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

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

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

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

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

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

A HERO IS BORN.

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

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

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

WORD!

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

NOW, YOU KNOW.

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

JUST THE FACT.

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

DO YOU?.

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

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

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

PROBLEM SOLVED.

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

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

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

WORDS ON MARBLE.

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

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

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

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

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


WORD.

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

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

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


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

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


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

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

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

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


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

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

Sunday, November 23, 2008

NUHU RIBADU, VICTIM OF A VERY CORRUPT NIGERIAN SOCIETY!

Ordinarily, Icheokudotcom would not care a hoot to spend a minute on this Olusegun Obasanjo's hatchet-man. Some school of thought are even saying that Mallam Nuhu Ribadau deserves all that is being thrown at him as he is being made to taste his own brew. Payment in kind that is? Remember the EFCC under Ribadu and how everyone that disagreed with Olusegun Obasanjo were hounded down with one charge of corrupt practice after another; while at the same time he, Ribadu was proclaiming Olusegun Obasanjo and all that were loyal to him innocent of all allegations. In some cases he even went out of his way to declare them innocent of all allegations without investigating them. Sometimes he made concerted effort to shut down substantive allegations of apparent corruption against members of Olusegun Obasanjo's inner circle. Today, there has been an about turn and the yesterday's hit-man is today's hounded racoon. Turning of tide, may be, but which Nigerian understands the fleeting nature of power? None!
Anyway, Icheokudotcom is not here to act as defense attorney for Nuhu Ribadu as we could care-less if he jumps off the bridge or puts a bullet through his own brain. Yes, we are here only to comment on the difficulty of fighting corruption in Nigeria and using Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as a test-case. Nigeria is a land where virtually everyone is corrupt, criminals waiting for opportunity and time to strike, land of election riggers, 419 practitioners and everything despicable. Yes, we say this emphantically and with factual empirical bases to back our assertion. For a little illustration, a former head of the Nigerian Police Force, Inspector General Tarfa Balogun (right) was lead away in handcuffs for corruption. Every past heads of state and government in Nigeria stole so much money from the coffers of Nigeria, that today's dilpadidated condition of all the infrastructures in Nigeria attests to this brigandage, otherwise the over three (3) trillion dollars that accrued to Nigeria since 1970 would have been evident on the ground in Nigeria. (Check out United Arab Emirates and see a government that is truly patriotic and loves her citizens and country). No, there is nothing much to show for it while their overseas bank accounts are bursting and some even own private jets and homes all over the world. Corruption is pandemic and has eaten so deep intoo the body-fabric of the Nigerian society that it has become hopeless, fighting it. Nuhu Ribadu tried to fight corruption in Nigeria but was stopped cold in his tracks by a very corrupt government of Umaru Yar'Adua, whose legitimacy is still subject to litigation in the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Now he is being punished for trying by the Umaru Yar'Adua government which is very corrupt. Umaru Yar'Adua collluded with Olusegun Obasanjo to covet the Nigerian presidency and ever since he got to Aso Rock, has been sleeping on his sick bed while he is suppposed to be on duty. Also his promise of the return to rule of law in Nigeria has since been compromised and it has been the arrest and detention of one journalist after another, one blogger after another, one television house being shut down after another and now an attempt to kill-off Mallam Nuhu Ribadau for daring to fight corruption in Nigeria.
His vice president Goodluck Jonathan is equally corrupt as no decent man ever makes it to the top through the highly corrupt, shark-infested waters of Nigerian politics. The Senate President David Mark is corrupt and as the then Minister of Communications under Ibrahim Babangida, stole to his greedy heart's delight acquiring a $33 million dollars golf course in Ireland. Mention the speaker of the House of Representatives, Oladimeji Bankole and the ongoing 2.3 billion naira cars scandal readily comes to mind; and he is still presiding over a house which has been alleged to be populated by criminal 419 practitioners. The current head of the police, Inspector General Mike Okilo has yet to prosecute his former boss, the former IG Ehindero who stole over 23 million naira police fund. When you factor in the spiralling out of control armed robbery and other related crimes/vices in Nigeria, without any sign of abatement, then one is forced to concluded that the Nigerian police force is in bed with Nigerian criminal master-minds. The Attorney General, Aandooka's very close relationship with former governor Ibori of Delta State as well as other plainly corrupt former governors is highly instructive as to the lack of appertite to fight corruption in Nigeria. Now the only serious person ever to look directly in the eye of corruption and call it by its name, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is being haunted out of this life. Nigeria it shall not be well with you as no person in the future, knowing the travails currently being underwent by Nuhu Ribadu, will agree to do any serious job, fighting the monster of corruption in Nigeria. Nuhu Ribadu is being made a mockery of just for being brave enough to dare to step unto the toes of some very highly placed and grossly corrupt "sacred-cows" of Nigeria.
The latest incident of humilating Nuhu Ribadu by dragging him out of his commencement venue, says so much about a cabal desperate to take their pound of flesh. This former anti-corruption chief was physically stopped from participating in his graduating ceremony by Umaru YarAdua' thugs, who dragged him out of the hall of his graduation ceremonies. Nuhu Ribadu was dragged out from the Unity Hall of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, where he was seated with his other collegues, waiting to be conferred with the Member of the National Institute (mni). The institute unashamedly, explained that Nuhu Ribadu was too sick to attend the commencement ceremony which Icheokudotcom rebuts and asks, why drag a sickman, who has "recovered" enough to attend his own commencement ceremony, out of the hall? Reacting to this Nuhu Ribadu's latest ordeal in the hands of Umaru Yar'Adua's jackboots, Gani Fawehinmi said that Nuhu Ribadu's travails under the Yar'Adua administration shows that Umaru Yaradua's government has the tendencies of fascism and its profession for the rule of law is a smokescreen and hypocrisy of the worst order.

