AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY MUSCLE: OVERLY SKEWED AGAINST RUSSIA.

ICHEOKU says but that notwithstanding, Vladimir Putin has no sympathy of most people because of what he represents, the old Soviet Union and its reclusive and repressive mindset which does not augur well for economic emancipation. His fanatical believe in using weapons, threats of warfare and intimidation as instruments of cohesion and that the developing hypersonic missiles will give him an edge in any war with the West and/or bestow him international respect is imbecilic and obsolete thinking. Which problems have such tools ever solved?

China is not receiving such drummed-down treatment from Washington DC because they have economic muscle, and money still talks as bullshit continues to walk. The United States of America always shows some deference in dealing with Beijing, afraid that any disrespectful highhandedness might force Beijing to turn off the faucet of manufactures which waters America's economic and social wellbeing. The fact that China also holds a lot of America's treasury bills and bonds helps their leverage as the saying goes, he who pays the piper calls the tunes; or as Murphy's law would rather put it, he who has the gold has the power. 

So, yes, Russia's maximum leader Tsar Vladimir Putin is oblivious of the consequential facts of the 21st century that economic might commands more respect and deference than all the weapons of warfare a country can muster, especially when the citizens of his country are not living happily ever after and would readily flee Russia given the slightest opportunity. But how exactly does Vladimir Putin plan to expend all those weapons which he is depriving his country men and women the essentials of good living just to produce. Except that he is a dictator and exerting fear is his only asset of maintaining his power hold; and therefore he must have weapons and make occasional threats in order to keep Russians and their neighboring countries in check and captive to his desire to lead them for life. 

A thoughtless third world-like mindset because he selectively forgot that he will eventually die some day and with no apparent successor groomed and ready to step into his oversized Russian shoes on day one, his absence will leaving Russia quaking in its boots. Why anybody would stay in power as long as Vladimir Putin have stayed in power and still expects to be respected by the international community is simply numbskull. Even as anti democracy as China and Iran are perceived to be, both countries still periodically changes their leaders, irrespective of how the outcome was reached. 

The important thing is that unlike Vladimir Putin and his Russia, there is no single individual in either China or Iran who parades himself or herself as the lifeblood of the country, without who the country will perish. It reminds ICHEOKU of the erstwhile Romanian despot Nikolai Ceausescu who got so power drunk that he proclaimed himself the spirit of the Danube river, without who the river will stop flowing. What an idiot he was who selectively forgot that when he was born he met the river flowing and long after his pitiful demise through a public execution several decades ago, the river is still flowing. 

But it is power and power corrupts absolutely that some people get drunk on it, one of its current victim being Vladimir Putin of Russia who is steadily morphing into a Russian version of Nikolai Ceausescu. It is a shame of Russia that they have tolerated this fella for this long and continuing, that he is now possibly the longest serving head of government anywhere in the world. Vladimir Putin came into power in 1999 when Bill Clinton was president of the United States of America and four presidents later, George Bush junior, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and now Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin is still dictating to the Russian Federation. He killed off the opposition and any risen voice of decent, he summarily silences.

How does anyone, especially Vladimir Putin and his minions and sycophantic enablers explain this aberration that in a supposedly developed world Russia, one man has been in charge of affairs therein and for over two decades. Is he the only one who can lead Russia; and even if we are to accept that premise for the purposes of this essay, what then becomes the fate of Russia the day he finally takes his last breath as every mortal is bound to do some day? People do not like what Vladimir Putin is dragging Russia through and this is why certain decisions are always taken against Russia on protest of Vladimir Putin to drive the message that he needs to yield power and step aside. 

So, it is understandable when Washington DC treats Vladimir Putin with less respect than should be deserving of a Russian leader as he has diminished himself so much by perpetuating himself in power, and without much improvement in the lives of his Russian citizens to show for it. China is booming and actively competing with the United States of America in nearly every sphere, particularly in the internet technology based space. Almost every breakthrough technology which America has, China has an equivalent competitor, regardless of how they acquired it; which often times come from stealing American technology through active poaching and reversed engineering. 

But what does Russia have to show for their life under Vladimir Putin, practically nothing; as Vladimir Putin is concerned more with perpetuating himself in office rather than creating the enabling environment for brilliant Russians to thrive and flourish by exploring the limitless potentials of the internet technology and taking its fullest advantage. This wondrous science gift to mankind has left Russians behind as they are still lagging much behind comparatively. Now, he has amassed thousand of young Russians soldiers at the border with Ukraine and trying to order them into a certain early deaths, in a war which he can foolishly start if he chooses to, but which he can never win nor be able to end on terms dictated by Kremlin. 

Why Vladimir Putin is still bogged down in the old Soviet Union prism with rigid borders and demanding to maintain or rather retain the control of the ancient boundaries is beyond ICHEOKU and at best, stupidity defined. Why must he dictate to Ukraine which countries and alliances Kiev can maintain friendship with or join. So what, if Ukraine used to be part of the old Soviet bloc, it is an independent country and free to make its own foreign affairs decisions as it sees fit. For a man who divorced his first wife to insist that Ukraine cannot divorce Russia is simply laughable and the height of convolution. Or is there something in the waters of Sochi that  alters mindsets and impairs rational thinking. 

In as much as ICHEOKU does not believe that war is the best way to solving problems, but Vladimir Putin has become such a twisted fella, bordering on nauseating, that if he wants war, let war be given to him. He stole Georgia's Ossetia and Abkhazia; and most recently, Ukrainian Donbas and Crimea; and now he is threatening further forceful land grabs in Ukraine. It is good that the United States of America and NATO have taken a firm stand to help Ukraine defend its territory from any Vladimir Putin's stupid order on his soldiers to commence a forward eastern thrust into Ukraine. 

ICHEOKU says Vladimir Putin should be checkmated and not allowed another inch of any Ukrainian territorial space, land and sea; and if such a decision leads to a third world war, so be it as the rest of the law abiding world can successfully meet such a challenge frontally. Enough of Vladimir Putin's despotic roguery. Ukraine shall be free and so shall Russia be also free some day, both countries forever freed from the Bonaparte-ic Vladimir Putin's suffocating stranglehold. Viva Ukraine! Long live the Russian Federation, with Vladimir Putin in its rearview mirror of freedom and economic progress. #DeEscalate 

OKWADIKE, PLEASE NOT IN OUR NAME: NDIGBO WILL NOT BEG TO SERVE NIGERIA.

ICHEOKU says if Ndigbo must first beg, prostrate and bow down before they can be allowed the presidency of Nigeria, what message exactly does that send across the country. That Ndigbo are not Nigerian bona fides that they must be subjected to such oddities which did not apply to other Nigerians who similarly sought the office in the past. Yoruba people did not beg, prostrate and bow down to other Nigerians before their Olusegun Obasanjo was allowed into Aso Rock. Fulani people did not beg, prostrate and bow down to other Nigerians before their Umaru Yar'Adua was allowed the presidency of Nigeria. 

How about Goodluck Jonathan? When exactly did his Edwin Clark led Ijaw people beg, prostrate and bow down to Nigerians before he did a five years stint in Aso Rock? At present, another Fulani man Muhammadu Buhari is in Aso Rock and those nomadic cattle rearers at no time ever begged, prostrated nor bowed down to other Nigerians before their second coming into Aso Rock. So, why must Nidgbo be treated any differently; and as if the stance of these other Nigerians who are demanding the total submission and servile supplication of Ndigbo to them is not enough insult already on our collective psyche, Okwadike Chukwuemeka Ezeife felt that adding insult to the injury is acceptable? 

