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, August 27, 2017

HOUSTON FLOOD: OUR HEARTS ARE WITH THOSE RESILIENT TEXANS.

ICHEOKU says Hurricane Harvey has since left but its aftermath lingers on in flooding which is threatening to overwhelm those in the cities visited by the now departed hurricane turned storm in Southeast Texas including Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston etc. ICHEOKU wishes them God's protection as they battle the worst flooding in recorded Texas history. 

MAYWEATHER DEFEATS MCGREGOR: REMAINS UNBEATEN.

ICHEOKU says Floyd Money Mayweather lived up to his billings as the best pound for pound fighter ever to walk in the ring of pugilism. He TKOed Conor McGregor in the tenth round and remains unbeaten in his 50 career fights. ICHEOKU says congratulations Flyod.

Friday, August 25, 2017

NO MORE NATION BUILDING, JUST KILLING THE BAD GUYS.

NO MORE NATION BUILDING, JUST KILLING THE BAD GUYS.

ICHEOKU says the United States of America mandate to its military engaged overseas particularly Afghanistan is stop cuddling the bad guys, just whack them. ICHEOKU says certainly a c-change in the rules of engagement and it will certainly make it easier for our warriors who will risk less of their lives and limbs in battle fields. President Donald John Trump is definitely leading as said and providing the leadership our military needs as their Commander in Chief. Way to go.

Thursday, August 24, 2017

WHAT HAPPENED a book of distortions by HILLARY CLINTON

ICHEOKU says defeated former Democratic Party's presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wrote a soon to publish book about her abysmal outing in the last election. A presidential candidate who lost to a novitiate, blowhard politician and current president of the united states of America Donald John Trump. In it she gave an account of her peculiar facts of what happened that torpedoed her presidential dream cum run. 

Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton, millions of Americans as well as other world citizens lived through the last election and do not need any further alternative facts from a serial liar and exaggerator extraordinary, as to what they witnessed. Their verdict is that the book is a complete regurgitate, a hogwash, a distortion of consequential facts and that nobody needs any extra lecturing from Hillary Clinton, a woman who lives in a permanent state of denial and whose penchant for exaggerating stories is phenomenal about what actually happened. 

WHAT HAPPENED is that there was an election campaign which she lousily waged as she arrogantly thought that she was merely waiting for her presidential coronation and did not need to work as hard to earn it. She carried herself throughout the campaign circle as a lady president in wait, without doing the heavy lifting that any presidential campaign requires. She  stonewalled American people and the Media on so many issues, including her HIllaryGate Email scandal and series of corruption. She did not campaign in or rather neglected the Ross Belt region and she had no answer on anything including her manifesto and mission creed. The only thing she campaigned on was hatred for Trump and she mightily urged Americans, especially her supporters to hate Donald John Trump, her then opponent. ICHEOKU says this is the synopsis of WHAT HAPPENED and not the tales by the moonlight she wants gullible cooled drinkers to waste their money on, by purchasing and reading her latest crappy book, WHAT HAPPENED. 

Anyway, an indictment which is probably coming down the pike of the Justice Department very soon, might be what it will take to finally shake Hillary Clinton up from her lingering comatose nightmare, from which she has never recovered since the night of November 8, 2016; leading to some concerned citizens and sympathizers alike to query whether the election loss has also impacted her faculties. ICHEOKU says will read the book just out of curiosity and to verify how much she lied or tried to alter the story of the last election campaign. However, ICHEOKU will not spend a dime buying the book, as enriching the Clintons any further and in any way, is rather scandalous. ICHEOKU will not be contributing further to the Clinton Family crime funds which buying this book entails. Yes indeed, something happened, but it was not what Hillary Clinton said happened. WHAT HAPPENED is that Hillary Clinton lost an election which was hers to grab but she fumbled; and her failure has technically, permanently retired her from politics. Adios Amiga Hillary!

