CHRISTOPHER DUNTSCH'S SURGICAL HANDS, A DEALY WEAPON - PROSECUTOR?

"His hands amounted to a "deadly weapon" because he used them to improperly insert medical devices and screws into patients meant to alleviate nerve and other pain. He operated on the wrong part of a patient's spine, damaged nerves and left one woman with chronic pain and dependent on a wheelchair. He also left a sponge in another patient following surgery." He is therefore guilty of using 'deadly weapons' in the commission of the offense of murder of his two patients - Prosecutor. 

Icheoku says a very creative charge indeed that the hands  of neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch now amount to  deadly weapons? Lets hope too that they will be equally introduced in evidence as exhibits during trial. Indeed a very interesting development in criminal prosecution.

APC, EQUALLY AS CORRUPT.

Icheoku says the inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to find 36 upright and honest men and women in Nigeria to lead his ministries is a straight-laced indictment of his party, the APC. It shows that corruption and dishonesty is not the exclusive preserve of the ousted Peoples Democratic Party members but a scourge afflicting the entire body fabric of Nigeria to which members of the All Progressive Congress constitute a significant part thereof. A possible pharisaic disposition of the APC ignoring the log in their own eyes while sanctimoniously pointing at the spec in the PDP's eye, one would argue?

Icheoku says so the PDP membership should stop hiding their faces in shame and instead forcefully stand up to the APC and challenge them to show Nigerians their incorruptible and non corrupt members. Otherwise how else can the APC explain that with their membership in excess of more than thirty six individuals, yet the president cannot find thirty six honest individuals to make ministers? It is a stunning verdict on the APC that they cannot hand the president mere thirty six decent members of their party to make ministers. It shows that they are not practicing what they preach; but are as horrible if not more horrendous than the PDP they are haranguing for being inept and corrupt. The logic is pure and simple; except that no one seems to be in charge of messaging in the now moribund PDP. But hey, it is their cross so let them bear it as the now cornered and being pummeled under-dogs of Nigerian politics. What a fate; what a shame; and how is the mighty fallen, face-down to the dust. Icheoku says to APC, please show the president your thirty six honest members so that he can name them ministers, Nigerians are waiting.

ORO FESTIVAL ILE IFE, A SALUTE TO TRADITION.

"Oro is a deity worshipped across Yoruba land which forbids the women folk from going outdoors in the night during the week long festival celebrating the god." 

Icheoku says it is a good thing that some parts of Nigeria, the Yoruba Southwest, are still smart enough to know that not all the white man brought or told black Africans is true. At least before their advent in the continent, the African ancestors survived and thrived; forcing the question why must Africans always swallow everything Oyibo, line, hook and sinker. It is always theirs is good and African's is evil which led to the destruction of so  many very important African ways of life and worship. But hey, how long will this  their skewed distortion of facts continue as more and more smart people are beginning to raise serious question about the colonialists' bullcrap baloney that everything Africa was heathen. Icheoku is however afraid that very soon all those wild-eyed feminist liberation theologists of Nigeria will start agitating that the festival is discriminatory by barring women from coming out at night. Icheoku wonders whether leading the protest is something the 'Bring Back Their Girls' ugly duckling Oby Ezekwesili will also like to add to her resume`and thereafter grant her first anti-Oro festival activist's interview to CNN Christine Amampour. 

Icheoku says happy Oro festival celebration to all the sons and daughters of Oduduwa. May you continue to be the prideful custodians of black African's traditions and may you never tire upholding same. Icheoku laments that the white man told Africans so many lies and Africans lost so much to these lies including very rich traditions. Thankfully Oro Festival survived and is still being celebrated and this period is its time. Way to go Yorubas and more grease to your elbow.

MULLAH OMAR, THE ONE-EYED LEADER OF TALIBAN IS DEAD.

Icheoku says hopefully Osama Bin Laden who predeceased him will have him welcomed in whatever "paradise with seventy virgins" they might have wherever they are now; and also accord him the hospitality which the now dead leader extended to Osama while he held sway as then henchman in Afghanistan. It is the way of everything alive, there is always time to live and then time to die and now the one-eyed former leader of the Taliban has made his exit from this world.  

