AFRICAN PLUME

 

Scarecrows fool crows only for a couple of days; their scare effect doesn't last long. On the third day the crows quickly discover that they are nothing but lifeless and powerless mannequins made to scare them, and they start to shit on them.  Fear no man born of flesh. If anyone erects a scarecrow in your field of life, make it your launching and landing pad, and make sure you take a dump on them on your way up.  

For all the pain and misery that 2020 brought, and for all the heartache and headache that characterized this year of death, there is but one silver lining in it all. The Year 2020 was a year in which the world’s FAKE PASTORS, aka “FRAUDSTORS,” were unmasked, and the global FALSE PROPHETS exposed, for what they really are, IMPOSTORS and SNAKE OIL SALESMEN who go to and fro deceiving and misleading captive souls.

One out of eight hundred, (i.e. 1 in 800), Black Americans who were alive in January is now dead.

The chart here shows a timeline of innovation in the development of vaccines. Each bar begins in the year in which the pathogenic agent was first linked to the disease and the bar ends in the year in which a vaccination against that pathogen was licensed in the US. For some diseases there has been a relatively short timespan between when the infectious agent was linked to the disease and when a vaccine was developed. Prior to the development of the COVID-19 vaccines, which took less than a year from disease onset to vaccine, the quickest was the 10 years it took for measles vaccines to be developed; the measles virus was linked to the disease in 1953 and the vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 1963. Malaria is proving harder as it has been over a century since the agent was linked to the disease. Alphonse Laveran discovered in 1880 that the Plasmodium parasite is the cause for malaria. Early vaccines developed in the last several decades were insufficiently effective and until recently...

By Akin Ojumu Although you may not be able to tell by looking at him, Dr Anthony S. Fauci turns 80 on Christmas Eve. As an avid runner, the tireless fighter of infectious diseases does about 3.5 miles of running on a daily basis, despite his almost 20-hour daily work schedule. The man is physically fit as a fiddle and he’s mentally as sharp as a tack. In an interview with Slate Magazine, Dr Fauci was asked about what he was looking forward to right now that he is 80. His response was: “I’m looking forward to crushing and ending this outbreak the way, we did with smallpox, the way we did with polio, the way we did with measles. I think we’re going to do it in the next year. If enough people in the United States get vaccinated … we can turn this around from a threat that’s scaring the heck out of everyone to something that is behind us." Happy Birthday, Boss! Thank you for what you do. The COVID exhausted people of this nation thank you for being who you are; a plain-speaking truth-...

By Akin Ojumu Since ‘Rona made landing early this year, we’ve known nothing but pain and misery. The pandemic has altered our lives in ways we could never have thought possible. In response to the outbreak of the deadly virus, we have evolved in the way we live, work, school, and learn. Not only has COVID-19 transformed all these areas of our existence, it has also impacted our language. We are learning words we never knew existed before. Likewise, we are experiencing an explosion of new words and phrases that never existed before and have now been added to our lexicon as a testament to this unique time we are in. There is a worldwide pandemic of neologism; a wordemic. Below, is a compilation of some of these COVID-19 related terminologies and neologisms. ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING: Learning that is not delivered in real time. Asynchronous learning may involve students watching pre-recorded video lessons, completing assigned tasks, or contributing to online discussion boards. BLURSDAY: When...

By Akin Ojumu A QUICK STUDY OF 1 CORINTHIANS 12 – 14 From time to time, religious topics come up for discussion and debate in my High School classmate WhatsApp forum. In the last couple of weeks, the current debate has been about prophets and prophecies. This debate is partly in light of the many prophecies that have gone forth regarding the US Presidential election. The following was one of my contributions to the debate.  Thanks for the insight and for enriching this discourse. Please, permit me to add from my own very limited knowledge to what you’ve shared. As you all know, I’m not an MOG and hold no religious title; I don’t even belong to any church talk less of pastoring one. I’m just a naive simple minded ordinary Christian who is insistent that the Scripture be interpreted contextually and accurately, and who is particular for the Word of God be understood properly and correctly. 1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most popular Bible Chapters among the Christian Charismatic Move...

By Akin Ojumu It was with joyous exuberance and unbridled exhilaration that I received the news that the 350 schoolboys abducted from the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State, Nigeria have been released. A spokesman for the Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari, in an interview aired on the Nigeria Television Network (NTA) 9:00 pm news, announced to the nation that the Nigerian military, late on Thursday, took custody of the 344 schoolboys and that they were being transported to the state capital. Since I heard the news, I have been dancing and singing, praising the Most High God for the boys’ deliverance. Even before the abducted children arrived back home from their torment, and well before the dusts settle on their agonizing ordeal, certain folks within the Nigerian society have already started singing the praise of President Muhammadu Buhari for getting the children back from their abductors, and Nigerian citizens are being summoned to join the bandwago...

