ABDUL-MUTALLAB, A NIGERIAN AL-QUEIDA TRAINED TERRORIST BOMBER?

But for the special grace of God Almighty, 278 human-beings, passengers in a Northwest/Delta Airbus 330 Flight 253 from Amsterdam would have perished; blown away by a poorly trained terrorist, a Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab! Icheoku admits that the terrorist name is Nigerian sounding; as the recently retired Nigerian chairman of First Bank Nigeria Plc, Alhaji Umar Mutallab shares a similarly sounding name and the erstwhile chairman is from Katsina State, the home state of the Nigerian sickly President Umaru Yar'Adua!

By this single, ill-advised and ill-executed dastardly act, this Mallam Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, pictured here, has added to the woes of Nigeria by now giving Nigeria another negative epitaph of being a terrorist country? Nigeria was already a known 419 country; also notoriously known as an epidemically corrupt country, further a known transit for international drug running and now to be additionally known for the mother of all world's headaches, international terrorism? Icheoku asks, can it ever get any worst for Nigeria after this attempted terrorist act in Detroit Michigan United States of America by a Hausa-Fulani Nigerian pig, whose name is suggestive he could be from Katsina State and possibly related to the former bank chairman; we don't think so!

When Nigerians think that the negative rap they are getting cannot be any worse, this uncircumcised jackass decided to add to the nightmare of a Nigeria that needs serious re-branding? Icheoku asks, Madam Re-branding Dora Akunyili, Nigerian Information Minister, where do you start now from in trying to change the minds of the world that Nigeria is no longer what it used to be, now that a terrorist state status has been added to its numerous negative appellation, courtesy of this mallam from Katsina State? With a president on life support for over one month now and in a foreign hospital; add this to it and Nigeria as a country, is really going through what might as well pass for its worst period in history and a public relations disastrous nightmare before Christmas, no, during Christmas?

According to the reports, a Nigerian man who said he was al-Queida agent tried to blow up a Northwest/Delta Airlines plane on Christmas day, as it was preparing to land in Detroit. However, travelers who smelled smoke and heard what sounded like firecrackers rushed and subdued him? Thankfully enough, alert passengers told this sub-human specimen that Americans cannot take any of their bullshit anymore, not this time, and not after 9/11. Those London bombings, Madrid trains bombing, Bali nightclub bombing and the many more cowardly acts of terrorism the world have witnessed as a result of these animals since 9/11 are rather too numerous to add another one to it; not just yet if ever! Vigilant and joyful Americans returning home for the holidays said nope, this petty scumbag Nigerian novitiate terrorist cannot stop their being with their families during this holidays. They did what comes naturally to Americans, they rallied round and answered the call to action and their bravery saved Americans a mournful Christmas? So as we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, let us be thankful to passengers and crew of NWA/Delta Flight 253 for not allowing this scoundrel to have his way on our soil with our plane, our passengers and crew; and visit us once again with some painful experience; not again America!

Icheoku calls on every and all Nigerians to unequivocally and without reservation condemn this act of terrorism by a Nigerian as too stigmatizing and capable of adding to the overflowing negatives which Nigerians have in abundance within the international arena. Northern Nigeria have by this act, shown that they are now ready to export their terrorism to the international arena; terrorism which they have suffered Nigerians with and for several decades! Thankfully though, they have overshot their runway and bitten more than they can chew by messing with the wrong guys, the Americans! Icheoku predicts that very soon they will reap the whirlwind which their action, through one of their very own Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab have sown. They are no longer satisfied with their wanton and perennial blood-letting of Christians and southerners in Nigeria on very flimsy excuses, some as minute as a cartoon in far away Dutch-land; now they want to export same to the world and to America in particular?

It is our belief that this mallam did not act alone but in concert with his band of Boko Haram type of people and investigation should strive to unmask the people who sent this suicide-bomber into America with a view towards bringing instant justice to them. Icheoku advocates instant justice to these animals since Guantanamo is closing soon; and there is no need over-populating the new terrorists-prison in Illinois by bringing additional imbeciles there. Just dispatch any implicated terrorist, their aiders and abettors upon capture or arrest after on the spot interrogation, period. It is also our firm belief that by every intent and purpose of the definition, that Nigeria has long since been a terrorist state; but that their terrorism, headquartered in the northern part of the country, has been for local consumption only! A terrorism which have taken over 20,000 lives of Nigerians ever since as well as properties running into several hundreds of millions of dollars over the years. Even some sources suggests that the Biafran/Nigerian civil war was primarily fought to stop these terrorists from further destruction of lives and properties.

Now to this 23 year old almajiri who have brought added shame and odium to Nigeria and every Nigerian, Icheoku says, it shall not be well with you! Do you know what your hateful action has caused millions of travelling Nigerians who will now be scrutinized more at ports of entry and airports the world over? Would it surprise you to know that because of what you did, that many Nigerians will now be subjected to additional searches including possible strip-searches at various airports now? If you are tired of living, why not just jump off a bridge and call it quit with this lovable world? Why must you do this injustice to your country, irrespective of the motivation, religion or animosity? Icheoku really does not have a suitable qualifier of a word to address you with, but suffice it to say that you are the worst of the worse; and that dirt is better than your sorry self. The mother that gave birth to you must regret the day she spread for your father to contribute to the process that brought you into being; and wished she had aborted you or even fed you some expired "my pikin' teething baby powder" so that you would have quietly gone away and not live to this day of odium.

But who gave this guy visa and other travelling documents to leave Nigeria and even enter American territory? This is the aspect of the investigation, Icheoku will be very interested in to ascertain how this lowest of the lows was able to secure an American visa in the first place? May be it about time professional psychologists are employed or added at visa-issuing embassies to try and enter into the minds of animals like this Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to determine their mental stability and suitability, before issuing them visas? Icheoku is pissed off at this incompetent, idiotic and amateurish terrorist wanna-be for giving Nigeria another dishonorable mention! How dare his sorry little ass add to the woes of Nigeria at the precipice? I feel I could just reach his scraggy throat to make him gasp for dear air, torture or no torture rules?

Northwest/Delta Flight 253 began in Lagos Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit; and with 278 passengers and 11 crew members was about 20 minutes to Detroit airport when passengers heard popping firecrackers-like noises coming from the Nigerian terrorist at sea 19C; upon which they jumped and subdued him until the arrival of security personnel who arrested and took him away; but first to a custodial hospital treatment facility for his burn wounds. The terrorist had third degree burns on his legs which officials explained to mean he probably strapped the explosive devices to his legs and was too confused or stupefied to explode it midair over the Atlantic ocean as his handlers probably instructed; only to belatedly attempt same while the plane was practically landed. But instead, the Nigerian terrorist alleged that his Al-Queida minders instructed him to explode the plane over United States soil and not over the ocean desert? Icheoku asks, but why, Mallam Umaru Farouk Abdul-Mutallab? The incident also goes to show that the war on terrorism is not over by any calculation; and that only a continuous vigilance by all will spare us all and the rest of the world their intended agony.

