Akinbode's BLOG on Faith, Politics, Science, Engineering, Education and Health

Those who conclude that the left does not have an answer for the chaos going on now are MISTAKEN.... I strongly believe that the silence is a deliberate strategy. How will they have tools and records to fight with if they do not allow the new king to wreck enough havoc? How will they tell fellow citizens that this is what you bargained for and what you are getting? You handed the right all the power from the SCOTUS to Congress and the White House... Now, here are the alternatives (I hope they have some ideas of what to propose - otherwise, they are doomed to the back seat forever)... November 2026 is just around the corner. The mid-term election is not too far away. Some elections in November 2025 will be pointers to what 2026 will bring. The right is not all united. Many people who have been sacked are not from the left... Right and Left have felt the impact of the wrecking ball. Many have lost their means of livelihood - jobs, and some are considering suicide. And those who are yet i...

IBB, with his "Maradona" tendency, is playing Nigerians again with some of the content in his book. I have not read it myself, but excerpts from those who have read it show that he absolved the Ndigbos of directly orchestrating the 1966 coup de'tat... even though an Ibo man of Northern extraction (Kaduna Nzeogwu) led the coup, the then Head of State, Ironsi, an Ibo man, was not killed while several officers from the North were killed including the revered Premier of the Northern Region, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello. There were Yoruba officers among the coup plotters, while several Ibos were killed defending Nigeria.   Maybe and maybe IBB has done Nigeria the greatest favor in his evil and horrific life, with all the bad that he did. This assertion may help Nigeria heal finally, move on from the darkest moment in our history, and re-write the wrongs of the last 6 decades that the Ibos have faced. They have been shut out of the seat of power in Nigeria... If an Ibo man quashed the c...

For far too long, some groups have been shut out and the field has favored one group of people above others. If you doubt, check the metrics... What is the population of female Americans graduating from four-year degree awarding institutions and check that against the percentage of women CEOs in America. You will see the pendulum tilting towards - male-Caucasians. What DEI has done in the last decade is to ensure that women who meet the criteria of becoming a CEO do not hide, and are not shut out of the hiring process. This is what DEI officers do... DEI does not intentionally create quotas to increase the direct hiring of females, Hispanics, or African Americans... It ensures that all are given an opportunity to compete. Now, do we have instances where quota is created, yes. Even at that, you can wonder if it is justified. Where you have an establishment that makes decisions about women's health that is comprised of men - how is that fair? Or in a situation where 20% of the studen...

IBB after 32 years of annulling Chief Abiola's presidential election victory out of cowardice, finally admitted that he was wrong and took full responsibility. Nigerians are quick to forget, and easily forgive. Many IBB's 9 years of evil reign of terror led to the untimely death of many Nigerians and ushered in the worst dictatorship in the history of our country - Abacha's reign. IBB in one sentence, annulled an election that would have made him a hero forever... Posterity will not forget IBB subverted the wishes of ordinary Nigerians because he was a coward. I will not forget though, I may forgive IBB. I voted for the first time in Nigeria in 1993. It was peaceful at my polling boot around Olopomewa Bus Stop, Eleyele Ibadan. The same was reported across the length and breadth of Nigeria... Hope was high, and IBB killed it. Then he ran away, out of fear of Abacha, and left Nigeria to Abacha's torture for another five years, until the divine took Abacha away in a mirac...

  Marriage is a marathon.. it is a journey of discovery. But for it to last, parties must continue to work on themselves, so that their partners can find good when they dig. The foundation and the bricks of marriage should be trust, mutual respect, and empathy... I did not mention love because that seems to be nebulous these days... Love is what we should have towards fellow humans.. it should be natural in a marriage relationship... The other points I raised are the reason why many marriages fall apart and some stand the test of time. If you are doing things that hurt your partner and you conclude that that is how you see things. You do not trust his or her decision. You humiliate him/her publicly for reasons best known to you. You do not listen to any correction bcs you were damaged before you got hooked and see every correction as a criticism of your imperfection - so you fight every time you are corrected... you do not value things that are important to him/he...

It will lead to the direct death of millions across the world and provide an inroad for China to replace America where the U.S. has relinquished leadership… I wrote about a senior friend here in the US who passed on Dec 26, 2024. I called him Baba because he was my father's age. He was 87 years old when he passed. One thing that was unique about Baba was that he came to the US in mid-1960 on a USAID scholarship for his master's degree at the University of Maine, Orono. After that, he completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and went back to Nigeria to work for Shell Corporation until 1999 when he retired. During the many labor unrests of the 1990s in Nigeria, Baba decided to send all his children to school in America. They became pharmacists, engineers, economists, writer, etc. Six of them remain in America, and the oldest one settled in England. They are all gainfully employed. They work for big companies in the U.S., they support the growth o...