowd and force them to hear his boring message of same old same old political gibberish. Enough of this diversionary antics! Stop baiting American electorates - it is so cheap and so yesterday. Let your campaign look America in the eye and tell America what they will do to fix what is broken!

Icheoku therefore says that for bringing his campaign to such a low ebb, Senator John McCain has joined issues with so many Americans who hold Barack Obama so dear to their hearts and for genuine reason. If Senator John McCain is envious and jealous of the following Barack Obama is getting both home and abroad, Icheoku say to him, Grandpa John McCain, how much life do you still have left on this earth, in view of your very advanced age, to spend it envying the success of a grandson of yours in politics? The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 3:1 that there is a time for everything under the sun and the time for a possible John McCain presidency may have come and gone in 2000. Please Grandpa do not make us more mad than your double speaking so far has made us; the presidency is not the end of the world as we know it and there is nothing suggestive that you were destined to be a president! Our piece of advise is for you to retract from your present approach of attacking your opponent and instead tell the American people how your program is better than Barack Obama's; after-all it is supposed to be a dialogue you guys are having with the American people. You are supposed to be auditioning for the top job at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and not for a job as a political-jabber for who will out-punch the other, so let the American people know why you think you are more qualified to be elected and stop belabouring your imaginary and phantom missteps and lack of experience of your opponent. Always remember that the Clintons towed that path but met their political waterloo! It is a path to nowhere and doing something the same old fashioned way again and again, expecting different result is the easiest definition of lunacy. Grandpa Senator John Mccain, please put your brakes, take a deep breath and retool your campaign message BUT YOU MUST LEAVE OUR BARACK OBAMA ALONE!

FYI: Just in case you must know and for purposes of disclosure, Icheoku supported Senator Barack Obama during the primaries but presently is waiting on the sidelines until the vice presidential candidates are chosen by both parties; as already indicated from day one, a Senator Hilary Clinton's vice presidency is a no-go for Icheoku and our position remains unchanged! Majority of our blogging team are centrist democrats who vote not necessarily along party lines! Icheoku's bloggers are by both conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans.

OBAMA, AMERICA PERSONIFIED!

If America is the melting pot of humanity, where you can find various shades of humanity all being American, doesn't it therefore necessarily behove upon such a country to be presided over by someone who reflects America fully, truly, totally and completely? Such a president of America ought to reflect America in the eyes of all the various peoples, including the multi-colored and multi-cultured peoples that inhabit the United States of America and call it home. Icheoku says we have such all peoples' representative of America in Senator Barack Obama!

To this effect therefore, no one is more appositely situated to adorn the toga of such broad representation than the current Democratic Party's Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama. He is as American as any one can be - half African, half European and quasi Asian. With an African father from Kenya and an Anglo-Saxon mother from Kansas and a step-father from Indonsesia, Senator Barack Obama is as mixed as America can get! He was once poor and now rich so he has been on both sides of American economic divide. He was once street-smart and now an elite so he understands what both world's view-points are. So America, Icheoku says that this particular American, Senator Barack Obama is the answer to the question, how does America fully recover and move forward from the eight years of GW's less to be desired presidency. America, if you want a complete make-over of America's image, the only way and true way is through our HYBRID-AMERICAN, SENATOR BARACK OBAMA! He is all American to so many Americans who can see themselves in him. Moreso the whole world is waiting and praying that America gets it right this time; so America give the world what they deserve by electing Senator Barack Obama president in November 2008. Be wise, do not repeat the mistake of another GW. Elect Barack Obama President!

Visit http://www.barackobama.com/ to see how you can help make this dream come through!

ANOTHER NIGERIAN MAN WIFE-KILLER!

It has happened again, another Nigerian woman "Registered Nurse" bites the dust - killed by a frustrated Nigerian man, her husband.

