Omarosa should speak up or shut up!

Omarosa, Trump – when the going was good. Unfortunately, there is nothing new about her revelations because the world already knows that Trump tweets; everybody knows that Trump’s White House is full of drama, and that Trump specially, is a horror movie.

Well, at the moment, what we are seeing is a resentful ex-employee, shedding crocodile tears on realty-TV show and rambling garbage about what the world already knows about Donald Trump and the White House.

With a mere “appointment” badge from the Secret Service giving him routine access to the White House, Author Michael Wolff’s walked away with interview notes that triggered his book – Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. This piece shot to the top of Amazon’s booklist even before its’ official release. But to a Reality TV star, Mrs. Omarosa Manigault Newman, who was actually a White House resident and had bragged about making public her own experience, the story is thus far, a pathetic dramatic blunder.

But after a long wait for Omarosa’s promise to reveal her so called White House nightmare, she finally delivered a watery, inconceivable fairytale – some tommyrots that made no sense. She had swaggered this moment – threatening to spill some bombshell revelation that would shock the world. But her outing yesterday on CBS’ “Celebrity Big Brother,” inaudibly babbling about how she “was haunted by tweets every single day” and that the administration is “bad” completely fell short of expectation.

Omarosa it may be recalled, was fired from the White House in reportedly, an excruciating incident. According to reports, she had to be dragged out while she kicked and screamed, after she refused to believe Donald Trump had fired her. Omarosa however had a different version of both her job experience and her ousting, but promised “I’m not going to expand on it because I still have to go back and work with these individuals, but when I have a chance to tell my story…. it is a profound story that I know the world will want to hear.”

In fact, she claimed that as the only African-American woman in this White House and as a senior staff and assistant to the president, “I have seen things that made me uncomfortable, that have upset me, that have affected me deeply and emotionally, that has affected my community and my people.”

So what other stories would Omarosa tell? Where are the shocking disclosures? Omarosa should come up with them or shut up and move on so we could focus on Trump and DACA.

With all these teasing preambles, what did Omarosa finally come up with? In her TV appearance Thursday night, Newman told a cast mate that she “tried to be that person” who would talk sense into Trump and try to steer him from bad decisions. “And then all of the people around him attacked me,” she said. “It was like, ‘Keep her away, don’t give her access, don’t let her talk to him.’ Ivanka’s there, Jared’s there …”

Basically, so far, this was what Omarosa had to offer after all the hype about the so called horror she observed in the White House. What nonsense!

Unfortunately, there is nothing new about these revelations because the world already knows that Trump tweets; everybody knows that Trump’s White House is full of drama, and that Trump specially, is a horror movie. Omarosa also said that the U.S. won’t be ‘OK’ under Trump – so what? We already know all that, so what next?

Well, at the moment, what we are seeing is a resentful ex-employee, shedding crocodile tears on realty-TV show and rambling garbage about what the world already knows about Donald Trump and the White House. Again, making the headlines is not new to Trump. Every day, this President unleashes new blunders and even tweets about them. So what other stories would Omarosa tell? Where are the shocking disclosures? Omarosa should come up with them or shut up and move on so we could focus on Trump and DACA.

■ International Guardian Publisher Anthony Obi Ogbo, PhD is the author of “The Influence of Leadership.” Direct contact >>>

Disappointing part of Chief Ekwueme’s Commendation Service

I believe that Bishop and pastors, or so called “men of God” should focused on the teachings of the Bible and spirituality when it comes to public funerals, rather than making nonsensical political speeches and taking senseless positions on municipal issues.

I watched as demonstrative eulogies poured in yesterday at the commendation service organized in honor of the former vice president, late Dr. Alex Ekwueme, at the Michael Okpara Square in Enugu. It was a memorable event, which by all standard is merited for someone who served his country at an executive capacity.

However, another moment that caught my attention was the sermon by the Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Enugu, the Most Rev Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma, hitting hard on Nigerian politicians, and accusing them of being self-centered and so on.

