THE THRILL IS GONE, BB KING DEAD AT 89.

Icheoku says it now appears to be the season of transition for the best of the best in American soul and rhythm and blues as few weeks ago saw Ben E King also gone. Icheoku says RIP King of blues, BB King, adieu.

BEYONCE, PLEASE THAT WAS SO TRASHY AND TOO SLUTTY?

Icheoku asks what was Beyonce Knowles Carter smoking or trying to achieve, appearing in a public event, the May 2nd Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao fight, in this outfit? What indeed was her 'mission-accomplished' here, loosely baring her mammary glands in this manner for the ogling world to peep at? Was she trying to convince the world that she is a woman and has two breasts, which no one in the world ever knew prior to this tasteless expose`? Was she trying to make a statement that she can dare and is shameless, by baring her breasts for the feasting eyes of oglers? A little showing of cleavage is usually tasteful in women's fashion, but this unchaste dressing was rather classless and a very poor fashion statement; especially coming from the adorable Queen-Bey, a role model of so many young girls and someone who is well liked and admired across the board. 

Icheoku berates that there is nothing daring or classy in such a cheaply display. Such stripe-tease fashion is not for her kind but is reserved for cheap slutty strippers and wannabes,  who  usually bare it all for mere dollar bills. Stripping or completely going Adam is not particularly a big deal anymore, especially in America, where in places like San Francisco, California, women of all sizes and shapes and ages are often seen striding the streets butt naked, in their rueful reminiscence and deja vu of a life that was once, inside the biblical story of Garden of Eden. So what is there to prove or show by a hitherto Icheoku's respected and admired songstress, so cheaply and deliberately, sufficiently baring BlueIvy's milk source for the whole world to feed their imagination on? 

Icheoku does not know about Jay-z, but says if this is the price he has to pay and is now forced to pay just to be still married to Beyonce, may be it is about time he mans up and exercises other option that may be available to him under the circumstance. How can any respectable and responsible woman, wife and mother and Beyonce for that matter,  unabashedly be so scantily clad and go to a public event and it was expected to be okay for Jay-z to acquiesce and accommodate? Icheoku maintains that the difference between women of easy virtue and respectable ladies is usually in their mannerisms; including respectfully presenting themselves in a manner that does not suggest otherwise or that they are readily, cheaply available for the asking of the highest bidder. Decent ladies have some value-added to their being and should therefore always respectfully carry themselves in order to command the respect and admiration of the public. 

Everyone knows that there are usually two breasts on every woman's chest, whether flat or pointy, so what is the intended objective of Beyonce exposing hers? Does she think that her sexiness or attractiveness will increase quadruple-fold with her exposed two breasts? For whose benefit actually did she expose her breasts as that cannot be Jay-z's, certainly? But unbeknownst to Beyonce, Cher and J-Lo; and all those lousy women who over-expose themselves in the name of sexiness, men generally die for those things that are hard to see, get, reach, touch and feel in women; but not necessarily those readily available or which are too easy to touch or often seen and which by necessary implication of being so over-exposed, has now lost their rare value quality. Sexuality and sexiness is better left for the imagination, imagining the possible and how those covered things will indeed actually look and feel like if ever privileged to unravel them. 

The trip rather than the destination is usually the thing that does it in an experience. Real men love the journey that led to the destination more than the few minutes final rendezvous. So Beyonce why did you show your cans? Icheoku is particularly pissed off because Beyonce is one of the few artists we admire, not necessarily because she is pretty, nope; but because she has respectful carried herself well as both a wife, mother and business woman and without much of a scandal. Icheoku has equally paid handsomely to see her perform live in concerts twice too; so when Icheoku says this outfit is tacky, Icheoku means every word of it. Hopefully, it will not lead to a personal boycott of her future concerts as well as music in protest. 

Icheoku has nothing against any single woman being overtly and loudly expressive with her fashion or in any other way as she may deem fit, but takes strong exception in a married woman acting so whacko and out of control. Such a married woman should take into cognizance that a man is presently in the picture and if a Beyonce, ask herself what would be her reaction or what would Beyonce do had it been Jay-z that so exposed his private in this manner? It is not a question of 'can do', but the sensibilities involved in the display. She did not care nor consider the feelings of her husband, regardless that he kept quiet, while pretending it was okay to share his privileged possessions with the world. 