On Thursday, July 24, 2008, 50-year old Mr. Michael Collins Iheme pictured here right, shot and killed his 28-year old estranged wife, Mrs Anthonia Eberechi Iheme, in the parking lot of her work place at the Sholom Home West, Hennepin Minnesota. According to reports, Antonia had just got into her car enroute home at about 2.35 p.m. on July 24, when a lurking Michael Iheme fired at her causing her to loose control of the vehicle which then lurched forward, clipped a van, jumped a kerb and rolled down a hill before crashing into a fence. Michael Iheme then followed the car down the hill and fired more shots at the victim, ensuring that she died before calling 911 to report the incident. According to the 911 transcript and in his own very words, Michael said "Yes I have killed the woman that messed my life up! A woman that had destroyed me. I am at Shalom West, my name is Michael and am all yours". The police arrested him where he said he was - just a few meters from the shooting and he reaffirmed that, “I called the police….I shot her…I shot her.” When Iheme was arrested, a semi-automatic handgun was found upon him and so was a gun permit. Mr Michael Iheme was charged with first-degree, premeditated murder of his 28-year-old wife, Anthonia Eberechi and is being held on a $1 million bail in the Hennepin County jail, in the State of Minnesota. To buttress the premeditation, Police confirmed that an hour and a half before the shooting, Michael Iheme went to the day-care centre for their children and left a new emergency contact information, in case something happened today.

Officers later found Anthonia Eberechi Iheme's bullet riddled body in the crashed vehicle within the vicinity of the parking lot. According to filed criminal complaint, found in this link “Yes, I have killed the woman that messed my life up. A woman that had destroyed me. I am at Shalom West, …my name is Michael;” Anthonia Iheme had a current restraining order against her husband. The supporting affidavit suggests a long history of domestic abuse including threats to kill the victim. The Brooklyn Park Police also reported a number of police calls to the victim’s address over domestic assaults by Michael Iheme against the victim. According to reports, the suspect, Mr. Michael Iheme had brought the deceased from Nigeria some years ago before sending her through a nursing program. However the marriage later went south resulting in incessant verbal abuses, harassment and sometimes physical fighting. Additional information confirmed that Michael Iheme was diapers-changing stay at home dad for their two children, a boy age 4 and 3 year old girl while the wife worked at a health care facility as the bread winner of the family of four.

Icheoku.com had previously published an article titled "Nigeria Men wife-killers on this mushrooming epidemic of uxoricide by Nigeria men. It appears that instead of abating, it is growing like California's wild fire as confirmed by this latest incident. Nigeria women in America, especially the nurses among them, should please have a serious rethink on how they "humiliate" their husbands just because they are making "more money" than them. It is not many a man who would readily suck it up or take it all through the rear just to remain a loyal but angry and humbled husband. Some men have a short fuse and will sometimes do the strange thing than continue to remain a "castrated he-goat" in the house. To Nigeria men, please nothing is worth the killing of a person, more-so the woman who shared your matrimonial bed and possibly the mother of your kids. Please think twice before you embark on that journey to nowhere. It is very lonely out there! Better still, speak to Icheoku vide Facilitator@Icheoku.com as we may have a sympathizing ear for your grievances. Once you indicate your interest to speak with us, we shall provide you with a hot line immediately. Really it is not worth it! Icheoku hereby condemn this wantonness and heretofore declare Mr. Michael Collins Iheme, another ignoble, despicable and callous son of Africa aka a very bad Nigerian ambassador in America!

THE HIT LIST - our incredible but true story series: Serie 3!

1. The head of Sadam Hussein!
Take a good look at the head of the enfant terrible, "Sad Man Insane!" Icheoku found it while cruising the web portal highway! It shows what happens to sadistic men of power and Icheoku will like to use this opportunity to call on the blood-hound in Khartoum, Sudan to take note as he continues to annihilate the people of Darfur in what the world has rightfully called a genocide. Same call goes off to the other mullah in Teheran who cannot feed his population but could find money to spend on nuclear activities. Their judgment day is fast approaching. Watch out all you evil men of this world, Icheoku has put you on notice in addition to all other such notifications out there.

2. New York nude eateries
We all may have been to a nude beach, sex-club, strip-club, nude yoga, nude colonies and nude street parties or at least heard about it. But who has heard about a dinning experience in the nude? In New York City, the rave in town is dinning out nude. One Mr. John Ordover rents city eateries for nude dinner parties of about fifty butt-naked regular dinners and restaurants gladly throw their doors open for this opportunity to see so many naked bodies dinning out in a group. The essence of the organisers is to reclaim and celebrate their bodies. Icheoku says what kind of bodies do these nut-cases have? Are they wrinkly stinky bodies or fresh supple bodies like the morning daisy? Seeing naked bodies could be a nightmare or a happy experience depending on the condition of such bodies. This is depravity and a forcible attempt by some few crazed individuals to make the society partake in their psychiatric self-effaced problem. Not in my restaurant, but I do not have one anyway!