But unlike the White House and its 'attempted act of terrorism' explanation, Icheoku says, this was not merely an attempt but a fully consummated terrorist act which only providence averted, since the animal had already set the explosion in motion by igniting whatever it was that gave off the alerting smoke. But for the vigilance of the passengers on Flight 253, may be the Nigerian terrorist would have taken his terrorist act to another level, which would have resulted to a more catastrophic disaster, God forbid! Our position therefore is that this mallam Nigerian terrorist should be treated like a full fledged terrorists; an al-Queida foot and/or air soldier, who was on a suicide mission but for the special grace of God who saved us the bullet. Hopefully the FBI are en-route to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as well as Muritala Mohamed airport in Lagos Nigeria to try to figure out how this weasel managed to sneak his improvised explosive device through the security and unto the plane and to Detroit Michigan? Those officials at this two airports must fully answer questions on how they failed to detect this bomber and his bomb; otherwise let the American authorities declare these Schiphol and Muritala airports unsafe and too risky to allow passengers from there into America? Let anyone who minds call it too stringent, but not after this Nigerian terrorist suicide bomber had managed to slip through whatever security they supposedly have there.

With the new directive for a 'heightened security for both domestic and international flights at airports across the country, and that the intensified levels would likely be "layered," differing from location to location depending on alerts, security concerns and other factors;' Icheoku says, passengers from Nigeria should be prepared now for strip-searching and other associated ill-treatments at various airports world-over? Now that Nigeria has officially joined the list of terrorist states, through the action of a northerner, mallam Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, Icheoku says, it is not going to be easy moving around the world anymore as a Nigerian? Those still trapped back in Nigeria and helplessly striving to secure the almighty visa, getting that piece of eligibility to check-out will become more cumbersome now that Nigeria has become a terrorist country! So, now you see why Icheoku had advocated that this straggler be hung by his balls until he gives up the last air in his lungs for bringing such damnation to a Nigeria already over-burdened! His action has now qualified Nigeria as a terrorist breeding state? Shame on you Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab!

CHRIST IS BORN, REJOICE!

As we welcome baby-Jesus today, December 25, 2009 to commemorate his birth; let us ponder and ask ourselves what does Christmas really mean? Merry Christmas!

THE PAPAL ASSAULT, AN AFFRONT ON GOD'S OWN INSTITUTION!

What an irony of life that on the day Christians all over the world are waiting in exhilarated anticipation for the commemoration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, that a raving mad daughter of Eve decided to attack our Lord's representative, Christ ambassador, bishop of Rome and head of the world catholic community, Pope Benedict XVI? The attacker sprung herself up from the mid-row of gathered parishioners inside the Vatican's basilica of St. Peter; and like a viper launched herself at a pope in a procession, yanking him to the ground. Icheoku says, any human-being who dared in this manner to wrestle God and publicly bring dishonor and disgrace to his alter-ego here on earth has engaged in a fight too many and which he or she cannot win. This raving lunatic of a woman has therefore beaten more than she can chew and for the long haul, except she quickly seeks forgiveness and atones for her sin!

The inexplicable security breach inside Saint Peter's basilica once again points to the sometimes near uselessness of these security-details? The woman who attacked and assaulted the pope could easily have been armed and dangerous; that by now may be the whole world catholic community would be in mourning; but peradventure God intervened and it was just a mere close-call of some indignity? It would be recalled that it was just three weeks ago that the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi was himself a victim of a porous and lacklustre security-detail; which allowed another mad Italian to draw blood from his mouth, breaking his nose and cracking his two teeth? Now, another world high-up resident of and pope of Rome, was himself, a victim of poor security; which left him helpless as he was wrestled to the grounds, with his ornate robes and in full regalia and before his gathered parishioners! Icheoku asks, Italians, whuz-up with your security or would you guys use some further and additional training? It is shameful that these two life-threatening incidents could simultaneously happen in Italy without any of the attacker, being stopped or even dispatched to the world beyond before they could score their cheap disgusting point?

But who is this crazed-out woman who would dare where angels trembled, and jumped on the pope; wrestling wrestle him to the grounds, inside the bowels of St. Peter's Basilica; the cornerstone of Christendom? Icheoku says, any human-being at all, capable of such unprovoked act of aggression on the man of God, is not deserving of the freedom which he or she enjoys and should be confined in a cold lunatic asylum for a long time. Icheoku watched the video of the jump and felt that she was either possessed of a demonic spirit or was under some influence of something; to have sprung the way she did and as resilient as she was until she saw the pope laying down on the marble floor of the basilica?

Now the Italians want to once again explain it away that she is not of a sound mind? Icheoku says, if she is not of a sound mind, what was she doing inside the basilica and within such a close proximity of the pope, as to become unstoppable from launching an attack which made its target? How did she get there and how were those gathered congregants screened before exposing the pope to them in such unsecured location? if the authorities knew she was unstable, why didn't they confine her in a lunatic asylum before she could visit harm on anybody, including the pope? A popular aphorism says, once beaten twice shy; and fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me; so the Italians instead of owning up and admitting their shortfalls are now scape-goating mental illness? Instead of manning up for their inadequacies and incompetence, which led to these two security lapses, they are busy, explaining how demented these attackers are? Once again, the Italian security-details have failed in their primary assigned duty of protecting their dignitaries; a failure of security which calls for an immediate overhaul of the system as a matter of utmost urgency, before any tragic consequence results therefrom as a result?

How could a woman jump barriers and knock down the pope with supposed security details watching and haplessly could not intervene? What then were they doing? A woman dressed in a red hooded sweat shirt vaulted over wooden barriers that cordoned off the basilica's main aisle and rushed and jumped the pope? Icheoku asks, could it be possible that this supposedly 'deranged' woman was acting out the biblical tale of the woman with the issue of blood; and that her faith forced her into the mad dash for the papal garment with hope of getting some healing; and accidentally pulled down the pope in the process? May be after-all, there was no malice aforethought in this supposed attack? Anyway, who knows the true intention of this woman until investigations are fully carried out, unravelling the motivation for this outrage. To further explore this angle of a possible miracle-seeking woman and her expectation that once she touched the pope's garment that her ailments will be cured; let us recall that during last 2008 Christmas Eve service, that another woman similarly made for the pope but was stopped by an alert security, who regrettably were caught off guard this time around. Coincidentally too, the last year's woman wore a red hooded sweat shirt similar to this attacker; which possibly could mean that it was the same woman who did not succeed last year that saw another opportunity this year and took it successfully? Also in 2007, another 'mentally' challenged man jumped a security barrier and grabbed the back of the pope's open car before being swarmed by security guards. This was another instance where contact was made with the pope or his popes-mobile, begging the question why was the security not very attentive on their subject of protection; and always acting after the fact?

Could this incident possibly mean that the pope was too exposed and his security too lax for these attackers to have landed their targets? Icheoku says, not when the pope is in the midst of his trusted flocks, who should do no harm but stay fixated at the sight of their God's representative on earth? And recourse should be had in the bible verse 'is Saul also among the prophets' and "among the twelve apostles was Judas?' Who knows that a green snake was lying in wait for an opportunity to strike? Icheoku's concludes that all the protection forces including the Swiss Guards, Vatican police and Italian police once again failed in their service to the pope and the Italian people; and should therefore be investigated and repositioned. Luckily enough, the pope proved that he was not too old to rise up after a fall; and harped on the derivative moral lesson that it is not falling down that is the issue but being able to rise up again after such fall. Icheoku says, well-done Pope Benedict XVI for your gallantry and for taking one for Jesus; "viva il papa!"

ICHEOKU, WE ARE FEELING XMASY!

Dear visitors, fans and readers, barring any major development in our world, Icheoku team of bloggers, now in a holiday mood, will not be actively maintaining our daily commentary regime`. We shall however continue to keep you posted on sundry news tit-bits on our column - "Icheoku, news just in"; until our full resumption on January 3, 2010.

