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

Atiku is allegedly a thief, right? I do not dispute it because he is guilty as charged in the court of public opinion - when a man cannot explain the source of his wealth and he is a trillionaire in naira (billionaire in dollars), what do you call him? What of APC and their lead progenitor, Asiwaju Tinubu? They are all saints? Court case records are always free for public consumption in the West, including the US. That is why it is difficult for any Nigerian who have had a criminal court case/record in a country like the US to lie about it. We have made many of them Kings, Princesses, and Princes. We have handed over the key to the treasury of our commonwealth to them. Here is the URL to the criminal court case against Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 1993 - he was charged on profiting from proceeds of drug trafficking: https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/2jqi9omh8/illinois-northern-district-court/usa-v-acct-263226700-et-al/ Tinubu has tricked many - here is the record of the crimina...

In the last 15 years, over 1 billion people were taken out of poverty because of the intentional effort of UN and countries where poverty was endemic like India. However, in sub-Saharan Africa, countries below the Sahara desert like Nigeria, poverty has increased within the same period. Nigeria has taken the first place from India as the country home to the poorest of the poor. How did this happen? Should Buhari continue to blame the previous administrations or it needs to carefully look inward? Here is my take. Buhari's failed economic policies created millions of poverty-stricken Nigerians (87 million people strong) in a space of few months that he became the president. If you live below $2.10 a day, UN classifies you as living below the poverty line. There are over 87 million Nigerians living on less than $1.90 a day (which equals (< N20k a month), this made Nigeria number one among countries home to the poorest of the poor. How did this come by? Let us use what bec...

A friend of mine wrote on Facebook "I personally will do my bit to ensure Atiku never becomes the president of Nigeria". Here is what I reasoned based on his statement: What APC is doing right now is that they are building on that legacy of waste set by the previous administration, and they are out-performing them on every index. APC's government in 3 years has out-performed (in the negative) PDP in 16 years, when you look at the indices of growth which have declined under the current administration: debt accumulation, state of the economy, division among our people, election rigging, corruption, significant reduction in foreign investment, high rate of unemployment, lack of security of lives and properties, same and even worse power supply, to mention a few. How can an anti-corruption government justify N13 trillion debt in 3.5 years compared to N6 trillion in 16 years of PDP (even when you factor in the devaluation of the naira, that is still humongous - N13 trillio...

Has any economist in Nigeria quantified the immense damage Buhari's pedestrian attitude and economic policy did to the Nigerian economy? The free fall of the naira caused catastrophic loss to the financial sector; the purchasing power of an average Nigerian diminished over a period of few months due to Buhari ineptitude in office. A Professor earning N450k/month could exchange his salary for about $2,700 before Buhari, today, he can only get $1,200 from the same amount. That is a 55% loss in purchasing power - imagine such professor planning an overseas' trip, how useless his salary would be today. The same thing goes for imported goods due to devalued naira - that is why rice is so expensive, and why a lot of imported goods are expensive. We did not know what we were asking for when we said people should consider Buhari in 2015 - he was a better alternative to a president that just rationalized corruption as a way of life he is comfortable with. Buhari ran the Federal ministri...

The issue of sexuality and sexual orientation should be left to adults and not to children. And no one has the RIGHT to force his or her own view on sexuality on others, irrespective of the side of the divide you are. The backlash of the leftist activists (mostly Democrats) who made concerted effort during the Obama era to erase ALL possible religious believes - definition of marriage, Christmas becoming holiday, removal of Christian symbols from schools where they have been for decades and sometimes centuries; zero tolerance for anything christian religion. No wonder the evangelical church and conservative support a candidate who has no likeness of God but promised them protection from the leftist position and encroachment and a forced change through enactment of laws that supports leftist positions. What is happening in British Columbia, with SOGI 1 2 3, where children are fed alternative truth about gender identity is dangerous and can be counter productive - in ...

Anyone who knows how public and private institutions/universities are run in advanced and advancing economies would tell Nigerian political leaders that they have falling short of their responsibility and are failed posterity/ unborn and current generation of university-age Nigerians with the way they have starved and are starving our institutions with funding support Public universities in the US survive PRIMARILY on funding support from State and Federal governments, through a direct and competitive approach of research grant - I know because I work in one. They do make some small money from IGR that come from IP (commercializing inventions); Tickets and TV rights from sporting activities (American Football, Baseball, and Basket Ball, etc.); parking tickets; student housing; etc. They also g money from donations and endowments. These monies are insignificant compared to the funding they receive from the government. No university can survive on IGR anywhere - the society be...

I tell it at as I see it - here is my take on the Osun 2018 Governorship Election based on what we know in part: Omisore would have won the election in a place where people make a judgment based on quality and facts displayed, unfortunately, he ran on a weak platform because he was in a hurry and he allegedly connived to destroy the platform that should have raised him and he became homeless only to settle for a forgotten podium, SDP. He showed color, depth, understanding of Osun's problems and how Aregbe got it all wrong and what Osun's government suppose to have focused on - Massive Agricultural Production & Processing, and Human Capital Development; Oyetola, with all his backing, failed to defend Aregbe's many failed policies; the other 2 candidates in the election, Adeoti and Akinbade were mere spectators even though Adeoti may be the reason Oyetola-APC did not win a landslide because he defected to ADP with 75% of APC exco in the aftermath of rigged APC...