By accepting their asinine narrative and agreeing that Ndigbo will beg, prostrate and bow down to other Nigerians to secure a berth in Aso Rock, the goatee former governor certainly crossed the line. What use was that statement or has those other tribes which successfully sent their own wards to Aso Rock had any much improved and better life themselves, such that Ndigbo will now become so desperate to also have a better life by also landing one of their own ward in Aso Rock? Why stoop so low if service to the country is the primary objective for Ndigbo seeking the office, as the statement has the connotation that some other ulterior motive is rather driving the quest. The implication is that an already wary other Nigerians will become more apprehensive and more determined not to acquiesce nor allow it to come to fruition. 

What was Okwadike thinking when he made such a pitiful statement and on whose behalf did he exactly say what he said, anyway? He is neither the spokesperson of Oha-Na-Eze Ndigbo nor does he speak for Ndigbo as a people, so under what authority did he speak those words of diminishment. Such unguarded and thoughtless statement should never have been blurted out by Okwadike and should therefore be rejected, condemned, disclaimed and disavowed as not Ndigbo's. It should be dismissed as an irresponsible utterance of a man possibly suffering from some old age related mental malaise, which prevented him from first thinking through and fully understanding the weighty ramifications of what he said. 

Why is such a condescended position acceptable and ok for Ndigbo to go through just for the presidency of Nigeria, especially after seeing how Goodluck Jonathan was transfixed like a deer in the headlight at Aso Rock and couldn't do much for his Niger Delta during his lengthy five years sojourned in Aso Rock. Recall that the Yoruba monstrosity Obafemi Awolowo had asked Nigerians to allow him only 24 hours in Aso Rock, yet Jonathan spent a total of 43,828.8 hours therein without lifting the fortunes of the Niger Delta region. Why does Okwadike think that the same cabal which checkmated Jonathan will not go into an overdrive in policing and sabotaging an Igbo president just to make him or her look bad, incompetent and ineffective? So, why the unnecessary begging for the area? 

Why does Okwadike think that the same cabal will not even engineer a military coup against such an Igbo president using an Igbo military officer as a front? Why sound so desperate for presidential power or has any governor in the Southeast performed so exceptionally well to suggest that a Nigeria president of Igbo extraction will be better than any other president of other extractions, to warrant becoming so desperate to get him or her into Aso Rock and showcase Igbo president. Their records speak for themselves and they are nothing to write home about. Moreso, in a democracy that requires majority of elected congress to get anything done, there are no guarantees that such an Igbo president will not be purposely hamstrung and rendered ineffective by the majority of other Nigerians members of Congress just to discredit Ndigbo. 

ICHEOKU says not even the need for equity is enough to justify Okwadike's statement as such begged for presidency will come with too many attached strings that would simply render such e president lame duck and completely immobilized. What if those other Nigerians make demands for positions in such an Igbo president government that will literally leave him or her in a similar quandary, if not worse, than Aguiyi Ironsi found himself in; and make it possible for present day TY Danjumas to strike mercilessly again? If Ndigbo beg for the presidency and get it, with key ministries and top security positions negotiated out to other tribes, how then is such an emerged Igbo president going to be effective in office and also improve the lot of the Southeast? 

Cardinal rule 101 of any quest for power is never to be in a position of weakness because such a position does not offer something that commands a serious negotiating state. Okwadike should instead of begging, prostrating and bow down for other Nigerians, have concentrated his  energy on how to facilitate the complete withdrawal of Ndigbo from Nigeria; and then relax and watch Nigerians speedily beg Ndigbo to please take the presidency. But that golden opportunity was missed when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu recklessly and carelessly allowed himself to be captured like a mouse in Kenya, and forcibly brought back to Nigeria in handcuffs and leg chains. 

Like former President Donald John Trump said of Senator John McCain, many people prefer those heroes who were not captured; and ICHEOKU subscribes to the sentiment as it applies to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Onyendu was much beloved before his capture. He was the biggest asset for a would have been an assured negotiated Igbo presidency, being the greatest fear of the North from the entire Southeast. But with him now caged like an animal, the North no longer cares about what Ndigbo thinks nor feels as they have weathered the fiercest Mazi Nnamdi Kanu storm and came out stronger and even more determined to continue with their self-perpetuation in power and the marginalization of Ndigbo as a people.

Why would Muhammadu Buhari therefore seriously consider appeasing Ndigbo with the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu when he no longer has any compelling and derivative benefit from doing so. This is why he told the Mbazulike Amaechi led group that he will think about their request to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and did not give them his words that he will release him. A more positively disposed Buhari's government can literally end the case against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu this very minute by filing a nolle prosequi with the court. But the president belong to some people and will likely succumb to the pressure of the 95% and eventually come out to say that after thinking through the request, he arrived at the conclusion that nothing good will come out of releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and decided to leave him in detention. 

The Buhari government no longer has any real motivation to negotiate with the Southeast and it does not matter to them if the sit at home crushes the entire economy of the Southeast, as that there has always been the intention of other Nigerians. They all want the same thing, to bring the Southeast to eternal ruination. Obafemi Awolowo tried; Muritala Mohammed tried; Olusegun Obasanjo tried; even Goodluck Jonathan tried and Muhammadu Buhari is presently prosecuting the same vicious experiment to bring the Southeast down with all the fibers of his being. Has anybody ever wondered why Muhammadu Buhari, who once mooted the idea of negotiating an end to the Southeast crisis no longer appears interested in exploring such leeway. He has his most feared Igbo foe in custody and no longer has a need to negotiate a rest of the mind.

What Okwadike said was an insult on Ndigbo as a people. It amounts to what Ebami Eda Fela Anikulapo Kuti of the blessed memory would call "unnecessary begging for area" and you ask yourself, why? Now other Nigerians are jumping on the statement to castigate and cast aspersions on Ndigbo, with one Abdul-Azeez Suleiman saying that the statement automatically disqualifies Ndigbo from ever being trusted with power in the near future. ICHEOKU says have Ndigbo ever been trusted with power in Nigeria, even in the distant past, to warrant this pinhead's insult? But Okwadike fetched the ants infested firewood with his comment and now this uncircumcised lizard has come to feast on Ndigbo's honor.

Just read here following this bovine's vituperative words and reach your own conclusion as you may please: 

"The bitter truth is that no matter how low the Igbo are willing to go or how long they are willing to keep their knees on the ground, it will be unreasonable to expect other Nigerian tribes, not least the North, to risk entrusting the presidency in them. It is said that once bitten, twice shy and the current northern thinking is beyond the repeated deceptions such as this one by the Igbo which at every turn, results in tragedy. We see the recent belated desperation by the Igbo as nothing but an afterthought that is downright unacceptable. It is deceptive for them to make such overtures after having encouraged and supported Nnamdi Kanu and the atrocities committed against other Nigerians, particularly northerners by his IPOB. If the Igbo must prostrate to anyone, they should prostrate to Kanu as the North has come of age and shall not be deceived or fooled any longer."

ICHEOKU says Okwadike did this to Ndigbo. He created the enabling environment which brought about this (public assault) insult on Ndigbo by this gworo-chewing mallam. Why cut Ndigbo down at the knee with such a statement, thereby defeating the very primary essence for which Ndigbo are seeking the presidency, which is to serve Nigerians and help fix what is broken in Nigeria. Saying that Ndigbo will do just anything to secure the presidency including begging, prostrating, genuflecting and bowing down to other Nigerians telegraphs a particular message that there is a sinister motive behind the Ndigbo's quest for the presidency. Just ask yourself, which Nigerian will not be triggered by the statement with regard to what could possibly happen to them the day after an Igbo person is sworn in as president, that would cause Ndigbo to suddenly be prepared to stoop so low just to secure the presidency. 