Until then, happy holidays; and please remember that Jack Bauer returns with 24 on the Fox Networks, on January 17, 2010! But do you still remember where his last encounter with those bad guys who wants to do us harm ended the last episode? Icheoku can't wait! Enjoy the festivities.

We appreciate your follower-ship and contributions through the year; and as we come to the end of another year, blogging on matters of politics and society, we hope that next year will only be better than the year just ending. Merry Xmas and happy new year!

MOTHER-NATURE MOCKS HUMANITY OVER GLOBAL WARMING?

So much so for global warming hysteria that mother-nature decided to mock and humanize humanity, on the same day world leaders are hurdled down and discussing environmental impact of global warming and how to curb it? Instead of intensive heat from hell scorching everybody and everything across the land, just to buttress the point being made, mother-nature froze over the entire Europe, Britain and north America's east coast with what has been aptly describes as a blizzard weather condition.

What a cruel irony of faith, thereby making these global warming protagonists not look so very credible; since the world is witnessing rather a 'global cooling' and not the hyped opposite? Icheoku does not have an opinion one way or the other on the issue of globe warming, that is not our area of expertise; but assuming the globe is indeed warming, it is our position that humanity is too infinitesimal to make any variable impact thereto? In other words, the globe is not impacted by mankind, and it is very arrogant of mankind to assume it is formidable enough to affect a world which has survived various forms of lives before the arrival of man on it. Therefore, who is mankind to arrogate itself, the omni-portent position of checkmating global warming, assuming it is not a hoax ab initio?

Pictures do not lie and both of these were taken on Fraiday December 18, 2009 according to the publisher, BBC! Even in Britain, an Eurostar train was frozen on its track at the chunnel and forced the entire train service out of operation; a result of a severe chilly weather event? Copenagen the host city of the global warming conference also recorded freezing conditions? Now call it a coincidence or whatever your convenient explanation tells you; but Icheoku asks, why would mother-nature force this joker on the world leaders on the same day they are wounding up their deliberations on global warming? It must be for one thing and one thing only, to ridicule the world leaders into humility and make them seem contemptible before the people, for shouting fox when there is none in the vicinity.

But what do they want to gain, who knows; why bother to understand the ways of men, especially when there is big money to be made! Icheoku says, there is more pressing needs of humanity for these world leaders to tackle, instead of spending valuable time on a phenomenon which they have no control or handle on; and which is still thousands of light-years away before any significant impact adversely affects the world. Why not spend the $100 billion on food, medicine and education for the millions of Africans, south Asia, Latin America and even in certain so called first-rate countries in desperate needs? But who cares; and according to former south Africa President Thambo Mbeki, the ruse generated by the HIV/AIDS epidemic would not have reached the proportion it is in today, had all these foreign drug peddlers spent a little percentage of the resources being wasted on placebo drugs and publicity campaigns on foods to feed the hungry mouths; maybe they could stand a better chance at fighting the scourge?

Continuing, Mbeki opined that the needs of Africa is rather food and not experimental drugs which seem to worsen an already bad situation? Icheoku says, unlike global warming which could be likened to a virtual event; starvation and disease are real tangibles which eradication could be measured in physical terms, instead of the speculative exercise now being embarked on by the world. $100 billion dollars could go a long way in fighting malaria and buying millions of mosquito nets; also eradicate cholera through digging of bore-holes and providing clean safe water for the needy of the society. Think about how many scholarships $100 billion could buy for the very bright but less privileged of the society's bottom feeders who could grow up to someday become the President just like President Barack Hussein Obama?

But no, business is business and those other perils of society can wait while some coffers somewhere are filled to the brinks, through contracts, consultation fees, conferences and anticipated fixing of an unbroken global weather pattern! Anyway, our case is made; if these blankets of snow were exclusively, totally deliberative of mother-nature, then who are we to question her judgment and actions; afterall we are mere mortals guided by only what we see and hear.

Finally Icheoku says, if global warming is real and caused by man, then it can be stopped by man! But if not, then all these efforts being made by everybody to stop it remains wasted and misplaced; since mother-nature will continue to get a better part of us by reminding us each time of our limitations both in knowledge and abilities. For the records, Icheoku reiterates once again, our position on whether or not there is global warming is suspense; but on the issue of it being caused by mankind or not, we declare it doubtful! So dear reader, what is the temperature today in your own neck of the wood; but since the last time we checked, the waters of the Pacific is still very chilly and the Atlantic is not yet boiling over. Moreover so many animal and insect species, that are particularly heat-intolerant and most-times die from heat-stroke would have all since died. But since these 'canary in the mines' are still alive and thriving, Icheoku says, may the resources of the world go to where it is needed most - food, medicine, disease, shelter, weapons-proliferation control, abolishing of 'dis-Honor-Killings of women, child labor, education etc; but not to the infantile over-blown global warming!

PERSONALIZED PRESIDENCY, THE CASE OF YAR'DUA'S INDISPOSITION?

A case of the chicken and the egg, or does the president mean the same thing as the presidency in Nigeria? Is there a unity of person in the president and the presidency or are the two entities separate and different? In a military dictatorship, may be; but definitely not in a democracy. This question has become imperative as the continuously ailing Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, sidelined by sickness for over three weeks since November 23, 2009, in a hospital bed in far away Jeddah Saudi Arabia, apparently took the presidency with him to his hospital bed; leaving no one clearly identifiable person firmly in charge and running the affairs of Nigeria in his absence?

The lacuna in authority has now gone on for a solid 24 days; and who says there is nothing wrong with a constitutional arrangement that made it impossible for a duly co-elected vice president Jonathan Goodluck to carry on and function effectively in the absence of the president? To make matters worse, no one within Nigerian government circle, including the vice president, the senate president as well as the speaker of the House of Representatives has had the privilege of speaking with the 'quarantined' ailing president of Nigeria, ever since he assumed his sick vacation from the shores of Nigeria? Icheoku asks, how does such a government, in the absence of its chief executive, a chief executive who stubbornly refused to hand over the reins of power to his vice president, function? What guarantees do the people still dealing with what is left of the quasi-executive council of the government have, that contracts reached now will be obliged and enforceable, assuming the sickly president ever recovers enough and returns to call for rendering of accounts of what transpired while he was gone? Who will the sick president get his briefings from upon resumption of duty, assuming he ever recovers, since it is on records that his so called vice president did not get his nod to stand in for him; nor has he been in contact with the sick president ever since the past three weeks he was rushed out of Nigeria in a medical emergency SOS to Jeddah Saudi Arabia?

Icheoku asks, what use therefore is the office of the vice president if a situation as this, which was probably anticipated as a possibility and which most likely induced the creation of the office of the vice president; which situation have now arisen and yet the vice president could not step in to act while the president remains indisposed? The office of the vice president is redundant and should therefore be discarded and election thereto discontinued. Why Nigerians are not numerously asking the tough questions baffles this writer; which unsettling situation of power devolution buttresses the need to urgently accelerate the amendment of the constitution; its slow-crawling through an inept legislature now made unacceptable by the new circumstance! But Icheoku disagrees and emphasises that no amount of sycophancy or selective amnesia will be capable of infusing the president with the presidency, so inseparably that the vice president cannot act in absence of the president? The two positions are not two Siamese twins yoked together beyond medical intervention and are capable of independent co-existence?