The consolation for his followers however seems to be that their leader died of his own accord and was not bombed to smithereens or captured alive or hunted down and executed like Osama Bin Laden followed with a sea burial. But whatever happens, it is one good riddance of a very nauseating pain in the neck for the Western countries being hounded by terrorism as well as the Afghanistan government; except that his successor Mullah Akhtar Mansoor has now vowed to continue their jihad until their brash brand of Islam is imposed on everyone. The implication being that the rest of the world is still mired in a very long haul in the battle against Islamic terrorism and only a staying power will see us all through. Anyway, may the restless soul of the late Taliban leader now rest or continue with his jihad wherever he finds himself in the land of the dead and buried. 

CECIL THE LION WHACKED BY ANIMAL-HATING DENTIST, WALTER PALMER.

Icheoku says what a bloody dentist this man is that would spend $55,000 just to take the life of a beloved African lion named Cecil. Meanwhile people are dying of starvation everywhere including in America, but he is simply too selfish and mean to care!!!

WALTER PALMER DDS, THE AMERICAN REPROBATE WHO KILLED CECIL THE LION.

Icheoku says the Minnesota dentist, Walter Palmer, who would rather pay to take life than to save life, paid a whopping $55,000.00 just to snuff the life out of a world famous and adorable lion with the black mane named Cecil in the African country of Zimbabwe. Icheoku queries how sadistic is this man who would do this bloodletting and paid for the right to carry out the gory orgy. Only a wacko drives joy in seeing any life taken, regardless whether a protected human life or in this case, the life of a majestic king of the jungle, whose pride has now been left without a head. Worse still, he and his gang of despicable trio, laid in wait, lured the lion out from its sanctuary and killed it just to satisfy their penchant for gaming wild animals. 

Icheoku asks why would this dentist prefer animals dead than alive if not that he is a bloody jackal and you wonder how many unnecessary root canals he had recommended and performed just to continue to be able to afford his weird habit of gunning down wild animals just for the fun of it. Icheoku says regardless, if this man is my dentist, Icheoku will walk in protest and could not imagine what drives this kind of ruthless fascination to just kill such majestic animals for fun instead of paying for their conservation. This man could have done a whole lot of good with the $55,000.00 helping the needy and helpless of society, but he did not. His selfishness confined him into just satiating his bloody past-time and for a hefty amount that would have bettered the lives of so many needy Americans, many of whom will be sleeping under the overpass tonight and some on empty stomachs too. Icheoku hereby calls for the boycott of and a continued protest at his dental practice until he makes a full mea culpa with an amount in excess of what he paid to kill Cecil also paid by him into some conservation efforts or to some Wild Life protection Fund. Walter Palmer DDS, Icheoku says stop killing wild animals so that posterity would have something for the children and the unborn to someday look at.

POLLARD THE AMERICAN TRAITOR AND ISRAELI SPY, WALKS A FREE MAN.

Icheoku says Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are still languishing in prison while a traitor who took up arms against his own country, compromising its national security, is let go; released to pacify and appease an irate Israel still smacking their mouth over the reached Iranian nuclear deal. A capitulation or appeasement or sucking up to make up for the Iranian deal of some sort, one might argue? Icheoku says in the same vein, the Obama administration should similarly release Mumia as well as Peltier as what is good for the goose is equally good for the gander. 

Icheoku has nothing against the release of Jonathan Pollard as a lot of wheeling and dealing goes into international diplomacy and politics; but takes umbrage in the continued detention of Mumia Abu-Jamal who has been behind bars since his 1982 conviction for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman Faulkner as well as Leonard Peltier who is serving two consecutive life sentences for the 1977 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation murders of two FBI agents. Icheoku maintains that both of these men have served enough time for their alleged crimes and should therefore be similarly granted clemency too. So as the family of Jonathan Pollard celebrates this year's Thanksgiving for a real Thanksgiving gift of his release, Icheoku hopes that someday the families of Mumia and Leonard will similarly celebrate following their own release. Icheoku is hopeful too that just like the government did not oppose Jonathan Pollard's parole this time, they will similarly not be on the way when similar parole hearing is due and granted the duo here mentioned. Let freedom ring and it now rings for Jonathan Pollard.