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

THEY SWARMED AND ANTIFA FLED

THEY SWARMED AND ANTIFA FLED

ICHEOKU says thanks to American Bikers, the much anticipated protest in Phoenix rally-styled speech did not materialize. May be we should have more of these Bikers in every rally. Kudos to the real bad ass men with steely balls.

PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP SPEAKS IN PHOENIX

Monday, August 21, 2017

BOSTON AND CHARLOTTESVILLE SHOWS, WHAT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

ICHEOKU says it is due to one thing and one thing only, the police did their job in one city while they chose to stand idly by and do nothing in the other city. This is what ended up being the major difference from the charade that was Virginia and the good job put up in Massachusetts. But in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in its city of Charlottesville, somebody in authority made the conscious decision not to allow the police to do their job; to protect a group of people who were legally doing what they were authorized to do by the Constitution of the United States of America and for which they obtained required necessary permit to do. They allowed a bunch of trouble making rabble rousers to crash the party and with it the mayhem that was witnessed in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

So, anyone drawing a comparative analysis between the two cities protests must be mindful of the political undertones that was in place in both places, which sabotaged one protest rally and made monsters of some people and the other one which followed a textbook detail of how to police a lawful event and avoid unnecessary tension in the land. ICHEOKU has no dog in the fight and could care less what any pinhead hater wants to say, but categorically rejects the current umbrage against the President of the United States of America Donald John Trump as being responsible for what went down in Charlottesville, because he is not. 

The president, as the father of the nation had to admonish both sides of the political fringed spectrums to cut the crap and be of better behavior. Anyone expecting him to have taken sides is mistaken, because as a president of all Americans, he is supposed to be impartial in all issues and matters involving the citizens of the nation. He did not start racial divisions in America, they preceded his presidency and they will still be around long after he completes his term or terms in office. When two children are engaged in a fight, any responsible parents have to first stop the fight, listen to their stories, before apportioning blame accordingly. The president spoke well on Monday when he said that both sides behaved badly; and again, the president was right on Tuesday when he called out the Nazis for their bad behavior after finding out the facts of what happened and once again, the president did not misspeak when on Wednesday he reiterated that there is always two parties to a conflict. 

ICHEOKU therefore calls on everybody to move on from the current Charlottesville nonsense and refocus on how to solve the multitude of problems facing the nation; instead of expending useful manpower dribbling about nothingness. Enough of the divisions and enough of the finger pointing at the White House; moreso, now that Steven Bannon has gone, once again a show of proof by the president that he is not beholden to any nationalists movement nor have been taken hostage by any white separatist group including the KKK. Americans should therefore move forward and allow the president a chance and the opportunity to do what he needs to do to help Make America Great Again.

Sunday, August 20, 2017

CHARLOTTESVILLE MELEE: AN AVOIDABLE DISPLAY OF AMERICAN UNDERBELLY.

ICHEOKU says all anybody can do now is to second guess what indeed actually went wrong in Charlottesville, the usual Monday night quarterbacking; and there is a lot of finger pointing to go around and at so many different directions. ICHEOKU refuses to accept and is not buying the narrative that it was strictly a one sided madness that went uncontrollably too far, too quickly; because it is not. It takes two to tango; every coin comes with two sides and there are always two tales to a story. 

Yes, the original protesters, with permit, were protesting against something dear to their heart, the planned removal of a statue which they do not want to see removed; and they have the right to express themselves freely and without let. Suddenly, another group came to challenge their right to freely express themselves, resulting in the disturbances that was seen in Charlottesville Virginia; needless to add that these rabble rousers did not have permit to simultaneously stage a protest. They took the laws into their hands and got away with it, as the police stood idly by, hands akimbo, and watched as the disruption and protection took a horrible dimension. Did the nationalist have right to do what they did, you bet they did; and included in that right is the additional right not to be disturbed or molested as they carried on with their protest. So query, if they did and had necessary permit as required, why then did the police, paid with public money into which these white nationalists also contribute by way of taxes, not provide them with much needed protection and allowed the meddlesome interlopers to disrupt an otherwise peaceful march. 

