HAPPY 117TH BIRTHDAY KOINANGE

ICHEOKU says happy birthday to Elizabeth Gathoni Koinange of Kenya who celebrated her 117th birthday recently. Married into a polygamy, her only advise for up and coming would be wives is DON'T DO IT. According to her, polygamy sucks and it is inhuman for a wife to take turns with other wives to be with their husband. Indeed very humiliating and Nigeria's Abubakar Atiku is a polygamist. Anyway, ICHEOKU wishes Elizabeth many more happy celebrations and she looks good for her century plus age. Congratulations.

TAX REFORM BILL SIGNED INTO LAW.

ICHEOKU says what a huge legislative win by the president who seemed to have saved the best for last, as he ended the year 2017 with a such a big feat, signing the Tax Reform Bill into law. Once again, a man who has become known as a promise keeper has again kept his election campaign promise to reform America's Tax Law. 

ICHEOKU says congratulations to President Donald John Trump for again following through with a promise made, now become a promise kept. The $1.5 trillion tax-cut legislation is a major victory for the president and marks the first major reform in American tax law in over three decades. What a win for Mr President and for a do-nothing Congress which has now finally did something. Way to go; and may that be the beginning of many things to come and become mission accomplished under the presidency of President Donald John Trump and the Republican controlled Congress. Merry Christmas America. 

ICHEOKU'S MAN OF THE YEAR 2017: PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP

ICHEOKU says following an examination of so many nominated individuals, we have determined that this year 2017's man of the year is President Donald John Trump, the 45th Presidnet of the United States of America. He came into office shooting on both hips and as the year draws to an end, his both guns are still firing and smoking. For standing up to the world and starring down American detractors and being the cheerleader and champion in chief of America, the leader of Team Make America Great Again has earned ICHEOKU's man of the year award 2017. Congratulations to President Donald John Trump. 

UNITED NATIONS VOTE: WE DON'T CARE - AMERICA

"This resolution is an unproductive attempt to isolate us for a decision that was our sovereign right to make. The United States will remember this day when it was singled out in the United Nations for the act of exercising our sovereignty. We will remember it when we are called upon once again to make the world's largest contribution to the United Nations. 

And we will remember when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit. America will put our embassy in Jerusalem. No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that. It is what the American people want us to do. This vote will make a difference only as to how America looks at the UN, and how we look at countries who disrespect us at the UN." - Nikki Haley, United States ambassador to the United Nations.

A NON BINDING VOTE BY AN UNITED UNITED NATIONS: OF NO EFFECT.

ICHEOKU says with friends like Britain, France and Germany, does America still need any enemies when the three major European countries will not back America up when they are needed most. Pacifist approach can never and will not solve the Muslim plague afflicting the world and the earlier these pussy-footed countries realizes this the better it is for possible solutions to be found thereat. And so it is that the three countries joined other American rivals Russia and China and 123 others in condemning America's recognition of Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Israel. A mere formality as Jerusalem has always and will always remain the capital of Israel.  

Canada and Mexico abstained.

The 35 abstentions, plus 21 countries that did not turn up for the vote, were more than many diplomats had expected, suggesting that Trump's hardball tactics had partly worked. The U.S. Mission to the U.N. issued a statement that sought to downplay the broader setback for Trump's policy.

The 193-nation general assembly approved the resolution by a massive margin, with 128 nations in favour, and nine against. There were 35 abstentions

"While the resolution passed, the vote breakdown tells a different story. It's clear that many countries prioritized their relationship with the United States over 


Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N..

The arguments have already been made. The decision was in accordance to US law dating back to 1995. The decision does not prejudge any final status agreement. 

In a series of tweets, Saeb Erekat, SG, PLO "Despite the threats and scare tactics, the world stood with justice."

Ayman Odeh, chairman of the Joint List, the party coalition that represents most Israeli Arabs, "the international community does not accept Trump and Netanyahu's morally bankrupt diplomatic policy."