Icheoku says Beyonce, please do not emulate J-Lo or are you still wondering why Ben Affleck's mother rejected her as a daughter in law. We are all human beings and desire and deserve to be accommodated in our partner's life as well as decisions, otherwise what beneficiary use or advantage then do we have by having them. So Beyonce must be mindful that Jay-z like every other man hurts in such circumstances but might be too afraid to provoke her wrath and decided to keep quiet. Some little fan-pleasing tease is okay while performing concerts, but it is not okay to make it a habit or bashfully take it to the next level. Please keep those privates, private; and let Jayz and BlueIvy enjoy their exclusive privilege of seeing your inner recesses alone, having got you as their own woman. 

The true test of strength is in restraint; the ability to hold back when others are dumping in. It is not in doing those things which can be done or simply because one can. The ability to wield the big stick and not use it is the real test of valor not unnecessary braggadocio. No matter what any man might say to any woman, possibly to make her head swell or get her into the sac, majority of real men for most part, prefer somewhat  conservative women, the kind you take home to mom; not the Jennifer Lopez type. Men like respectable women who eat and wipe their mouth, but not those who carry their liaisons publicly like a badge of honor. It is a given that most adults do stuff, but there is no proof; so why shout yours from the roof top? Icheoku adds that it is always better for women to leave people guessing and their imagination running wild about what those nice designer clothes are shielding behind them and thus giving the lucky beneficiary, the bragging right that it is his exclusive right or rather privilege to access. In this way, the woman's  value-added quality will remain intact and her mystery, deepens as well.

AMTRAK TRAIN NO 188 CRASH, HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW?

Icheoku says once again humanity is called to indeed question our very existence on this planet earth, why are we really here? What use is life if it is this ephemeral and some people still live it as if they have control over it? Imagine people who bade their loved ones as well as colleagues goodbyes only to never make it to their destination or back to them and apparently due to  no fault of theirs. It marvels Icheoku and should every man and woman of reason, that our life here on earth is so temporary and could be over in such a splitting second, irrespective of how careful we think we are or how protective we think we are and how shielded from harm we arrogantly believe we are? 

Query:- what did the seven now confirmed dead passengers of the New York bound Amtrak Northeast Regional Train No 188 from Washington DC do to deserve or bring about their sudden exit from this earth, except to pay their fare and board a regular train as they and millions of other passengers normally do, but never to make it to their destination. The word "raptured" as found in the Biblical book of Revelation indeed came alive as it appertain to this seven now confirmed dead. The train derailed and crashed enroute to New York city somewhere near Philadelphia, with over two hundred passengers on board and a crew of five.

The train engineer, Brandon Bostian of Queens New York, luckily survived the crash and will greatly assist with the investigation and help throw more light into what caused the accident? Americans will like to know why the train under his control was going above one hundred miles per hour in a fifty mile per hour zone curvature track and whether other additional safety equipments like sound alarm and flashing lights to warn about excessive speed did not work or were simply ignored, assuming he was attentive and not distracted by either texting or phone conversation or even the presence of a physical person with him in the engine room. Recall that some years ago, a commuter plane crashed into buildings in upstate New York because of a distracted pilot who was making out with a female companion killing all on board. According to the NTSB official leading the investigation into the accident, Robert Sumwalt,  'onboard positive train control system which dictates and slows trains around curves could have prevented the accident', so it now begs the question  why did it not function as expected? May the souls of the departed now rest and may the investigation yield some positive results towards preventing future repeat occurrence.

NORTH KOREA DEFENSE CHIEF, EXECUTED FOR PUBLIC SLEEPING?

Icheoku says peradventure Nigeria's Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, is indeed lucky to be living in Nigerian and not in North Korea; otherwise the notoriously sleepy government senior official would have since been gone, obliterated with an anti-aircraft missile because of his sleepiness? That was the fate suffered by North Korea's defense minister, Hyon Yong-Choi, who was executed for "disrespectfully" sleeping in an event wherein the North Korea leader Kim Jong Un attended. Icheoku says to all those Nigerians who do not cherish the freedom festooned on the country by the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan, may be they should  consider relocating to Pyongyang so that they can have a taste of what living in a gulag really is like. Imagine executing such a high level government official simply for falling asleep while the leader spoke? 