One other member of Nuhu Ribadu's graduating class who was not allowed to graduate is Mr. Allen Deinbo Briggs. He was accused of stealing a digital camera belonging to one of the course participants while on study-tour in China. Icheokudotcom says, what a country, where a high-up, selected for such a state's policy course, is stealing an ordinary digital camera in far away China? What will happen tomorrow when such a deviant is appointed into an office of trust? Looting unlimited and you ask yourself why Nigeria is still crawling at a perpetual snail speed? It is because the caliber of men and women as this Mr. Allen Briggs are appointed and put in charge of key fiduciary institutions in Nigeria. Instead of making an effort to effect the fortunes of Nigerians, they are busy crafting plans to loot the country's resources and the treasury dry. According to the story, this Mr. Allen Briggs has a very poor mediocre record akin to a rap sheet that was bursting at the seams, at the Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies where he was working as a Senior Fellow; which led to vociferous protest when he was nominated for the institute's course 30. However being from the same Niger Delta area as the vice president, Jonathan Goodluck, whose office is in charge of the institute, Mr Allen Briggs' way was forcibly cleared for participation in the course 30. The feud generated so much heat that a former acting director general of the Insitute, Yakubu Sankey, lost his job for protesting vehemently against Mr. Allen Briggs unmerited inclusion im the course 30. However, Mr. Allen Briggs went on a course organized tour to China and stole a mere $45 dollar digital camera, culminating to his final denial of graduation.
Icheokudotcom says such sordid story is only possible in a country like Nigeria where a sitting vice president meddles in departmental decisions, twisting and breaking arms as to who goes or participates in a course at an institute. It is only in Nigeria, the land of anything goes where it is ok for dog to eat dog! Even you Vice President Jonathan Goodluck could insert yourself into the Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies internal decisions to influence a decision and effect an outcome based on your primodal, parochial ethnic concerns? Little wonder your meteroric rise in Nigerian politics - you play it real down and dirty and if it means ganging up with Olusegun Obasanjo to frame your former boss, DSP Alamieyeseigha, so be it provided you get what you want! Icheokudotcom has always read your unusually quiet demeanour as a cold-calculating, take no prisoner demeanour of ruthless hit-man. Who is now disgraced by your candidate's petty theft? Until you vagabonds in power in Nigeria learn how not to micro-manage every aspect of life in Nigeria, that country can never truly articulate a way forward out of its stagnation.

Icheokudotcom says, Enough of this stupidity! The whole world is watching the macabre dance of corruption and ongoing vindictiveness against Nuhu Ribadu because he dared to fight corruption in Nigeria; as there is no other acceptable reason for his present ordeals. Even the snake Olusegun Obasanjo, whom Nuhu Ribadu dutifully served, has scurried away in hiding and will not come to the defense and/or protection of his former enforcer Nuhu Ribadu, at this his hour of great travails. Finally, irrespective of the subterfuge used by the Umaru Yar'Adua's government for Nuhu Ribadu's current pains, Icheokudotcom says it does not augur well for the image of Nigeria - a country so enmeshed in courruption they will rather hang out to dry anyone who attempts to clean the augean stable of corruption in Nigeria.
Nigerian authorities, please leave Nuhu Ribadu alone, as your continuous persecution of this former anti-corruption czar only attests to your unwillingness to eradicate corruption in Nigeria.
The entire world is watching you as you dance naked in the world village-square thinking that you are getting at Nuhu Ribadu by humilitaing him. Two wrongs does not make a right and tomorrow, it might be your own turn to be so humiliated. Remember it was not too long ago that the name Nuhu Ribadu spelt terror in Nigeria especially to those considered anti-Olusegun Obasanjo, so why do you think you will last forever in power? Umaru Yar'Adua, please apply whatever retribution you may have on Nuhu Ribadu with caution - it does not bode well for the image of Nigeria or what do you care; afterall you are sitting very tight in the presidency knowing fully well that you did not earn or win it! Shameless mallam from goddam Katsina State!

Saturday, November 22, 2008

AKWA IBOM STATE OF NIGERIA, CHILD WITCHES!

Child witches of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria is the latest episode in the unending saga of tragedies pervading Nigeria. Imagine innocent children, some as young as two months old, being branded witches and wizards and tortured for allegedly being "responsible" for the misfortunes of their parents. They are tortured to confess their culpability in witchcraft and wizardry, abandoned, maimed and sometimes even killed for this superstition. It is unbelievable but true of this primitive Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria and pictures do not lie that in this 21st century, people of Akwa Ibom State are still so primitive it hurts. What will the real cave-man do?

Please do yourself a service, click the links below, to see how uncivilized and primitive some parts of Nigeria still is. Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria is the culprit today and it is in a part of the geographical area of Nigeria that used to kill twins, believing they portend bad omen, until the arrival of Mary Slessior who stopped the practice. It is also highly rumoured that some people in Akwa Ibom state from Ugep area, still practises cannibalism.