ICHEOKU says the Igbo man does not kneel down or prostrate and will not do so to other Nigerians, not even for the presidency of Nigeria. Like every other tribe and group of people in Nigeria, Ndigbo are entitled to seek the the presidency of Nigeria and if they want the presidency, they should be prepared to work hard for it. To do this, they must first jettison the mental encumbrance of feeling that they are "not full citizens of Nigeria", a complex which is inhibiting them politically in Nigeria. We already know that other Nigerians do not like Ndigbo and as far as it concerns Ndigbo, the notions of fairness, equity, unity and justice are but fairly tales and do not apply. So, if Okwadike likes, he can swallow all the prides in this world and beg all he wants to beg, other Nigerians will never willingly and voluntarily hand presidential powers over to Ndigbo. 

Power is not gifted but taken, either violently by force or through cunning, guile and deceit; admitted sometimes it could be negotiated, but you have to first have something to negotiate with, a kind of a real trade off. But Ndigbo have little to nothing to negotiate with, especially now that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been captured and caged. They are also not as strongly united to speak with one voice and act with one common purpose; such as using their economic stronghold to threaten a withdrawal of their services in the country tp force the issue and bring other Nigerians to the negotiation table. Imagine the economic ruination which would befall Nigeria the day Ndigbo decides to lockup their shops/stores throughout Nigeria just for a few days or to go one month without importing any goods into Nigeria. 

But Ndigbo are not yet serious with reasserting themselves in Nigeria and taking back what rightfully is their own portion of the Nigeria political space. So until then, any Igbo president produced through such a beggarly manner will be beleaguered just like Goodluck Jonathan. Such a president will also be beholden to the cabal and other groups of Nigerian people that signed off on their placement in Aso Rock and will spend his or time trying to suck up to them at the expense of Ndigbo. If Nigerians therefore cannot suspend their distrust and morbid fear of Ndigbo to enable them freely vote to elect Onye Igbo as president, so be it. But getting into that office should not come with such eating of poop by Ndigbo and it is not worth selling Ndigbo so short nor for Ndigbo to first lick too many dirty stinking behinds just to be allowed into Aso Rock. Okwadike got it all wrong and what he said is both pitiful and sad; and of course not in our name!

CHRIS CUOMO, YOU'RE FIRED!

ICHEOKU says the only person who probably did not see it coming was the junior Cuomo himself. He most likely felt that being such a heavy hitter for the network with the highest rating show, and having gotten away with several other termination-deserving infra-digs in the past, that he would most likely also get over the latest one. 

But unfortunately for him, his luck ran out and he now joins his brother, the senior Cuomo, as fired former employees who are now back on the job market. Hopefully, they will be able to find  new employers who will brave their current toxicity and hire them. A likely tall order as employers will be wary of infecting their businesses with the Cuomo name, a name which is no longer as valued as it once was. His best option is probably to strike it out on his own, go back to law practice or start a weight lifting/physical fitness business or the manufacturing of giant cotton swabs.

However, some people are questioning if CNN would have fired Chris Cuomo were he a homosexual and/or a white boy and not a Mediterranean Italian? Would CNN have summarily disposed of him in this manner just because he helped his senior brother with some legal problems, the fact that he is their highest rating anchor considered; in addition to his other previous deeds which the present offense did not even measure up to. Why now or is it because his protector, the once probable future president of America, his senior brother Andrew Cuomo, was himself kneecapped and neutered and thrown to the wolves to devour. If CNN were still enmeshed in courting a good relationship with a future President Andrew Cuomo, would they have pushed his junior brother Chris Cuomo over the cliff?

Chris Cuomo should have smelled the coffee and resigned immediately CNN suspended him indefinitely and that way, retained some honor in a resignation rather than wait and hope in vain only to be finally terminated in ignominy. Now, all his past will cascade upon him as some of the women who had accused him of unwanted sexual behaviors might begin to come after him. It is possible that he gave it a thought but was probably carried away, dissuaded by believing that since he has beat worse cases in the past with the network, that such a dying network cannot afford to lose their best ratings anchor. But the network shocked him as well as millions of other people who believed, as Chris did believe too, that his show inoculated him just like the coronavirus vaccine, except that they all forgot to factor in that incidences of breakthrough cases do exist. 

Will he go groveling back to FoxNews, his former employer, which might be a good chance for him to get back on television? Only that they will be very reluctant to rehire him because he walked away from them once and he is presently very radioactive; moreso their parting of ways was not very cordial. Also, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity will definitely not want him on their network because of their age-long media rating rivalry; and they would rather prefer to see Chris Cuomo beg on his knees and eat crumbs than willingly allow him into their practically whites-only network.

Chris Cuomo also forgot that his last name Cuomo was what got him this far in life; and that he has been freely riding the waves of life, trading on the currency of his family name until it eventually lost its glare, glamour, value and weight in gold. In fact, the Cuomo name have now literally collapsed, a fall which was triggered by the political demise of a previously potential future President Andrew Cuomo. His downfall exposed his younger brother's underbelly at the network and the daggers quickly came out, drawn. They disembowled him, exposing his entrails and the contents of his stomach. With him now also gone from CNN, that effectively brings to an end the Cuomo Brothers Comedy Central and we may not be hearing about the Cuomos until the next scandal breaks out. 

Hopefully, he will follow suit in the trail of killer Alec Baldwin and go on George Stephanopoulos ABC interview to explain himself to the world and also tell us if he plans to file a wrongful termination of employment against CNN and what his future plans are, if any currently. But whatever happens, it is good that the Cuomo Brothers chapter is now closed on CNN and that millions of rational Americans can now use one less voice in the woke culture lunacy flank which is corrupting the thought process in America. How any media person would think that they know what is best for the rest of us is simply crazy, to say the least and Chris Cuomo was so full of it.

But give it up to CNN, a round of applause as they do not spare anyone who goes against their internal "dos and don'ts". When they fired Donna Brazile for stealing debate questions and passing them on to Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton ahead of her debate with Bernie Sanders in their party primaries, some of us thought that was an exception. But with Chris Cuomo's firing, despite what he meant to the network, the network has definitely earned some pips for at least biting the bullet and doing what it considered was the right decision against an anchor for stepping on it. FoxNews lost many audience when they hired the disgraced Donna Brazile and earned themselves the cesspool of media rejects; and we shall not be too surprised if they say to Chris Cuomo, come over to our network, you're hired! Adios Mr Weightlifter.

I DIDN'T PULL THE TRIGGER: ALEC BALDWIN ADDS INSULT TO INJURY.

ICHEOKU says before him was the other finger wagging and eye darting "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms Lewinsky" none denial denial by then President Bill Clinton. So killer Alec Baldwin is not the first perpetrator to ever try to pull a wool over our eyes about their involvement in a crime, with their clever by half  but poorly executed, "it wasn't me" nonsensical. 

Why Alec Baldwin has not been arrested thus far and charged for the murder of Halyna Hutchins is simply mind boggling and defies every logic of criminal prosecution. ICHEOKU says strongly believes that if Alec Baldwin was not part of the leftist woke culture club of America that the woke District Attorney of Santa Fe would have spared him this far and cause delay in triggering the wheel of justice after him.

The gun was in his hand when a live bullet left its chamber and traveled through the heart of the cinematographer killing her instantly and then ricocheted into the shoulder of the producer. It is irrelevant to his culpability whether someone else put the live bullet into the gun and that he did not have knowledge about the actual state of affairs regarding the presence of a live bullet in the gun. The canon safety rule 101 of gun handling is to always assume and treat every gun as loaded with live ammunition, the reason guns are handled with utmost care with their nozzle pointed downwards and away from people and never at them.

But Alec Baldwin breached all the safety rules of gun handling and in fact, actually did pull the trigger that fired the shot which killed Halyna Hutchins and wounded producer Joel Souza on his shoulder. Even if we are, for the heck of argument, to believe his tall tale by the moonlight that the gun had a mind of its own, a zombie gun, and fired itself; did the gun also point its business end at and aimed at the chest of Halyna and shoulder of Joel? It is unbelievably simplistic and callous on his part to come up with such idiotic and imbecilic explanation that he did not pull the trigger of the gun. If he did not, who did; an imaginary ghost finger? 