Thankfully Icheoku understands what living freely feels like and does not joke with it; hence sympathizes with the remaining officials and people under chains in North Korea for the fate which befell them when this bloody-thirsty mongrel ascended to power. A lunatic midget, suffering the Bonaparte syndrome and who is now finding so much fun in killing his own people, including government officials, one official at a time, every week. Worse still, officials cannot and are not allowed to even resign if they wanted and must hang in there until it is their turn to face the music. Recall that the leader had previously fed his own uncle Jang Song Thaek to a pack of starving wild dogs, which tore him to pieces and ate him for dinner, simply for alleged disloyalty and planned overthrow of his government. And when his auntie, the devoured uncle's wife, Kim Kyong Hu complained, he had her tea laced with cyanide and summarily dispatched her to go join her late husband. 

Icheoku says when Nigerians thought that they saw it all with IBB cruelty and believed that the evil genius Ibrahim Babangida was too maniacal for killing Gideon Orkar and fellow coup plotters with sticks of dynamite; this North Korean leader appears to have outdone IBB by using an anti-aircraft missile to completely obliterate an ordinary human being in this manner. What a country under chains, with a very bloody beast as its leader; a leader who is now devouring his own people and in this twenty first century world while a stupefied world stands by and helplessly watches. Indeed, very pitiful.

TEMITOPE ADEBAMIRO, ANOTHER NIGERIAN WIFE KILLS HER HUSBAND IN USA?

Icheoku says it has happened again, the continuing shedding of spousal blood by Nigerians living in the United States of America. This time, in Vice President Joe Biden's home state of Delaware, a Nigerian wife and mother of two, stabbed her sleeping Nigerian husband to death; using a kitchen knife,  severing his carotid artery and jugular vein. According to the story, the couple were having a long-running domestic dispute, which led to the husband moving out of the couple's master's bedroom upstairs and moved into the visitor's spare bedroom downstairs, where he has been sleeping alone for quite some time. On this faithful night, following another episode of their now regular nightly fights, the husband retired for the evening in his new sleeping quarters; but unbeknownst to him, his wife was not finished just yet with him. While the traumatized and frightened husband was sleeping, his death-merchant wife from hell kneed open his locked door open and savagely stabbed the husband to death. The husband bled like the fountain of Pompeii and Julius Caesar to his death, while the wife waited before calling 911. 

Temitope Adebamiro, 35 years old Yoruba Nigerian killed her husband Adeyinka Adebamiro, 37 years old, also Yoruba Nigerian on April 27, 2015. The couple have two children. The wife from hell has been indicted for first degree murder and if convicted, faces a death penalty or an automatic sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or any type of early release. This means that barring any attenuating circumstances to mitigate the charge or in some way exculpate the accused and save her from being convicted, her life as she knows it is finished and over. It is either she is executed or she dies in prison, but there is no middle ground of her ever walking free again. 

Icheoku rejects as pathetic, the necessary implication from her statements so far, that her husband's abuse and cheating forced her hand because she had the option of walking away, including divorcing him. But she didn't; instead, she meticulously planned his death and then waylaid him while asleep and viciously carved him up, slitting his throat to ensure that he died; and then waited until he bled out before calling 911. The sleeping husband never had a fighting chance but was brutally murdered in cold blood while in in dreamland, probably dreaming about a beautiful reconciliation with his estranged wife now turned husband killer-wife? His dream that the demon which possessed his wife would let go and set her free turned into his worst nightmare from which he never had a break or escape by waking up. The man is now dead, killed with a kitchen knife, by a very wicked killer-wife, whom he ushered into his home in marriage and whom he had planned to spend the rest of his life with. Worse still, the couple come from Yoruba Southwestern Nigeria, where culturally, men are allowed to indulge themselves and often times could even take extra wives, if they so desire. So what otherwise is this Jezebel arguing, assuming her late husband indeed cheated on her? Is taking his life and in this very violent manner her most viable option in the circumstance?

