GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

TERRELL OWENS CRIES OUT, LAMENTATIONS OF A BROKE AND DEADBEAT DAD?



"I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel; I am in hell and I am broke" says Terrell Owens, former NFL wide receiver who made eighty million dollars in earnings during his career playing in the National Football League. He attributed his changed fortune to primarily some gold-digging four baby-mamas and other bloodsucking financial advisers who siphoned all his money?
According to Terrel Owens, who pays a total of $44,600 a month in child support for his four children, ages 5 to 12, whom he had from four different baby-mamas (unmarried women having a child for financial benefit), "If there's anything I'm sorry about, it's getting involved with all that women." Those women are presently suing Terrell for owed back child support and Terrell is not laughing about it, stating that those baby-mamas are not being fair, are unreasonable and conniving?
Icheoku says, it does not at this point really matter how Terrell Owens feels about his financial ruins or his expressed surprise that his baby-mamas have refused to understand that he does not currently have a job. What is important is that he was not forced on any of those women and that despite what the doctors ordered, he was engaged in unsafe sex practices with four different women simultaneously. This was at the risk of contracting STDs including the dreaded HIV/AIDS as well as the resultant children; therefore he deserves no one's pity, understanding or sympathy whatsoever regarding his financial state. However, Icheoku queries how he could have ploughed through $80million dollars trove within such a short period of time; and despite all the pretentiousness of people not getting his back, he never told us if he had listened to these people's advise or simply fell a victim to the "heedless-virus" which afflict many young black youths' rags to riches stories, who thought their financial spigot will never stop spitting greenbacks? So fellas, the next time you are in Los Angeles and finds Terrell in Skidrow, holler !

Monday, January 23, 2012

NEWT GINGRICH IS AN INFLUENCE PEDDLER - MITT ROMNEY

Icheoku says give it up for semantics as the man who can never be elected president, Mitt Romney, the cultic Mormon, has now taken to words juggling to compound things further, calling rival Newt Gingrich a lobbyist by another term.

Practically speaking there is no difference between six and half dozen and as between a lobbyist and an influence peddler, both trades in effecting an outcome. So whether Newt Gingrich is a lobbyist or an influence peddler makes no difference really, as both by definition, implies that Newt Gingrich always exacts pressure to force his views and/or position on someone so as to effect an outcome. So America, Mitt Romney says that Newt Gingrich strong-arms people to have his way and would show no mercy if nominated and no compassion if elected; admitted the later is a Mountain Everest climb.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

UNABLE TO SACK RINGIM, A LAME PRESIDENT MAKES LAME EXCUSES?

Icheoku says the current frustrations caused Nigerians by their linguine-spine President Good(BAD)luck Jonathan is likely to boil-over if not checked. Imagine the latest inexcusable-excuses on why the none performing Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim cannot be fired. How could an executive president with all the presidential powers he has be so circumspect and hamstrung about reliving an official of his government of his job, when such official's job performance at best could pass for mediocre. Nigerians are dying in their hundreds, being killed by Northern Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram terrorists and all the president is doing is considering mundane and petty factors for not firing an incompetent police chief who could not or has failed or even deliberately refused to arrest the security situation in the land? 

Please tell Icheoku this is not actually the reason why IGP Ringim has retained his job despite all odds and his glaring case of woeful none performance and shall go down in history as the wprst IG of police NIgeria ever had and under whose watch Nigerians were blown away the most by Boko Haram Northern Nigeria Islamic terrorists' bombs. According to one insider source, the president cannot or is afraid to fire the IGP because firing him "could create problems for him with the North?" Icheoku queries how about firing the IGP and replacing him with another Northerner; afterall there are several DIGs and AIGs of Northern Nigeria Islamic extraction to douse whatever feeling of exclusion the IGP Ringim's firing might foster? Further, whatever happened to the Nigerian state as one unified indivisible entity or was there not a time when all the security heads usually came from just the North; so what is wrong if all of them, provided they are competent and very professional, came from the south now? The only conclusion deducible from this misguided calculation is that the president is not getting any good advise from his advisers or at best is being told what he would only like to hear, but which definitely is not in the best interest of his administration or Nigeria at large. Icheoku asks, would those Boko Haram killed Northerners have preferred to have an IGP who shares their last name and Islamic faith or one who would have kept them alive by protecting them against those killer Islamic Boko Haram terrorists, irrespective of the geography that produced the IGP? 

