How many American citizens or her residents will have to die prematurely again before the Washington politicians will work together and across those party ideological lines in order to put an effective national law in place that will finally control, regulate and monitor gun ownership requirements in America?
There are estimated 300 million different types of guns in the hands of Americans in a country with 315 million living souls. It is easier today in 2012 in America to buy any gun, including those assault rifles or machine guns for private use than to buy a prescription drug to treat a common cold from a pharmacy. More than 10,000 preventable deaths occur every year in America from the violent use of these privately owned guns.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) continues to stand against any proposed regulations to control gun ownership in America including those assault rifles by putting their corporate profits above the sanctity of human precious life that has no duplicate or replacement when taken unexpectedly in the hands of these chronic murderers.
The only realistic method that is firstly and humanly practicable, and secondly will reduce the number of these preventable deaths in the hands of these killers is to have in place an effective gun control law that is coupled with those tough requirements for gun ownership in United States.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
"MY PERSONAL PESPECTIVES OF THE CHINUA ACHEBE'S NEWEST BOOK ON THE BIAFRAN WAR IN NIGERIA"
Chinua Achebe's newest book that is titled "THERE WAS A COUNTRY:A PERSONAL HISTORY OF BIAFRA" has truly divided Nigerians and the national public opinions about this war. Biafran war was the worst chapter in the entire history of Nigeria to date. Every effort has been made by every successive government in Nigeria to date including the military government that prosecuted the Biafran war to sweep the whole truth about this war under the carpet of history forever or to also rewrite the true account of this war to suit their own tribal or regional goals and the myopic national objectives of the Nigerian leaders that are neither patriotic or nationalistic in the name of one Nigeria and national unity.
Achebe's book on the Biafran war is a personal legacy and a first class account from one of the major actors on the Biafra's side of this war. The book asked the most important questions about this war that were never asked at the national and international levels before except the phrase "No Victor and No Vanguished". This book also serves as a national warning to the Nigerian nation in 2012 that has never learned any vital lesson to date from her brutal and past history. Nigeria today faces the likely possibility of this destructive event been repeated again in our lifetime in a nation that is passing through the same similar events of the 1960s that gave birth to the Biafran war and in a nation where the true wound of this war has not truly healed in all honesty and reality.
Achebe's book on the Biafran war is a personal legacy and a first class account from one of the major actors on the Biafra's side of this war. The book asked the most important questions about this war that were never asked at the national and international levels before except the phrase "No Victor and No Vanguished". This book also serves as a national warning to the Nigerian nation in 2012 that has never learned any vital lesson to date from her brutal and past history. Nigeria today faces the likely possibility of this destructive event been repeated again in our lifetime in a nation that is passing through the same similar events of the 1960s that gave birth to the Biafran war and in a nation where the true wound of this war has not truly healed in all honesty and reality.
WHO IS CHINUA ACHEBE OF NIGERIA?
Professor Chinua Achebe stands out clearly amongst his contemporaries and equals in Nigeria in particular as well as in the entire continent of Africa and all over the literary world in general. This erudite emeritus professor of the African literature, an internationally acclaimed author and essayist, a controversial political- historian and a great writer of human and African events is one of the few highly placed Nigerians that I personally hold in the highest esteem today. Chinua Achebe has refused to sell his precious birthright like the way the biblical Esau did just for the hunger sake for one single meal of bread and lentil stew to his brother Jacob forever.
Chinua Achebe has refused for many decades to compromise his personal principles and his strong commitment to the truth about Nigerian nation that is in deep crises today for those enticing and the highly juicy political appointments, inflated government contracts and patronage, the Ghana-must-go bags or the so called Nigeria's national honors that are normally given to Nigerian traitors instead of the true Nigerian patriots and nationalists on two different occasions and under two different administrations as an academician, a researcher and a political commentator.
Chinua Achebe's place in the Nigeria's annals of history is already determined, known, secured, settled and written in pure gold forever and for the present generations of all Nigerians that are living today and for the future generations of Nigerians that are yet unborn to tap into for the much needed and for the missing inspirations that are not seen in the current leadership in Nigeria in 2012, but can be found from the life and the times of this great mind of African literature.
Chinua Achebe has refused for many decades to compromise his personal principles and his strong commitment to the truth about Nigerian nation that is in deep crises today for those enticing and the highly juicy political appointments, inflated government contracts and patronage, the Ghana-must-go bags or the so called Nigeria's national honors that are normally given to Nigerian traitors instead of the true Nigerian patriots and nationalists on two different occasions and under two different administrations as an academician, a researcher and a political commentator.