Icheoku is emphatic that this is not a case where provocation will come readily or handy to the aid of this husband-killer. She had a long cooling time of over six months since the alleged cheating took place and several years since the alleged abuse took place, when she was pregnant, so what is she talking about now? Icheoku says it does not even help her case that she is a very poor liar, who has told several versions of the event leading to her husband being killed; and such a lying scumbag does not usually receive favorable disposition of the jury. Imagine a venerate liar, forgetting that she lives in the United States of America and not Nigeria, where chronic NEPA (PHCN) problem had persisted, lying about a power outage in their home during the murder of her husband? But unfortunately, for her, she forgot that there is something called records and that computers track such power outages and there was none shown contemporaneous to the time of the murder or any other time around it, either before or soon after around their neighborhood. 

Anyway, Icheoku has nothing to add at this time, but laments the near total collapse of family structures among Nigerians in diaspora by reason of obnoxious spouses who have forgotten the culture that raised them and instead are emulating white peoples dysfunctional family units, leading to all these heinous spousal killings. Please Nigerians, enough of these spousal killings as it is alien to the culture from which you came. May the soul of Adeyinka Adebamiro now rest and may the killer-wife receive the justice which she denied her husband. Nothing ever justifies taking the laws into anyone's hand especially when such leads to the taking of another's life. What a shame to motherhood; what a shame to wifehood and what a shame to Nigerians in Diaspora. It is sad and sadder that it is becoming more recurrent and more vicious. As at today, Icheoku has recorded about one hundred of such killing by Nigerian spouses of their spouses. What a shame.

LOST ELECTION 2015, PDP NEEDS TO MAN UP AND QUIT WHINING.

Icheoku has listened to the so many cry-baby tantrums being thrown around by the PDP over their loss of the presidency, in particular, in the last election. Some of them even pointed accusing fingers at the First Lady Dame Patience as well as Ekiti State's Governor Fayose and campaign spokesman Femi Fani Kayode as the reason why the North voted for Buhari instead of their candidate Jonathan? Some of them are also blaming their party Chairman Adamu Mu'azu as the culprit, who allegedly sold the party's chances to the APC; while many others are blaming the overall lackluster manner the campaign of the president was prosecuted. Icheoku says regardless, none of these by themselves, individually or even collectively, would have saved the day and thwarted the change that took place. 

Whatever Dame Patience said or did not say about Muhammadu Buhari being brain-dead or that the North are not taking care of their children like the South do, resulting to the plague that is almajiris infestation in their region, did not cost her husband, President Jonathan, a single vote; and neither did Governor Fayose and Femi Fani Kayode feistiness and energetic campaign took any votes away from the president. Similarly too, PDP Chairman Mu'Azu could not have sold a whole political party or their voting public to the APC as this is not only impossible but practically untenable. Icheoku demurs that whatever any of these people did or said was not enough nor sufficient to and did not change any voter's mind in the election. It is Nigeria, and voting patterns as well as political alignments are very peculiar and not easily persuaded otherwise by campaign talks. Icheoku maintains that practically every voter in Nigeria had his or her mind made up long time ago and before the election campaigns fully started. The reelection bid was therefore lost a very long time ago, as Icheoku will soon publish; so whatever excuses or blame game being played now is but the proverbial drowning man catching straws or rather drowned man with clutched straws sill in his rigor-mortised fingers.

The fact of the matter is that Nigerians bought into the thundering campaign for change and went for change and voted for change. As Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II succinctly encapsulated, the mood in the country was for change and change took place, period. Change was in the air and it saturated the air; and every discerning observer, especially those without a dog in the fight, saw it coming - an inevitable and it came to pass as expected. Admitted that certain things that could have been done to starve it off were not done or the party failed to recognize them as necessary until it was already too late. 

Few days ago, Icheoku read the take of Abubakar Tsav on the last election vAccording to Mr Abubakar Tsav, Nigerians did not vote particularly for the APC but voted for Muhammadu Buhari. Continuing, he said that the APC would have not won but would have been resoundingly defeated by the PDP had they fielded another candidate other than Muhammadu Buhari. Icheoku agrees that it was a special kind of symbiotic relationship victory where the monk somehow made the hood and the hood also helped to identify the monk. It was a case where all the good winds came together to help the sail. But overall, as Tsav posited, it is arguable that without Muhammadu Buhari flying the APC presidential flag, the APC might not have been successful at the polls. But then, if that were the case, why did the same Muhammadu Buhari not successful in his other three previous presidential runs one might equally argue? So the more plausible argument seem to be that all the constellation came together in agreement that Muhammadu Buhari will be the symbol of the change Nigerians craved for and got and now waiting fervently for its abundant promises to become fulfilled. The tenacity of Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu as well as other conspiracies that came together to achieve their purpose, including the uncommon sacrifice of the God-fearing President Jonathan, who did not want to shed the blood of any Nigerian over an election, all played their respective roles in ushering in a President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. But for this lining up of the ducks, there would have been no President-elect Muhammadu Buhari waiting to be sworn in on May 29 or worse still, no Nigeria still standing as a country? 