How does he think the widower of Halyna Hutchins would feel hearing his latest absurdity of a vomit that he did not fire the gun that took the life of his beloved wife and mother of his children. Instead of being contrite and remorseful, he has the audacity of stupid to adduce such a lunatic denial of responsibility and you wonder what type of mind altering hallucinatory compounds this guy ingests on a regular basis? Why is he not listening to the advise of his lawyers and keeping his foul mouth shut or does he think that taking the life of another person is just another SNL joke and that he can get away with it by simply denying he did it. 

It is about time Alec Baldwin is saved from himself by putting him through the ringer of the justice system to atone for his killing of Halyna Hutchins; or at least found not guilty of it by a jury of his peers. Why such flippancy and outright insult on our general collective intelligence and experience, that a gun in his hand turned into a zombie gun, aimed itself at the chest of Halyna  and fired itself, killing her. If he did not point and aim the gun at Halyna's chest, even if the gun had misfired, it would still not have struck her in the midsection. 

But he wants us to believe that they were rehearsing a scene and Halyna told him to point the gun at her armpit, really? She was just a camera woman and not the director, so why would she tell Alec where to point the gun. She is no longer around to make her own case and state what transpired and Alec is definitely taking an advantage of her unavailability with this implausible tale. So what exactly is this choleric Alec Baldwin saying or can't he ever man up and be responsible enough for once and take responsibility for his action. Must everything be seen by him through the prism of Saturday Night Live jokes including causing the death of Halyna Hutchins. 

It is now more than one month since October 21st 2021 when pointed and aimed a loaded gun with live bullets at Halyna Hutchins, fired it and killed on the movie set of Rust at Bonanza Creek Ranch Santa Fe New Mexico and also wounded the producer Joel Souza, still no arrest or charges. Why this advertisement at public opinion and the is he not keeping a low profile, at least until the DA makes her decision about the case, whether or not to press charges. Why was even ABC his choice for the interview and not NBC, the station he worked for as Trump imitator? 

A very irascible rascal who might very soon too, also tell us that his hand and finger acted on their own accord as zombie appendages. A gun in his hand fired itself without the trigger being pulled or rather was pulled by an invisible finger. Why this guy has not been since put away over this murder, or at least stopped talking about the case and causing so much irritation and hurt to his victims' families is beyond ICHEOKU. Does he not appreciate that some of what he is saying today will likely come to bite him in the future, and that he will someday be asked to actually explain how a gun in his hand fired off a bullet without him prompting the triggering process. It is sad. 

CHRIS CUOMO SUSPENDED BY CNN: THE CURSE OF THE CUOMO BROTHERS.

ICHEOKU says this might be the long overdue opportunity for the weight lifting brother of the disgraced former New York Governor Andrew "randy" Cuomo to finally follow his head and part ways with the network. It is a well known fact that Chris Cuomo is not particularly happy working for CNN and would have possibly since left if not for the fat contract which he has with them. He has lashed out in the past at his paycheck signers over some internal practices in the network, including writing very subjective opinion scripts and compelling anchors and anchorets to lip through them as news like mind numbed robots without much input.

So, a furious Chris Cuomo, suspended over a matter as seemingly trivial as helping his brother marshal out defense for some sexual molestations accusations against him, might just decide to call it quits. Doing so will help him preempt the network from having the last laugh by firing him as they will most likely eventually do. But will he find the courage to finally pull the trigger and escape from the purgatory that working for CNN has been for him; or will the mouthwatering contract he is enslaved to, continue to humble him and secure his servile silence and pretense love for the network. 

It is on record that Chris Cuomo have done many things in the past which ordinarily would have  warranted his dismissal from the network, but had survived due to his show's fairly high rating compared to other shows on the failing network. For CNN to now muster the courage to  suspend him indefinitely over his involvement in the elder Cuomo's troubles, despite being the golden goose of the network, shows that the younger Cuomo is in serious neck deep trouble; and might not be returning back to the network barring a miracle. His indefinite suspension now is an overkill, a case of punishing him when it is not deserving. 

What is wrong with advising one's brother in trouble and in a personal capacity; or does his anchoring for CNN preclude him from having a personal, private life? Chris Cuomo is a lawyer by training and his working for CNN does not make him no longer a lawyer or incapable of giving legal advise, paid or pro bono; especially to his family member, his elder brother. It is his big brother that was accused of sexual molestations of many women and like a good brother, he volunteered his help by offering some advise on how to defend the accusations. What is wrong with that and is it worth suspending him indefinitely from the network? 

The only plausible explanation to the sanction is that the network has long had it with him and now merely using the thrown up opportunity to finally get rid of him. For them, there is no more a potential future President Andrew Cuomo to be afraid of; and with the protector of Chris Cuomo  forever gone with the wind of sexual scandal, Chris underbelly became exposed to their long knives, thus triggering such a rash, harsh action. He offered the advise to his brother as a family, and a private, personal counsel; and not in his capacity as a CNN anchor and it should therefore  not be sufficient nor enough reason to warrant his ouster from the network. 

Any lawyer-brother or sister for that matter, would similarly come to the aid of a brother or sister in any legal trouble. Offering his advise did not mean that he condones what his brother allegedly did nor approved of it. He merely suggested best ways possible to defend the sexual allegations and to help save his political career, admitted his effort was not successful. Therefore, as far as ICHEOKU is concerned, Chris Cuomo threat to "fuck up" the guy at a train station in New York was more egregious and far more reputation-damaging to CNN for having a "brutish thug" on its payroll than his giving private legal advise to his brother. 

Ordinarily, his being a straight guy and a high-rating anchor in a network that is nearly saturated with homosexuals, makes him an already marked for elimination outsider; and they just ceased the latest opportunity to do the dirty deed. For a network that is struggling and barely clinging to life, and literally comatose in viewership and rating, letting go of their highest rating anchor rather  looks like committing a harakiri, unless the network no longer cares anymore about its survivability. Why the harsh punishment for such so little "misjudgment" on his part if it is not settling old scores.

But whatever happens, getting rid of Chris Cuomo is definitely a gain for reason and rationality as one hopelessly biased voice of wokeism have now been silenced. Whether the shutout becomes permanently or not, at least there will be peace for the righteous wing of the political divide for the duration of his absence on television. ICHEOKU can live with that; admitted the punishment is more severe than the supposed offensive act. 

As the saga of the curse of the Cuomo Brothers continues to wreck havoc on the Cuomo family, there will be no more mega sized Q-tips display on the Cuomo Brothers Comedy Central on CNN.  It is possible too that very soon, even the Cuomo name might become such a pariah that people bearing it as their last name might be forced to do a change of name just to avoid the close association to a name that is now becoming infamous in America. What a tragic end of the road for the two Cuomo brothers, a once powerful family siblings. Life often pulls cruel jokes on people and the Cuomo brothers are its current victims. It is sad.

OMICRON VARIANT: SOUTH AFRICA TRAVEL BAN AND THE POLITICS OF CORONAVIRUS.

ICHEOKU says nearly two years after, the debate is still raging on as to where the original coronavirus contagion came from. So far, the world has refused to reach a conclusion and/or  acknowledge that Wuha China incubated the coronavirus. According to the world, the evidence is still too fluidly and very much inconclusive to categorically say where the coronavirus originated. But the same cautionary approach which China benefitted from is not being extended to other countries with regard to the various mutants of the coronavirus aka its variants. 

The latest being the Omicron variant which the same world has already rushed to point their accusing finger at South Africa as its place of origin without any affirmative evidence in support. But as it has turned out, the Omicron variant was in the Netherlands long before it was discovered in South Africa, thus begging the question, the chicken or the egg, which one came first? ICHEOKU says if the Omicron was in the Netherlands first, why then was South Africa designated as its origin or is the world trying so desperately to give the proverbial dog a bad name in order to hang it. 