One wonders what manner of men live in this God-forsaken part of Africa that ostracise her innocent and beautiful children on the unfounded illiterate superstition that they are witches and wizards? In this 21st century world where the rest of the world are going to space, building space stations and mapping the lunar surface, a state in Nigeria called Akwa Ibom State is busy rounding up her future generation, branding them witches and sometimes dismembering them to get rid of a supposed curse. It shall not be well with these cave-dwellers of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

To their Governor Godswill Obot Akpabio, Icheokudotcom says, you and your people are shameless! This documentary has exposed the devilish practices in your state and for you to pretend ignorance thereto, is comparable to Alaska's Sarah Palin faking that she did not know that some turkeys were being massacred right behind her. Just wearing a good tie does not make you a civilized genteel when you left this despicable and abominable inhuman practices of your people to go on, unchallenged. But now that the veil has been lifted off this your evil, the whole world is now focused to see what your actions will be to eradicate or at least abate it.
Until then, let every decent man and woman send some assistance to the God-sent British humanitarian grappling with the so many traumatised children of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria! What a bloody black eye to Nigeria, this is!
This British charity worker, Gary Foxcroft, 29, fighting to help the children stigmatised as witches is the programme director for the UK charity Stepping Stones, Nigeria. Mr Foxcroft first came to Nigeria in 2003 to research the oil industry for his masters degree; but he was so shocked with these children's plight that he decided to help raise money for a refuge for them. He established a Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) to cater for these abandoned "witch" children and equally try to persuade their parents to take them back. He has also helped to build a school for the children who are refused places at local schools.
If this link below does not move you, nothing else will and Icheokudotcom salutes the courage of the young British humanitarian who is providing succour to these branded and abandoned so called little "witches" of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

Friday, November 21, 2008

ROTIMI AMAECHI, OVER-EXPOSED RISK?

His name is Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. He is a lawyer and a politician. He is the Supreme Court of Nigeria-made governor of Rivers State of Nigeria. He was a parliamentarian and speaker of the State House of Assembly during the former governor Peter Odili's administration; but later fell out of favor with the governor who then conspired with Olusegun Obasanjo to sabotage his candidacy for governor of Rivers State. However, he went to court for redress, and although he did not contest any election as governor, he was however installed as one by the Supreme Court of Nigeria. That is by way of little bio-politics of Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of Rivers State, Nigeria.

However the gist of this treatise is not the governor but what the governor did. He exposed himself to unfathomable risk by going on an open sea in a tiny boat, undeserving of a chief executive of an oil producing Rivers State, Nigeria.
Why the dingy Mr Governor Rotimi Amaechi? A governor of an oil producing Niger Delta State of Nigeria, Rivers State deserves a lot better. It is unimaginable that the security apparatus of the governor would even allow the governor to expose himself to such an outrageous risk to bodily harm, by allowing him to take such a canoe-ride to whatever Bolo Community in Rivers State for a purported "Meet the People Tour".

That the governor, pictured here below sitting fourth from left in a bowler-hat, in this cramped, over-loaded canoe (boat) should venture into an open sea in such a contraption defies every sensible logic. There is a risk of boat capsizing as a result of possible turbulence with the governor drowning? There is a risk of the boat taking in water and sinking in the process? A better, more sea-worthy boat could have been more befitting of a governor of Rivers State! Better still and admitted that Rivers State is a riverine area, a helicopter would have been deployed to fly the governor across to his destination? Did his security outfit not think of the possibility of a turbulence or the intractable Niger Delta militants pervading the area? What if they had struck and the governor was abducted and taken hostage or forced to leap off the boat into the treacherous sea or even killed in a shoot-out, since Icheokudotcom could sight some uniformed security details also aboard the boat. The security concerns were just too much to have allowed this aberration of a governor of a state in this unprotected canoe!
Does it mean that Rivers state, awash with petrol-dollars, cannot afford to buy a modern boat (see pictures), be it speed-boat, tour-boat, racing-boat, house-boat, patrol-boat etc for the use of the state's chief executive? This is a state where its past governor Peter Odili allegedly stole over two hundred (200) million dollars USD from the state's coffers. This becomes imperative since Rivers State, as the name connotes, has a lot of water areas that the governor has to visit from time to time. Assuming Rivers State cannot afford an outright ownership purchase of a befitting boat, does it also mean that Rivers State cannot afford to rent or lease a comfortable boat, with some added luxury, befitting of a state's chief executive? Also his protocol could have asked any of the oil-companies operating in the state to loan one of their numerous boats for this governor's visit.

Icheokudotcom is taking up this matter not because we particularly give a damn about these election-riggers in Nigeria, no, we do this because of the embarrassment the governor's canoe-ride caused Nigerians in the eye of the world. How can a state governor be found in such a risky pedestrian contraption, knowing fully that he carries on his shoulder the responsibility of an entire state? What if? and so many other what ifs? Can you imagine what an incident, a possible accident, could have caused both Rivers State and Nigeria? Look at the number of people, possibly government officials, cramped into the tiny rickety dinghy and yet this is a state that gets a lion share of the oil-derived revenue as allocated in Nigeria? We hear of boats capsizing all over the world and this particular contraption carrying the governor of Rivers State of Nigeria, does not necessarily appear to be very sea-worthy indeed! Look at the little clearance of the top of the canoe from the water - a height of less than two feet between the stern and the sea! Look at the sardine-like manner in which the people were stacked on that boat! What if an emergency developed, where would the rescue team have started from? It would have been very difficult to even save the governor, who was not particularly identifiable with any special color-coded outfit or sequestered enough for immediate rescue. Admitted that most people from Rivers State of Nigeria are good swimmers, but why use this canoe-ride as a trial-run for Nigeria's Olympian Micheal Phelps?

Whatever be the matter, Icheokudotcom discourages this type of over-exposure to unnecessary and avoidable risk to a state's chief executive's life. More-so when it could have been entirely avoided at little or less cost to Rivers State or any other state for that matter. Rivers State, please buy a "comfortable near-luxury" boat for your state or rent one or lease one for the use of your officials including the governor. A boat that would enable the governor to attend to your state's riverine matters without undue risk to any water-related accident including drowning. Since the terrain of your state is water-logged and while touring some parts of your state will require the governor to ferry across bodies of water, you need an official state boat as a matter of immediacy . A boat with cabin that could protect the governor from the elements should mother-nature call - torrential rainfall, wind, heat-wave, tidal wave etc? The match-box in the offending picture has nothing sheltering the governor from the sky hence he was a sitting duck for whatever the heavens may have decided to throw at him.