What is the wisdom of the fusion of the two different entities - office of the president and the institution of the presidency in the same sick President Umaru Yar'Adua? Why not correctly isolate and separate the two so that the government of Nigeria can continue functioning properly under the full authority of the vice president while President Umaru Yar'Adua recovers and recuperates from his illness? However, it would appear that the National Assembly are collaborators in this political fork on the road, a quagmire of some sort; otherwise why have they not seized this God given opportunity to truly amend the constitution that forced this sick man on Nigeria in the first place and now seems to have 'barred' him from yielding his office on grounds of illness, albeit temporary? He can always ask for it anytime he recovers enough to continue functioning in that capacity. If there is a militating clause in the constitution, expunge it; if an ameliorating one is required, insert it; but the truth must be told that any constitutional democracy which indulges its president so much powers including power to hijack, confiscate and abscond with the presidency and for this long, needs urgent surgical intervention to streamline or curb such excesses! Nigeria's presidency is not President Umaru Yar'Adua's exclusive preserve alone, as he is but the alter-ego and not the whole institution. But unfortunately, Nigeria is not a real functioning society of citizens but a grouping of tribal allegiances society where the people are more loyal to their individual tribes than the country at large; hence the more galvanized resistance from northern Nigeria to scuttle the call for Yar'Adua to step aside. To them, it is their turn to rule and an Umaru Yar'Adua in coma is better than a southern vice president taking over so soon after another southern Olusegun Obasanjo finished his eight years term? Parochial and absurd, you bet.

A functioning country would have had this sickly president formally hand over powers to his vice president ever before he checked into the intensive care unit, of a foreign hospital, in far away Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. What if the president went into irreversible coma while undergoing a battery of tests, and transits from there to the land beyond with unshared state secrets and information? What if the bellicose and continuing belligerent Cameroon sends across their gendarmes to invade Nigeria, may be over some still unsettled Bakassi matter, without a commander-in-chief around to order the military into battle? What if there is a major disaster or emergency requiring the president to marshall out resources or declare a state of emergency? Why are the constitutional lawyers in Nigeria not livid and shouting on top of their lungs over this humongous aberration? Imagine a country's president is away and indisposed for three weeks and counting; and the number three citizen in Nigeria, the senate president, does not even have access to him and have not spoken to him ever since?

Imagine a functioning country where a president's sickness and health is being made a private family matter and not the country's business; and yet the medical bills and the cost of constantly flying him to so many different hospitals around the globe are being borne by the countries tax-payers and supplemented with the country's scarce foreign exchange? And Turai Yar'Adua alone is calling all the shots and making all decisions as to a Nigeria's president's medical needs and treatments? Imagine a situation where Turai does not allow or wilfully refuses any government official access to their president, including the senate president who had to go through the president's wife to get whatever snippets of information that she is willing to release on the president's condition; and give also possible directives as to the continuous running of the government? Say it ain't true Nigerians! Even in the United States of America, before a president goes to his routine annual physical checkup, he is required to sign over the presidency to his vice, pending his re-emergence? How then can a nation's number three citizen be taking directive from an unelected woman, just because that woman is married to a weakling president who is medically indisposed in a distant foreign land's hospital? The vice president too, it is alleged have not heard nor spoken with the president, for three weeks now since he was rushed off to Saudi Arabia in a medical emergency; that Icheoku wonders, if the Nigerian experiment is working at all?

Thankfully though, Femi Falana has filed a suit for the court to adjudicate on this constitutional aberration, which inextricably and inadvertently fused the office of the president with the institution of the presidency, such that an elected vice president cannot act in his stead as he was supposed to in the absence of his ailing president? Icheoku prays that the court will find the courage to resolve this situation before it turns into a conflagration that might as well be the final 'nunc dimitius' of Nigeria? And to compound matters, various insider reports has it that President Umaru Yar'Adua “will not be returning to Nigeria anytime soon, if he does at all;” and so does the tension continue to pervade and envelope the land over the rightful leader to pilot the ship of state. Other sources said that were he to ever make it out alive to Nigeria, that he would be effectively incapacitated to function ever again as Nigeria’s chief executive? Grave and fearful indeed, is the situation. Another source said that President Umaru Yar'Adua's health condition is so messed up and his kidney too deteriorated that he is not even a viable candidate for a transplant, otherwise an kidney would have been fished out from somewhere, even if Chinese?

Icheoku also disagrees with the fantasy-theory of Attorney General Micheal Aondoakaa that "the President was constitutionally empowered to exercise his power from anywhere in the world," and challenge him to produce such document! No, the president has a territorial area of authority called Nigeria and it behoves on him to be present where his authority resides; and not while still confined in another President or King's land, sequestrated in a bed in a hospital built by that sovereign, magically preside over the affairs of Nigeria through telepathy? If he must continue to rule Nigeria, he must by necessity first return to be with the Nigerians he intend to rule and in Nigeria, period! Further, Icheoku says to Madam Information Minister Dora Akunyili that we shall continue to talk about the president's indisposition and if she brands it 'over-emphasis', so be it; but Nigerians deserves to know the health condition of their president and when he is returning to Nigeria from a foreign country's hospital bed? Is it not shameful that Nigeria's president is a patient in a foreign hospital, the like of which, he could not establish in Nigeria but shamelessly absconds to each time and every time he has a medical crisis? Anyway, the best way to resolve what is, is for the president to recover and return to his duties at Aso Rock asap; it is the only magic silver bullet that could kill off all these rumblings in the land, so please dear God, heal President Umaru Yar'Adua for the sake of one Nigeria!

TIGER WOODS FINAL TKO, AS NANNY TURNED WIFE ELI DUMPS HIM?

As Eli Nordegren Woods moves out of her matrimonial home in Windmere-Orlando, Florida, Icheoku says, a superficial marriage founded on mere flashy looks and a billion dollar assets, without the necessary foundations or substantial galvanising factors such as mutuality of interest, love and care, courtship and romance etc; was a destined disaster waiting to happen. Such marriage was dead on arrival; moribund even before the honey-moon was over; and not all the pretenses or facades of a 'happy-marriage' could have saved it? The fallout, a Cablinasian Tiger on a maddening sexual-rampage, a manifestation of his long bottled-up simmering animosity towards a cold-hearted nanny who he mistook for a wife! Tiger Woods acted out, admitted he may have over-acted judging from the tally of 14 blonde bimbos he had dalliances with?

Now she is gone; just because he did what most married men dream and think about all the time - some outside fling to oil themsleves with and by necessary implication, re-freshen their marriages? Icheoku asks, did Eli Nordegren Woods ever really love Tiger Woods? What happened to the marital injunction 'until death do us apart?' Where was Eli Nordegren's forgiving heart to display some act of forgiveness, afterall Tiger confessed his transgressions and promised to be a better husband and father? What incentive then will men have after this development, to encourage them to accept responsibility in the future for some little acts of straying; if after all the humiliation, the bitch in their lives will still take a walk anyway? What is then the use of apology, if a bitch will always remain a bitch, regardless of a man's contrition? Eli Nordegren did not think through her rash decision to abandon Tiger's ship, so soon and so early after her husband's virility came to light.