Some countries that abstained, including Australia, said they disagreed with Trump's decision and condemned unilateral actions on any side. But they said another U.N. resolution would not resolve the dispute.

Canada explained its abstention by saying it considered the resolution one-sided because it did not fully acknowledge the ties to Jerusalem felt by the three major monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

Mexico said it was "alarmed at the distortions" taking place in the peace process and called on the United States to be a mediator in the dispute, and not to take one party's side over the other.

In addition to Israel and the United States, the nations that voted against the resolution were Guatemala and Honduras in Central America, the West African nation of Togo, and the tiny Pacific island states of Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru and Palau.

PRESIDENT TRUMP WARNS THE WORLD: WE DON'T CARE.

"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care." - President Donald John 

UNITED NATIONS URGED TO THREAD CAREFULLY.

“At the UN we’re always asked to do more and give more. So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American people about where to locate OUR embassy, we don’t expect those we’ve helped to target us. On Thursday there’ll be a vote criticizing our choice. The US will be taking names. The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us. We will take note of each and every vote on this issue.” - Nikki Harley, United States ambassador to the United Nations; warning member countries about the consequences of their planned condemnation of the decision by America to relocate American embassy to Jerusalem. 

PENTECOSTALISM: A DOCTRINE OF GREED DESTROYING CRITICAL THINKING - IJABLA RAYMOND.

Pentecostal Christianity has corrupted our way of living. The damage that Pentecostal pastors have caused with their exploitative sermons will take decades to undo. Right across the continent, their sermons have destroyed critical thinking and produced a generation of Africans who are magical thinkers. The corruption is pervasive. It is in government, our schools, businesses, in our homes and even in our universities - the seat of all learning and philosophy. It is everywhere. 

Our universities are populated by "intellectuals" who not only believe but also teach that witches are real, that prayers can bring dead people back to life and cure all diseases and make cars drive without any fuel. Our Vice President is a professor of law and he is an ardent follower of a pastor who claims he has all these powers. We are now at a point where the generation that has suffered the most brainwashing is at the helms of our affairs. And they are spreading their corruption. If the person who teaches you science discredits evolution but argues their pastor's car can drive without fuel or that their pastor has resurrected people and cured every disease through prayers and fasting, what values are they imparting to you? The purpose of education is to overcome ignorance, not to validate it. 

Of what use is the kind of education that does not cause us to examine our prejudices? If I received a penny for every time a fellow Nigerian medical doctor argued that prayers cure cancer or resurrect people or that witches and demons are real, I would be a millionaire today. Their evidence is usually stories that have been narrated to them by their pastors, friends and families or the bible. And when I say to them the bible mentions talking snakes and donkeys they tell me I am spiritually blind and cannot understand the things of God. I think it is possible to believe in the existence of God without all that literalism but this is a subject for another day. But what value has pentecostalism added to our society? I can think of none. We are still one of the most corrupt nations on earth, the majority of our citizens subsist on less than one dollar/day, workers are owed wages sometimes running up to six months in arrears, the elderly cannot access their pensions, and our unemployed youths are forced into prostitution and armed robbery. 

The pastorpreneurs do not live by what they preach.They do not care about integrity. We have seen them physically assault church members, involved in questionable business deals, sleep with female church members, tell lies and so on. I could go on and on for days but I would struggle to identify one benefit of Pentecostalism. Greed and selfishness are the ethos of the Pentecostal movement as I have observed it practiced in Nigeria. Pastorpreneurs take money from the weakest and the most vulnerable members of the society such as widows, pensioners, the unemployed and the sick. 

They use it to buy themselves private jets and to build expansive business empires which they will bequeath to their children. They use tithes and offerings to build private schools and universities but the poor church members whose donations built these institutions cannot afford to send their children to these places. On matters that relate to human rights and good governance, we just never hear from these pastor-preneurs. Nigerians are drowning daily in the Mediterranean Sea in search of a better life in Europe. Eunice was murdered in Abuja last year by Muslim youths during evangelism. Another Christian woman was murdered by a Muslim mob in Kano recently. 