A mid-sized "comfortable near-luxury" boat, not necessarily a yacht, is what the doctor ordered - just a speed boat with some cabin which could be sourced for about one hundred (100) thousand dollars or slightly more. It will be a wise investment for the state and it automatically qualifies as a state asset. A state like Rivers State can easily afford this 'toy' instead of having her highest ranking official as well as some of her other state officials exposed to several maritime risks as the above picture portrayed. What Peter Odili alone, allegedly looted from your state would buy such a boat several times over, so do it because you can and also because it is the right thing to do. Rotimi Amechi, are you listening? Rivers House of Assembly are you listening? Rivers State people are you listening? Just do it for the image of Rivers State! Do it for the image of Nigeria! DO IT NOW, buy a befitting boat for your governor's use!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

AYMAN AL ZAWAHIRI, A RACIST SCUM-BAG!

The face of terror Ayman Al Zawahiri; the douche-bag second in command to Osama Bin Laden has opened his rotten mouth again. This time around, Ayman Al Zawahiri opened his mouth, once too loud and it must be silenced forever!
This rabid-dog Ayman Al Zawahiri had the guts to call our beloved America President-elect Barack Obama a "house-negro"! And unbeknownst to this beast Ayman Al Zawahiri, President-elect Barack Obama does not have any slave blood in him -having been sired by a Kenyan father and a white Kansas woman.
This particular cave-rat Ayman Al Zawahiri needs to be trapped and trapped he shall and pretty soon. A bastard son of a whore Ayman Al Zawahiri deserves nothing but hell-fire and should consider his asinine vituperation on an innocent America President-elect Barack Obama an over-reach. Such a cave-dwelling spineless pig Ayman Al Zawahiri deserves no place in this world and Icheokudotcom calls for all hands and resources to be doubled to take him out and now! Even if catching him is possible, when cornered, please do not accord him the dignity of being seen alive where he might have another opportunity to make some gibberish noise, protesting or condemning anything or body or state. This lunatic sadist Ayman Al Zawahiri should be quickly dispatched upon sighting for a quick rendezvous with his fabled forty-virgins.
Icheokudotcom has always known that some Arabs are racist curs and that this is fuelling the genocide in Darfur, wherein the pale-skinned Arabs are trying assiduously to decimate the black-skinned Sudanese of Darfur origin from their land. The insane comment of Ayman Al Zawahiri has added credence to this known racism that exists among some Arabs. Remember that the late Saddam Hussein tried exterminating non Arabs in the Kurdish territory of Kirkuk.
Lastly, the assurance given to Americans and the world by President-elect Barack Obama that the hunt for this criminal terrorist mass-murderer and his despicable fellow travellers in their infamous journey to no where, will be conclusive during his presidency, is a welcome relief. To this Icheokudotcom adds, please President-elect Obama implore every known possible country on earth to help catch or dispatch this mongrel and let the dogs of war know that we only want his life-less body as evidence of his final breath. On the issue of Ayman Al Zawahiri, remember No Drama Obama!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

NigComSat-1 NIGERIA SATELLITE PROGRAM, WHAT A SCAM!

There is a breaking news out of Africa, in a country called Nigeria, a Satellite worth several millions of dollars has just failed less than 18months after it launched into orbit? Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited in conjunction with a Chinese company embarked on this white-elephant project, fully seized of the fact that it was ill-timed, ill-conceived, ill-equipped, ill-constructed by unskilled artisans, manufactured of sub-standard materials, ill-managed, not space-worthy, defective and not what the Nigerian populace needs at this time of abject hunger, joblessness, insecurity, election-rigging and general malaise pervading the country.
Icheokudotcom asks, what were the master-minds of this venture trying to prove when ordinary electricity is utopia, fantasy and a pure luxury in a country dreaming to be 'so great' by 2020? Icheokudotcom says that the reason why so many countries in Africa like Nigeria is stunted in their growth is that their supposed "leaders" are vision-less and lack a clear set objective or destination about where they want to lead their country to? This purposeless leadership culminates in the all over the map nature of governance in Africa and in Nigeria in particular. Their governments are always without a clearly defined mission statement. This is the reason they are perpetually in the dark, groping, fidgeting and fiddling as to what their priorities should be. They gamble with the destiny of a nation of over 120 million people. It is akin to a blind man leading a nation, resulting in their constant stumbles, falls, via off courses sometimes into the bushes or ditches and their failure to change the trajectory until their cliff-bound, death-journey becomes irretrievably doomed like the satellite under advisement, resulting to the so many failed states throughout the continent of Africa. Peradventure Nigeria may soon make the list of such failed states in Africa, baring a miraculous sense of purpose by her usurping "leaders".
NIGCOMSAT is a public private partnership company under the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Science Technology whose dream mission is to be the leading communication satellite operator and service provider in Africa. It is envisioned to manage and operate the first geostationary communication satellite in Sub-Saharan African under the technical name of NigComSat-1, which has C, Ku, Ka and L bands. NIGCOMSAT is expected to effectively delivery secure, qualitative and value-added satellite services to Africans. NIGCOMSAT is expected to provide comprehensive transmission and application services through digital and/or analog system, operating same by either fixed or mobile satellite, direct broadcast satellite services, end-to-end solution and also to engage in transponder leasing services. However, the multi-million dollar Nigerian satellite NigComSat 1 meant to be the mother-ship of this "dream" project, has just failed. It was shut down due to power trouble leading to fear that it may fall out of space, spin out of control and possibly damage other equipments in orbit. This crippled Chinese-built NigComSat-1 cost Nigeria a whopping sum of thirty-four (34) billion Naira; about $340million dollars USD or £228million British Pounds Sterling. What a misapplied fortune, yet this nation, Nigeria cannot supply power to her people and industries!