First, they were disappointed that the coronavirus did not take as much toll in Africa as they have gleefully anticipated and hoped for. To their chagrin, Africa not only survived the contagion but fared far much too better than the so called developed "first" world countries, with their leader America being the worst hit by the scourge. As it ended up, the whole Africa did not lose even 10% of what America lost and this fact must be making them so mad that they are gearing up for their vengeance. Now they are now imposing travel ban on countries in Africa which they are continuously extending and will soon impact every country in Africa. Why?

There is something fishy about the coronavirus pandemic which has not been told or publicly made known. What is the world really hiding about the actual truth behind the contagion or is there a hidden agenda in play which is yet to completely unfold. Africa, which the world will not provide food to eat and help starve off famine or clean water to drink, nor even help to tackle its other myriad of life challenging problems which have continuously been claiming millions of lives in Africa, is the epicenter of attention over the coronavirus. The world theories have ranged from the devastation which the coronavirus will cause in Africa, to the need for getting Africa enough coronavirus vaccines, and now Omicron deadly variant of the coronavirus came from Africa requiring travel ban when Omicron was first discovered in Europe. 

The generated hysteria is coming despite the fact that Omicron has not killed anyone just yet or in large numbers; nor does it manifest more debilitating symptoms than its mother coronavirus or other variants which have so far showed up. Yet, they are already banning travels from South Africa and other African countries when the same world condemned then President Donald John Trump for initially placing travel ban on China at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. ICHEOKU recalls vividly how many world leaders, including the World Health Organization, that condemned the president's action, insisting that countries cannot close off itself from the coronavirus and that the best approach for tackling the virus is to join hands together and fight it as a team of one. 

So, what changed now with the case of South Africa and the Omicron variant, a variant which did not even originate from South Africa or is it a case of different peoples and different measures, treatments and approaches? Was it because China was "too big to fail" and that the world cannot do without its manufacture and products that necessitated its protection from isolation? If South Africa was not Africa or was as effective in the world as China or any other premier country in the world, would there have been a travel ban on it? But it is the politics of the world and it is dispensed according to the strength and indispensability of countries, the reason a South Africa which did not gift the world with the Omicron variant is now being unnecessarily punished with isolation through a travel ban. 

It is a well known fact that simply isolating a country does not necessarily contain whatever might be inside it from escaping its shores and borders. As America rudely found out with the ravaging penetration of the coronavirus despite all the effort it made to close itself off and protect itself from the rest of the world, the coronavirus still penetrated it. It wrecked untoward havoc in huge loss of human lives and is still raging on with more than one thousand Americans still dying every day from the scourge. So, what then is the use of isolating South Africa despite the futility of such effort; a matter made worse because the country is being punished for what it did not do. South Africa did not give the world the Omicron variant, rather Netherland did; and if any country should or must be punished with isolation, it should be Netherland and not South Africa. Lift the travel ban and do it now!

CORONAVIRUS SCOURGE: WHAT IS THE REAL PANACEA?

803,045 coronavirus killed dead Americans as of today December 1st, 2021. The number is staggeringly mind numbing. It is sad that after nearly two years, the Chinese contagion is still taking its toll on the world. May their souls find some rest IJN.

JACK DORSEY (MR RASPUTIN) FINALLY MOVING ON FROM TWITTER.

ICHEOKU says whether it was by his own volition or he was eventually, finally forced out at last, it really does not matter; at least not any more. He should have left a long time ago ever before he caused so much harm to free speech and by extension, democracy. Any person who would prevent a president of the United States of America from communicating to millions of his followers and fans world wide is one heck of a communist-socialist who does not mean well for both democracy and equal rights for all. 

Therefore, Mr Rasputin can go to hell with his owning the decision to leave Twitter and stay there until it freezes over. It does not a difference make on how his departure was contrived as he damaged Twitter in so many ways by unduly politicizing it such that it has become a woke citadel. He used Twitter as a political wedge tool and succeeded in dividing Americans, and pitied them against each other. He also antagonized over 64 million MAGA-nation members and in their eyes, permanently inked himself with the scarlet letter. This is his true legacy in Twitter. What a person?

Hopefully, the Indian succeeding him will rectify the anomaly by once again repositioning Twitter as a platform where everyone can freely participate, without the need to first belong to one idiotic community of mad and angry anarchists, who readily cancels anyone who they do not approve of their viewpoint. Twitter must be reinvented and rebranded as a viewpoint neutral platform, open for everyone to freely opine their views regardless of their politics or sexual orientation or residence; otherwise the departure of Jack Dorsey would have made no difference at all. 

Many people who were forced to move on from Twitter because Jack Dorsey's policies made them feel they do not belong in the Twitter's community are closely watching the latest development, waiting to see if Parag Agrawal will be his own man and make a much needed  imprint on the company by redressing some of these wrongs and unfairnesses perpetuated by the departed communist-socialist Jack Dorsey. How Parag Agrawal moves, going forward, will determine whether Twitter meets its goal of increased twitterers by helping bring back those people who parted ways with the platform. It will also help assure the world that contrarians too have a room in the Twitter big house. Good riddance!

SPOOKED BY PETE DAVIDSON: YE NOW WANTS HIS KIM BACK.

ICHEOKU says the artist formerly known as Kanye West, now Ye, cannot withstand imagining Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson sleeping with his soon to be former wife Kim Kardashian and have decided to make a go at retrieving her from him. It is however going to be a battle to the finish, where the last man standing takes the trophy, as Pete is a tiger and will put up a good fight to defend his lucky find. 

Nobody ever said that gold digging is a concept peculiar to women alone as men too can be gold diggers. With a fortune of nearly one billion dollars to her name, any Pete Davidson that nets Kim Kardashian automatically qualifies as a gold digger numero uno. So who is it between Ye and Pete will Kim finally break for? The waiting game is on.

There is a saying that the best way to make a man jealous is to stoop down and date someone beneath him, lower in status, both financially and recognition just to spite him. It appears that KimKaid have succeeded in doing exactly this to Ye as her newly ignited romance or rather dalliance with Saturday Night Live's bad boy, Pete Davidson, has triggered Ye. Now he is charging back, although on bended knees, asking Kim to please take him back. But will Kim play ball or just continue to twist the knife in Ye's heart, having seen that what she did worked as wonderfully well as she intended, planned and executed. 

ICHEOKU says It is most likely that Kim purposely staged the dating scenes with Pete, fully aware of the emotions it will stir in Ye and it appears that she has been proved right. Imagine the number of times Ye referred to her as "my wife" in his thanksgiving speech, publicly eating his humble pie and literally on his knees, begging and pleading with Kim to please forgive him and take him back. It is the height of display of his heart's hurt, but whether it is a sincerely contrite heart or he is merely putting up the facade as a way to prevent Pete Davidson from securing his soon to be former wife is anyone's guess. 

But why did Ye wait until now, after Kim apparently have apparently moved on with her newly found paramour Pete Davidson, to seek a reconciliation with her. Was it that his ego or rather mental health disease was in the way all along that prevented him from making a move earlier; and that he decided to take the opening of his moment of lucidity to strike. He definitely went all in, in wooing her back and you ask yourself which woman will not be touched hearing that her face is one of her man's two favorite things. And that all her man thinks every day is how to get her and their children back, taking full responsibility for all his actions which led to their falling apart and blaming it on his irascible temper and bipolar disorder. 

Ye also blamed the MAGA hat for his troubles because it alienated him from his wife who did not like the idea in the first place. According to him, it made them pariahs amongst their Hollywood crowd and you wonder whether all the perceived "rebel" and "my own man" image were just stage acts. It is also rather funny that Kim Kardashian West who frequently visited the White House to see then President Donald John Trump privately thought differently about the president, just because of what their Hollywood crowd thinks of the former president. Only in Hollywood and their flukiness knows no bounds. 