Chinua Achebe's place in the Nigeria's annals of history is already determined, known, secured, settled and written in pure gold forever and for the present generations of all Nigerians that are living today and for the future generations of Nigerians that are yet unborn to tap into for the much needed and for the missing inspirations that are not seen in the current leadership in Nigeria in 2012, but can be found from the life and the times of this great mind of African literature.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
"NIGERIA IS AT THE CROSSROADS OF HER LIFE AS A NATION IN 2012"
Nigeria at the moment can only be saved from her ongoing and impending self-destruction that is inevitable if this nation through her present leaders will refuse to hold the most needed Sovereign National Conference of all the interest groups, ethnic nationalities and religious faiths in Nigeria with the primary purpose of deciding the best way forward for all the 160 million Nigerians at home and in diaspora.
Nigeria in 2012 under the presidency of Jonathan Goodluck is facing too many major crises in different dimensions that will eventually lead this country into a failed state, civil/religious wars or disintegration in our lifetime if those important national issues are left unaddressed now by own today's leaders, or they can continue to lie and pretend to the whole world that those issues are not there or they are not important in 2012 or they can be swept under the carpet for now and Nigeria as a nation can continue as business as usual on the same current path of self-destruction.
The following important national issues must be addressed now in a Sovereign National Conference of all ethnic nationalities and religion groups in order to save this nation from her own self-made and impending self-destruction. They are the following national matters:(i) The present national culture of unabated official corruption from 1960 to date that resulted in the stealing of over $400 billion from our nation's coffers without any serious investigations or prosecutions of those corrupt officials to date by all our successive governments.
(ii) The continuous massive mismanagement of our state resources by our leaders, government officials and policy markers without anything on the ground to show for it. (iii) The total dependent on the oil as our main source of revenue for Nigeria. This oil was projected by many oil experts in the oil industry that it will finished in 2036 without any attempts from our government to diversify our national economy.
(iv) The rise of massive poverty, unemployment, increase in the petroleum products and food prices in Nigeria leaving tens of millions of Nigerians in untold daily sufferings. (v) The world's highest form of wealth gap, income inequality and poverty wages that are practiced in Nigeria today as a standard official policy of our government leaders and officials who are milking this nation dry in the name of democracy and public service.
(vi) The rise in the numbers of the various militants ethnic groups in Nigeria today who are armed to the teeth and are now openly demanding for their own self-determination, self-autonomy, resource control, rotational presidency, state police, confederacy and possibility of secession such as the O'dua Group, Afenifere, New NADECO, Ohaneze, Ijaw groups, MEND, Egbesu Boys, MOSOP and MOSSOB.
(vii) The sudden rise of the highly feared and the deadly militant Islamic group known as Boko Haram that wants to Islamize Nigeria through the Sharia Laws with their campaigns of terror and bombings. (viii) The continuous religion riots, the killings of Christians from Southern Nigerian in the Northern Nigeria's cities and towns unabated since the 1960s by radical Islamic groups in the Northern Nigeria and at the moment by the Boko Haram, and coupled with the pockets of ethnic cleansing and sectarian violents around this nation for many decades now.
(ix) Our present outdated, old, collapsing and inadequate national infrastructures, electricity supply, social services, health care systems and the 20th century educational systems that can no longer meet the needs of tens of millions of ordinary Nigerians. The failure of our government to protect the life and properties of Nigerians from armed robbers, kidnapping for ransoms, arsonists, vandals, political assassinations and ritual killings.
(x) The growing and the uncontrollable national population explosion in Nigeria that is projected by demographers to double by 2040 and this would make Nigeria at that time to be the 4th most populous nation in the whole world without any national plan in the making or on the ground by our present government to address this impending national calamity of the nearest future from happening to Nigeria.
In my final conclusion, any Nigerian in the leadership or not at the moment and also in his or her right state of mind who thinks that a Sovereign National Conference is not needed now in Nigeria without any delay and that these 10 important issues that I listed above should not be addressed and resolved amicably must be living in a fool's paradise in 2012.
Nigeria in 2012 under the presidency of Jonathan Goodluck is facing too many major crises in different dimensions that will eventually lead this country into a failed state, civil/religious wars or disintegration in our lifetime if those important national issues are left unaddressed now by own today's leaders, or they can continue to lie and pretend to the whole world that those issues are not there or they are not important in 2012 or they can be swept under the carpet for now and Nigeria as a nation can continue as business as usual on the same current path of self-destruction.