Do you hear pastor-preneurs talk about these issues? No! They are deaf and dumb, and they don’t want to know about such “mundane” issues. But as soon as you speak against tithing and threaten their livelihood they come out of hiding and one after the other, sermon after sermon, they use death threats to frighten church members to continue to pay tithes to them. They swamp us with sermons about how an all-sufficient God needs money. They say, God, who is supposedly all-powerful and omni-benevolent, needs money to be able to bless his worshippers. 

Curiously, I have yet to find one pastor use the scriptures to contradict Daddy Freeze on tithing. They have issued curses, death wishes and even tried to use his personal challenges to discredit him but not one bible verse has been used to support their position on tithing. Considering the number of scriptures these people have memorized, I think it is telling that none of them has been able to produce a SINGLE verse to support their craft. One important lesson the debate on tithing has taught us is this: Most Nigerian Christians are pastor-worshippers. They do not think for themselves and cannot read their Bibles without hearing the voices of their pastors in the background. It has taken one man to expose the shallowness with which millions of believers relate to the scriptures they claim to read daily. 

The other lesson is this: When pastor-preneurs use death threats to frighten believers into paying tithes, it proves neither the pastor-preneurs nor the believers truly believe what they preach. If heaven is the fabulous place where ALL the believer’s aspirations come to fruition then why are believers so scared of death to the point it can be used to manipulate them? This is like someone who fantasizes about emigrating to America but when they are informed they require a travel visa they say, “I reject the visa in Jesus’ name.” 

You cannot go to your beloved heaven if you do not die. To conclude, Pentecostalism is a doctrine of greed and selfishness. It thrives on fear. It exploits the weak. It destroys critical thinking. Our salvation is in insisting on a rational society. Enough of these superstitions and greed.

PPRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP NATIONAL SECURITY SPEECH

OMAROSA: YOU'RE FIRED!

ICHEOKU says for the second time and by the same personality, the lady who many Americans have come to regard as an enfant terrible nut job, Omarosa Manigault, has been fired from her White House job as director of communication for the Office of Public Liaison, whatever that means. The first time was during her reality television show debut in The Apprentice.  Both times, by the same man who midwifed The Apprentice and is now the president of the United States of America, President Donald John Trump. 

ICHEOKU says provided the divorce is amicable and that Omarosa went out somewhat satisfied and not feeling so humiliated, such that she will seek a revenge, the White House would have certainly and successfully dodged the bullet. Otherwise the White House would have been minded to go watch the "Diary of a mad black woman" and see the freight train headed their way, a public relations disaster. Omarosa has such a strong personality that scares any man shitless and a mad Omarosa is capable of shaking the White House down to its foundations with sleazy and salacious account of her experience therein. A woman scorned is the worst thing anyone could wish on their worst enemy,  a Lucifer turned loose from the pits of hell, a matter made worse if the woman is a black woman and one as feisty as Omarosa Manigault. 

Omarosa Manigault now joins a retinue of been there in the White House and now no more there former staffers of President Donald John Trump's White House. An ever growing list of previously hired and fired, gone from the White House former staffers which is now elongated with Omarosa's addition. ICHEOKU says may be it is about time the former staffers form an association of former PDJT staffers, who have now been shoved aside and put out of the limelight of the White House. A reality show can also spine off from their collective experiences, which could be turned into a nation-wide event and sure, people will tune in to watch and hopefully learn the utmost secret workings of the White House. But no one exactly knows what it is that happened at the White House that led to her being let go. ICHEOKU hopes that like Las Vegas and her predecessors in being fired, that Omarosa would let what happened in the White House to stay in White House. So long Oma.

ALABAMA LOST ELECTION: PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP TWEETS

"Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!" - President DonaldJohn Trump.