Ye also blamed his "running for president" for the ruination of his marriage with Kim Kardashian. A quest which to many, including ICHEOKU, was actually a huge joke bordering on lunacy because he never stood a chance in a frozen hell in the first place. A matter made worse because the MAGA crowd, which was prior to then, beginning to take likeness of him, were completely pissed off when he denounced their beloved leader President Donald John Trump after once suckling up to him. It made many people see him as a man without character or core or conviction and simply wrote him off. That former President Barack Obama and CNN host Don Lemon have previously dismissed him as a looney, coupled with his slaves comment did not help him with black people. So, who exactly was he thinking would have taken his campaign seriously? 

ICHEOKU says whatever happens and whether or not he succeeds in lobbying Kim to take him back, he must try and leave God out of the matter as God did not ask him to fall apart with his soon to be former wife when he did. So his saying or insinuating that God wants him to reunite with Kim is rather stretching the fact to pitifulness. The implication is that he is not doing it out of his own volition and conviction of strength but because God wanted him to do it. He is seeking to be pitied and Kim might decide to do him a number by simply retorting that since it was not him who wants reconciliation but only acting because God wanted it, that she will rather wait until her own God asks her to reconcile with him. 

Making mistakes as a husband is not the real issue, but whether he now has the ability and capacity not to make the same mistakes again should Kim agree to take him back. Has he banished the demons plaguing him or are they still lurking around in his life, waiting to repossess him as soon as Kim says another yes, I will do. That is the high dollar question as even divorced people sometimes get back together and remarry; and the fact that their own divorce proceedings have been underway for some months now should not necessarily be a bar to their reconciliation should Kim equally so desires and wants. 

Anyway, although miracles sometimes do happen in life, but Ye does not necessarily need a miracle in this case. What he needs is to convince Kim that he is now a changed man and that he has permanently parted ways with his old self which caused their falling apart. She loved him once and most likely still has a soft spot for him in her heart despite the Pete Davidson's presence. But she will be very careful and will tread cautiously with any future reconciliation moves for fear of finding a Ye that has not really changed, but remains possessed by his  demons. Be that as it may, ICHEOKU wishes Ye well in his current effort to appeal to the heart strings of Kim and wishes everyone of them, including Pete Davidson, the best of luck.

AVENUE OF SPHINXES: CAIRO IS UNDULY BOGGED DOWN WITH ANCIENT EGYPT.

ICHEOKU says when will the leaders of Egypt wake up to take their own destiny with their both hands and start thinking about their own legacy instead of the excessive time and resources being wasted on digging up Egypt's ancient civilization. All the ruse about tourism and providing work for archaeologists to do notwithstanding, how about leaving the ancient ruins alone where they are and moving to establish things for the present and future Egyptians to enjoy and treasure. Why the never ending digging up of ancient remains and civilizations built by the old Egypt? 

Why this misplaced priorities that instead of building a new Egypt, putting in place legacy structures for the coming generations to inherit, does the government in Cairo obsess itself with such distraction which does not really add anything of value to the average Joe Egyptian's life; other than the distant possibility of a trickle down income from ogling tourists whenever Islamist terrorism permits them to visit. It is just too much of a distraction that the government seems to have lost focus on what present and future Egypt need most, an Egypt that is competitive in a world where only the best survives and thrives.

ICHEOKU is not writing this piece because of any antagonism against archeology or what archeologists do; but so much resources are being wasted digging up Egypt and disturbing the peace of the past Egyptians. Such skewed effort takes the government focus off what is more important for the lives and happiness of the present Egyptians as well as building things for the future Egyptians to inherit and treasure. Instead of figuring out how to keep the train rolling to the next station, they are busy fiddling with how ancient Egyptians moved about before there were trains. Why disturb the peace of ancient ruins and resting places?

It is only in Africa that such abuse of ancestral resting places are on overdrive, showing no respect to the forebears and devastating what made them who they are. A native America will kill you if you dare disturb their ancestral burial grounds. There are some road construction and pipelines laying that were forced to stop because they were to pass through such sacred sites; and in some cases, large amounts were paid first relocate these cemeteries before construction could continue. So, why is Africa and in this particular case, Egypt, so violative of its ancestral places in the name of feeding tourism. So, a few tourists will come and they will spend some money and then what? 

A case made even worse because majority of the tourists, Europeans and British, do not have their own burial places being dug up in similar fashion. Who has excavated the British Stone Henge pr dug up William Shakespeare or any of the warring kings of Britain and Europe. So why Africa? Is it laziness that is fostering this practice of an easy way out, such that instead of being creative and inventive, Africa has become so inseparably entwined with their past that it spends valuable time digging up and disturbing such solemn places. If Egyptians spend all their time enamored with their past, when will they find time to prosecute their present and pursue their future? 

Drooling on or relieving their glorious storied past is definitely anathema to creating legacies for their future generations to treasure and enjoy. What does the present crop of leaders in Egypt want posterity to remember them for, as those who dug up ancient Egypt but did nothing to ingrain their own time around on earth? If those past Egyptians did not work hard living their life and creating these legacies then, what will these crop of loafers be unearthing today? But if they must dig, at least let it not be their ancestors and their burial grounds. Other countries, when they dig, only dig for skeletal remains of extinct animals such as dinosaurs, but never their ancestors or their sacred burial grounds. 

What is happening in Egypt is of serious concern and in this days of three dimensional printing, computer generated images and other scientific empowered abilities, most of these Egyptological stories could be easily recreated and replicated without digging up and disturbing the peace of people of ancient Egypt. They should be allowed to rest undisturbed and unbothered having completed their sojourn on earth. They did their time and have gone and should be left to enjoy their earned crossover in peace. Enough of the avenues of this and that everywhere in Egypt as the world is changing too fast and before too long, nobody will be interested in seeing all these ancient things and if they must, they can do so virtually. 

But whatever might end up being the case, Africa needs to wake up and start looking forward and stop dawdling in their past. Other nations have established stations in space and making serious effort to visit and colonize Mars. They are also inventing and manufacturing things for the future, including electric vehicles that will finally someday dispense with gasoline; but Africa is still busily moored in its past. It is definitely not progressive and retrogressive thinking has never bettered anybody's lot. If what Egypt is doing is a good thing, why are other countries and nations not similarly digging up their own past; or is Egypt the only country that has a past? It is sad. 

IMMIGRATION SCANDAL IN EUROPE/UK: A RESULT OF CENTURIES OF EXPLOITATIONS.

ICHEOKU says regrettably the same European nations and the United Kingdom as well as the papacy in Rome, which excoriated then President Donald John Trump for trying to secure the United States southern border from illegal immigration gone berserk, are doing exactly the same thing now and like McDonald's, lovin it. It appears that they suddenly developed amnesia and have so soon forgotten their stand then that 'migrants are fleeing from inhumane conditions from their home countries and should be given uninhibited admission into countries where they seek asylum/refuge.' They preached the gospel of good neighborliness and emphasized that the Biblical Good Samaritan story covers such migrants; and that America must throw open its southern border to let every migrant who showed up into America, tens of thousands of them that was.

So what changed with the migrants in Europe and UK, or are they not similarly fleeing from bad situations in their home countries from where they took flight? Are there not women and children among them; and why is the marching order given to President Donald John Trump to admit all those southern border migrants not applicable to Europe and the United Kingdom? Why are their barriers everywhere in Europe preventing migrants from coming in? From Poland/Belarus border to the Sicilian Mediterranean Sea border with North Africa particularly Libya, to the strait between Spain and Morocco and now the English Channel between Northern France Calais and Southern England Dover. 