The following important national issues must be addressed now in a Sovereign National Conference of all ethnic nationalities and religion groups in order to save this nation from her own self-made and impending self-destruction. They are the following national matters:(i) The present national culture of unabated official corruption from 1960 to date that resulted in the stealing of over $400 billion from our nation's coffers without any serious investigations or prosecutions of those corrupt officials to date by all our successive governments.
(ii) The continuous massive mismanagement of our state resources by our leaders, government officials and policy markers without anything on the ground to show for it. (iii) The total dependent on the oil as our main source of revenue for Nigeria. This oil was projected by many oil experts in the oil industry that it will finished in 2036 without any attempts from our government to diversify our national economy.
(iv) The rise of massive poverty, unemployment, increase in the petroleum products and food prices in Nigeria leaving tens of millions of Nigerians in untold daily sufferings. (v) The world's highest form of wealth gap, income inequality and poverty wages that are practiced in Nigeria today as a standard official policy of our government leaders and officials who are milking this nation dry in the name of democracy and public service.
(vi) The rise in the numbers of the various militants ethnic groups in Nigeria today who are armed to the teeth and are now openly demanding for their own self-determination, self-autonomy, resource control, rotational presidency, state police, confederacy and possibility of secession such as the O'dua Group, Afenifere, New NADECO, Ohaneze, Ijaw groups, MEND, Egbesu Boys, MOSOP and MOSSOB.
(vii) The sudden rise of the highly feared and the deadly militant Islamic group known as Boko Haram that wants to Islamize Nigeria through the Sharia Laws with their campaigns of terror and bombings. (viii) The continuous religion riots, the killings of Christians from Southern Nigerian in the Northern Nigeria's cities and towns unabated since the 1960s by radical Islamic groups in the Northern Nigeria and at the moment by the Boko Haram, and coupled with the pockets of ethnic cleansing and sectarian violents around this nation for many decades now.
(ix) Our present outdated, old, collapsing and inadequate national infrastructures, electricity supply, social services, health care systems and the 20th century educational systems that can no longer meet the needs of tens of millions of ordinary Nigerians. The failure of our government to protect the life and properties of Nigerians from armed robbers, kidnapping for ransoms, arsonists, vandals, political assassinations and ritual killings.
(x) The growing and the uncontrollable national population explosion in Nigeria that is projected by demographers to double by 2040 and this would make Nigeria at that time to be the 4th most populous nation in the whole world without any national plan in the making or on the ground by our present government to address this impending national calamity of the nearest future from happening to Nigeria.
In my final conclusion, any Nigerian in the leadership or not at the moment and also in his or her right state of mind who thinks that a Sovereign National Conference is not needed now in Nigeria without any delay and that these 10 important issues that I listed above should not be addressed and resolved amicably must be living in a fool's paradise in 2012.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
"THE LIFE AND THE LEGACIES OF MALCOLM X 47 YEARS LATER"
"REMEMBERING THE LIFE AND THE LEGACIES OF MALCOLM X:ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN HEROES OF THE 2OTH CENTURY":The history of the American nation and the chapter on the American civil rights can never be complete without mentioning the key roles played by Malcolm X in his very short and eventful life.
Malcolm X to some Americans was a racist, anti-american, anti-white, black supremacist, antisemitic and a promoter of violence. To the other Americans, Malcolm X was a courageous advocate for the racial equality and economic justice for all African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for her crimes of slavery, segregation and racial discrimination against black Americans.
Today makes it exactly 47 years ago that Malcolm X was assassinated in a manner that is still mysterious till today. Malcolm X's true legacies and his rightful place in America are now finally in the hands of time, history and posterity the true judges to determine.
Malcolm X to some Americans was a racist, anti-american, anti-white, black supremacist, antisemitic and a promoter of violence. To the other Americans, Malcolm X was a courageous advocate for the racial equality and economic justice for all African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for her crimes of slavery, segregation and racial discrimination against black Americans.
Today makes it exactly 47 years ago that Malcolm X was assassinated in a manner that is still mysterious till today. Malcolm X's true legacies and his rightful place in America are now finally in the hands of time, history and posterity the true judges to determine.
Monday, February 20, 2012
"THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL IN NIGERIA PRODUCED TWO VISIBLE OUTCOMES THAT ARE NOT EQUAL"
Prosperity gospel is spreading and dominating the hearts and the minds of the Nigeria's Christian communities like a giant colossus for the last 30 to 40 years. This gospel that promises its followers and supporters wealth and good health has made a handful of its pioneers and proponents who came from nothing or poverty and had nothing some decades ago to become today's celebrities, superstars, millionaires, billionaires and possibly trillionaires by the Nigerian standard through the decades of promoting this greed gospel and collecting the tithes and the offerings of their gullible, ignorant and vulnerable followers, supporters and givers for their own personal use or financial enrichment in the name of Christianity.