"One thing this vaccine will not solve, or cure is selfishness or indifference to what is happening to our neighbors around us" – Governor Bill Lee, (Republican) Tennessee. So, if you choose to remain stupid, look elsewhere for the elixir of stupidity and goodluck with that.

Childhood abduction wreaks a lasting havoc on the psyche of the abducted child. A child that is violently snatched from his parent is left with a wounded soul that is permanently fragmented and a personhood forever shattered. Such a child is doomed to spend the rest of his life battling with post traumatic stress disorder. Broken nations sacrifice their young to become prey for ravenous wolves. Only a soulless people allow its youth to be so emotionally brutalized. Heartless leaders allow the leaders of tomorrow to grow up into damaged goods and a wasted generation.

IF any leader does not provide adequate safety and security protections necessary for his citizens, and especially for his young and school age children, to live their life totally, enjoy liberty maximally, and pursue happiness heartily, HE has failed in his constitutional responsibilities, violated his oath of office, and broken public trust. Such a leader is clueless, feckless, and hapless; he’s unfit for office and ought to step aside voluntarily or be removed legislatively.

It's only in a society where human life has no value and human being has not much worth that 400 school children get abducted and both the government and the citizens shrug their shoulders and move one with their daily lives as though nothing has happened at all.

By Akin Ojumu The news that gunmen attacked the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State last Friday just flashed across my phone. From the information I have so far gathered, the school typically holds 800 to 1,200 students. Out of these, just 200 students who were abducted have been rescued, and about 400 students remained unaccounted for. Since this attack happened 2 days ago, I was surprised that I was just hearing about it this late Sunday evening. Logically, I did a quick check of all the social media platforms comprising of Nigerians frequented by me, to see if, perhaps, I might have missed the post, and the consequent passionate discussion about the abduction that ensued. Shockingly, not a word of the attack has been raised on any of these platforms. Whether it is Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, or Instagram, it’s all crickets. Even local newspapers in Nigeria have been largely silent about this major development. Across all these social media platforms, the t...

We have happy memories of the good king, but the name of a wicked king rots away.

By Akin Ojumu The Attorney General of the State of Texas, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit at the US Supreme Court seeking to overturn the results of the presidential elections in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. The frivolous lawsuit was a brazen coup attempt against American democracy and its institutions.  Last night, the 9 justices of SCOTUS unanimously dismissed the case in a ruling that states: “The State of Texas's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”  In an amicus brief, 126 Congressional Republicans signed on to the Texas lawsuit. Listed below are the names of the co-conspirators in the attack against the American ideal. These coup plotters must be remembered for what they are; cowardly insurrectionists who, in fe...

 

 

DENIED! DENIED!! DENIED!!! DENIED!!!! DENIED!!!!! DENIED!!!!!! DENIED!!!!!!! DENIED!!!!!!!! DENIED!!!!!!!!! IT IS OVER, LOSER. YOU LOST, GET OVER IT!!!!!

Title: Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine Authors: Fernando P. Polack, M.D., Stephen J. Thomas, M.D., Nicholas Kitchin, M.D., Judith Absalon, M.D., Alejandra Gurtman, M.D., Stephen Lockhart, D.M., John L. Perez, M.D., Gonzalo P.rez Marc, M.D., Edson D. Moreira, M.D., Cristiano Zerbini, M.D., Ruth Bailey, B.Sc., Kena A. Swanson, Ph.D., Satrajit Roychoudhury, Ph.D., Kenneth Koury, Ph.D., Ping Li, Ph.D., Warren V. Kalina, Ph.D., David Cooper, Ph.D., Robert W. Frenck, Jr., M.D., Laura L. Hammitt, M.D., .zlem Türeci, M.D., Haylene Nell, M.D., Axel Schaefer, M.D., Serhat .nal, M.D., Dina B. Tresnan, D.V.M., Ph.D., Susan Mather, M.D., Philip R. Dormitzer, M.D., Ph.D., Uğur Şahin, M.D., Kathrin U. Jansen, Ph.D., and William C. Gruber, M.D., for the C4591001 Clinical Trial Group N Engl J Med 2020 Dec 10. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2034577. Online ahead of print. Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and the resulting coronavirus diseas...