It is, simply put, very mind-boggling indeed the type of mundane considerations which usually precede this particular Nigerian president's decisions. Icheoku states that such morbid fear of a section of the country or its people to the extent that it jeopardizes government action or decision making is very grave indeed and forebodes no Nigerian any good. Moreso such consideration or fear of a people or section of the country was however not extended to the South-East when the same President Jonathan unceremoniously relieved the former IGP Ogbonna Onovo of his duties. It is noteworthy to recall that due to the recurring kidnapping cases in Nigeria and just barely six months into office and before the program he had put in place to checkmate and tackle such criminality ever germinated nor took root, IGP Ogbonna Onovo was sacked without blinking the eyelids about the feeling of the people of his section of the country. But suddenly, the fear of very violent and irrational Northern mullahs have forced President Jonathan hands to put up with a none performing IGP, who has successfully dragged his incompetent government down into the cesspool of gross insecurity of lives and properties of millions of Nigerians? 

Also the alleged President Jonathan's decision to extend to IGP Ringim a "dignified exit" is unmerited and undeserving, the circumstance of his abysmal job performance considered. It is also pointy that such "dignified exit" consideration was never factored in when the previous IGP Onovo and Balogun were summarily removed from office? Atypical Nigerian double standard operating procedure, simply because those lunatics sharing Nigeria with the rest of other more sane human-beings s are more prone to irrational violence, Icheoku may ask? So the imperative or narrative seems to be the fear of Northern Nigerians is the beginning of governance in Aso Rock which shows that irrationality and violence pays; but what example is being set by this standards or are they the only one that can generate mayhem or they telegraphing to other more rational sections of the country on what gets result?

Finally the most laughable of all the argument made for the retention or allowing the incompetent mallam IGP Ringim to finish his term in March, while Boko Haram holds sway, killing and maiming hundreds of innocent hapless Nigerians as well as their properties, is that “you cannot just fire top officers of the IGP status when you are not very convinced and you don’t have hard facts to support your action; you must investigate such issues to arrive at decision?" Icheoku asks but what about Ogbonna Onovo or even Balogun; since both men were summarily fired without full investigation and conclusive evidence of their culpability established first through similar investigative panel? Icheoku berates this as one heck of a lame argument that flies in the face of history of previous hiring and firings of Nigerian IGPs as well as other top government officials. The then finance minister and now reappointed Finance Minister and alter ego minister Okonjo-Iwealla, was once fired while in a meeting on behalf of the country in New York and even the last Army Chief Dambazzu was summarily fired while on an official visit to New York? So whosoever brains this crap of an excuse is coming from deserves a brain-scan for early signs of amnesia as he or she seems to have forgotten the inglorious exits of past Nigerian top government officials including those of IGP status. 

Such a "fool and bait them" excuse make many decent Nigerians want to lose their minds and Icheoku hereby calls on the incompetent President Good(BAD)luck Jonathan to wake up and smell the coffee before he falls victim to the same conspirators bent on denying his government necessary wings or winds to soar. It is indeed very unfortunate, the circumstance of Nigeria; which have hounded its growth and still hounds it till today - different people wanting and desiring different things in life and varied means to get there. On a hindsight, Icheoku laments If only Dr Nnamdi Azikwe had obliged the Sarduana and let the North wait for their own independence whenever they were ready, may be Nigeria as epileptic as it is today would not have been sired. But going forward, any articulations on how to move Nigeria forward, must decisively deal with its present configuration question, as what is now, seems not to be working and at best struggling for oxygen like an emphysema patient. President Jonathan, just fire the damn IGP Ringim and NOW!

"A WRONG THING IS A WRONG THING" - GOVERNOR ALIYU

"We cannot only depend on prayers without hard work. The ongoing Boko Haram crisis is lingering on because those who should speak out lacks the courage to do so and people can do and say whatever they like without consequences. The spokesman of Boko Haram was arrested and only given three years for misdemeanor when we all know that it is terrorism and then we begin to wonder what is going on. 