BILL COSBY SHOULD BE SMART ABOUT IT, KEN LAY HIMSELF NOW.

Icheoku says there is no need waiting for the inevitable, the impending wiping out of his fortune, which hefty jury awards to the hordes of women bringing law suits against him, will bring about. A smart and calculating Bill Cosby will save himself and family that added misfortune by seizing the bull by its horn and making an audacious exit now. He has lived and enjoyed life well and long enough that exiting now will not be too much of an asking. He should seriously consider this option in order to leave a benevolent purse behind for his ever supportive wife and family; and in order not to let those who have succeeded in destroying him also get an upper hand over his fortune. 

Like late Enron's Ken Lay, Bill Cosby can put an end to all his current lingering women-troubles by quickly inducing himself to sleep from which he never wakes up again. Icheoku therefore urges Bill Cosby to man up, be of great courage or cowardice as some will term it, save whatever face is left of him and take the exit ramp off this world and do it now. Icheoku says lingering around any further can only spell doom to him, his family and fortune; as many more women, embolden by the current development in his past perverted sexual dalliances drama, will show up with law suits to try and collect their own share of whatever remains of his fortune as damages. Icheoku further opines that it is most likely that a sympathetic jury will graciously indulge these women and bountifully too. These potential jurors are part of the greater society which is appalled at what have so far dripped out from the Bill Cosby sexual perversion saga and which society have concluded that Bill Cosby has to pay a price for his unlawful indiscretions. Icheoku says, Bill Cosby, end this your problem now, just do it. 

50 CENTS NOW 10 CENTS, NEEDS PROTECTION FROM PREDATORS?

Icheoku says the world has not heard the last of the lifestyle of the "rich and famous" as Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cents, told an astonished bankruptcy court that his bling bling lifestyle is a mere optical illusion, a complete fantasy. During his bankruptcy proceeding, Fif-tie testified that he makes only ten cents on each record sold and that all the jewels and flashy cars he flashes go back to their dealers once the promotional event is over. That in actuality, he is not worth anything near the projections being made about his riches. According to Fif-tie, 'one gets a bullseye painted on one's back once one becomes rich and successful, as so many people wants a slice off the cake. But unfortunately, he is not that rich and therefore needs protection of the court in order to survive. 

50 Cents is worth a mere 4.4 million dollars, including 380 million cents he made from record sales; a total far cry from the estimated 155 million dollars net-worth ascribed to him by Forbes Magazine. Icheoku says this is mostly true in life, as many people who people envy and wish they are or could be like, often have it tougher than could be imagined. Ditto with people supposedly having a marital bliss but who behind closed doors, are in a living hell. Most times is all about putting up appearance of the Jones and nothing more. So today, learn to curb your enthusiasm and also how to make do with what you have. Learn to be happily fulfilled within you ways and means as contentment is the key. To 50 Cents, Icheoku says then please tone it down and live within your means; learn to live a life of moderation and stop all these flashy, flashy, bam, bam, unsupported lifestyle if you cannot afford to pay claims and damages against you. Keep it real and say no to fakery.

'I WILL LIGHT YOU UP' AND SANDRA BLAND IS DEAD, BLACK LIVES DON'T MATTER?

Icheoku says apparently tired of killing brothers, it is now time to face down sisters and put them down too; in their unspoken word, exemplified by their actions, that black lives don't matter. White police officers of America killing black people and now in Texas, the official capital punishment headquarters of America, where their Huntsville death chambers never stops churning, with smell of death by lethal injection ever hanging in the air. Admitted, the saying "don't mess with Texan" should normally put everyone and anyone coming in contact with any Texan on notice, but unfortunately Sandra Bland, a transplant from Illinois, seemingly was not informed ahead of time of this standing rule and she paid dearly with her life. Icheoku does not care whether it was suicide as they claimed (was it voluntary); but was she suicidal before the officer bundled her into detention or did she suddenly develop the flavor to take her own life while in the custody of Texas Sheriff? 