This is the issue that should be investigated and not all these ruse being thrown up in the name of racism, because it is not the underlying factor in the Charlottesville incident. It is on record that the opposite end of the political spectrum has been carrying on all manners of protest since last November 9, 2016 when President Donald John Trump won the presidency of the United States of America. Hillary Clinton, a sore loser, instead of conceding election as any sport would do and urge support for the new president,  half heartedily did and immediately turned around to urge resistance to the new president and it has been one trouble after another from the far left ever since. It created so may reverse hate groups including the Alt-Left anarchists who has been agitating ever since. The same people have disrupted several conservative events and speeches including Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos aborted speeches in University of California Berkeley. They  even nearly burnt down part of the school to make sure they caused enough terror to cause the university to revoke already granted permits to host the event that had them as speakers. The same group of leftist mad dogs went to San Jose to stir another trouble, yet they were not railed in. 

It is on record that while all these leftist protests were going on, the nationalists did not bother them nor interfered to disrupt them and they had their way freely. ICHEOKU says why is it then that it is okay to treat the two groups differently and in America that is supposed to respect the fundamental rights of all of her citizens equally, regardless of how opprobrious they might be. Why is it then that the far left can enjoy their protected speech but the far right cannot? Why is it then that the far left is allowed to enjoy their freedom of speech to protest unmolested, but the far right is not allowed to also enjoy their own protest without being molested. No matter how reprehensible their protest action may be, provided they kept it within the law, it is nobody's business deciding what can be allowed or not. It is for the law enforcement agencies, led by the police, to determine when they went over and beyond their authorized permissible scope. It is not the opposing viewpoint agitators that has the right to decide this and this is where the injustice reared its head; because had there been no disruption or attempt thereto, those white nationalists would have peacefully carried out their rally and nobody would be talking about a rally that went awry including an avoidable death of a young woman. 

Justice denied one is justice denied all, because if the nationalist are deprived their right to free speech today, whose turn will it be tomorrow, anybody's. What if it was the nationalists that interfered to disrupt other peoples rights to freely exercise a constitutionally guaranteed freedom, will the reaction have been the same? It is therefore unjust to selectively decide who enjoys what right, as guaranteed under the constitution and this is the real bone in the Charlottesville meat. There should be freedom for both sides, as freedom for one person should tantamount to freedom for everyone, including the bad and ugly of the society. Where does this censorship start and end? What if these nationalists did not like to hear all the horrible names the alt Left protesters have been calling President Trump and decided to take the matter into their hands to stop it? President Donald John Trump was called so many unprintable names including Hitler, but he did not and never gassed six million Jews. Yet it is okay by these leftist anarchists to use such name on a man who merely won an election against all odds and despite all roadblocks. 

So why is the name calling of the president acceptable but the name calling of others, including the Jews, not acceptable. It does not make sense and only the conspiracy of parties of interest who want to stop the president or make his presidency difficult, find this double standards acceptable. The universal fairness test would have remained sacrosanct: does the constitutional protection of freedom of speech cover the white nationalists speech which they wanted to freely exercise? If yes, then those anarchists who muzzled their speech and prevented them from doing what they were constitutionally authorized to do and duly obtained permit to do, should be the culpable party here and not those who were merely victims of a reverse hate. This is the pertinent issue here and hopefully both sides will learn to tolerate each other because if they don't, and the authorities continue to carry on with their bias against one side, they might push that side underground and into a reactionary forces which America does not want now. 

Thousands of Timothy McVeigh's clones are not what any sensible and rational America would rather trade for allowing mere speech, no matter how hateful and hurtful and even reprehensible. ICHEOKU says let both sides be allowed to freely air their grievances as there are a lot between them. It is their legitimate right of free speech to say whatever they want within codified limitations and they should freely exercise same without any hindrance whatsoever. The alternative is not a palatable option and this should guide everyone's action going forward in the current debate on racism in America. 