The answer to the preceding seem to be in the lack of any marital chemistry between this two strange bedfellows; a blonde-nanny and a golf-playing Cablinasian billionaire! There is no appearance of compatibility whatsoever between this two folks; and so many pictures of the then couple together shows a drawn-face Tiger on the crouch itching and wishing to spring free? So thank you Eli Nordegren, for turning Tiger loose; so that he can go now and be with a real woman, a meritorious wife indeed! It would also appear from all indications that Eli Nordegren does not know Tiger Woods or understand what it is he really wanted; afterall he has all te money in the world and have bought all that money could but including private jest and a yacht named Privacy. But paradoxically, it took the 'generosity of 14 conniving blonde bimbos to help her discover what her Tiger really wanted, admitted it was the hard way she found out. Unfortunately though, she would not wait to find out if she truly learnt anything from the harsh lesson and instead, is scampering out of Tiger home as fast as her two Swedish legs can carry her?

Icheoku have always known that the marriage will not last as it lacked a solid foundation; being similarly situated to infatuated high school sweethearts who decided to just hook-up on their first date? Recall the Britney Spears' drive-through wedding in Las Vegas? Tiger barely knew this blonde nanny when his addiction for blonde-bimbos saw him on a bended knee proposing to a girl he never met? Like many women, money speaks and bullshit walks, so she went for it. But seriously speaking, just tell Icheoku, which good wife would readily and so easily dump her agonising, heart-broken husband because he veered off course and got some; and at the hour and time he needed her most for support and to help him get through his monkey? Who will Tiger now reach out to or even have sex with, since he is addicted to sex, now that Eli has moved out of their house? Is this not a license for Tiger to ferociously roam and romp further and farther; and may be bring home one of the concubines?

Only a bitch who has been looking for a way to toss over a nigger after collecting his $80million dollars and who is not really proud of marrying one, would so soon and so easily take a walk out of her marriage just because the spouse strayed? What did Tiger do that has never been done before or is so horrendous as to elicit this break-up response from Eli, assuming there was real love in the first place? He just sex and which man out there who have not played some away-match, since being dragged to the alter by one conquering Eve? Tiger had sex with several women, so what; in some countries men marry that many and yet the heavens have not fallen; after-all he only had physical carnal knowledge with them, but did not give them his heart. He was never in love with any of the whores but simply saw and used them for his animalistic sexual gratifications only. He still loves his family and has severally apologised to Elin, so what else does this Swedish bimbo want before she can cool down, a pound of his flesh?

First she bludgeoned Tiger with his golf clubs before forcing him into an accident which nearly claimed his young life? Yet Tiger covered up for her domestic abuse of him, instead praising her bravery in rescuing him from the accident vehicle? Tiger also failed or refused to tell the world that she refused to call 911 following her instigated accident and that but for a neighbor, Tiger may not have received immediate medical attention until it was probably too late? Yet she supposedly loved him and does not wish him death? Eli Nordegren took off her multi-million dollars wedding ring from Tiger and proudly came out in front of arranged paparazzi for the sole purpose of exhibiting her newly found liberation and freedom? Less than 24hours later, moving trucks lined up to remove her belongings from her former matrimonial home, - all in a well orchestrated fashion to get at that nigger, who would not keep his zippers shut and pants up on his waistline? Icheoku asks, what does Eli Nordegren really want after the much done by a Tiger over his prowl in hookers alley? Maybe a man who is a virgin, an eunuch or what? But was Tiger the first man in her life, to whom she lost her virginity?

Please do not call Icheoku a sexist, non-empathic chauvinistic pig, because we are none of that; but what else does this Eli want after what has already been done to atone for the so called transgressions? A man admitted to his failings, apologised and promised to become a better husband, gave some of his millions and even sacrificed the air in his lungs - his golf? This is where we need help in understanding what Eli wants, since we do not believe that sex by itself is enough to damage a loving home? Anyway, what a riddance; now Tiger is free to find and marry a real wife based on true love, attention, care and warm companionship; and not the flash in the pan blonde bimbo nanny who he mistook for a loving wife. From the speed of her moving out, it is now clear that she never truly loved nor cared about Tiger, but was contriving and looking forward to a day like this period, when she will readily cash out from the billionaire's estate and scamper? The trait of atypical gold-digger, may be? Please Tiger do not even contest the divorce, just get a stipulation; give her enough to take care of your kids and move on very fast before she realises the frivolity of her rushed decision and wants back. Whatever you do, do not accept her back because a rope once broken can never be the same length again; do not become enslaved to her by reconciliation without healing or forgiving without forgetting. May be Rachel Uchitel will be a better choice, she looks like she has a soul in addition to her beauty. Goodluck Tiger!

ORAL ROBERTS, DEATH OF A PIONEER TELEVANGELIST MAN OF GOD!

The man of God and televangelist pioneer of television evangelism; the man who in 1963 established Oral Roberts University if Tulsa Oklahoma United States of America, Oral Roberts, is dead! He died on December 15, 2009 at a ripe old age of 91, of complications from pneumonia. May God receive his soul, Amen!

He recognised early in his evangelism-life the power of telecommunication and cashed in on it very well and successfully too. He cleared the way for television ministries and brought a 'charismatic message of faith to many people around the world. With an evangelism career that spanned over one half of a century, Roberts used the power of the television and his special message of God's healing power, to build a multimillion-dollar religious ministry, including a university.

Oral Roberts took Pentecostalism to another height, brought it into the mainstream of America's religiosity; and also introduced 'prosperity gospel' preaching that God rewards the faithful with material success? Ten percent tithe followed and so also is money which his faithfuls brought in bag-fulls? He also pushed to the forefront the sowing of "Seed-Faith" theology, which espoused that those who give to God will get abundantly in return. His brand of evangelism involved faith-healing wherein faithfuls are prayed for the healing of mind, body and soul/spirit? However he denied being a faith-healer protesting that only God heals and that he was just a handmaid? In his rebuttal, Oral Roberts asserted, "God heals — I don't." He was also reputed to be the first evangelist to ever break into over a million flocks around the world using the medium of radio, television and publications; co-hosting his famous "Miracles Now" one hour religious programme. Roberts authored well over 120 books and conducted numerous crusades during his active days preaching and spreading the news.

A man of great humility, he always credited whatever skills he had to God's making; stating that he was just a vessel in the hand of God. Borrowing Rush Limbaugh's phraseology, Oral Roberts skills were just 'on loan from God!' Affirming this, Oral Roberts once said, "when I become anointed with God's word, the spirit of the Lord builds up in me like a coiled spring. By the time I'm ready to go on, my mind is razor-sharp. I know exactly what I'm going to say and I'm feeling like a lion." Icheoku asks, can you beat that for preparation?

Icheoku says this man of God lived a very good and fruitful life in the service of mankind, while worshipping God. He left his large footprints in the sand of time during his 91 long years sojourn here on earth! Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma USA also bears testimony to his legacy. Like all true men of God, God blessed him abundantly and also gave him a very long eventful life. Icheoku prays for the repose of his gentle soul and that the good works he did while here on earth shall be accordingly rewarded; while those he left unfinished shall find good hands to carry them on, finishing those that are finish-able and continuing those that are revolving and recurrent. May the Oral Roberts family find solace that their patriarch lived a good long meaningful life pleasing to God. Adieu OR, Mister evangelism personified!

ANNISE PARKER, THE HOUSTON EMBRACE OF A SAME-SEX POLITICIAN!

Call it whatever you like - a tale of another American city gone with 'gay-wind', an aberration and self-contradictory for a Southern Texas city or just anything? Call it a tale of another American city infected with the virulent gay-virus or another city gone gay-ho? Call it another American city now unabashedly, fully and completely more inclusive and accommodating? Call it a case of another American city, now sodomized? Call it a testimonial or an affirmation that 'same-sexes' are now here to stay?