Icheoku is not here to solve the death mystery of Ms Sandra Bland but only to add voice to the cries of the continuing death in the hands of white police officers of black people in America. A beautiful lady who was stopped for not signaling a lane change, was handed a written warning and instead for the officer to walk back to his patrol car and end of story, observed that Ms Bland seemed irritated? The very intrusive officer, who apparently is engrossed in his power and feeling on top of the world, then went further to ask a person within her own space, right inside her own car, smoking a cigarette, to put out her cigarette? Icheoku says if the officer was not comfortable with second-hand smoking, inhaling her cigarette smoke, why did he not space out from her and just move away and back to his patrol vehicle afterall he has already finished the reason for pulling her over and should have left her to be and alone. But of course nope, she was black and the white officer felt he can have his way with her, however he chooses. He ordered her out of her vehicle with threat to light her up, she complied. He ordered her to move to the curbside, she complied. He ordered her to put down her phone, she compiled. Yet he still went ahead to put handcuffs on her and succeeded in provoking her enough and to the extent that made her to lose her minds and allegedly "kicked and punched the officer?" So query, since when did smoking in one's own vehicle become an offense? As far as Icheoku is concerned, the officer escalated the situation by not walking away and back to his patrol vehicle after the reason for initially stopping her was completed with the written warning which he issued her, period. 

Icheoku says any person in that lady's position, especially a black person, with the racial prejudicial records of white police officers against black people in America, including needlessly often stopping them in traffic, will be equally horn-mad angry, thus eliciting the altercation which took place. A clear case of a white police man feeling all powerful and out to confirm their race's usual stereotyping of the black person as very angry. What was his business inquiring if someone he just stopped and issued a written warning was irritated or did he expect her to be joyous? What was his business asking someone, who was minding her own business trying to contain her emotion with smoking a cigarette and in her own vehicle, her own very space, to put the cigarette out?  Why did the officer linger on after his duty was discharged and not move back to his patrol vehicle if not to goad her into additional trouble? Why did the officer not let her remain in her vehicle until a backup arrives? Icheoku is emphatic that the white police officer unduly overreached himself by continuing to irritate the lady with his nonsensical questions long after completing his reason for her stop and therefore forced the issue leading to the subsequent arrest. Icheoku is curious whether this officer expected her not to blow her fuse under the circumstance or who wouldn't?  It simply does not make sense but adds to the ongoing cat and mouse game that is white police officers and black people's relationship in America. 

Now she is dead and someone says she killed herself by hanging right inside the police cell? Icheoku is not buying this story neither is Icheoku stating the obvious; but warns that everyone and anyone messes with a Texan at his or her own peril. Icheoku says Texas scares the shitload out of many including Icheoku and is one of those flyover states for Icheoku as there is no need tempting faith being there. It was in the same Texas that two white men, sometime ago, hog-tied a black man behind their pickup hitch and dragged him through rural roads until he completely disintegrated. Yes, Texas is a scary place to be a blackman and now a black woman who was threatened with being lighted up ends up being lighted out, her lights permanently put out. White police officer Brian Encina, a rookie, eager to throw his weight around and over a black person, arrested a black lady for alleged "assault on a public servant". An assault which he personally provoked and now the lady is dead; committed suicide in a police holding cell after three days of being held without charging her to court? Icheoku says who is fooling who and whose version of the story should America believe; except that there is now only one version as the lady is dead and gone forever? RIP Sandra Bland.

PRESIDENT BUHARI'S WASHINGTON VISIT, ECLIPSED BY OTHER WORLD EVENTS.

Icheoku says on a day that would have been his to shine, the constellations conspired to simultaneously throw up so many other world events, more important than just a visiting black African president. That was the fate of President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria on a private visit to President Barack Obama of the United States of America. Except for the photo-ups and passive mention of it in the media, nobody outside the Nigerian community knew that a President of Nigeria named Muhammadu Buhari is in America visiting the White House. 

Icheoku states that despite what his management team would like for Nigerians back home to believe was an historic visit to the White House, it passed as a none event overall; as a near total media blackout of the event made many Americans ignorant of the visit, not that they cared anyway nor would care, regardless. Icheoku monitored the three major Networks - NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, ABC World Evening News with David Muir as well as Cables CNN, FOX and MSNBC to gauge the Americans interest in the President Muhammadu Buhari's visit to President Barack Obama and it was close to zilch. It did not make any headline, nor any extended coverage nor narrative either. 