The Nigerian government under the headship of this conman here left in the picture, the illegitimate president of Nigeria, Umaru Yar'Adua holding a cell-phone, in a face-saving bare-faced lie, claimed that insurance would cover the loss. But they failed to tell Nigerians which insurance company is carrying the loss and under what terms? Icheokudotcom used 'con-man' because Umaru Yar'Adua stabilized his hijacked presidency by floating the idea of return to rule of law in Nigeria; but has recently metamorphosed into a 'press and media' witch-hunter. Umaru Yar'Adua has put on the jack-boots and today, the fifth-estate is his marked enemy for extinction, just for reporting what is happening in Nigeria under his very inept government. Nigerians heaved a sigh of relieve after the Olusegun Obasanjo eight years of gestapo-like vice-hold on Nigerians, with the new mantra of law and order; but recent events shows that this Umaru is transforming into a cheat, a conniving and contriving little despot.
The alleged insurance coverage for this failed satellite may simply be a ruse just to distract Nigerians from asking the hard questions about this satellite mega-drama. Icheokudotcom says it smacks of a cover-up and like the Sani Abacha "recovered" loot, nobody in Nigeria may eventually know the real deal about this satellite. It may likely be swept under the carpet just like many other non-concluded matters in Nigeria.? Where is the warranty for this satellite and what is the track, proven record of the Chinese company in satellite expertise; except for the known fact that the Chinese tries to steal infantile piece-meal technology from the Americans through espionage and moles? It is on record that this NigComSat1 was the first time for China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) to deliver a satellite, launch the service as well as provide ground operating system in one package to any international customer. Nigeria was a gamed-sucker for this Chinese mumbo-jumbo junk. According to some telecommunications experts, the Nigerian government pulled a fast one on her citizens with the morbid satellite project that was dead upon launch. In their own very words, the NigComSat1 was a "white elephant in space" stating further that the whole operation was just a sham or debacle".

The NigComSat 1 satellite which was meant to provide communications for government agencies and broadband Internet services was however limited in capabilities because of the type of frequency it used and was configured with. The satellite was amenable to atmospheric weather fluctuations including being disturbed by clouds, air-pressure and wind. It also did not work properly in Nigeria's rainy season and during the Harmattan season when clouds of dust blow down from the Sahara desert. The satellite also operated on frequencies already allocated to other companies and interfered with other providers' equipment. Icheokudotcom says, with all these available known facts and data to negate the viability of the satellite project, yet the Nigerian authorities went ahead with it full stream, anyways? We unequivocally say that if this is not a scam on a grand scale, nothing else so qualified the definition of a scam. Where is the EFCC on this criminal defraud of the Nigerian people by her government and the Chinese collaborators?
Now take a serious look at the picture here left. You are seeing one of the masterminds of this grandiose scam. Wearing eye-glasses is Ms. Grace Ekpiwhri, the Nigerian Minister for Science & Technology; whose ministry supervises the NIGCOMSAT!

Padding this conspiracy theory, is the Nigerian Minister of ''Mis-Information'' John Odey who, while carrying water for his masters in Abuja, insisted that the satellite was a worthwhile investment and that "No technology can be a waste of money". To which Icheokudotcom says that 'a white-elephant technology is a waste of money' and that there are other more credible projects this amount of money could have been more prudently invested in for maximum beneficial result to impact on the fortunes of Nigerians. This fella, John Odey, has lied through his teeth to the Nigerian public and ought to resign his office immediately. Continuing his rantings, John Odey asserted that "Nigerians should see the satellite as desirable and that it has served a purpose." Icheokudotcom rejects this claim as baloney and states that desirability is not synonymous with a need; and that a whopping $340 million dollars investment should not be stupidly and thoughtlessly wasted by a government, simply to serve a purpose!
To see the depth of misinformation in Nigeria, a junior minister in the Science & Technology ministry Alhassan Zaku told Nigerians that their satellite had lost power and had to be "parked, like you would park a car". To which Icheokudotcom asks, what planet are these Nigerian "leaders" from, to bold-facedly lie to Nigerians that you can park a satellite in space, motionless, like you would a car? Don't this dido-head know that space is a void and things therein including other celestial-debris are in perpetual motion. Shameless government officials? Another mallam from a sharia school, maybe?

Do not let his boyish, clean-shaven face disarm you as you are staring into the eye of another co-conspirator to this satellite scam. His name is T. Ahmed Rufai - the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NIGCOMSAT. His resume and space-technology working experience is known only to his fellow mallams who put him in charge of such a highly, technical, rocket-science based enterprise like a space program
Icheokudotcom while adopting some analysts' conclusion that despite that Nigeria has made nearly $2 trillion in oil revenues over the last 30 years, her population are mostly poor; wonders aloud, how a nation that lacks basic infrastructure that make life livable like power and water, would embark on a satellite ego-trip? This smacks of a government which did not set its priorities right.