Icheoku agrees that while the Buhari factor played a pivotal role in the election outcome, but the sacrifice of President Jonathan was most important and soars above all or any other contributing factor. The president, for the good of greater Nigeria, willingly ponied up his second term presidency as no other president, including the Ota deity, would have readily done. Baba Iyabo for instance would  have rather the country went down in flames than give up such a chance at his second term. Ditto Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha who summarily executed people for allegedly planning coup to subvert and remove them from power? Icheoku is emphatic that never in the history of Nigeria has JFK's plea to Americans, " think not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" resonated as a great truism than in the sacrificed second term presidency by President Jonathan. Icheoku strongly believes that someday, may be in no distant future, Nigerians will come around to show their gratitude and be thankful as well as appreciative of the magnanimity of President Jonathan that saw to Nigeria being more peaceful today than it was in the months leading up to the election. It is called sacrifice and it is a selfless act, akin to Jesus Christ's laying down his life on the cross that mankind might be saved from eternal damnation. President Jonathan saved Nigeria.

So, aligning self with Abubakar Tsav, Icheoku calls on the PDP to not despair so much or plunge themselves into a comatose shock as David Mark observed, but to see the shift in power as necessitated by series of events beyond anyone's single control. Their loss of the presidency will not be the first time ever in recorded history where a political party lost the presidency. America's Democratic Party's Jimmy Carter did in 1980 and so also was Republican Party's Bush Snr in 1992 and closer home in Ghana in 2008 when New Patriotic Party's Nana Akuffor-Addo lost to National Democratic Congress's Attah Mills. Even in Mexico in 2000 where the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) achieved and surpassed the PDP's dream of ruling for sixty years, with their seventy one year reign, a time once also came for them to be out of power and they were voted out. It all goes to show that every dynasty has a life span and never lasts forever; and so is now the PDP of Nigeria voted out of power in 2015 after a sixteen years uninterrupted hold unto power. 

What happened was meant to happen and it happened as was destined. The PDP members must now accept their fate of being the new opposition party and then move on along that line. The good news however is that because  Muhammadu Buhari was the "it-factor" in this election, without whom the APC would not have "won' the election, the chances of the PDP rebounding back shortly is very bright. So once Muhammadu Buhari is no longer in the picture, either by completing his term/s in office or is called back home by his maker, which ever one comes first, a well repositioned PDP can easily bounce back to power, bigger, better and even badder. So Icheoku says to PDP to please stop all these whining and lamentations of Gomorrah and blame game going around. The PDP members should stop this frantic running around like a headless chicken and as if the world has come to an end, in their vain effort to explain away what happened. It was nobody's fault and rather everybody's fault. Instead, the PDP should start reorganizing and strategizing for their future and that future could be as so near as 2019. Salute!

TELEPHONE NUMBER 647.360.4442, BEWARE OF INDIAN SCAMMERS!

Icheoku says the Indians are back and this time instead of the IRS scam are busy hijacking Safari (Mac Internet) and will force you to call this number 647.360.4442 and then remotely take over your computer until they fleece you of information including password, bank accounts, your online shopping pattern etc. If your computer is similarly hijacked or frozen, do not panic, just force quit Safari and thereafter, holding down the shift key, click on Safari icon below and you will be back up and running again. But please this is their latest scam as the curry people are now up to no good with their knowledge of the virtual world. The telephone number is traceable to Ontario Canada but is possibly out of Banglore, India using a reverse calling feature that pings it in Canada. Icheoku was a victim for some minutes before sensing danger and then plugging all systems out of power main; then googled the number only to see that they have been flagged as bad for you. BEWARE THE INDIANS ARE HERE TO SCAM YOU.

OBASANJO'S MISTRESS COMES CLEAN, SAYS 'WE ARE DOING MONEY LAUNDERING TOO?'