“There are also people who said they would make Nigeria ungovernable if they didn't win the presidential election and I don't think anything has been done about that. Someone else took the opportunity of the fuel subsidy removal protests to call for regime change and they are all allowed to walk freely on the streets after their treasonable statements. The problem is that people don't want to tell the truth. If we are all able to come out and handle things the way they should be handled, we would have nipped everything in the bud." - Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State speaking on the fast deteriorating state of Nigeria.


Icheoku says this man has a fan in us as he has consistently rose above board to speak up on matters affecting Nigeria as a threatened entity, principally due to the irascibility of the ever violent and easily provoked Islamic Northern Nigeria; particularly their insurgent Boko Haram. Icheoku says if only all other Northern so called leaders like Danjuma, Gowon, Buhari, Babangida, Useni, Ciroma and of course Atiku could bravely rise up and face down these terrorists in their midst and tell them to back down and back off. What a people that are not deserving of inclusion in the Nigeria experimental geography which makes Gideon Orkar's failed attempt at redressing the problem continually more regrettable.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

HEIDI AND SEAL HEAD TO SPLITSVILLE, SEVEN YEARS AFTER?

Icheoku asks, how is that your marriage especially working out for you as no sooner has the ink on Kobe Bryant and ex-wife's Vanessa's divorce settlement has dried out, news is out that Heidi Klum and "Scarface" husband Seal are no longer an item. What a ruse or should Icheoku say scam that ancient institution is that makes people dependent, afraid, fearful and always on edge. Anyway whatever society may say against being single and free, juxtaposed with the hiccups of married today divorced tomorrow, the certainty of being alone and single appear more palatable option. Anyway, do not see this commentator as anti-marriage or anything like that; but suffice it to say that the headache is simply too much it is not fun. But Heidi and Seal are not saying what it is that finally did it for them; but who cares as the bottom line is that their marriage has also fallen victim to that virus which eats away the institution called marriage. Any solution fellas?

GINGRICH WINS SOUTH CAROLINA, NOMINATION GETS MORE INTRIGUING?

Icheoku says never has the nomination primaries been this interesting as three different candidates have won three different states respectively, thus denying anyone candidate the leading candidate front-runner status. One clear thing to emerge from this topsy-turvy Republican Party's presidential primaries is the obvious rejection of perpetual candidate wanna-be, Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who has severally made a bid for the presidency but have always been stopped at the primaries; thus making him the president no one wants.

Icheoku calls on Mitt Romney to upon failing this year's nomination to quietly coil back into his shell and know that America does not trust him nor his membership of the Mormon cult. This way he can at least save face and apply his energy and whatever resource he has left elsewhere, where they may be needed especially at the Mormon cult or somewhere else in Massachusetts, his home state. So far Rick Santorium have won in Iowa, Mitt Romney in New Hampshire and now Mitt Romney in South Carolina; thus granting the upcoming Florida the noble role of deciding who gets a second state amongst this three collective front-runners. However if Floridians want to throw spanner in the works of the nominating process, they could go ahead to vote for a fourth candidate, may be Ron Paul; and it will become deja vu and a political ala carte for the Republicans.

All things considered, the loser here is Mitt Romney, the man who thought this year's nomination was his to keep, as he once again watch it slip through his very oily and wet spasmodic political fingers. Also the Republicans will be pining away in pain as the stark reality of President Barack Obama second term appears more likely now than ever before and who says the gods are asleep or would allow America return to the sad days of "good ole boys" only politics or governance in Washington. Further Newt Gingrich win was a big blow to ABC Network as their aired rejected wife's diatribe had no effect whatsoever; as Americans are now lethargic and tired of the "angry wives' syndrome" of bring down bolting ex-husband at whatever cost including lies and made up stories or whatever it takes. Or who cares whether a marriage is open or closed; afterall most parties in a marriage of any sort cheat on their spouses anyway. She was even lucky Newt broached the idea of polygamy to her; may be she needs a marriage counsellor from the Middle East or any Muslim country where men can marry as many as four wives or even here at home, if only she had talked to Mitt Romney to get his advise how his Mormon cult navigate the waters of polygamy.