The most laughable of this shameful escapade in space is that the Chinese contractor, China Great Wall Industry Corporation, was yet to handover the management of the doomed NigComSat1 to the Nigerian owners/operators; which proper handover was officially scheduled for a yet to come date, May 13, 2009, before the satellite died. Maybe a still-birth satellite? The Chinese in addition to building the satellite, entered into a technical management agreement with the Nigerian owners/operators for a period of 15 years, effective May 14 2007 when the satellite was launched.
The NigcomSat-1 Satellite In-orbit Delivery Contract between Nigeria’s National Space Research and Development Agency (NSRDA) and China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) was signed on December 15, 2004, in Abuja, Nigeria. According to the terms of the contract, CGWIC shall deliver the NigcomSat-1 satellite based on the DFH-4 platform with multiple bands transponders on-board. The satellite will serve Nigeria in the fields of telecommunications, broadcast and broadband services. The LM-3B launch vehicle is going to launch NigcomSat-1. In addition, two ground stations in Abujia, Nigeria and Kashi, China will provide satellite operations support service and China will train Nigerian technical personnel. Icheokudotcom now asks, who in Nigeria ensured compliance on the part of the Chinese company to this contract regarding specification, configuration and training?
It is highly significant that a 15 years life-span satellite barely made it through 18 months! NigComSat-1 was launched on May 14, 2007 and died on November 10, 2008! What a feat by the Nigerian Authorities and their Chinese counterparts? Bravo!
The composite picture shows the Chinese made CZ-3B Launch vehicle blasting off into space, laden with the NigComSat1 on May 14th, 2007, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province China. About 26 minutes after launch, the NigcomSat-1 satellite entered into the pre-determined Geostationary Transfer Orbit with an apogee of 41,951 km, a perigee of 209 km and an inclination of 25°. NigComSat1 was developed by China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), a subsidiary to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC); the three-axis stabilized NigcomSat-1 satellite is based on the DFH-4 satellite bus and has a launch mass of 5,150 kg and a service life of 15 years. It is equipped with four (4) C-band , 14 Ku-band transponders, eight (8) Ka-band and Two (2) L-band transponders. The CZ-3B launch vehicle was developed by China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), a subsidiary of CASC. However the contraption failed just after 18 months.

As a stop-gap measure to cushion the hardship of the failed satellite, T. Ahmed Rufai said NigComSat will migrate its customers to other leased satellite pending a new satellite. According to him, his company was ready to lease four or five transponders (satellite circuits) to enable its customers return to business. Icheokudotcom says, satellite technology is for most part, a private company venture and that the patently incompetent Nigeria government has no business dabbling or meddling therein and better still should have only leased circuits and pay as per use. For a competent government, it is laudable but not Nigeria as it today stands where nothing has been beneficiary and profitably managed successfully.
However the spokesperson for Chinese Great Wall Industry Corporation, Ku Geng, explaining what happened to the NigComSat 1 said that "the solar wing malfunctioned, which led to exhaustion of electric power and then the satellite failed."

The DFH-4 bus platform can be used in high capacity broadcast communication satellite, new generation direct broadcasting satellite, new generation tracking and data relay satellite, regional mobile communication satellite, etc. The platform comprises propulsion module, service module and solar array. It has a payload capacity of 588 kg and an output power of 10.5 kW by the end of its lifetime. Its design lifetime is 15 years and its reliability by the end of lifetime is more than 0.78. Based on versatility, inheritance, expandability and promptness principles and mature technology, the platform will reach world advanced level to meet the needs of international and domestic large communication satellite markets.
The Nigerian authorities failed to study extensively the failure rate of the DFH-4 Bus technology which was used in NIGCOMSAT1. The Nigeria authorities also failed to note that the DFH-4 technology is a work in progress which has recorded many failures including the Chinese Sinosat 2 satellite; which equally failed to deploy its solar arrays in orbit before the catastrophic failure of the same DFH-4 Bus based technology NIGCOMSAT 1 of similar defect in November 2008.
The dead upon lunch NigcomSat-1 was supposed to play an important role in Nigeria telecommunications - providing urban and rural telephony, trunking and relay services, mobile and paging services, corporate and VSAT networks as well as inter-carrier services. It would have also been used for broadcasting high-definition TV and DTH services, multimedia, video streaming, audio and sound services, internet and multimedia services of video conference, solutions for virtual private networks and VoIP protocols, real time monitoring services, navigation and global positioning coverage.
Icheokudotcom says that there are other more pressing matters these Nigerian air-heads in government would have concentrated their effort at and which could have been a better utilization of this wasted money. How can a country which cannot even feed her populace, supply her populace with much needed but never available power and energy, which cannot tar or pave her roads to make them motor-able, which cannot build or rebuild existing but dilapidated bridges, which cannot find jobs for the over 45% unemployed manpower, which cannot equip and competently train her police-force to combat the high insecurity problems militating against everything in NIgeria, which cannot build and/or maintain a functioning medical center of excellence that her president is always in one overseas hospital bed of one country after another, which cannot pay salaries etc, have the guts or misplaced audacity to embark on space satellite technology, if not to create an avenue to loot the treasury?
Nigerians are straving and dying of common colds and malaria yet these buffoons in Abuja have the idiocy and temerity to be wasting very scarce resources, playing in a league far and beyond their capabilities and know-how? It is a shame indeed! Nigeria, a country that was rated among Brazil and India in the 60's as the countries to watch out for. Today Brazil and India has left the snail-speed Nigeria out in the loops where it is still groping for direction since her independence in 1960. Brazil is a nuclear nation, manufactures vehicles, has a viable satellite program, makes aircrafts and is almost self-sufficient in a home-grown bio-fuel. India's Chanai is the Silicon valley of the South East Asia! Their medical and pharmaceutical prowess is world reknowned, have a viable space program that Indian satellite is today mapping out the mo0n surface following a successful launch into orbit of Indian made satelillte and vehicle, India is also a nuclear power. What has Nigeria got to show for its 48 years of "independent" existence but a band of bandits and election-riggers masquerading as "leaders" where a person who did not win an election is imposed on the country as her president. Umaru Yar"Adua, resign your illegitimate presidency today because it is now indelibly tainted by this satellite scandal! That will be a good place to start the Nigeria Rejuvenation! ENOUGH of this brigandry!