These so called "men of God" today in Nigeria own and live in huge mansions, fly around in their own privates jets, drive the most expensive automobiles under the sun, own fat bank accounts in Nigeria and in the foreign countries, wear the best that money can buy, eat the best that is available, enjoy the most exclusive vacations abroad, surround themselves with stern-looking bodyguards instead of the Holy Spirit, educate their own children in best schools abroad, own private universities and schools in Nigeria that their dedicated members and and the children of these members can never attend in their lifetime and many of them own profitable printing and music businesses all in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord.
Today in Nigeria, despite the fanatical faithfulness of the tens of millions of these followers of this type of Christianity or gospel, the level of the abject poverty, misery, unemployment and hopelessness continue to grow in leaps and bounds in the life of the armies of their followers and supporters who hold firmly to the realisation and the fulfillment of these false hope and promises of wealth and sound health one day in the nearest future.
This type of gospel targets the rich and the corrupt public elected officials with fear of God's wrath and tens of millions of the weak, the poor, the miserable, the most desperate, the ignorant, the helpless, the hopeless, the needy and the most troubled members of our society as their primary preys. The preachers of this type of gospel are the only direct primary beneficiaries from the goodies that come from this type of Christianity or gospel at the expense of their followers, supporters and givers.
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want - Proverbs 22:16.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ - 2 Corinthians 11:13.
These so called "men of God" today in Nigeria own and live in huge mansions, fly around in their own privates jets, drive the most expensive automobiles under the sun, own fat bank accounts in Nigeria and in the foreign countries, wear the best that money can buy, eat the best that is available, enjoy the most exclusive vacations abroad, surround themselves with stern-looking bodyguards instead of the Holy Spirit, educate their own children in best schools abroad, own private universities and schools in Nigeria that their dedicated members and and the children of these members can never attend in their lifetime and many of them own profitable printing and music businesses all in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord.
Today in Nigeria, despite the fanatical faithfulness of the tens of millions of these followers of this type of Christianity or gospel, the level of the abject poverty, misery, unemployment and hopelessness continue to grow in leaps and bounds in the life of the armies of their followers and supporters who hold firmly to the realisation and the fulfillment of these false hope and promises of wealth and sound health one day in the nearest future.
This type of gospel targets the rich and the corrupt public elected officials with fear of God's wrath and tens of millions of the weak, the poor, the miserable, the most desperate, the ignorant, the helpless, the hopeless, the needy and the most troubled members of our society as their primary preys. The preachers of this type of gospel are the only direct primary beneficiaries from the goodies that come from this type of Christianity or gospel at the expense of their followers, supporters and givers.
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).
He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want - Proverbs 22:16.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ - 2 Corinthians 11:13.
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The major events took place between the time that Jesus Christ was hanging on the cross and his resurrection from the dead on the third day did not happen before in the entire human history from the time of Adam in the Garden of Eden to the last words of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. The moments that Jesus Christ spoke these last words, the following events followed. The veil of the temple was torn into two parts from its top to the bottom, the earth shook and the rocks were split, tombs of the dead were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised from death, after His resurrection they entered Jerusalem and appeared to many.
In the classical Greek times, the word "tetelestai" depicted a turning point in the human existence when one period of the human history ended and another new period of human history began. This is a turning point in the entire history of mankind, at that moment the Old Testament Scriptures came to an end - fulfilled, finished and closed - and the New Testament Scriptures began. The Cross was “the Greatest Divide” in the entire human history to date.
When Jesus cried out, “It is finished!” He was shouting that the Old Covenant or Testament had ended and the New Covenant or Testament had begun. All the Old Testament prophecies about Jesus’ earthly ministry were all completely and totally fulfilled to their last letters. The Justice of God and its requirements had all been fully met and satisfied by the Lamb of God that was slain for the sin of mankind . Jesus' mission to save humanity from eternal damnation was accomplished and completed at Calvary.
When Jesus cried, “It is finished,” .The sacrifices and the Levitical priesthood of the Old Testament Covenant or the entire Mosaic law were permanently ended or they all came to their final halt or the end because of the perfect sacrifice on the cross that saves mankind. Jesus offered His own blood for the full payment of our sinful debt, we are forgiven and totally debt-free. “PAID IN FULL” has been stamped on our past sinful record because Jesus paid the price for our redemption with His own blood. He is now our everlasting High Priest of the New Testament.
RELATED BIBLE SCRIPTURES
"But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises" - Hebrews 8:6.
"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost" - John 19:30.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" - Ephesians 2:8-9.