Icheoku says congratulations to Newt Gingrich for clinching the South Carolina primaries against all odds, including the rantings of a jilted ex-wife out to take a pound of flesh on the eve of the election, after ten odd years or thereabout since the marriage crashed and Newt long moved on. Now lets see how Florida sizzles, Go Newt; Go Romney and Go Santorium!

Friday, January 20, 2012

MICHAEL BAXTON, A POLICE CHIEF BUSTED FOR THEFT?

It would appear that the saying 'it takes a thief to catch a thief' is really a truism as the police chief of East St Louis, hired to protect and serve, turned out to be the one society needed to protect itself and property from? The now awaiting trial former chief, Michael Baxton, was busted in a sting operation for stealing game-boxes(four Xbox360 consoles) and now faces about 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines. 

Icheoku says this is what is inherently wrong in some police department hiring a supposedly repentant criminal as a cop thinking that having done his time in a previous crime that he has learnt his lessons. But unbeknownst to them, a leopard does not change its spots as this criminal former police chief who had two prior felony convictions including theft has once again turned to his old ways. Several decades later, he was now using his high office as a police chief to continue his nefarious activities or what Icheoku would term his undercover job as a thief; but good enough he will be going away for a very very long time and being a thieving cop will not help his case? 

Unfortunately, who knows how many innocent victims this bad cop had done in in the past - people who were wrongly framed for crimes they did not commit or pursued by him because they wouldn't play ball by cutting him a piece of their criminal booty pie? Anyway it serves bad cops better to know that once they cross-over to the other side of the law from their "protect and serve" side, the tendency of their being caught is as clear as day and night. They must and should therefore rise above board by avoiding such thieving temptations that come with their job, where they have to daily deal with all manners of criminals and their loot. Icheoku says, it is good to periodically make an example of any bad public servant; moreso a cop who turned out to be a criminal. 

KOBE BRYANT LOSES IT ALL TO EX-WIFE?

Icheoku once again asks, why do it when you know it is going to eventually hurt? While he toiled, the former wife spent lavishly like a drunken sailor - her husband's money that is. Now as if there is no too much hurt already, the divorcing wife have cleaned all that is left of the once great basketball MVP; taking all their three homes including a whopping $75 million in divorce settlement.
Icheoku says give it up to America, the land of women power where a man is literally forced against his will, to labor in vain just for the benefit of a gold-digging wife who knows that the law is so skewered against men and in their favor. Anyway, what can Icheoku say or tell you, except to be smart about it or simply and more bluntly put, DON"T DO IT.

What a sad day it is for Kobe that all he worked for all these years have gone in one fell swoop; but that is exactly what a kiss and tell does to diarrhea-mouth people. The rule of the thumb is, if you must cheat on your wife do not let any ear hear it as words travel and always be guided by the Mafia law of Omerta that two can only keep a secret when one has assumed room temperature.

Just some pieces of advise:- Kobe Bryant should consider moving to Kobe Japan where so many girl-fans still die for him and take one of them for a wife. Icheoku is optimistic they will not take him to the cleaners just for sharing his body with other women of easy virtue, who cared less if he was married or not? Further, Icheoku would like to know why Kobe did not consult Republican Newt Gingrich to advise him on "Open Marriage" or better still, had a present state of mind then during his marriage to have signed a pre-nuptial agreement with his then jobless high-school heart, now ex-wife, Vanessa? What a world we live in and what a good day it is to be a divorcing Bryant Kobe's wife in America!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

IGP RINGIM AND COP ZAKARI BIU, MEMBERS OF BOKO HARAM?

When President Good(BAD)luck Jonathan recently cried out that some of his top officials are members of the Northern Nigeria Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, little did Nigerians know that it will not take long before some of their identities were revealed. Just a few short weeks thereafter, the Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim and his acolyte Commissioner of Police Zakari Biu have been unmasked as possibly active members and/or sympathizers of Boko Haram?