Whose Satellite is it anyway? The Chinese undertakers or the Hausa/Fulani oligarchs swindlers of Nigeria PLC? Remember Senator Jubril Aminu and the $12million dollars SIEMENS bribery scandal; yet he is still in the Nigerian Senate as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria representing Adamawa State! Only in a corruption-infested country like Nigeria will a Senator Jubril Aminu remain in the Senate instead of cooling his heels in the big house (prison) for massive corruption. But such an infamy is possible because all of the so-called leaders are tainted in corruption. Which Nigerian leader is not corrupt? None! Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida owns a private jet in addition to inumerable other assets and you wonder how else could he have gotten them if not for corruption? WHo was his daddy and which business did he do as an army officer or did he inherit any trust-fund as the source of his stupendous weath? Remember it was during his Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida's hijack of Nigeria that the $180 million dollars Halliburton bribery scandal involving Nigerian top government officials took place? Is it Sani Abacha? - some of his $500 million dollars loot, recovered under Olusegun Obasanjo, government has since developed wings and flew into yet another corrupt official's bank account. Olusegun Obasanjo is corruption personified. David Mark, the Nigerian Senate President stole to his heart's delight as Nigeria's Minister of Communication under Ibrahim Babangida's interregnum and his $33 million dollars golf course in Ireland speaks volume to that fact. Some members of the House of Representatives are, in addition to being very corrupt, 419 criminal operators as acknowledged by one of them. So corruption is the augean stable wherein many a Nigerian leader instead of fighting finds themselves wallowing in and sometimes enmeshed to the neck themselves. In Nigeria, corruption is such a vicious circle that it is so ingrained in their body-fabric that no Nigerian 'leader' or official has any moral standing to question another's corruption. However, Icheokudotcom does not blame these bandits in power or government for their abysmal perchant for corruption; no, we blame the timidity of the Nigerian people whose cowardice these leaders take full advantage of and cash in to loot Nigerian treasury dry. It is a Total Bullshit!
In conclusion, we posit that this satellite project was a scam and hereby urge you to register your protest accordingly by contacting, calling, emailing, texting or through direct mails or even physical visit to the principal henchmen and a woman mentioned above; whose action/inaction caused Nigerians the loss of so much scarce resources. Please insist that these people stop henceforth any further attempt at supposedly 'launching' another contraption into space with the anything goes, once the price is right, Chinese authorities!
The Nigerian Authorities can be reached via:-
NIGCOMSAT LTD.
20 Justice Mohammed Bello Street, Asokoro, Abuja, Nigeria
Phone/Fax:-+234.9.314.5759,+234.9.480.5909+234.9.314.5758
Email: info@nigcomsat.org
The Chinese contractor can be reached via:-
China Great Wall Industry Corporation
67 Beisihuan Xilu, Haidian District, Beijing 100080, P. R. China
Tel: 86-10-8810218886-10-88102000 Fax: 86-10-88102107
E-mail: cgwic@cgwic.com Web: www.cgwic.com

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

TED STEVENS, OUSTED!

The eighty (85) years old, longest serving Republican in the Senate, who came into politics long before Alaska became part of the Union as a state, has been ousted; thanks to a working democracy! Hurrah to democratic ideals where the wishes of the people are respected!
Senator Ted Stevens, the convicted felon, was defeated by Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 146,286, or 47.56 percent, to Stevens' 143,912, or 46.76 percent. This is a double-whammy for Ted who in addition to his federal conviction for lying under oath, has now lost the only thing he has known for most of his life - being a US Senator from Alaska! It will never be the same for Alaskan wild politics without the colossus of Alaska, Uncle Ted Stevens! So long Ted!
Ted Stevens turned 85 last Sunday, November 16th, 2008 and baring any success with his conviction appeal, will be spending the rest of his golden years in Uncle Sam's big house!

Monday, November 17, 2008

BABANGIDA ALIYU AND HIS NORTHERN COMPATRIOTS SHOULD JUST GO AWAY!


For the umpteenth time the northerners in Nigeria have made a disclaimer that they are not leeches on the rest of Nigeria, claiming that they are not parasites and that they can stand on their own. Icheokudotcom now asks, were this assertion to be truly the case, what are they waiting for to just go away since nobody really want them in Nigeria? They should just secede from Nigeria and form an Islamic Republic of Arewa for themselves and live in a stone-age like manner as obtains in Afghanistan and some other medieval places including Western Wazaristan Pakistan. Nobody in Nigeria really wants these mallams because majority of them are primitive, back-ward, retrogressive, uneducated, religious zealots and fanatics, women-subjugators, social miscreants, lazy, non-industrious and for most part are the reason why Nigeria has not taken flight since independence in 1960.

The amalgamation of 1914 was a mistake and the Independence of 1960 a monstrous missed opportunity to just let these guys go away. These mallams have been in charge of Nigeria virtually since her independence in 1960 and today the comatose state of nearly everything in Nigeria is a testament to their inefficiency in running things. Without the rest of Nigerians contributing to the GDP who knows whether these guys would have still been alive. The south -south contributes their oil, the west contributes their bureaucracy as well as VAT to the federal purse, the east contribute their enterprising spirit as well as a sizable amount of VAT to the economy only for the North to act as the Master doling out other peoples money to their lazy folks up there in the Sahara desert.

When someone observes their dependency on Nigeria, some of their loud mouth-piece like this Niger State mallam rushes off to tout, a non-existence participatory of the North to the economic welfare of Nigeria. It is a generally agreed position that the forced marriage existing between the various nationalities in Nigeria is a ruse, which nobody wants. This newly found position of the North that they are capable of independent living, should be what the rest of Nigerians are waiting for! - a catalyst to quicken the dissolution of a non-functioning Nigeria. Under the family law, marriage could be dissolved on ground of irreconcilable differences and so should the Nigeria state. If the North, despite their flaunted declaration of their ability to exist without assistance from the rest of the country, in truth knows that they were merely faking it, then they should simply hush and continue their milking of Nigeria. Since nothing lasts forever, they can continue to ride the donkey until the emergence of a truly patriotic leader in Nigeria, who can ask some very tough questions regarding existing crass unfairness, tribalism and nepotism being perpetrated by the North ever since they usurped power in Nigeria in 1960. Gideon Orkar's attempt at addressing this most excruciating of Nigeria's problems was ill-managed otherwise the problem would have since been long solved; but until then, let the North know that it should not continue to be business as usual and that it is not yet uhuru!