Whatever you like or any nomenclature you feel best captured for you, the earth-shattering political development in Houston Texas; you may just call it! But Icheoku choose to surmise that what happened in the mayoral election in the city of Houston was a testament that it is really a new day in America! People are now accepted as people, human-beings as human-beings, citizens as citizens irrespective of their peculiar likes or dislikes, interests and disinterests including unique sexual preferences!

And so it is that the fire lit in 1977 in San Francisco California by the late Harvey Milk has spread to Houston Texas? The fire has gradually spread through the land, razing certain stereotyping along the way, as it made its way across the length and breath of our great nation to now Houston Texas. Harvey Milk, wherever your brave soul may be today, this one in Houston Texas is for you! Thank you for giving a voice to a formerly voiceless people; a people who instead of hiding in closets of shame are today, proudly proclaiming on mountain tops, their preferences for the same-sex and homosexual relationships, rather than the orthodoxy of heterosexism. Harvey Milk, if only you know how far the experiment of San Francisco has now worked its way into the land and still marching on! Mayor-elect Anniste Parker of Houston owes her victory to your foresight and trail-blazing activism in San Francisco California; a victory which the cruel hands of Mr. White made impossible for you to witness in person. But please let your soul be assured that all the recorded gains and prospective future ones are all because you stood up and proclaimed, 'We are human-beings too!'

As Houston becomes 'gay-tized', joining other American cities of Portland-Oregon, Providence-Rhode Island and Cambridge-Massachusetts to proudly elect openly gay-politicians as their mayors, Icheoku says, it took sometime to get here; but sure it is spreading fast and furious like California's Santa Ann wind driven fire! Harvey Milk, the first openly gay American to run and win a public office in California stood up in in San Francisco in 1977 to say, 'Yes we are humans like you, full citizens and can be elected to public offices too!' Harvey gave same-sex people a voice and said 'gays are unblemished citizens and can and should be allowed the opportunity of being elected to public offices of their choosing and in whatever capacity? He emphasised that being different in sexual preferences does not necessarily mean being weird or incapable of rendering service; and today, his message of equality has been heard in far away Houston Texas. Houstonians said, in a loud thundering voice, 'Yes we heard the gospel of equality preached in San Francisco' and approved the application of Ms Anniste Parker for the mayor-ship of their city and hired her. Now the oil city of Texas has sent a message in a bottle and thrown on a churning waters, which purveyor is fast taking it to another city. Soon and very soon, city by city, Harvey Milk's message will completely percolate the land and who ever does not like it, might as well leave, pack up and leave for Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or even to Iran where they execute same-sex people?

The victory of Ms. Parker is also a blow to the far right wing fundamentalists Christians of America who always like to pretend that they are in charge of this land and that are in the majority? The election shows that either these pretenders of Christianity are in the minority or no one listens to their hypocrisy any longer, nor attaches any importance to the hate many of their preachers spew out on their various pulpits? 'Thou shall not judge'; 'I come for those who are sick and not those who are well'; 'He who is without sin should throw the first stone'; 'Those who are well have no need for physicians' etc are some of the biblical passages these band of Christian charlatans avoid cleverly and would rather not be seen applying in their daily sanctimonious and adumbrating preachings. The election also shows that these brand of hateful Christians are fast losing the war for the hearts and souls of many civilized Americans, who would rather they are not yoked to the dark ages of the early arrivees, who were so rigid to a fault that in Salem Massachusetts they burnt at the stake, supposed witches and wizards at the stake?

But the dynamism of progress behoves on every modern day American to see peoples' unique preferences and differences not as a complete de-humanising factor that would warrant some of the vituperation coming out of these so called preachers of the bible. But in whose name are they preaching their hate message; certainly not in the name of the God and Jesus known to Icheoku! We also believe that it is still not late for these hating people to learn their lessons and change their ways fast before they bring damnation upon themselves for hating God's own people! It is regrettable that these people think that what Mr. Dan White could not achieve with his acts of violence way back in November 27, 1978, could be achieved today, three long decades later? If his callous murder did not stop a train after it left the station, what else would now? Icheoku says the genie has since outgrown the neck of the bottle and these so called fundamentalist American Talibans must and should advise themselves accordingly. That 1977 leap of fate, bravery and uncommon valor of Mr. Harvey Milk has now mushroomed into so many possibilities for the LGBT community, including another mayoral seat in another American city, the city of Houston; a Christian south Texas State city, of all places? Icheoku congratulates mayor-elect Annise Parker on her election victory; and prays, as she starts her term on January 1, 2010, may the Almighty God guide and protect her as she delivers for the city of Houston, on her election promises!

TW BRAND, IT IS FINISHED!

It does not take or need a soothsayer to know that the brand known and marketed as "TW" is finished! A requiem for the repose of its wife-cheating soul is all that Americans and the world in general is waiting for; and sooner than later shall be the appointed time. Who will again proudly buy and wear a face cap or a t-shirt with a logo which implies a cheating husband or an addicted to prostitutes sex pervert? Who will be seen to condone or support such a wife-cheater by patronising any of his products? Who will wear such sleaze-tainted product anymore; definitely not anyone known to Icheoku!

So why are these other companies' marketing executives not reading the clear hand-writing on the wall, and only wishing that what was did not happen; or saying please tell us it ain't so? TagHeuer was right when they severed their relationship with the disgraced Cablinasian golfer, Tiger Woods; he is toast and the image which he once prided himself and traded in is no longer alive. It is dead and gone with the untamed and reckless deployment of his manhood, which he freely shared with call-girls and women of easy virtue; while still married to his nanny of a wife and the mother of his two children? What is now left is only charred remains of a now stinking and what was once an impeccable Tiger Woods, who no one wants to deal with or even touch with a ten-foot totem pole. Pac-10 also threw him over board and they rightly judged the tragedy that was a Tiger Woods uninhibited sexual adventurism. Gatorade also has a foresighted marketing executives who correctly read the situation and dumped him like a stinky trash? Icheoku is not surprised that Accenture has now joined the deserting corporate America who has figured out that Tiger Woods has nothing left to offer.

More corporate sponsors will follow in the coming weeks as corporate America realizes the futility of their wait and see attitude; that a dead man cannot rise or walk again and that TW is dead and will never resurrect! Tiger Woods' image is sullied permanently, it is forever gone and his not golfing for "indefinite time" is not helping matters at all. An ill-advised case where he absconded from golfing for an indeterminate period, golfing which is the air in his lungs and for which anybody and everybody wanted and had something to do with him in the first instance? So how long would a fish out of the water survive? This indeterminate absence from golf is a very fatal error of judgment and also too detrimental to whatever, if any, chances Tiger Woods would have had at recovering some or any amount of his former self.