Lastly blaming President Donald John Trump for what went down in Charlottesville is a distasteful brain freeze garbage because racism has always been a way of life in America, long before Trump became president and it will continue long after he leaves office. He neither engineered nor in any way was party to what happened or should President Barack Obama be held responsible for the murders of the five Dallas police officers by a Black Live Matter's nut job? In the same vein, should Bernie Sanders be held responsible for the lunatic who shot up a Republican's golf practice session? It is about time all these guilty by imaginary association ended. Lastly, President Donald John Trump was right in pointing out that it takes two to a dispute because nobody ever quarrels with him or herself. ICHEOKU will even go a step further in actually blaming the alt Left who went seeking for trouble where the alt Right were merely doing their thing as the party responsible who should be held to account for the near crisis which erupted in Charlottesville. They are not speech police and cannot and should not be allowed to pick and choose which speech qualifies as acceptable speech and which one does not. Enough of this needless storm in a tea pot.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

STEVE BANNON: A NECESSARY SACRIFICIAL LAMB.

ICHEOKU says the president had no choice but to let Steve Bannon go and in order to hopefully rejig his governance towards getting his agenda back on the track. An agenda which has literally stalled with no clear meaningful movement and needed a reboot. Steve Bannon was becoming too much of a distraction with all the media focus on him which sort of took some of the shine on both the president and his government. The pressure was mounting and had remained resolute until the president yielded and allowed his top strategist to be eased out of the White House. 

A man viewed by many anti-Trump and Never-Trump hollering monkeys as a white nationalist, the ambassador/gate keeper of the movement inside the White House, especially after the mixed messaging that came out of the Charlottesville melee, had to be sacrificed on the alter of pleasing those blood hounds who has been calling for the head of the presidency himself. Whether this very big sacrifice, of such an awesome proportion, will placate and appease those nut-jobs and atone for all the imaginary sins of President Donald John Trump is left to be seen down the road. But Steve Bannon, the president's former chief strategist, is now gone and stands shoved out of the White House. He joins Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, General Flynn and the many other now ex-staffers of President Trump's White House who have been let go. 

It would also appear that the previously fired, eleven-days only communication director of the White House, Anthony Scaramucci, finally had his way. with the departure of Steve Bannon. He was the catalyst which quickened the reaction of staff push out from the White House. He had fingered Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus as two senior staffers of the president who has no business being in the White House, claiming that they are not truly loyal to the president and are sabotaging the president's agenda and leaking classified information about the government to the media. First to go was Reince Priebus and now Steve Bannon follows suit, showing that Anthony Scaramucci eventually achieved his primary objective to rid the White House of both men, albeit retrospectively.  

ICHEOKU says the interview Steve Bannon gave to American Prospect magazine was indeed a killer, the last straw that finally broke his back and forced the president's hands,  and he acted on a nearly boiled over rage against Bannon. Similar to Anthony Scaramucci's own interview to the New Yorker magazine which led to his being let go, Steve Bannon's interview was indeed detrimental to the Trump's government policies, especially its ongoing stand off with North Korea over it nuclear weapon pursuit and ballistic missiles firing. No sane president would stand idly by and watch as his chief adviser creates a firestorm  between him and his military chiefs; people who are planning a massive "fire and fury and power" response against North Korea, while the same adviser is busily behind the scene, sabotaging the response by literary telling North Korean Kim Jung Un to ignore the president's threats as it is merely hot air. 