ICHEOKU says definitely a new way in American politics, teaching the old politicians how to play modern politics without bitterness. The peoples president is leading the way and American deplorables are in tow. Way to go.

ROY MOORE LOSES ALABAMA SENATE SEAT

ICHEOKU says all the effort were not enough to see himthrough the finish line. The armada of forces amassed against him was almost humanly insurmountable. Election is one crazy thing and the lynch mob successfully took down a good man who would have been great for Alabamans. 

The take Roy Moore out conspiracy played their last joker by fielding in a Write In ex-marine ultra conservative candidate and he snatched over 20,000 votes conservative votes which would have been more than enough to win the election. But hey, the sun will still come up tomorrow morning, regardless. 

ICHEOKU says congratulations to Doug Jones onhis election victory, as Alabama now switches from red Republican to blue Democrat Senate seat. Salute

ALABAMANS SHOW ROY MOORE SOME LOVE: VOTE ROY MOORE

ICHEOKU says the long awaited Tuesday December 12th 2017 is finally here for the people of the Great State of Alabama to tell Washington DC to mind their gaddam business and stay the heck out of Alabama's internal affairs matter. VOTE ROY MOORE.

ROY MOORE IS THE ONE: VOTE ROY MOORE

ALABAMA VOTES ROY MOORE. ON TUESDAY DECEMBER 12TH, 2017 ALABAMANS WILL VOTE TO SEND A MAN WHO FEARS GOD TO Washington DC TO HELP PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP CONTINUE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. VOTE ROY MOORE FOR SENATE !

PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP SPEAKS IN PENSACOLA FLORIDA.

ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump is coasting to an easy second term victory come 2020. Simply put, there is no visible nor invisible competitor out there, not in the Democratic Party and neither inside the Republican Party to take him on. A matter made worse because he has single handily demolished every potential prospective presidential wanna be in the Republican Party. Boy, is the president good. Yes indeed the boy is good and he did not win the presidency for no reason. He is damn good and he gives one heck of good speeches and he backs them up too. Simply unopposed for second term. 

ROY MOORE: VOTE THE PEOPLES CHOICE FOR ALABAMA SENATE SEAT

ICHEOKU says it does not matter what the Washington Swamp establishment says or wants; the fact of the matter is that they should butt out from a purely internal affairs matter of the people of the great State of Alabama. Alabamans have the final say on who represents them in the United States' Senate and peradventure in the matter of Roy Moore. They are constitutionally so entitled and they will freely exercise that their right to send their preferred candidate to Washington DC as their elected Senator. 

ICHEOKU says allegations of what supposedly happened four decades ago should not be such a shaming circumstance to warrant his rejection by the people. He is a victim of the Lynch mob Washington Swamp dwellers who are afraid and scared stiff of the erudite judge and a morally upright man coming to keep an eye on them. This is the only gas in they tank which is fueling their maniacal madness to stop and prevent by all and every means necessarily his practically assured election. Whatever it was that he allegedly did, most likely flirting with younger women; but it was not rape neither was it molestation. If, could have risen to such a character damaging and impugning conduct as to be egregious enough to warrant and justify his rejection, but it did not. 

For over forty years since, Roy Moore has remained on the narrow straight path and a real Christina warrior of God and his time has now come to go to the United States if America Senate to continue his defense of what is right and American; and not worry about what a few detractors has to say, provided it satisfies God. ICHEOKU heretofore, affirms the earlier endorsement of few months ago and urge Alabamans to troop out en-masse and use their vote to tell Washington DC to stay the hell out of their business; and that they are old enough to know one of their own sons better than the Swamp megaphone tabloid Washington Post. VOTE TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE SWAMP; VOTE TO ELECT ROY MOORE. I am ICHEOKU and I approve this message.

ROY MOORE: THE PEOPLES CHOICE

ICHEOKU says VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE. VOTE ROY MOORE