On November 8th, 2008, one AbdulAzeez Sanni, reporting from Minna quoted Babangida Aliyu of Niger State as saying that northerners are not parasites, that the region has the comparative advantage, potentials and the resources to stand on its own. To this, Icheokudotcom asks, what then is the North waiting for, to simply take the hike and never come back? They should put their money where their mouth is - just prove it! The North should take that bold initiative of walking away from Nigeria - nobody really will mind their long-awaited departure from Nigeria. According to Babangida Aliyu, all they need to do is to identify and harness their comparative advantage in agriculture, arguing that the North has remained stagnant because the leaders have refused to challenge the people so as to bring out their potentials. Icheokudotcom responds that the North has no potential whatsoever to bring out and will remain in their abject want until their social and cultural perspective is changed for the better; wherein the ingrained cultural practises of almajiris, purdah, sharia law of stoning women to death for merely having sex and conscripted marriage of twelve year old girls to 70 year old grand-fathers is changed. In addition the North must learn how to separate their religion from the state and stop seeing in their rulers, gods who must be obeyed and worshipped. Until such epiphany takes place, there will never be any meaningful way forward in the quest to effect the fortunes of Northern Nigeria.
Until these fundamental medieval mindset of the Northern Nigeria society is radically shaken to its roots, nothing meaningful will ever come out of even the best intentions, such as was espoused by Babangida Aliyu. Aliyu said the Northern Nigeria region will only get out of its quagmire if it accorded education a priority attention, revealing that the 19 northern state governors have agreed to provide free and functional education in their respective states. To which Icheokudotcom says, it is not the lack of free education that is the impediment in the North, since the North does not pay school fees anyway. The albatross of Northern Nigeria is a classroom which is not usually filled by smart and bright students eager and ready to challenge their intellect. Also the North does not educate to really evaluate their folks, hence the low qualitative products from their schools which can hardly maintain their manpower need. The North is afraid of competition and they need to develop that knack to be a fierce competitor in a winner takes it all world. Mediocrity is the bane of the north! Icheokudotcom hopes that Babangida Aliyu now gets the true picture and will refocus his satellite on the real issues afflicting Northern Nigeria. This is the right thing to do, instead of his current feel-good speeches, patronising his people with an unfounded, unmerited make-believe self-sufficiency capabilities! Get it, Mallam Babangida Aliyu?

Sunday, November 16, 2008

AMINA LAWAL, A REMINDER OF THE EVILS OF SHARIA IN NIGERIA!

The tear drop is the only window into a heart-filled with sorrow, at the oppressive, punitive and repressive Sharia system of warped laws unevenly applied to certain people in Northern Nigeria. It is unfortunate that evil men masquerading as custodians of Islam is afflicting untold hardship on people of Northern Nigeria for no just cause other than to repress and maintain a strangle-hold on her citizens and the Nigerian government tolerates this medieval devilish practice.
If the Northern Nigeria must enforce their sharia law, nothing stops them from doing so, but they must make such inhuman laws outside Nigeria - they can break away into their own Islamic State and enforce whatever laws they deem fit. But to remain in Nigeria as a part thereof and bring such odium and ridicule to the rest of Nigerians by their refusal to wake up and smell the coffee of modernity, should be condemned by all right-thinking people. Icheokudotcom says it is about time the Ms. Amina Lawal's of Nigeria are saved from further pain and suffering in the hands of some crazed-mullahs. The Nigerian National Assembly should legislate Sharia out of existence within any borders of Nigeria and if the madmen up North wants to riot, then dispatch the military to tame them. Such inhuman practice is a threat to national security of Nigeria and if it means wiping away as many of them that are hell-bent on this sharia nonsense, so be it. But a bona-fide Nigerian citizen must not be compelled to a dual law enforcement, one of which is so archaic that it smacks of 19th century Nigeria.
Ms. Amina Lawal, 32 years old, was facing a certain death by stoning for an alleged adultery? Meanwhile the man that raped her walked away Scott-free. But this Northern Nigerian mother finally won her appeal against her death-sentence conviction in March 2002, just for simply having sex out of wedlock! It is also instructive that she did not commit abortion but had a beautiful baby girl whose innocence face being breast-fed by her mother was not enough to dissuade these mullahs from handing down the death sentence by stoning. What would have happened to this little angel were the sentence carried out is left for anybody's imagination.
Under the Islamic (Sharia) law, which convicted Ms. Amina Lawal, the Islamic Judge ordered that Ms. Amina Lawal be buried up to her neck in sand and then have her head crushed by a barrage of rocks being hurled at her head in a public spectacle. Gory, indeed! Ms. Amina Lawal would have been stoned to death with rocks and boulders if not for the appeal which set her free; and this is in Nigeria and in this present 21st century? It is very shameful indeed that the Nigerian government could not override this barbaric sentence because of mere fear of the riotous Northern Nigeria. To hell with this, where were the men and women of the armed forces - just dispatch them up there to take care of business. Icheokudotcom want to particularly thank the government of Brazil for offering Me. Ms. Amina Lawal an asylum, which her own government in Nigeria could not do nor the Africa continent. At least they could have secured her and put her in a protective custody pending when the tensions cools down. SHAMELESS!