ICHEOKU will not take it and is glad that the president saw it the same way and found it unacceptable. You don't go rogue against a president or anyone for that matter, in whose service you are engaged in. You go 'lock and step' with the person, fanatically defending whatever policy objective he marshaled out, regardless; or in the alternative, you resign your appointment and your office let another loyal staffer take. But to allow such a rascally conduct will amount to permitting two captains on the same ship and it can only spell disaster. Therefore, President Donald John Trump acted wisely and in the best interest of his government when he fired Steve Bannon in order to send a message that his government's policy towards North Korea is solid and that there is no equivocation nor divisions within his government on the decision to decisively deal with the crisis. 

Steve Bannon is gone and stays gone. The only question now is whether the forces which are amassed against the president would accept the sacrifice and let the president be and allow him to do his job geared towards accomplishing his flagship Make America Great Again campaign promise. The fear however is that these forces will become an Oliver Twist and like the plant in the movie "Little House of Horrors", having tasted blood, will continue to demand for that crimson liquid until they exhaust the president's will to carry on fighting for the American people. With all these firings, particularly the latest Steve Bannon's, these forces will feel more emboldened in their pursuit of the president scalp, having realized that pressure works and that they can influence the president and will continue to dictate who goes and who stays in the White House. 

The good news however is that Steve Bannon, who claimed that he voluntarily resigned and was not fired, is not feeling terribly sad about his latest fate. He has promised to continue fighting for the president from outside the White House. Feeling relieved with his release from the shackles of office, he will go to a full blown war for the president against all his traducers, both in the Congress and in any other place they might be holed in within the Washington DC Swamp establishment. In his own words, Steve Bannon said "If there's any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I'm leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents -- on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America." ICHEOKU wishes Steve Bannon God's speed in his new avowed mission and appreciates his effort in electing the president and also for his service while it lasted. So long Steve-B. 

(The publisher of Breitbart has now returned to his pet project as the chairman of the company).

Thursday, August 17, 2017

LIKE SADDAM HUSSEIN'S STATUES: PULL DOWN ALL THE GADDAM STATUES.

ICHEOKU says it is about time enough really became enough, so that a very deplorable chapter in the storied history of America can finally be laid to rest. Enough of all these vestiges of slavery and Jim Crow's segregationist era, which constantly reminds their victims what an ugly past they and their forebears really went through in America. Doting the landscape in one form and fashion or the other, statues, which still continue to tower and hover over America till this day. 

ICHEOKU says if Iraqi people could do it, so should Americans. If Russian Ukrainians could do the same and pull down Lenin statues, so should Americans find the courage to pull down at least some of the offensive statues. If Germany could bury their Nazi past or at least try, so should America be able to rise up and wipe the slate clean about an inhuman past which nobody should be proud of. Therefore why is America finding it rather difficult to similarly erase this very ugly past. Why is the United States of America, a champion of freedom and liberation, be clinging to this ugly past experiences of slavery, segregation and Jim Crow laws of "WE and THEM" state policy that dehumanized fellow human beings and made them two third humans. 

ICHEOKU says enough of all this foot drag and making of excuses of a nonsensical heritage past; the time to have ended it completely came a long time ago and therefore now is the only acceptable time to boldly embrace the moment, admitted belatedly. Therefore, every statue honoring anyone connected with slavery, establishing and/or enforcing segregationist laws, should immediately and without more and/or any further ado, be pulled down forthwith. These mean spirited fellows and every person and partaker of this ignoble acts should be deemed not to have any storied records worthy nor deserving of immortalizing in perpetuity.  They should not be honored and their descendants should rather be ashamed of this their past connection, than celebrate them. This is irrespective of whatever sentimental, nostalgic, memories, which anyone may have about them and/or what they represent or did. 