He claimed Nigeria’s filthy politics negated the kind of politics the late Ekwueme played while he was alive – telling the audience that the legion of politicians who were present at the service were playing politics of personal aggrandizement and disgrace. Now this is where “Big D” differs. It’s simply, a wrong speech at the wrong time.

I believe that Bishop and pastors, or so called “men of God” should focused on the teachings of the Bible and spirituality when it comes to public funerals, rather than making nonsensical political speeches and taking senseless positions on municipal issues.

And even as the lavish burial raved on, my only concern was the economic value of spending a Billion Naira to buried a past leader in a society or State where citizens are dying of hunger and cannot afford three basic meals a day.

Again, if I may ask? As a seating Vice president, what federal projects did Chief Ekwueme bring to the Eastern Region for the State to give him such a lavishing burial? And to make it worse, this state government closed down schools while they honored this leader.

By the way, I was in the Eastern Nigeria when Chief Ekwueme was the Vice President and there were no new federal roads built; no federal public buildings, libraries, or even federal hospitals established. When he finally left office, he invested in hotel business called Modotels as his family business. I have heard the argument about how he changed his hometown, Oko, but for goodness sake, this was the Vice President of Nigeria, not Oko.

My take is that Nigerian people are easily gullible, too easily influenced and misled, not by the facts, rather by emotional additions. As an economist, it is my professional opinion that spending a Billion Naira to bury a past leader in a state where the population is hungry is absurd, economically insane and abuse of state resources. If you have issues with my thoughts, hit me back with your own reflections.

♦ Ikeogu (Big D), an economist, writes from Minnesota

New book on classroom diversity highlights solutions for effective instructional management

Guardian News – Houston, TX. Constructive conversations about diversity management in the classrooms is now getting a more realistic attention. After decades of political complexities within remarkable demographic changes in the population, colleges are now eager to prioritize matters of managing diversity in the classrooms with more practical strategies. New scholarly research book “Classroom Diversity Management” by student success and diversity advocate, Dr. Patricia Ifeoma Ugwu, tackles complications of classroom diversity head on – offering effective instructional approaches as resolutions.

More than a decade ago, Dr. Ugwu currently the Dean of Student Success & Engagement at Houston Community College (HCC), Coleman College for Health Sciences, in her doctoral dissertation reported the prediction that community colleges would continue to experience growth in enrollment and diversity. Today, this prediction has manifested. While growth in enrollment may not have been consistent, growth in student diversity has visibly exploded.

Consequently, the American Council on Education in a study analysis of latest trends in diversity in college classrooms acknowledges that hundreds of colleges and universities recognize the educational value of diversity and view student and faculty diversity as an essential resource for optimizing teaching and learning.

According to Dr. Ugwu, “The challenge is how to ensure that not only motivated faculty engage in regular professional development, but that faculty who lack the skills or have limited strategies for teaching diverse 21st century students are directed to engage in essential professional development, and that this engagement is tracked and that there is evidence that participation in professional development activities is equipping all faculty to successfully teach HCC’s diverse student body.”

Dr. Patricia Ugwu (foreground). “The challenge is how to ensure that not only motivated faculty engage in regular professional development, but that faculty who lack the skills or have limited strategies for teaching diverse 21st century students are directed to engage in essential professional development….”

Dr. Ugwu in this book delivers a scholarly research study, on effective instructional approaches that exceptional faculty use to engage diverse students in the classroom. Using critical incident technique, in-depth interviews, and focus groups the author identifies effective and ineffective instructional strategies for teaching diverse students. The findings Dr. Ugwu stated, would provide instructional leaders and administrators with relevant information to guide decisions in dealing with an increasingly more diverse student body.

Well, at the moment, what we are seeing is a resentful ex-employee, shedding crocodile tears on realty-TV show and rambling garbage about what the world already knows about Donald Trump and the White House.

So what other stories would Omarosa tell? Where are the shocking disclosures? Omarosa should come up with them or shut up and move on so we could focus on Trump and DACA.

I believe that Bishop and pastors, or so called “men of God” should focused on the teachings of the Bible and spirituality when it comes to public funerals, rather than making nonsensical political speeches and taking senseless positions on municipal issues.

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