It would appear the duo actively facilitate the ongoing Boko Haram terrorist's bombings in Nigeria and have just staged an escape for their Boko Haram foot-soldier, Kabiru Sokoto, who was in their police custody? Icheoku says it is not surprising, since anyone who knows how down and dirty the Nigeria Police Force is and could be, would be surprised they have not yet quelled the Boko Haram intransigence. But it would seem that Boko Haram had and still have active collaboration at the highest echelon of the Nigerian Police Force; thus making it easy for them to freely operate, killing and maiming innocent Nigerians in the process while the police that is supposed to checkmate them looked the other way on the orders of their big boss.

But Icheoku blames President Jonathan for not summarily meting out to IGP Ringim, the disgraced IGP Balogun treatment of marching him out of the police headquarters in handcuffs, body-chain and/or leg iron. Anyway a weak and toothless bulldog of a president can only make hollow treats and sometimes irk out a faint bark but can never bite. Cry for thy beloved country Nigerians as the man supposedly in charge of national security, the IGP, is somewhat sympathetic and in bed with his supposed worst nightmare, BOKO HARAM. Such an enemy within should be immediately SACKED, FIRED, DISMISSED and/or RETIRED and made to face whatever other punishment his atrocious misbehavior commands. What a pity that a guard employed to guard the barn now facilitates thieves coming and going from the barn; only in Nigeria. Icheoku calls on the weak president to fire and arrest for trial today IGP Hafiz Ringim as well as the suspended Commissioner Zakari Biu for sabotaging his government - a case of TREASONABLE felony may be?

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

IRANIAN ACTIVIST SHOT IN HOUSTON-TEXAS, USA.


Icheoku asks is Iran possibly responding in kind to the alleged CIA mastermind of their nuclear scientists liquidation in Tehran with the latest killing of an Iranian student activist within the soil of the United States of America? Could Tehran be sending a message that not only one country has the ability to penetrate another's country and spill blood of anyone they consider a threat to their national security? Could Tehran have ordered or authorized or approved this murder of an Iranian activist right her in America just to prove a point? Just asking as Icheoku does not know the answer nor in any way seems to suggest anything but just curiously asking some questions; especially coming so close within the last nuclear scientist magnet bomb murder in Tehran and the victim's alleged anti-Tehran related activism? Iranian medical student and activist, Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting as she drove her car through her residential neighborhood in Houston by unknown gunmen. If Tehran is implicated in this murder, then it really marks the beginning of a new escalation in the current face-off between Washington and Tehran over the later's nuclear ambition. Tehran's version or idea of a counter-covert action right inside America, that is too provoking indeed, assuming they did it. Rest in peace Gelareh.

NIGERIA IS FALLING APART, WEIGHED DOWN BY SEVERAL BURDEN

When asked "whether he knew about the level of corruption in Nigeria before initially endorsing removal of fuel subsidy, which he later withdrew, Jeffrey Sachs said: “They didn’t have to tell me." Icheoku says corruption in Nigeria is of a general world-wide knowledge; what a big deficit to the country. Mr Sachs also said: “I’ve noticed how the politicians barely care about the universities. Sad and costly for Nigeria." To this Icheoku adds, most of those politicians are semi-illiterates who loathe education and begrudge educated people as they feel shortchanged by their own lack of education and/or proper education where applicable and do not understand the imperative of good sound education enough as to encourage one. (FYI: Jeffrey Sachs is special advisor to U.N. Secy General Ban-ki Moon on Economic matters)

Monday, January 16, 2012

MAGNET BOMB, A KILLER PACE-MAKER?

A device so little, the size of an average pace-maker or a tin of shoe polish, yet so lethal that its explosion instantly kills the targeted victim. Such is the awesome power of a Magnetic bomb that once nicely placed near the victim and remotely detonated, its consequences is so devastatingly effective in eliminating the victim instantly. It is a well-rounded tool in the arsenal of modern covert operations; dispensing the need of silencer guns or poisoned darts or such other manner of eliminating a target requiring closer proximity that risks exposure and being caught. Who would suspect two innocuous motorcycle riders, riding by without much than a closed fist, of being agent of death? Such is the beauty of this exploding pace-maker and secret agents cannot ask for a better weapon for their dirty-work.