There is no explanation, whether or not satisfactory, which would in any way otherwise justify such honor, because their victims are still here and it reminds them of a very horrible past each time they behold such statue. The people of Iraq, despite the attachments of Sunnis, especially those of Tikrit to Saddam Hussein, did pull down every statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and there are many to help them completely erase whatever memory or sore taste which Saddam Hussein left in them. Americans also once pulled down the statue of British King George in New York after the revolutionary war of independence. Ukraine and other former Soviet era republics also pulled down Vladimir Ilyich Lenin statues to help them close that chapter of their horrible past recorded history. Germany has not only pulled down Adolf Hitler's statues but went a step further by de-legitimizing everything Hitler and abolishing and criminalizing anything Nazi including the Fuhrer salute. 

So based on these precedents, why can't America also do the same by completely eradicating anything and everything slavery. This is the way to go for a country that is indeed serious about making amends for its past. America cannot be allowed, by the same token, to be saying that they condemn racism and have since abolished slavery and segregation and still be honoring those people who actually imprinted that man's inhuman treatment to fellow man and left such a dark spot on America's soul. The logic does not add up and a moment has now thrown itself up for America to do good for and by its minority citizens and quit reminding them that they are technically their properties and not equal fellow human beings. It is this ability to rise up and really be great in magnanimity, by taking down all the offensive statues, that America can indeed become whole again, more united, and then forge ahead collectively to doing many more great things. Americans of all shades and every hue should therefore help wipe away this lingering psychological nightmare, a ghost of the past, which these statues represents and constantly remind and subject our minorities fellow citizens to and help Make America Whole Again. 

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Sierra Leone MUDSLIDE: OUR HEARTS ARE HEAVY,

ICHEOKU says our condolences to the people and government of Sierra Leone on the loss of hundreds of citizens to a Noah's flood which overwhelmed the country's capital city Freetown. May the country find the fortitude to bear their loss as they try to recover and rebuild. 

Sunday, August 13, 2017

USAIN BOLT: HOW NOT TO MAKE A FINAL EXIT.

ICHEOKU says what a storied career he had and was on the last competition before he retires when he was hamstrung and cramped out of the race. But instead of going out in  blaze of glory with yet another world record win, he limped down, out and face-down on the ground, cost Jamaica the race and with it ended his career. 

ICHEOKU says Usain Bolt cannot allow his career to end abysmally like this and must therefore reverse his decision to retire and have another shot at it, in order to go out with a bang but not in the limply manner the race in London ended. ICHEOKU say he had the opportunity to retire when the ovation was loudest with the last Olympics gold medal  wins; but he chose otherwise. He lingered on for this final encounter at the 2017 IAAF World Championship in London which ended in a disaster of a cramp which forced him out of the meet. It is not a good way to go out for a man who had such a storied record and it is not acceptable to millions of his fans worldwide. 

Therefore Usain Bolt must not allow such a pitiful performance to be his valediction and the way he is remembered. He cannot leave the scene after all he has accomplished as a bumbling fallen, face-down splinter and therefore must compete again to top off his crown of glory in a more acceptable fashion. ICHEOKU wishes Usain Bolt well and a speedy recovery. He was a champion and should try and remain a champion by returning for another competition in order to go out a champion.

Friday, August 11, 2017

WE ARE READY - GENERAL MATTIS

"The United States and our allies have the demonstrated capabilities and unquestionable commitment to defend ourselves from attack. Kim Jong Un should take heed of the United Nations Security Council's unified voice, and statements from governments the world over, who agree the DPRK poses a threat to global security and stability. The DPRK must choose to stop isolating itself and stand down its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The DPRK should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. 

President Trump was informed of the growing threat last December and on taking office his first orders to me emphasized the readiness of our ballistic missile defense and nuclear deterrent forces. While our State Department is making every effort to resolve this global threat through diplomatic means, it must be noted that the combined allied militaries now possess the most precise, rehearsed, and robust defensive and offensive capabilities on Earth. The DPRK regime's actions will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates. My responsibility as Defense Secretary is to have military options ready if needed. We are ready." - General James Maddog Mattis, US Defense Secretary.

Thursday, August 10, 2017

OZUBULU BLOODY SUNDAY: MASSACRE IN THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP.