So, any sponsoring company, still hanging around amidst the denudation should ask itself, what for and for what use? Our advise, it is hopeless and no amount of wishful thinking will bring back this broken egg? Cablinasian Tiger Woods should just roll up, sell off whatever is left of his TW and go into a long hibernation and out of sight; maybe someday re-emerge as a greying grandfather engaged in speculative stocks or whatever produce he may otherwise wish to engage in. No one want to be associated with a pariah or buy products identified with such a person. To do otherwise and especially in this TW's case, will unnecessarily lead to the purchaser being branded a cheater, a philanderer, a sex-addict and a liar; who goes through series of blonde women in unprotected sex-orgy! Could anyone please tell Icheoku who wants to be so identified or be seen to condone the 'transgression' of Tiger Woods through patronage of his products? This is the killer of the brand formerly known and referred to as 'TW'. The Cablinasian golf player, Tiger Woods, only had an image which appeared immaculate and unblemished; but they are all gone now due to a masked character flaw of libidinous and limitless sexual appetite for bimbos, culminating in his unsurvivable sex-capade scandal.

Therefore flowing naturally from the law of physics, Tiger Wood can only go downwards henceforth; and like his closely sounding name-sake TWA and/or PAN AM, TW can only wound up as the alter-ego cannot be reinvented. Tiger Woods is irreparably damaged by his philandering and taciturn when the scandal first broke. His selling point was his image and no amount of laundering will ever or be capable of removing that now stained image of a philandering, cheating husband and father, which his sexual escapade has left in the minds of many people world over, and which no magician of a marketer can erase. Even his beautiful yacht named 'Privacy' is now seen as that wife cheating husband's other sleaze pad? As for his playing golf, Icheoku believes that Tiger Wood is so much of a weakling Cablinasian to ever make a full come-back amidst so many curious onlookers many of who will no longer be looking at a golfing great but ogling at a pervert; a once golfing maestro now becomes an object of prying jaundiced eyes eager to take a glimpse of a monstrous sex-aholic with insatiable and unquenchable taste for bimbos?

It won't happen and Tiger Woods would rather jump off his "Privacy" than to suffer the humiliation of attempting a comeback; it is just too late now! It is all about the human psychology and Tiger Woods does not have any stronger constitution than the average Joe caught with his pants down in his neighbor's bedroom. Unlike other similarly situated scandals, everyone, especially women can easily relate to a husband or boyfriend cheating on them and they will not accept a cheating Tiger Woods being imposed on their psyche anymore - not on their television, not on endorsed products and not on billboards; wherever they will see him it will be no thank you! Who will buy products endorsed by a bimbo-loving nymphomaniac sexual addict; just tell Icheoku that soul? Corporate America is listening and is fully aware that the brand TW is now toast! So let the truth be told, it is over for the Cablinasian golfer, Tiger Woods; and all products with his endorsement now stand tainted and no longer marketable, period!

SILVIO BERLUSCONI, BLOODIED!

Once again it has been proved that no amount or measure of security is enough once a determined person makes up his mind on perpetrating mayhem or taking the life of another. Late United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy made this observation a few short months before the assassin's bullets felled him in Dallas Texas in 1963. In Milan Italy, on December 13, 2009, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi again became the target of a murderous fool, who drew blood from him in a failed attempt at harming or even killing the prime minister?

Icheoku condemns this brazen attack on a public office holder and says, the attack was not just on Berlusconi but on all the people of Italy in general. He is their prime minister and represents them; hence any attack on him while functioning in his official capacity is an attack on the people who elected him and who he represents. The attacker whoever he is or in whatever mental condition he may be, should never be allowed to enjoy his full freedom again; he should be put away for good and for a very very long time as an atonement for this public assault and as a deterrent to would-be future copy-cat perpetrators? Acts of violence on any public official anywhere and anyplace should not be condoned by anyone, Icheoku inclusive; no matter the circumstance, and no one should be allowed to add to the problems of their respective societies which they are toiling day and night to find solutions to! The attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is one attack too many and should be condemned intoto and Icheoku hereby do!

Another teachable and poignant lesson from this attack is the failure of the security to protect their chief object of protection, for which they are employed and paid. At least someone among the prime minister's security detail should have seen this mad guy raise his hand to launch and should have blown him out of this world before he was able to launch his missile at the Prime Minister. But no, the team failed woefully and completely; only to live in the shame of not being able to protect the only one who they were employed to protect. Icheoku asks, what if the weapon of choice of the attacker was not a statue but a gun or knife or some other more lethal weapon? Italians should conduct an inquiry to unravel what went awry and figure out a way to guard against any future likely occurrence! No explanation is good enough for this lapse or collapse of security that enabled this monster to draw the blood of a seating Italian prime minister and no one should suggest otherwise. It was a total and complete failure of security and not even the infamous and despicable President George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident compares to this blatancy; at least President GW was nimble en0ugh to duck those unpolished dirty Iraqi shoes and denied the Iraqi-fanatic the joy of finding his intended target? But neither Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi nor his retinue of security details were able to see the statue-missile coming, until it was too late; with only a bloodied Prime Minister's mouth and face to show as evidence that the launched missile honed in well on its intended target.

Italian Prime Minister, 73 year old Silvio Berlusconi was attacked by a lunatic following a rally he held in central Milan to fight off series of virulent attacks waged on him in recent past. He slumped to the ground and was whisked away by his security guards to San Raffaele hospital for observation and treatment. Berlusconi sustained a gash cheek wound, bursted upper lip, a fractured tooth, a broken nose and bloodied face. The prime minister was mingling through a crowd of supporters of his People of Freedom party, in the square in front of the Duomo, the Milan’s Gothic cathedral, signing autographs. But unbeknownst to him and his security details and real supporters, a disgruntled attacker was lurking in their midst, waiting for opportunity; and eventually, like a viper, sprung the unsuspected attack! The attacker's weapon of choice, a statue of the Duomo, the city's world-famous cathedral with gargoyles the symbol the city of Milan.

The wild-eyed attacker, here pictured left, Massimo Tartaglia, 42, was arrested at the scene of the attack and is being held for assaulting a public official? According to available information, the attacker is a person of unsound mind and has been a mental patient at Milan’s Policlinico for the past 10 years? The attacker, a graphic designer at his lucid intervals, have no known political affiliations, no criminal record and was not among the small group of protesters at the rally, suggestive of a random spontaneous attack, but who knows until investigations are completed? Icheoku however says, he is a lunatic that would launch an attack on any public official and Mr. Massimo Tartaglia now qualifies as a crazed-out madman, only fit for the confines of a lunatic asylum and not the freedom to be around or near any public official. How dare this animal injure the Italian Prime Minister in this way, with his blood gushing out unto the holy ground of the Duomo? In a way, it reminded some historians and literature buffs of the Pompei Statue fountain and of Julius Caesar during his conspiratorial stabbing to death by the renegade Roman senators. But never again Romans!

Luckily, according to his prognosis, Berlusconi did not suffer any life threatening serious injury or concussion; although not in any way superficial, he bled much from his mouth, with two loose teeth, one of which was fractured. In the admitting hospital's words, "He has suffered trauma to the front of his face, around the lips and nose, and he has two loose teeth, one of which is fractured and there may be damage to the nasal bone. As a precaution, doctors have said that he should remain in hospital for the night for observation.” But in his usual defiant self characteristics, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told Italians not to worry about him; and in his own very words, despite being bloodied, he quipped, "I'm fine, I'm fine, don't worry about me!"

It will be recalled that this is the second time that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been attacked publicly in a somewhat similar fashion. In 2004 he was hit on the head with a camera tripod while taking a walk in Rome. But being the survivor he is, the prime minister will pull through this challenge; it is just another nasty side of what public officers are once in a while, forced to put up with; and Icheoku wishes him well.