But it is understandable as the visit is not a state visit but a private visit to President Barack Obama. Moreso, Nigeria is such a gravely damaged country which nobody is interested in, that it is going to take a miracle worker to burnish its image to the point that these heavily prejudiced White people with their crass racism, will start paying attention to it and what is happening therein. One Buhari personal visit to Barack ain't gonna cut it as the country's image is in the deep sewer and will need more than a mere laundry to make it shine again. Icheoku agrees that it is not President Muhammadu Buhari's fault, admitted the onus is now on him to try and repair the broken humpty-dumpty to whatever extent possible. But a very daunting task it is really indeed and one Buhari cannot and will not get it accomplished. It took a long time to get where it is and it will take a longer time to get it out. 

Icheoku says the PMB visit to Washington could not have happened at a worse time than when so many events, more attention-grabbing and of historical nature, are taking place simultaneously both in Washington DC and around the world. First, Cuba just flag-mounted in Washington DC, an American soil; re-opening their embassy for the first time since the 1961 diplomatic freeze between the two countries. Second, Islamic terrorists ISIS inspired and organized bombing attack in Turkey killed so many Turkish people and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed a punishing reiteration. Third, Iranian Nuclear Deal with the West was approved by the United Nations Security Council and Fourth, the economically-challenged and comatose Greece just reopened their banks.  All these left the whole watching world giddy with expectation on how all these unravelling events will eventually pan out. 

Now, this is the time President Muhammadu Buhari is visiting the White House and somebody please tell Icheoku that any serious news editor will assign more coverage to it or additional correspondents to the White House to cover such a visit in lieu of all these other developing wild-fire stories. Then add the racist pig Donald Trump's thumping of Senator John McCain's war hero status plus the Highway 10 viaduct linking Arizona and California that collapsed and you have a perfect storm against PMB's visit to Washington. 

But regardless, it was good that President Muhammadu Buhari was invited to visit like every other newly elected president of Nigeria usually is. The usual unspoken purpose, to read the riot act of his dos and don'ts and the expectations of the American government of his administration. Icheoku says to that extent of conforming to this somewhat established tradition of the American government inviting newly elected Nigerian leaders to the White House, the visit was mission accomplished; but there is nothing more to gloat about with President Muhammadu Buhari being invited to the White House. It is normal and to an extent routine and ordinary; so Nigerians, especially those Buharists and APC rabble rousers should not needlessly disturb the peace of Nigerians that PMB went to America, invited by President Barack Hussein Obama.  

Icheoku says the only two things that stood out from their Oval Office meeting were President Obama assuring that America is ready to discuss "how we can be helpful in addressing the issues that have held Nigeria down"; and President Muhammadu Buhari's saying that "we (Nigeria) will forever be grateful" for America's meddling in Nigeria's election. Anyway, Icheoku wishes President Muhammadu Buhari and his delegation a peaceful stay while their visit lasts and a safe flight back home to go start the heavy lifting that governance is and without any further delay or more ado. Goodluck and all the best to Team Buhari.

CHIBOK GIRLS, HAVE THEY BEEN BROUGHT BACK YET?

Icheoku says in the world of wheeling and dealing political shifting chairs, once an objective is realized, it is move on to the next agenda. Their whole objective, the Bring Back 'Their' Girls motley crew, is to get rid of President Goodluck Jonathan. Now that their wish have come through, their placards are all down and securely tucked away, out of sight and out of mind likewise the fate of those allegedly kidnapped school girls. Icheoku queries, are these placards and all the protestations down because the Chibok School Girls been found and brought back to their parents?

THE GREEK BAILOUT FUND, A GREEK GIFT?