ICHEOKU says whodunnit is really not that important and so also is the intended target, as it appertains to this essay. The predominant interest here is why anybody ever gave such senseless act of sacrilege a thought; talkless of actually carrying it out. Tens of innocent parishioners were observing their early morning Mass devotion when some lunatics walked into where they were assembled and sprayed them with bullets, leaving 22 people dead with 18 others seriously wounded. 

ICHEOKU queries what manner of human excrements would carry out such a dastardly act and inside a House of Worship, a CHURCH. Even if they are non believers, do not go to church nor believe in God and does not not understand the reverence of a Catholic Mass, they should have, at least, respected the sensibilities of those devotees and given them the opportunity to finish their devotions before killing them, if they must. But to do it in the depraved manner they did it, shows that they are callous, extremely wicked, ungodly and deserves to rot in hell.

The Holy Bible, in Book of 2 Samuel 1:20, admonishes "publish it not in Garth nor the streets of Ashkelon lest the daughters of Philistines rejoice and exult", to which ICHEOKU paraphrases "publish it not in Ozubulu nor in Ala Igbo that such great abomination took place and it is being discussed as real and not just a nightmarish dream from which people woke up and soon forgot.  How the people who did this, so lost their moral compunction,  that they descended into such a depravity and desecrated the House of God, with such reckless indifference to what the place meant and defied a sanctified place by shedding the blood of parishioners, is simply beyond pale. But it happened and all everyone can do now is to figure how to avoid a repeat happenstance going forward. 

Hopefully, security agencies will solve the crime quickly in order to arrest and punish the perpetrators, prevent panic among the society and also to preempt people from arriving at their own conclusions which is capable of adding more tension to an already tensed society. Security agencies must work hard to unravel the culprits, to avoid a total and complete breakdown of law and order, by a people who might feel that the government is covering up something or is somewhat in cahoot with the perpetrators and might resort to self help vigilantism asa result. 

To say the least, this massacre is certainly a new low for Nigeria, especially its security agencies that seem incapable of securing the country and her citizens and properties; admitted that they work under near impossible austere conditions and are simply overwhelmed with un-incentivized large workload. A country that is awash with problems, including a president who has been MIA for quite some time now, holed out abroad in London where he is receiving treatment for cancer, could sure use less of this madness. ICHEOKU says all is not well with Nigeria and denying it or trying to sugarcoat it can only make a bad situation turn worse. It is time now to seriously consider all available options towards saving Nigeria and reposition it for greatness; rather than continue to pretend otherwise while watching its continued slide.  

The implications of Ozubulu massacre has a global ramifications - from the Vatican which might take umbrage that its church was desecrated in this manner and her parishioners's right to life so flagrantly violated; to the United States of America whose Christian community might feel that the Church of Christ is now under threat in Nigeria; to Russia and some other civilized nations which must be wondering what manner of heartless people inhabit the geopolitical entity called Nigeria. A country whose mafia has, in the past, been compared to Japanese Yakuza, Russian Mafia, Chinese Mafia, Italian mafia and the Mexican Sinaloa mafia; but which has now certainly outdone itself by this church massacre. How these civilized societies, which consider churches sacred and sanctified, would view a country where devotees are murdered while kneeling in prayers inside a church during a Sunday Catholic Mass is anybody's guess. 

ICHEOKU says Nigeria is in a deep doodle, a very smelly, stinky and sticky one indeed; such that not even Londonderry own Bloody Sunday compares to this. Even though both the infamous British escapade in Irish Derry and the unsolved murders in a Nigerian Catholic Church in Ozubulu took place on a Sunday, but the Nigerian incident was right inside the sanctuary of Christ. Nigerian Boko Haram has such modus operandi and so too are terrorists ISIS; but that such a depraved heart massacre took place inside a church in the heartland of Christianity in Nigeria and also a very religious Igbo community simply begs the question will the police ever find the real culprits. ICHEOKU prays that they will; and also that the massacre will not draw the ire of the world, compelling them to brand Nigeria a narcotic producing, trafficking and facilitating country. If it happens and possible additional targeted measures are put in place, it will affect millions of innocent Nigerians. Lets hope it will not get there and ICHEOKU prays that the victim community finds the fortitude to bear the loss and heal from the trauma. May the souls of the killed now rest.  