The latest victim of this lethal pace-maker, Iranian Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan (pictured), a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, was murdered when two secret agents on a motorcycle drove near his moving vehicle and affixed the device by his car door. The rest as they say is now history as the fabled scientist now rests permanently in peace or should Icheoku say, in pieces and can no longer continue to be a threat to world peace as an asset to the Iranian nuclear weapons pursuit program. Although to the Iranian State, he might be a hero having lost his life in service of their nation, but to his family and friends, his death was avoidable and should have been avoided if only Iran was reasonable enough not to continue on the current trajectory where their action is infuriating the entire world. Icheoku asks what is the rationale of Iran developing or trying to develop a weapon that they can never deploy or use, since its deterrent is tantamount to the cessation of Iranian existence as a civilization? Which leader wishes his people a near complete annihilation, one may ask; being the consequence of Iran ever dropping the bomb anywhere including Israel or wherever, should they acquire it.

Icheoku's interest in magnetic bomb stems from the fact of its very miniaturized size and its devastating efficacy and efficiency; such that the several times it were deployed by successfully attaching it within the parameters of intended targets, that several times have the result been so devastating that such victims literally did not know what hit them or the vehicle that transported them outside this planet. It is the stuff science fictions are made of as made popular by James Bond 007 and Star wars; admitted that the world have seen cigar-bombs that explode upon lighting it, lipstick poison, etc but this magnetic bomb makes it very unsafe for any wanted or known enemy of any powerful government as his/her elimination is a matter of gathering a concise habitual data with a view to assessing the best way to get the bomb attached close enough for it to do its damage. Who knows what other gizmo is out there in the arsenal of these world powers and waiting to be revealed just like the other terrorist-nightmare, drones, which have turned every terrorist the world-over into restless nomads, just to avoid being incinerated  and vaporized from the sky within milliseconds of their target acquisition.

The latest Iranian victim of magnetic bomb, the fifth so far,  will definitely not be the last as the country's nuclear quest is still ongoing and many countries of the world want it stopped and will continue to do whatever is within their powers short of outright declaration of war, to in the interim sabotage or frustrate it. As usual in clandestine covert operations, the suspect countries or countries that has reason to kill the scientist have categorically denied their involvement with the murder. The other question rearing its head now is whether it is still cool to be a nuclear scientist in Iran or in any way trying to assist the government of Iran with its program when you know that you will be definitely targeted for elimination by agents acting under the cover and cloak of invisibility.  According to one analyst, "the ongoing series of assassinations in Tehran traffic strips key brainpower from Iran’s nuclear program, spreads fear among scientists, and undermines the security services, which seem unable to prevent the attacks;" and Icheoku adds palpable fear is one heck of a cloud to hang over a country or community of persons and bodes Iran no good. The only meaningful solution for Tehran, before the crisis escalates to shooting conflict, is to come to terms with the reality facing it - that on no account would the world stand by and watch it acquire nuclear weapons and so should do the realistic thing by verifiably abandoning the program. Anything short of this will only hurt the Iranian people either by procedural elimination of their best brains in their nuclear industry and the eventual collateral damage that will be caused its infrastructure and population when a retaliatory strikes take place following a declaration of war, likely coming very soon and may be before summer. However the dog the gods want to kill, they first make deaf, dumb and then mad so that they are not amenable to reason or thinking; otherwise Iran at this juncture should make a b-line retreat from a cause that can only spell disaster for the country. 