Icheoku says what an irony of fate that the Greeks who are customarily used to giving others questionable gifts with hidden trip-wires inside them, the proverbial Greek Trojan Gift, are the ones now at the receiving end of such spiked gift? Talk about paying someone in his very own coin as the European creditors just did that with the release of conditionalities-laden Greek's bailout funds of $94billion; which probably will do the opposite and instead of bailing the Greeks out will sink them deeper into irrecoverable economic quagmire. Icheoku says by providing this additional bailout, the third one in a row, it appears those European creditors have only succeeded in postponing the Greek day of reckoning just for one more last time? 

The Greeks did not account for what they were previously given and there is no guarantee this time that they will make judicious use of this tranche by using it to turn around their economy and quit being an Oliver Twist with hands always stretched out in a beggarly fashion. Icheoku is not a seer but makes a projection that it will surely come back full circle when the present tranche is up and due for repayment and the Europeans will still find an insolvent Greece which rather than pay what it owes, will still be begging for another bailout. Before that time comes, the acute austerity terms of the latest bailout package would have forced the Greeks through the haranguing gates of hell, from which many of them might not return again leaving a Greece that cannot be self sustaining any longer, never again, ever. So what will happen when this day comes  and things come to a head with a Greece still unable to repay what it borrowed and still asking for some more borrowing? Will Europe still accommodate them or show tough love and let Greece fail or fall out of European Union? Icheoku does not know the answer but time will tell. 

Icheoku's says like the Greeks, there is palpable fear that Nigeria is also headed the bailout highway to hell. A fear made more eerie because the bitter potion these creditors will particularly brew for Nigeria will make that of the Greeks taste like a rose champagne. If Nigerians think that Ibrahim Babangida's SAP's conditionalities were harsh, they should wait until President Muhammadu Buhari goes cap in hand to these Western creditors for money. Then he will appreciate what it means to make someone really horn-mad and then want the raving mad person to help him out with some funds? When this time comes, a person like IMF Christine Laggard for example, will have the opportunity to really tell him how bitter she is that she cannot bring her partner on trips to Nigeria for fear of prosecution? Needless to add that gay heavy weights like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Elton John might bring their influence to bear on denying a gay-hating country Nigeria any financial bailout unless they reverse their anti-gay marriage law? 

That so many other financial institutions that would be called upon to contribute to whatever bailout Nigeria might need is in the firm control of LGBT or their protected interest will not bode well for a Nigeria in need of cash life line. Most likely, they will seize the opportunity to remind President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria's anti-gay marriage law is still on their books as the law of their land. Icheoku is certain that any conditionality the West will give Nigeria will most definitely include reversing the anti-gay marriage law. So if Nigeria does not want to reverse this law, they should find a way to stay out of seeking financial bailout from these international lenders particularly those in Western gay-friendly countries; because they will be made to either swallow their vomit or take a hike. If these Western countries could be this harsh to fellow Europeans, the Greeks, with vaulted gay acceptance, imagine what they will do to black anti-gay country Nigeria? But until then, Icheoku asks the Greeks, what has become of you that you cannot manage your economy and turn it around? Please remember that he who goes a-borrowing always goes a-sorrowing and that a beggar  usually has no choice. Therefore, you need to do the needful and quickly get back on your feet and save your face, otherwise the humiliation will only get worse.

PRESIDENT BUHARI GOES TO WASHINGTON, NO GAY NIGERIAN IN HIS DELEGATION?

Icheoku says with cap in hand and a lengthy wish list in tow, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari jets out to Washington DC at the invitation of American President Barack Obama on Monday July 20, 2015 for a three day summit with the American government. After listening through President Muhammadu Buhari's lengthy beggarly sermons of what he would like the Americans to help him achieve for Nigerians, atypical Americans will then like to know what is in it for them? What are they getting for all the things they will do for PMB and his Nigeria? What is the bargain for consideration? 

Oil is becoming an unwanted polluting thing of yesterday which nobody, including the Americans, wants any longer? There is no regional conflict affecting America's interest within the West African sub-Saharan region to ask for Nigeria's help? Sending Nigerian soldiers to help out with ISIS in Middle East is not an option either since Nigeria is inundated with their own fight against Boko Haram? So Icheoku asks what would be the bargain or consideration to induce the Americans to act on what PMB brings along to Washington DC? That then leaves only one possible thing, one thing only that the Americans most probably would ask of the Muhammadu Buhari's government as a quid pro quo for any help and assistance they will render to Nigeria. It is a king's ransom and it is going to be like the Greece bailout term - take it or leave it. It is the reversal of Nigeria's anti-gay marriage law. Icheoku says this is the billion dollar trade America will ask of President Muhammadu Buhari in exchange of their assistance. Icheoku is emphatic that the successful outcome of this trip to Washington will be literally SOLELY predicated on his acceptance of gays right to freely  mix and mingle and of course marry in Nigeria without more, period.