Icheoku says while the UGLY Oby Ezekwesili was busy defending her sugar daddy cum biological father (incestuous) of corruption, his other woman has gone to town with story of her escapades with the Ota deity. According to Anne Welsh, she did so many bad things with Baba Iyabo and your guess is as good as Icheoku's as to the necessary innuendo that got her making 900,000 dollars commission off just one transaction facilitated by their relationship. In her own words, Anne Welsh said of her relationship with Obasanjo "We did so much secret things together". So now go figure!

"WE DID SO MUCH SECRET THINGS TOGETHER" - ANNE WELSH.

Icheoku says it appears that Baba Iyabo does not consider or see money laundering as corruption, otherwise why does he always say that he is not corrupt when he is involved in this large scale of money laundering operations? May be he is in denial but the whole world see differently and they see a very corrupt man, Olusegun Obasanjo. Now his chief money laundering officer and mistress, Anne Welsh, has come clean and let the cat out of the bag, saying that she and Obasanjo did a lot of secret bad things together? So Olusegun Obasanjo, Icheoku asks, what are those secret things you did with Anne Welsh?

THE BALTIMORE SIX KILLER-COPS, CHARGED.

 

Icheoku says behold the six police officers now indicted for the killing of Freddie Gray. Pictured are Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr., Officer Edward M. Nero, Officer Garrett E Miller (top L-R), Officer William G. Porter, Lt. Brian W. Rice, Sgt. Alicia D. White (bottom L-R). Icheoku says hopefully, they might, if convicted, be made an example of and serve as the beginning of the end of police brutality in America. A matter made worse because some of them are even black Americans and have no scruples victimizing one of their own. What two Uncle Toms and one Auntie Sarah of the Baltimore police department these African American cops are that helped dispatch one of their kind to the great beyond. What a shame!

CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH DIANA, WHAT IS IN A NAME?

Icheoku says not when it saved the day and prevented the proverbial cat fight that would have seen three opposing interests clawing themselves bloody in their attempt to keep their names in the fore. There is Princess Kate Middleton who wanted a name to reflect her family through a sister named Charlotte; there is Prince William who wanted a name to reflect his own late mother Princess Di and of course the matriarch of the family and Queen of England, Elizabeth, the queen who must be obeyed and who wanted her great grand daughter to carry the torch of her name. Brilliantly, a clever way of accommodating these disparate interests was devised, hence a three names bearing princess and the future Queen of England, the fourth in the line of succession. Icheoku wonders if Camille made a fuss about adding her own name to her step grand daughter' many names too? Anyway, all hail to Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, the latest addition to the family of Prince William and Duchess Kate. May the princess and future possible queen of England live long and thrive, now you know why names matter. 

TERROR STRIKES TEXAS, WHEN THE TWO SEAS ARE NOT ENOUGH?

Icheoku says the sea to the shinning sea did not once again provide buffer to America as two terrorists struck in Texas, although unsuccessfully. But unfortunately for both terrorists, they messed with a wrong state and only if they had heard the phrase 'don't mess with Texan.' Both munchkins were dispatched on a speedy express to go meet with their seventy virgins by a watchful marksman and for this bravery, the untold terror they had planned was nipped in the bud, with them being the only casualty of the attack. It appears that both seas protects only against terror from overseas but never home-grown domestic terrorism or one carried out internally such as Osama Bin Laden's World Trades Center's 9/11 attack, Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing as well as this Garland's free speech event attack. However, Icheoku says thank you officer for saving the day and again for denying these animals another recruiting propaganda tool. Imagine what would have happened had they succeeded in muzzling free speech right inside here in America, the bastion of free speech? Luckily they were no match to the skills of the highly trained traffic officer who put a stop to their maniacal escapade. 

Terrorists Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi (first and second respectively pictured below) tried storming a free speech event organized by Pam Geller, featuring Islamic Prophet Mohammed cartoons, inside Curtis Culwell Center in Garland Texas, a suburb of Dallas. They were dressed in armored, armed with assault rifles and explosives but were stopped cold from reaching their target by an eagle-eyed off duty officer moonlighting as a guard. There is no authoritative information however whether their main target was the wider audience or a Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, already on Al Queida most wanted list of infidels who was billed to speak at the event. But thankfully, it ended well as the two anarchists became the only victims of their own device. Icheoku says how does anyone protect against an enemy within their midst but through prayers and eternal vigilance. 