3. What a human-rabbit?
A Canadian woman gave birth to her 18th child! A Romanian immigrant has given birth to her 18th child in British Columbia, Canada making her the province's most prolific mother in 20 years. Livia Ionce, 44, second left, holds her newborn daughter, Abigail Ionce, who was born Tuesday, as she and her husband, Alexandru, 51, pose for a photograph with 13 of their 18 children at their home in Abbotsford, Canada on Saturday July 26, 2008 and weighed in at 7 pounds, 12 ounces (3.5 kilograms). . Their oldest child is 23-years-old. The couple immigrated to Canada from Romania in 1990. Now listen to the human he-goat of a husband, Alexandru Ionce explain why he got his very "obedient" wife pregnant for eighteen times:- "We never planned how many children to have. We just let God guide our lives, you know, because we strongly believe life comes from God and that's the reason we did not stop the life." Continuing, he said he did not know if the couple would have more children. The family now has 10 girls and eight boys. "We would have liked a boy to be even," he said. "We thank God all of them are healthy and happy." Icheoku strongly recommends that this fertility-hog be castrated or at least be put on some form of birth control or be made to undergo a complete vasectomy. Mr. Alexandru Ionce should know that he is no longer in Romania but in the western world; and also to please explain how he plans to take care of these swarm of humanity. Icheoku will also ask, where are all the battered women and prevention of abuse NGOs or what else is more qualified as a flagrant abuse of a totally and completely domesticated house-wife?

4. Beheading in Canada!
A 40 year old man Mr. Vince Weiguang Li (pictured here below left as sheriff prisoner) on a Greyhound bus with 37 passengers travelling across the Canadian Prairies from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba has killed and decapitated a fellow passenger, 22 year old man from Winnipeg, Mr Tim McLean, pictured here below right in a baseball cap.
An eyewitness said the victim was stabbed 50 or 60 times by the man sitting next to him, who then severed his head with a large knife. The driver pulled over and passengers fled from the bus, bracing the door to keep the attacker inside, awaiting police arrival. According to eye witness account, the suspect calmly walked up to the front of the bus dangling the victim's head in one hand and holding the knife drooping in blood in the other hand; stared at us and suddenly dropped the head right in front of us. Continuing the suspect's action was described as robotic or somewhat mechanical. According to witnesses, the suspect stabbed Mr. McLean several times in the throat and torso, then severed the victim's head, hacked at his body with a large knife and a pair of scissors, and, according to reports from the scene, ate some of the body parts. The suspect has been charged of second-degree murder in a Manitoba courtroom. Icheoku extends our heartfelt sympathy to the victim's family and pray that his agony was quick. What a despicable way to die more-so through gruesome beheading which Icheoku thought, prior to this incident was the exclusive preserve of the Middle East? Was it a copycat crime or cannibalism that induced the depraved Vince Li to take the life of Mr. Tim McLean - that is what the Manitoba court will try to figure out.

5. Men with money!

We thought we have heard the last of the prodigious ways well healed individuals indulge themselves; but Icheoku says flying a car over 6,500miles just for an oil change is ridiculous!
An super rich Arab Sheikh from Qatar flew his $380,000 dollar Lamborghini pictured here below to and back from Heathrow London just for that purpose. His tab, a paltry $50,000 dollars to cover flight, insurance and the $7000 oil change. The black-and-gold Murciélago LP640 Lamborghini supercar is here boarding the cargo hold of Qatar air for its journey back to the Middle East after its oil change in London. But David Price, of Lamborghini Club UK, said: “If an owner wants to service his car in that way, it is his choice.“I’m not surprised. Thankfully the age of excess in some areas continues.”Lamborghini UK spokeswoman Juliet Jarvis said there could be “kudos” for a Middle Eastern owner in servicing a car in London.She said the exclusive Italian brand had a network of authorised dealers around the world – and most cars were looked after in the country where they were bought.But she added: “This sort of thing is not unheard of.”Qatar Airways confirmed it carried the Lamborghini.The cars are popular with celebs including Rod Stewart and David Beckham. Icheoku says that the rich can do whatever they please with their money but at the same time could spend such excesses for a charitable purpose; does the name, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet ring any bell in this Sheik's ear or what?

Until next Sunday when "The Hit List" comes your way again, stay tuned to www.Icheoku.com as we bring you our incisive perspective on politcial and social happen-stances as they become available. We appreciate your visit, please call again!