Finally, Icheoku says, realistically speaking, Iran can never win a shooting war against vested countries who would be coming with vengeance dating way back to the Embassy hostage taking as well as Iranian interference in the Hezbollah and Hamas nuisance in the Middle East to the bombing of the Marines Kobah Tower in Saudi Arabia as well as their most recent meddlesome interference in Iraq. Icheoku says a clever Iran should know when to beat a retreat and NOW is the time because once the first cannon of real war is fired, there will be no more discussions short of total surrender and on terms to be spelled out by the invading forces including regime change and eventual trial of the principals of the Tehran government and their forgone guilty verdicts and executions by hanging. A smart Iran should and MUST beat a retreat now before they cross the final rubbicon into fireball hostilities which one does not need a soothsayer to know that the hour is drawing near very closely. If Iran could not decisively defeat Iraq during their only known warfare in recent history, what makes Tehran think that when faced with the most fearsome awesome military and its allies known to the world, that it stands a chance? Worst still Russia and China will cleverly avoid direct confrontation and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is too cunning to place a cross-hair on his forehead by openly declaring support for Tehran. So what are the aces not known to Icheoku; so could Tehran or someone more informed with Iranian game-plan please throw more lights.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

HAPPY B-DAY MLK


For your audacious sacrifice we are here today sharing the same space with them - "the they and that ones" of America. Before there were them only restrooms, them only restaurants, them only schools, them only buses and when allowed on board confined to the back seats until Rosa Park said enough, them only living neighborhoods, them only jobs, them only taxi-cabs etc. Things are definitely better now, admitted a lot still needs to be done. Anyway, we are still hanging in there waiting for another in your mold to lead the march to the full final and complete integration of America, where content of character and not the skin pigmentation really dictates things. Be that as it may, Icheoku wishes you happy posthumous 83rd anniversary! Your dream lives on MLK.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

TERRENCE HOWARD, WHEN LOVE FLIES OUT THE WINDOW?

TERRENCE HOWARD, WHEN LOVE FLIES OUT THE WINDOW? 

Icheoku says if you think your divorce was bad, imagine what forced actor Terrence Howard to write this email to his estranged wife Michelle Grant-Howard. According to the said email, Terrence wrote:- "Satan is taunting me and there is no rest for my mind. So I beg you not to exercise the right that you have, divorce me and do what you wish but do not crush my families. I can’t promise how I will respond. In Jesus’ name I am praying.” 

Icheoku says she must have pushed some very raw buttons to make this man pray that he does not know how he will react should she cross the final line by attacking his family. The solution is simple, just avoid the headache in the first place, don't do it. Marriage is so yesterday; moreso it is not a crime to be single. Although being sad and lonely are absolutely additional choices for you to make. 1/14/12

Friday, January 13, 2012

FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL, NOT THIS TIME JONATHAN..

Icheoku says President Good(BAD)luck Jonathan has defied analysis and only himself and/or his wife Patience are possibly capable of grasping the workings of his inner mind. A president who has not deemed it fit just yet to fire a none performing Inspector General of Police Ringim over the scourge of Boko Haram but who did not waste time in showing the previous IGP Ogbonna Onovo the door out just because of prevalence of kidnappers. Now the same president, despite the advise of his political godfather Obasanjo, has obstinately removed fuel subsidy without even having the decency of keeping the fate with the Nigerian people whom he had promised an April date for the removal. Icheoku queries, how can the Nigerian people be expected to still trust a president who says one thing and does another? As for Icheoku, we were never sold his candidacy like many gullible Nigerians; so technically, we have no sleep to loose over his blatant failure to lead; especially his lack of will to do the heavy lifting necessary to move the country forward.

Removal of fuel subsidy now, despite the best of intentions, does not seem to be the appropriate thing to do at this moment of great tension in the land. As a popular Igbo proverb says, the puppy which the gods want to kill, he first make it mad; so it would seem that a man who is chasing rats while his house is on fire has some loose joints upstairs that needs tightening or tying together. A country already clinging on the cliff due to the murderous activities of Northern Nigerian Islamic Terrorist group Boko Haram, needs no further provocative gasoline being poured on it. But an aloof and somewhat timid President Jonathan seems too far gone in lalaland to appreciate the magnitude of the doodle he and the country is mired in, hence the craving for yet another tinder. It is not wise, it is not smart and it is not intelligent to remove at this time, fuel subsidy; and if it must, then as Asiwaju Bola Tinubu articulated, it must be in a piece meal fashion and not in one helluva-bang style as the present. The masses, whose 18000Naira minimum wage are yet to be paid timely and in full are now being tasked with additional burden of expenses across the board. It is inhuman, harsh and irreconcilable with the "breath of fresh air" promised them by the president. Even in the United States, a bastion of everything capitalism, there is so many subsidies to make it livable for the downtrodden including agricultural subsidy, fuel subsidy, education subsidy, health-care subsidy as well as social security subsidy; so Icheoku is at a loss when the Nigerian government of President Jonathan decided to say to Nigerian masses, "you are on your own" and squeezed their belt much more tighter with the current subsidy removal.