With the terror in Texas, vigilance now becomes more heightened since many of these terrorists are already here, simply laying low and waiting for the appropriate time to crawl out of their terror-planning holes to cause mayhem. Icheoku says to these fanatics, why not let your prophet Mohammed fight his own battles, if he cares; afterall Jesus Christ as well as Buddha and other gods and goddesses of African traditional religions are always written about all the time without such incendiary reaction from their faithfuls. So why must it be only Muslims that must kill and maim people just because their prophet was talked about? Icheoku says these people need to wake up and realize that this is now twenty first century and not the last millennium or those ancient times when fables are told to timid souls, who believing same, go about fighting stupid wars based on faith. Icheoku borrowing Rodney King's words, says, please can we all just get along, religion or no religion!

BOXING BATTLE OF SUPREMACY, MAYWEATHER WINS.

Icheoku says the fight billed as the baddest and most expensive is now decided and the winner is Floyd Mayweather with unanimous decision after twelve rounds, dueling with Manny Pacquiao. Icheoku says congratulations.

AMERICAN PHAROAH WINS DERBY.

Icheoku says while mummified Egyptian Pharaohs were dozing off inside their pyramids from which they will never wake up to do anything meaningful, their American namesake just won the Kentucky derby. American Pharaoh wearing tag number 18 and jockeyed by Victor Espinoza finished first in the 141st edition of the Kentucky derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky. Amidst pomp and pageantry of over-sized hat wearing ladies and cigar-chomping men in bow ties, the horse which came from the stable of Bob Baffert, galloped to victory and into history book. Icheoku says congratulations. 

WHAT MEN WANT FROM WOMEN - E.C. SAMUEL

“AND they called Rebekah, and said unto her, wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go” (Genesis 24 verse 58).

Men and women are more alike than different. They share an almost identical brain structure, similar needs for achievement and connection and generally want the same things out of life. The differences are in nuances and although important, should not be used to regulate men to some far removed distance space in the universe. What our culture values, as masculinity, is trapping. This includes being in control of one’s emotions, winning at all costs and not showing vulnerability. Men who are not the way society thinks they should be are often stigmatise and may be viewed by others as ‘feminine’ in some vague way.

We have noticed that men who feel they must rigidly conform to masculine gender norms are more likely to suppress emotions that make them feel vulnerable. But what we term ‘vulnerable’ are the very emotions required for a romantic intimacy with a partner or spouse. Most women will say, “You are a man,” trying to reinforce the very gender conditioning that pushes men away. Some of these women even dictate roles for men or assume they know how a man should be. Mostly, these straitjacket principles make men seek comfort and reality elsewhere. What really do our men want from their women? May I can speak for a few men.

(1) He wants you to like him and love him for himself and not just what he does for you. Men like it when they are loved. The way men are socialized at all times makes them feel that their value is in their agency- that is, in their ability to act, take charge, control, win and achieve. If he doesn’t do that, he would be termed a ‘sissy’ and scorned. Do not let this superficial part of him mislead you. Underneath this conditioning is a child who he is. He really wants someone who can be okay with him when he is not winning, producing or ‘on top.’ Keep that in mind when you relate with your man.

(2) He wants you to like yourself. If you are using him to feel okay about yourself, it will never be enough, and you will constantly be in charge of the next boost. More so, men like it when a woman feels emotionally strong and capable. It is okay to be jealous, but never act insecure.

(3) Believe his ability to communicate, and try to understand his language There is a way a man uses word… Just know where he is coming from. Don’t force him.

(4) He wants you to be playful. Let go of control. Be spontaneous, joyous, and fun to be with. Don’t be too serious about everything. Engage him without agendas. Let him feel like a high school lover. Men like to feel that.

(5) Men like to be respected. It is not true that all men are control freaks or domineering. On the contrary, most men listen to their wives. But you earn your husband’s respect when you respect him, especially when you are self-sufficient, but still let him feel as the anchor. He may say he doesn’t want you to bother him, but something inside feels secure when you tell him things before you do them or report events to him.