Thousands of migrants have perished on these treacherous journeys to find succor in Europe and the United Kingdom in the Mediterranean Sea, the Sahara desert and now the English Channel as they try to cross the choppy waters in makeshift dinghy inflatables. Then add the many who have frozen to death in the Belarus/Polish border because of mean hearted European leaders who have refused to show compassion to these immigrants who are only seeking a better life in Europe. The fact that these leaders were not moved by the so many women and children suffering through this hardship is sufficient to brand them as heartless and very uncaring leaders who have little to no regard for human life and dignity.

If they like they can blame human traffickers all they want but the buck stops with them to ensure that those migrants do not perish as a result of their inhuman border policing, which goes against all that they preached to President Donald John Trump. It was heart rending watching those women and children being teargassed and vicious dogs set upon them at the Poland border; and cold water jets sprayed on them in this very harsh cold winter. If that is not the height of callousness, then what else so qualifies? Yet these Europeans and British people pretend to care about human-beings and the rights of immigrants fleeing degradation, but they show a bad example. They are a set of hypocrites who preached to President Donald John Trump on what to do, but refused to live by their own example.

Even the political pope in the Vatican seems to have stopped watching the news lately as nobody has heard from him preaching the gospel of free migration, at least not any more and not into his European hosts countries. Reconcile his present taciturn to the barrage of preaching he made when President Donald John Trump was trying to get a handle over the immigration run amok at America's southern border. Angela Merkel too as well as Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron are all tepid at best with their response and have been dwelling on condemning human traffickers instead of opening their borders to allow these desperate immigrants in. 

If these Europeans and British people are as caring as they often times pretend and pass-off to be, what stops them from launching a flotilla of small boats into the English Channel and the Mediterranean Sea to patrol the waters and rescue stranded migrants before they meet their watery deaths. What stops them from launching an immigration Marshal Plan sort of, to admit millions of migrants into Europe and the United Kingdom. If Germany alone could absorb one million migrants, why can't the rest of Europe and the United Kingdom at least absorb as many too. 

A matter made more touchy because many of these migrants seeking refuge in Europe and the United Kingdom are victims of colonization as their countries were pillaged by the same European and British colonizers, who used these countries natural resources to develop and build back better Europe and Britain. Now the deprived and denied peoples of these former colonies are desperately seeking to benefit from these countries which their resources built, but the same colonial exploiters are having none of it and are ruthlessly working to prevent these migrants from berthing in their countries. 

ICHEOKU says is not an advocate of a limitless or open border immigration, but truth be told, those migrants coming from formerly colonized countries deserve to be allowed into countries which colonized them and exploited their resources. In fact they should enjoy automatic immigration visas when seeking to relocate to their colonial master's countries. It should be a beneficial consequence of the man's inhumanity to fellow man treatment meted out to these former colonies by their heartless and ruthlessly efficient colonial exploiters. Then add the imperialistic political/military adventurism in some of these countries which completely decimated their hitherto existing political and social and economic structures and left these migrants destitute and despondent, forcing them to migrate. 

It is a sad commentary watching what is going on in Europe and the United Kingdom today on how they are very hostile to migrants seeking refuge therein. Why set vicious dogs on migrants or spray them with cold water jets in the middle of harsh winter or even tear gas them. What crime did these migrants commit by seeking a better life in Europe that they should be treated so meanly; or did Europeans not once seek refuge from their own despondency in the past. Ireland at one point nearly emptied out due to crop (potatoes) failure; and even as recently as 2008 due to crashed housing market. How did Europe survive after the world war if not largely in part through migration of her citizens to other places. Now they do not want citizens of other countries, facing similar excruciating circumstances, to find solace in Europe and the United Kingdom. 

Europe and the United Kingdom have enough geographical territorial space to grow their population to over one billion people. They are bigger than India in land mass and almost as nearly as big as China and therefore have enough room to accommodate millions of migrants and use the opportunity to also grow their human capital. They can also provide jobs for all of these immigrants by simply bringing back home the thousands of outsourced jobs overseas in China and Asia; and that way help to grow their economy back into reckoning once more. 

But their greatest fear is losing their white majority as a people, hence all the fuss about human traffickers bringing too many migrants to their shores and borders. Let the truth be told, they somehow deserve the hand which the immigration crisis have dealt them and they should accept their responsibility for it; and then figure out a more sensible way to accommodate those migrants. But until then, the blood of the thousands of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, dying from dehydration in the Sahara desert as well as the current killer English Channel, rests on the heads of Europe and the United Kingdom. 

They destroyed these migrants' countries and now wont allow them, victims of their nefarious activities, a safe passage into their own countries. It is not right and it is condemnable as immigrants do not deserve to drown just for seeking a better life elsewhere. If according to these trans Atlantic fellas, allowing as many immigrants as amassed at America's southern border is ok for America, doing exactly the same on their own borders, land and sea, should equally be ok for them. End the killing of migrants in Europe and the United Kingdom and do it now. May the souls of the 27 migrants, latest drowning victims in the English Channel, now rest. 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING AMERICA!

ICHEOKU says despite the hardship and still obstinately unyielding coronavirus disease which is still taking much toll on Americans, with as many as nearly two thousand American people still dying each day as a result, there is still some room to be thankful. At least, for life and the fact that we were not part of the nearly eight hundred thousand Americans who have so far already  perished in the pandemic. 

The ravaging inflation is also hovering over this year's thanksgiving like an unwanted eerie fog and will definitely take some shine out of it. There are many people who wanted to travel to go be with family and friends during this thanksgiving but who cannot afford the cost of gasoline required to make the trip. Then add their unimproved economic situation coming out of the pandemic lockdown and you find a perfect storm of unhappiness.

Millions of American people are still hurting financially, economically, politically, socially and of course from the defiant coronavirus disease. But we have to be stoical about the situation and find a way to still count our blessings and be thankful that we are still here; exactly one month to Christmas. 

Happy thanksgiving celebration to you all out there; and please remember not to binge too much, because if you pack the pounds be prepared to pound them off. Also remember the many people who are less fortunate and who have no capacity nor ability to put food on their own thanksgiving tables under the Joe Biden woke economy which is strangulating America in so many ways. It is a mixed blessing for so many, so count yourself lucky if you are in the clear.

AHMAUD MARQUEZ ARBERY'S KILLERS FOUND GUILTY.

ICHEOKU says once again there was a video of the incident and it was not controvertible as it captured the very moment that made all the difference in the returned verdict. The video showed an unarmed black man jogging through a park, was confronted and struggling with his killer before he fired shots into him taking his life and at such a youthful young age of only 25 years.

There was no apparent provocation by the victim, and there was no noticeable self defense issue that could have triggered the shooting. It was a clear cut case of extreme prejudice gone awry and resulted to the death of an unarmed black man, shot simply because the killer can(could); deluded that there will be no consequences for his action because it is Brunswick Glynn Country Georgia State and black people are not allowed to jog in their town.

But unfortunately for them, the jury saw it differently and they were also disciplined enough to be guided only by the evidence and not their skin color which majority of them share with the now convicted murderers. It was the same thing with Kyle Rittenhouse's case, which incident was also captured on video and showed that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self defense. While the jury in Ahmaud Arbery saw the wantonness of his killers on the video, the jury in Kyle Rittenhouse saw a helpless and threatened Kyle Rittenhouse act to defend himself from imminent bodily harm and possible death. They saw the self defense themselves and decided to allow shooting in self defense survive their verdict. 

Both cases were meritoriously decided solely on the weight of evidence presented before the jury, which were largely aided by videos which captured the crucial moments in time that encapsulated both cases. There were no biases and there were no other extraneous influences that came into play to berth both verdicts. The verdicts in both cases were the right and correct decisions; and it does not matter your politics or social ideology as both cases were decided based on ascertainable and verified evidences and video which even a Steve Wonder can attest to.