In summation, Icheoku says the most militating problem now in Nigeria is BOKO HARAM and the president's attention and effort should be 1000% devoted and focused like laser thereat and nothing more including the present distracting fuel subsidy question. Seek ye first the kingdom and the rest shall be added unto thee' - so says the Lord and Icheoku does not expect any less from the president regarding the menace Boko Haram in setting up his priorities. Thereafter, let Nigerians decide the question of fuel subsidy and the manner of implementing it whether by increment or in one fell swoop. However, Icheoku still maintains that the principal problem facing President Jonathan is that he was not prepared for the job he is currently saddled with; hence had no clue what he is doing or the road-map to get him to any meaningful destination. Like a plague afflicting Nigeria, President Jonathan is yet another one of those reluctant president who was plucked away from his natural habitat, the academia, his perfect natural fit and mentored against his will to the presidency. If resignation was in the dictionary of Nigerian politicians, may be Icheoku would have added its voice to the growing legion of people asking the president to consider the option of stepping aside; but no such thinking ever cross their minds, so there is no need throwing that lifeline at his doorsteps. The Federal government should therefore and urgently reverse itself on the question of fuel subsidy and if it must. may be at a later date and gradually implemented and not otherwise. 

MITT ROMNEY, A VULTURE CAPITALIST?

MITT ROMNEY, A VULTURE CAPITALIST? Employees beware, Mitt Romney is going to take your jobs! Pictures don't lie and what a perfect coincidence this picture is that depicts Mitt Romney, despite the sign "Employees only..," still rushing in to get hold of your jobs? Records are kept for a reason and Mitt Romney's Bain Capital records are there for you to decide what manner of anti-workers president he is going to be. Were Icheoku an employee or a working class American of any sort, the name Mitt Romney as president would be sending jitters down our spine. The reason being Mitt Romney's hatred and disdain towards people who earn living wages. Such is his notoriety for firing workers that even his Republican colleagues have described him as a "VULTURE"; equating his brand of capitalism as "vulture capitalism." 

According to them, Mitt Romney is not a job creator but a corporate raider who drives joy in taking over distressed companies and making a mince-meat out of their employees by handing them pink-slips in hundreds of thousands. Describing Mitt Romney, they said, "Like a vulture, he hunted for vulnerable companies. He took them over, loaded them with debt and collected whopping fees. He cut costs and cut jobs, and picked at the remains." In other words, they said Mitt Romney is involved in "vulture capitalism." 

Icheoku now adds, to before warned is to avoid being harmed America; so you have been put on notice what awaits every average-Joe and Jane American who works for a living under a Mitt Romney's "presidency" - your job is over. Mitt Romney will take your company apart and with it goes your job. Peradventure only an insane person sees an approaching freight train and not run for his dear life. So Mitt Romney is not good for your job security, if you still love your job, SAY NO TO MITT ROMNEY. 

MITT ROMNEY IS A MORMON, A CULTIST?

MITT ROMNEY IS A MORMON, A CULTIST? Icheoku does not have any beef with this sign or the innocent child-victim made to hold a sign he neither wrote nor is able to read or comprehend. However, the words "Mormons rocks" seems to stoke religious bigotry and the last time Icheoku checked, the Southern Baptist Christians declared Mormon a CULT and who wants to be held under a spell of a cultic president? Definitely not Icheoku nor any other sane American. America is still a Christian country and cannot and should not be subjugated under a president who is not a Christian, quoting the Southern Baptists who declared Mormon a cult. Therefore, say no to a Cult, reject Mitt Romney for president. America could use Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry or even Rick Santorum who are all Christians so why settle for a non-Christian Mormon, Icheoku may ask? Just say NO to a CULT, say No to MITT ROMNEY. 1/13/12