In summation, Icheoku agrees with Umberto Bossi, the leader of a coalition partner the Northern League, that this attack was an act of terrorism. Commenting on the attack Mr. Bossi said, "we have had a heavy climate for some time now and this is the first worrying sign. After what has happened today we need to raise our guard." Yelp, we agree that Italians should guard their prime minister better and save themselves the pain and agony of having their leader being humiliated again in this public way! Icheoku also agrees with Pier Luigi Bersani, the leader of the main opposition party, the Democratic Party, that this attack was "inexplicable and is to be firmly condemned". We hereby join the rest of the world in condemning the attack on Prime Minister Silvo Berlusconi. Lastly, borrowing the words of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Icheoku concurs, that the attack is a "grave and unusual gesture of aggression" against a sitting prime minister of Italy! To Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Icheoku wishes you quick parching up and pray you get over quickly the trauma that was such an unexpected and unprovoked attack. God bless!

TIGER WOODS, THE FALL FROM GRACE OF THE CABLINASIAN GOLFER!

Linguine-spine former golf-great, Tiger Woods, has finally thrown in the towel. He has just quit golfing and it is indefinitely? In a message posted on his website titled “Tiger Woods taking hiatus from golf;” he wrote, "after much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person." What a holly-molly of a bombshell! What was this Tiger thinking or smoking lately?

Icheoku says, it would appear that this Tiger is a quitter? First he ran away from his very abusive wife after receiving the beating of his life; a run he continued when he hopped bare-feet, inside his Cadillac SUV and so disorganised and confused, crashed into a fire-hydrant and then a huge tree? Again he ran away from the world and stone-walled, after he was caught pants-down with over thirteen bimbos who turned out to be prostitutes, hookers, waitresses, escorts and other low-life 'street-women.' Tiger quit from explaining himself or telling his side of the story; and it is safe to say that only Tiger Woods knows what he derives from coupling with such kiss-n-tell despicable lowly daughters of Eve! But would he quit on his wife, Elin; who knows? Now, Tiger Woods has quit golfing; may providence save this much complexed-man, with no identifiable racial-constituency, from finally taking a jump off a cliff or a bridge somewhere?

Icheoku asks, was this Tiger thinking that nobody will ever find out his philandering ways or the identity of the Harlem of those dirt-cheap women of easy virtue he condescended himself to have liaisons with; or that they will remain hidden from public knowledge and forever? Now burnt and feeling the heat of his misjudgment, the only way he know to combat the situation is to go into hiding and periodically issue lame online messages, thinking that he is doing enough? Tiger Woods, Icheoku says to you, you need to grow up and understand that your snippets of online messages will not cut it. What the world, including Americans, are expecting from their former golf's great is for you to man up, step up and open up about the most lecherous sexual liaison of the decade; and thereafter, sincerely apologise and ask for forgiveness; possibly with some stammering and choking words including some few tear-drops. A full and complete mea culpa, that is what will solve what is broken - the trust which your pretence or double-life helped to build over the years since the world acknowledged and accepted your golfing abilities and prowess.

Regrettably, you have no major racial constituency to get your back and cheer-lead your defence; and the only one you identified with "CABLINASIAN," is yet to make it to the world's knowledge, dictionaries or encyclopedia including Wikipedia; hence its memberships are not known! Now the white race hates you for riding roughshod on so many of their blondes? Asians do not care about you because you did not follow in the footsteps of your daddy to make one of them your wife? You are definitely not Chinese, or Arab or Latin so none of these people will come to your rescue? You arrogantly and expressly 'denounced' your blackness when you denied being a blackman and invented the word 'Cablinasian' to fit your warped sense of a lonely and strange race which no one else has joined its membership ever since? Tiger Woods, Icheoku says, your persona is fraudulent and you have deceived everyone with accepting the fraud you presented all these years as a wholesome American male, who can see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil? Now, who is the philandering sly coy man?

Anyway, Icheoku had earlier promised not to dwell with this sexcapade of the year; but with the bombshell you just dropped that you are quitting golf, we were forced to come-back to just comment on the development and once again make our exit. What were you smoking and who advised you on this unwise move? Did Bill Clinton resign the presidency upon Monicagate scandal? Did South Carolina governor Mark Stanford resign over his Argentina-love trip-gate? Did Kobe Bryant quit basketball and his case was even much serious; after-all none of the whores in your life alleged any rape? David Letterman is still cracking his midnight jokes, so why would you? There were several options out there, any of which would have helped in your rehabilitation but you chose none of them, why? Did you think about flat-out denials, after all there is no 'blue-dress' smoking gun involved; and it is not a crime to have sex with a consenting adult and you are not a politicians or other public official? Second, you could have admitted one liaison with one of the whores and deny the other twelve, or were there some evidence that irrefutably implicates you? Better still you would have staged a dramatic appearance on national television and blame it on your detractors who are bent on bringing you down?

What about the devil or temptation, assuming you do not have 'detractors?' Also, you could have asked for understanding, telling the world in a well rehearsed tearful mono-tone remarks that you have sexual addiction and that you will check into a rehab and will work seriously to tame it? As a last resort, you would have told a bare-faced lie that you will consider a chemical castration just to assure your wife and sponsors that you will go to any length to fix what was broken; after-all you already have two kids. But quitting for however short or long is a cut and run; and such half-measures does not augur well with Americans. Americans like men with balls, men who are men; and people who feel sorry for their transgressions and ask for forgiveness. Americans are a forgiving people and your story would have died off the radar by now; but no, your online messages is simply adding fuel to the Santa-Ann wind driven blaze of a cheating scandal! Americans are not idiots and we prefer people who will not bullshit us or stone-wall us unreasonably out of their committed sins of infidelity, but open themselves up, wide enough that we can literally see the inside of their guts by way of their coming clean.

But please Tiger, be assured that walking away or "taking a break" from the thing that made you who you are, is not the smartest decision for you to make at this time. Also, your team have poorly managed this crisis ever since it blew wide open, leading to so many asinine comments in blog-sphere and mainstream media. In one such comment, a blogger made this observation:- "One late-night collision of car, club and hydrant broke the seal of golf star Tiger Woods' cool persona and let loose a Pandora's Box of sleaze." If you abhor this new identity which is fast sticking on your once impeccable image, you need to hire some new PR firm to start laundering your singed image and immediately; as whoever have been advising you this past few weeks is not doing a good job. Until we see your face on television, explaining in full details what transpired that very early Friday morning; including your romps with these cheap whores and then apologising and asking for forgiveness, the mussing will go on. Icheoku asks you TW, have you considered your best option, the finality of a divorce; - may be an amicable one where both you and Elin will share custody of your children. It is our firm believe that your marriage is irreparably damaged and only a divorce can truly save you; having become the 'usual suspect' you can never be trusted by Elin or anyone with anything to do with a woman's groin; not after thirteen bimbos have implicated you! If you were man enough to cheat on your wife, you should also be strong enough to divorce her and walk away and retain whatever manliness that may be left. So please, Icheoku once again advises TW to GET A DIVORCE!

Here is TW's message of admission of guilt, of sleeping with 13 hookers while still married to a former nanny, Elin Nordegren:-

"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children. I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I’ve done, but I want to do my best to try. I would like to ask everyone, including my fans, the good people at my foundation, business partners, the PGA Tour, and my fellow competitors, for their understanding. What’s most important now is that my family has the time, privacy, and safe haven we will need for personal healing. After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person. Again, I ask for privacy for my family and I am especially grateful for all those who have offered compassion and concern during this difficult period."