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

TRUMP SPITS FIRE: PUTS NORTH KOREA ON NOTICE

NORTH KOREA  PUT ON NOTICE: DON'T PUSH ME.
"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. As I said, they will be met with the fire and fury and, frankly, power." - President Donald John Trump. 

ICHEOKU says the Michelin Tire midget at Pyongyang is definitely courting trouble and messing with the wrong man. He probably thinks Barack Obama the redline president is still in office; but unbeknownst to him there is a new sheriff in town and his name is Donald John Trump and he does not mess around. Hopefully China can rein in the little man before he commits mass suicide with his North Korean people.

DANIEL CORMIER: TIME TO RETIRE IS NOW

ICHEOKU says has watched Jon Jones V. Daniel Cormier 2 rematch for the umpteenth time now and has come to a verdict that it is about time Daniel Cormier hung up his gear, stop fighting, retire; and concentrate on commentating and training other young and upcoming wanna be fighters. Yes, UFC 214 lived up to its billing; all the fighters gave viewers their money's worth plus more; with the spectacular will and power they exhibited. 

The evening was topped off by the main event Jones V. Comey 2 and the two fighters equally delivered. It was a thing of beauty to behold, watching the extent to which the human spirit can go on in the inert battle to survive and thrive. Round one came and went and so did round two and then in round three, a kick to the head triggered an even that led to a dazed, confused, stunned and nearly unresponsive Daniel Cormier being saved by the referee. When he finally regained his consciousness, Daniel Cormier, amid sobs, said "I thought the fight was going well; I don’t even know what happened.” ICHEOKU said that was the viciousness of the kick and subsequent elbowing which Jon Jones delivered on Daniel Cormier that his lights  literally went out, needing quite some time before he recovered nearly enough to give the few answers to the interviewer's questions. 

ICHEOKU says Daniel Cormier has nothing more to prove, having defeated all but one person, Jon Jones, in his weight class of the UFC/MMA. Therefore, having failed in this second opportunity to defeat Jon Jones, he should do the expected and take his bow when the ovation is still loud enough. Like Ronda Lousy, Daniel Cormier will never recover from the psychological  trauma his second loss to Jon Jones inflicted upon him. Prior to the fight, both of them had boasted to knock each other out and Daniel was so optimistic and fired up that he dreamt of it happening. He went into the octagon fully convinced that this is it and that he will defeat Jon Jones but it did not happen leading to the question what else Daniel? ICHEOKU says in answer, NOTHING and the best outcome for him is to retire or move out of the weight class; concentrate on his commentating as well as training up and coming fighters. 

Daniel Cormier had looked forward to a third fight in which they would have decided who is a better fighter, believing that his win would have parred them one win apiece. It did not happen and Daniel Cormier himself put it very succinctly when he conceded “If you win both fights, I guess there isn’t a rivalry”; to which ICHEOKU would add "anymore" and ICHEOKU completely agrees with Daniel's assessment. At 38 years old, he is not getting younger either and taking his leave now would guarantee him ample time to do so many other things both outside and inside the UFC/MMA. ICHEOKU therefore calls on defeated Daniel Cormier to retire now or at least drop off from the light heavy weight class which Jon Jones now proudly and rightly occupies until Jones either retires himself or moves from that weight class. Overall it was a good UFC 214 fight and every fan was entertained and satisfied. ICHEOKU says congratulations to champion Jon Jones who actually just reclaimed what rightful y belonged to him as no man has ever defeated him in the weight class.