ICHEOKU says if there is anything worthy of celebrating from both verdicts, it is that they were rightly and correctly decided and American people should be happy and proud of both outcomes. But the far left, in their always usual selective righteous indignation, choose and pick what is a good verdict and bad verdict. They are celebrating the guilty verdict in Ahmaud Arbery's case, but protested the not guilty verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse just because it was not the outcome they wanted, regardless of the evidence. 

The far left nut-jobs is the root cause of the trouble in America, as their position is frequently dictated by how they feel. Their emotions drive the pistons in their engines and their very thin skin does not allow them to make dispassionate decisions, at least not too often. Imagine if others begin to imitate them what upheaval such will stir up in the society. These lunatics forget that they are not the only ones living in America and that there is a reason a uniform law exists and is equally applied across the board.

Anyway, as the three convicted murderers now spend the rest of their natural lives behind bars, let other would be such racist hotheads, who still think and behave as if America is still stuck in the 1950s, have a serious rethink. Let the now sealed fate of Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor/friend William Roddie Bryan be a lesson that killing of black people just because you can comes with stiff consequences. Hopefully the message has now, by this verdict, been reaffirmed and resent loudly and clearly that we are no longer in Kansas and that such malice murder comes with life in prison.

May the soul of Ahmaud Marquez Arbery now rest. To his bereaved family, especially his indefatigable Amazonian of a mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, may she begin to finally find some healing from such a tragic loss of a son. It is a pain that will definitely linger on for a long time and most likely accompany her to her grave. She should find some solace and consolation in the experience of Holy Mary the mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, whose son was similarly lynched by the Jews. 

Although the verdict will not resurrect her son nor bring him back, but the fact that his killers did not go unpunished should be a form of consolatory "prize" for her unrelenting quest for justice for her slain son; admitted nothing was in fact actually gained by anyone in the outcome, speaking in the real sense of it. Lets hope that the verdict will now bring some closure to the divisiveness in America and lower the temperature on both sides; and also help put a bandaid to polarizing Americans who are gradually finding themselves on extreme parallel sides. Adieu Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, may he now rest on.

DAVIDO'S BIRTHDAY DONATION TO ORPHANAGES: HIGHLY COMMENDABLE.

ICHEOKU says was quite impressed by the thought behind the decision as not every rich fella gives a damn about the needy in the society. It is a global dichotomy and not only restricted to Nigeria that the rich don't usually see nor care about the downtrodden. This is why some have billions of dollars when so many people go to bed hungry at night, shelterless under the mercy of the elements and without clothes on their backs to protect their skin. Any exception to any rule always attracts attention and Davido just did.

Whenever a rich person, out of the kindness of his heart decides to do something so spectacularly awesome by helping others, every good man and woman of good faith should appreciate and commend such a person as one of a kind, exceptionally good person. Mr David Adeleke by making a mouthwatering generous donation to orphanages in Nigeria has become one such rich person who deserves great applause for he has rightly earned it. His giving such a gifting a thought is even to a large extent as sufficient as his doing it; admitted the doing portion is paramount as so many people are victims of their failure to launch or execute their thoughts. But he thought and acted on it, double success.

With this, music superstar and globally recognized and recognizable person, Mr David Adeleke alias Davido, has etched himself in the minds of millions of people including ICHEOKU. His decision to make such a generous donation of N250 million ($500,000) in cash gift to orphanages in Nigeria is not an easy feat, no matter the standards used in measuring it or even how deep the person's pocket is. He has set a record that will be very difficult to break. It shows that the great young man has a heart of gold and that his veins are filled with premium milk of human kindness. He has earned himself a coveted status of a premier benefactor who should be greatly appreciated and commended by all, for his kind heartedness and magnificent generosity. 

ICHEOKU says well done Mr David Adeleke and may the good Lord reward your generosity and bless you with peace of mind, restful sleeps, good health and smooth sailing as you continue to navigate the shark infested choppy waters of life. Davido has shown an example on how it is done; how money can be put to a good and better use and for a good cause. He showed that being richly blessed does not have to only manifest in showiness such as throwing money around in parties or buying expensive cars and mansions. Further, that it is good to put such money into where there is utmost need for it in order to help alleviate and translate lives out of direness. If there is a tithe offering which will be pleasing before God, such a directed donation to motherless and fatherless children will certainly be it.

Hopefully the rest of moneybags and other new money business men and women in Nigeria will learn a thing or two from Mr David Adeleke action and copy his example going forward. There is no shame about it to affirm that he has taught the Obi Cubanas of Nigeria how to put money into a better use, rather than wasting it on funerals and cows. Imagine if the Oba fella had similarly put his own raised funds into a cause that will be more impactful in the long run than a lavish funeral ceremony. Imagine if all the thieving politicians have put some of the money they stole into useful causes such as jobs creations, instead of stuffing them into secret overseas bank accounts and in tax heavens as the recently published Pandora papers revealed. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that Nigeria will not be in the dire economic straits it is presently if there are many Davidos therein present; people who rise above themselves to see the greater good in lending assistance to those in need of it. It does not matter how small it might be and one does not necessarily have to wait to first have billions before helping others. But unfortunately, many Nigerians are mental victims of primitive greed, believing that by amassing riches which will last several lifetimes, they have accomplished something big. They think that being on top of the world means that the rest of the people can go to hell and that regardless of social contract, that they do not own them any duty of help. But it is a mistaken believe and Mr David Adeleke has just proved them wrong. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU says is not by this piece castigating anybody nor directing anyone on how to spend their money; only that somebody did something worthy of praise and recognition and ICHEOKU decided to add his take on it. People do not need all the money they are stashing away in banks and personal vaults all over the place because the moment one dies, it is over. Sometimes, things can even take a turn for the worse upon their death as their children who they left with all the money can start fighting and killing each other as a result; or end up becoming drug and alcohol wasted addicts. But hey, if only people can be a little wiser and more civilized to curb their greed, understanding that they do not need too much to be truly happy, the world will be a much better place for everyone. 

ICHEOKU says well done Davido for shinning the light so that others may see the way to achieving a better happiness which is not alcohol or drug induced; a more restful sleeping experiences which are not purchased with pills and how being truly happy inside really feels like. How could such a person as Davido ever feel lonely or depressed, knowing that hundreds of thousands of children are living vicariously through him and owe him their up-keep. He also promised to make it an annual event and have another thing to now live and work for. Such must bring a ton of joy to him and enough to keep him truly, happily fulfilled. It is a classy act and it has won him many more admirers. Hopefully all those other dancing and drinking, money throwing, exhibitionists can learn from the Davido's example; call it the Davido Challenge, if you like and begin to take it. Kudos Mr David Adeleke.

DARRELL E BROOKS: WHY IS HE NOT A TERRORIST?

ICHEOKU says is it because an American is incapable of being a terrorist, otherwise why is what he did any different from those committed by known, captured and confined, killed or still elusive terrorists. Further, does the fact that he is not a Muslim Arab from the Middle East or any of the North African Islamist countries or not being a white male absolve him from terrorism? How about those who he subjected to mortal fear for their lives and of course those he actually took their lives? Were these people not terrorized?

How else is terrorism defined if not exactly as he acted or is the fact that his political agenda is not publicly known make all the difference? But he plowed through a crowd of people with a speeding vehicle, mowed down many of them and caused the death of five of them. So, why is he still not a terrorist or were his victims not put in mortal fear, violence and intimidation; and of course they were civilians. Unless he had a medical situation resulting emergency that completely overwhelmed his mind and control of his actions, he is an over qualified terrorist and should be so treated as such, or at least, as a domestic terrorist. 

ICHEOKU says may the souls of all those killed in such a senseless vehicular mayhem at Waukesha Wisconsin Christmas parade, by this angry dreadlocks now rest; and to those still hospitalized, ICHEOKU wishes a quick recovery. But was there a reason why the street was not completely closed off to vehicular traffic with solid road blocks. Anyway, Darrell E Brooks did what terrorists do and therefore should be declared and treated as one. It is sad.