(6) Men like it when you understand them. Men flirt. Men make many decisions sometimes. They are not like women with special instincts. Yet, don’t let the man feel you are controlling him. When he makes a blunder, get angry, but understand. Men cannot stand nagging. Find other ways of expressing your dissatisfaction without a plan for revenge or violence. Let him feel the guilt, without you pressing it.

(7) He wants you to know that boys do cry. Men are given much shame in our culture for being vulnerable that they are often left with one choice to vent negative feelings-anger. Offer him that one place in the world where he can unconditionally bring his full self to the table and where you don’t judge. Don’t talk him out of his fears or upsets; just offer compassion and understanding. Love his shame away.

THE BIG FIGHT IS FINALLY HERE - MAYWEATHER V. PACQUIAO

Icheoku says may the better fighter win provided they give fans a worth for their money and long time waiting for this fight to eventually materialize.

CALLING BALTIMORE PROTESTERS THUGS, DISRESPECTFULLY VERY WRONG?

Icheoku says Terrence Howard once told his ex-wife, Michelle Ghent, "divorce me and do what you wish with me but please do not crush my families' already threatened livelihood. I can’t promise how I will respond if you do." In order words, please don't go there with my family's very survival because if you do, I don't know how I am going to react? It therefore goes without saying that every human-being  has a threshold of endurance and limits as to what is acceptable or tolerable, beyond which there is no guarantee of still remaining sanely cool faced with a continuing situation or circumstance. 

So why does America continuously push the buttons of these despondent black America youths, expecting them to always react with level-headiness and their minds still intact or as a monk would docilely react? If America does not want the nature of the reaction coming from these irate youths, is it not a better policy going forward, not to promote the circumstances that elicits or triggers this reaction?  Why set a ball in motion only to later complain that the ball is rolling too fast? Why start the act that begets or elicits such loathsome reaction and then turn around to complain that the effected is overreacting; because if there was no action in the first place there will be no reaction, talkless of it being over or too much. How can anyone blame a provoked people for some unintended consequences of what was forced upon them and at the same time excluding the police that started it from any blame? A police who acted under the color of their uniform in fermenting all manner of unwanted and unwarranted killings of unarmed young American males? Why expect these young African Americans not to react but to just turn the other chic, sit down and take it? 

Why would President Obama open his mouth and use it in this way and against a people, whose fate he once shared and whose challenges he once faced while running the streets of South-side Chicago just a few short decades ago? Why would President Obama not appreciate the sensitivity implicated in the Baltimore protest, not to have used such derogatory remarks in describing a people who were pushed to the wall and who are merely intending for their voices to be heard by a seeming deaf white society America that acts as if black life don't matter? Why throw the protesters under the bus while sparing the police brutality that caused the harm, the reason de'tre for the protest? Icheoku asks why, President Obama, why?

Icheoku asks if people who were merely drawing attention to the continuing plight of young African Americans, whose lives are being continuously cut down in this drastic manner and without consequence, are 'thugs and criminals', what then are those who caused the problem which these people are protesting against? Icheoku asks if people who merely destroyed some replaceable properties are 'thugs and criminals', what then are those police officers who destroyed an irreplaceable innocent human life? Should they be called murderers and would the president be courageous enough to mouth same accordingly? Except that Icheoku forgot that the same President Obama was once forced to make a mea culpa and organize a beer fest of appeasement of a Boston police officer, whom he called "stupid" for exactly doing a very stupid thing, arresting Professor Gates in his home just because he mistook him for a burglar, being a black-man in the particular neighborhood?  

But now, because there is no group to pile pressure on the president over the foul word he used in describing those Baltimore protesters, whom he thoughtlessly branded 'thugs and criminals', there may never be an apology or a beer party in the White House gardens to smoothen these ruffled feathers? Icheoku says calling people who were merely trying to draw attention to some existential threat and predicament to them in America, being young black men in America, thugs and criminals, is to say the least very demeaning? To President Barack Hussein Obama, Icheoku says not in our name. Please find a place and time to similarly organize this time, a barbecue summit of appeasement, to atone for your sin of derogating these young men and women of Baltimore. These protesters are not 'thugs and criminals' but courageous young Americans who are merely fed up and frustrated at the continuum that is police raging brutality against them and were trying to merely vent their anger.  Therefore, an apology will be in order and the appropriate thing to do; at least you owe them that, so make it.