Unfortunately it will be a near impossible undertaking for PMB to accept to take, judging by the near universal cultural rejection of sodomy throughout Nigeria diverse ethnic groupings. But a proactively thinking PMB should have seen this request or rather demand coming and adequately prepared for it. At least have a response that will give the Americans some assurance that all their hope of pushing a gay agenda in Nigeria are not entirely lost. PMB would do this convincingly by at least adding a gay Nigerian as a member of his delegation to Washington DC, even if it means finding someone acting gay to fill the role and present the image that gays are not yet extinct in Nigeria. A person who would assure the Americans that things are being done to reverse the anti-gay law in Nigeria, using himself being in the delegation as a testament that PMB is not entirely personally conflicted with the idea of men doing men etc.  A role which the Senate President Saraki would have been well suited to play if the rumor is true that he likes little boys; except that the president is still keeping him in the cold? Thereafter, PMB will personally give his words that where the law could not be reversed because of cultural peculiarities of Nigerians, his government will not enforce the law in the same manner the Obama administration refused to enforce the DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) but did not expressly reverse it. 

This is the name of the game and this is how it is played played in international wheeling and dealing as every nation wants to mile every relationship exchanges. It is diplomacy 101 and nations earn their peeps through tough bargains as there is no sympathy in the juggle of world economy; only respectfully earned and  deserved returns are permitted. So if PMB is seriously desirous and in need of assistance from the Americans, he must be prepared to show the Americans the proverbial money. Like the American will say, 'show me the money;' only that in this instant it will be 'show me the reversed anti-gay marriage law in Nigeria.  Anyway, Icheoku wishes the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's delegation to Washington DC a safe and successful trip. May their lips not quiver faced with the Americans and may they only say what the Americans want to hear and in return bring back all the goodies from Washington DC as Nigeria could use quite a lot of them. God's speed. Salute.

CHATTANOOGA SHOOTINGS, ANOTHER ISLAMIC TERRORIST STRIKES AMERICA?

Icheoku says how does one fight an embedded enemy within or should America now be forced to adopt racist pig Donald Trump's solution and like 'all those no do good Mexicans', similarly deport every Muslim in America back to the Middle East and wherever the heck they came from? Unfortunately, these Muslims are in their millions and effectively deporting them will be an unattainable task despite what Donald Trump wants anyone to believe; otherwise Donald Trump might see his wish come through this time around with the Muslim induced terror in Tennessee? But acting the devil's advocate, Icheoku queries, if these Muslims are to be deported to their Muslim enclaves of origin, how about those white people who nurture domestic terrorism or who have similarly terrorized Americans? Would they be equally deported to wherever the heck they came from in order to stop them from carrying out any future acts of terrorism? 

Anyway, it is rather very unfortunate that a guy who literally grew up in the United States of America, having migrated to America with his parents and three sisters when he was very young; attended high school and university in America where he obtained an electrical engineering degree could now turn into a domestic terrorist of the worst kind. But indoctrination is a very powerful aphrodisiac and once immersed in, the end always turns out to be very disastrous. That this killer was a Muslim did not help matters as it furthers the narrative and stereotyping; otherwise a bad person is a bad person regardless of religion or color of their skin. The killer left two memorable quotes:- "My name causes National Security alerts, what does yours do?"  and "Life is short and bitter." Icheoku says regrettably he acted out the alert which his name triggers and at 24 years old, he lived a very short and now apparently bitter life too. What a jerk.

Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, a naturalized American of Jordanian origin killed four Marines, wounded three other persons before losing his own life in the process in Chattanooga Tennessee. Another gun violence incident of domestic terrorism on American soil, but this time with Islamic fervor; and begging the question, any solution at sight? As far as Icheoku is concerned, until NRA becomes more rational and decides to do something about the easy availability of guns in America, these senseless shootings will never end. Until then, the killing field that is America will continue to gobble her citizens, thanks to plentiful cuckoos and easy access to weapons. Today these four Marines are gone, victims of another senseless killings by another deranged American who happened to be also a Muslim; thus leaving Icheoku channeling Donald Trump whether the Muslim world is equally exporting or rather dumping their lowest of the lows and worst of the worse on America, just like  Mexico who need to be deported. May their souls rest in peace.

BILL COSBY IS A PERV, A RAPIST - OBAMA?

Icheoku agrees with the President and rephrases, 'if you spike a woman's drink in order to override her lucidity to  make an informed consent and you have your way with her, that is a prohibited rape defined; thus making you a rapist. If this becomes a pattern of behavior, occurring on more than one occasion, then you are a serial rapist. Should the woman succumb to the overwhelming influence of the date-rape adulterated drink and dies as a result of ingesting same, you could be charged for murder, having poisoned her. In the words of President Barack Obama, "If you give a woman — or a man, for that matter — without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent; that's rape." This, thus makes Bill Cosby not only a criminal rapist but a serial rapist for that matter, admitted no formal conviction of him was recorded in any of these allegations but for his own personal admission in a deposition to the criminal act/s. A sex offender like Bill Cosby deserves no mercy and should be shown none.

Regrettably many of us came to the defense of Bill Cosby when these allegations were initially unfolding, thinking he was merely being victimized by some fortune-hunting women. But based on now available information including Bill Cosby's own personal admission of guilt in spiking women's drinks in order to have sex with them, Icheoku hereby apologize for defending an indefensible crime. Like many others who were then similarly positioned, Icheoku was mislead by the once father of America into previously believing in his innocence. But now that his guilt has been established by admission, Icheoku, reechoing the words of President Obama says that this country or any other civilized country should have no tolerance for rape. 

If only the Statute of Limitation have not ran on these offenses, may be a life behind bars would have been a prescribed medicine for his ailment. What a pervert this man is that conned millions into believing he had character and Icheoku wonders what his "dutiful" wife is still waiting for hanging around such demon-possessed sex maniac. Icheoku hereby adds his voice to the growing calls that every honor ever bestowed on Bill Cosby including the Presidential Medal of Freedom should be revoked as what supposedly earned them was never there in the first place. His character sucks and his existence should be better filed away in a cobwebbed cold underground basement somewhere very distant. What a fall from grace into the sewer; and all along, he lied barefacedly that he was innocent while these women were out to get him.

NUCLEAR DEAL AGREEMENT, AN IRANIAN VICTORY?

Icheoku says a sure psychological victory for Iran, having held out for such a long time of two years plus, with several extensions and still came out with most of their positions in tact? From demanding that Iran "eliminate" all nuclear activities to now accepting that Iran can "limit" their nuclear activities. This is what earning one's feathers really looks like as many other similarly situated countries would have since capitulated and surrendered. But Iran, faced down by all the world powers, did not cave in to fear, or intimidation or threats; they did not capitulate but maintained their grounds till the very end and got an outcome of their choosing, one might argue? They earned some respect, exactly what any country entitled to their sovereignty needs, but not sympathy. 

For assenting to this agreement and coming out unbloodied, Icheoku congratulates the Islamic Republic of Iran for finally turning the corner in their effort to mend relationship with the West. President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry led negotiation team also earned Icheoku's commendations for patiently putting up with Iranian constantly shifting of the goalposts and accommodating all the curve-balls thrown their way by pro-Israeli groups to derail the negotiation, including aborting it entirely. Icheoku alongside the entire excited world hopes that a new chapter has been opened with this nuclear deal between Washington DC and Tehran; geared towards finally reestablishing diplomatic relationship between the two countries. If not, why not; as this will help heal old wounds as well as help damper the so many hot spots around the Middle East and the Arabian peninsular. Icheoku says congratulations to all the parties that midwifed the deal to   fruition. Well done for a job well done and the deal is done and finally here. What a relief.