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

Nations that wants to develop keep looking for ways to improve on old practices, find ways to sustainably produce things they need, in Nigeria, because we have a president that is not so educated and enlightened, we want to continue the practices of ancient time and then use that avenue to annex land across the nation for the president's tribal kins. President Buhari wants to destroy Nigeria by his actions and inactions on a very sensitive issue that he has refused to be objective about. We learned way back in secondary school that nomadic cattle rearing is the most unproductive way to rear cattle for milk or meat - the animal burns as much energy as they consume while walking tens of thousands of kilometer. This old practice by Fulani has caused chaos in the past that has now escalated into a national crisis. Fulani herdsmen drive their cows across the length and breadth of the nation, and many times had encroached on planted farmlands, destroying properties in the...

The attitude of my folks in the Church in Nigeria often baffles me. They are scared to speak about the so called "men of God" - who told you the rest of us are not men and women of God too? SOME of these so called "men of God" have abused, robbed, enslaved, dominate, intimidate and manipulate many churchgoers to a point they are afraid to speak when they are a victim. We are committing IDOLATRY, replacing mere mortal with God and we are so afraid to speak against their atrocities like Apostle Paul rebuked Peter when he would not eat or interact with so-called gentiles ( Galatians 2:11–13 ). Some people who are castigating Dakolo are victims of abuse themselves, and out of share ignorance and fear, many keep this a secret and it is eating them up on the inside. On the case of COZA's pastor, Fatoyinbo, someone wrote a comment to me on a post a friend made and said: "be careful". I do not know what to be careful about. I always like to hea...

After seven grueling years (instead of five, time was prolonged due to lecturer labor unrest) of college/university education as a pioneering student at Lautech, it is exactly 22 years ago that I was deployed to serve the fatherland in Cross Rivers' state at the Obubura NYSC camp. It was a mixed experience of being swamped by multiple of mosquitos at the camp, to almost drowning on River Cross in a canoe on my way to my primary place of assignment - a village called Abijang after Ikom near Republic of Cameroon border, and that of friendship with fellow Nigerians from across every corner of the nation and locals in the surrounding villages where I was to serve. The relevance of NYSC has been argued over the years. It seems the program has outlived its usefulness without any reform since its inception in 1973. We are as divided today as we were 46 years ago. NYSC program was supposed to foster unity, development and nation building. Instead NYSC has been used as a ...

The reality of uncertainty and hard time ahead for Nigerians in the next four years is already within everyone's glare even before Buhari's second term inauguration. I was very engaged on this platform for one year leading to the election, with the hope to sensitize friends and family about the danger of perpetuating an unproductive leader in office, many called me names and questioned my rationale and effrontery to comments on Nigerian matter when I do not reside there - that I am clueless because I live abroad, they have forgotten I am still a Nigerian and I know the country like the back of my hands. My response was that people like me who have left home could see the decay in our nation better because we see the stack difference every time we return home, whereas those who daily witness the decay are unconscious of how low the nation has reached. The nation is on the verge of a big crisis if nothing is done to salvage what is left. At the core of Nigeria...

If you are my friend and you reside in Nigeria and you have never read anything I had written on Facebook before now, I urge you to read this piece careful. The spate at which people are developing cancer in Nigeria concerns me. In a space of one week, THREE people very close to me at one time or the other in Nigeria passed. In the last 6 months, I have lost five people to different forms of cancer. All of them in their prime (40 – 50+ years) and all because of the same type of ailment in different forms. Advanced cancer has no treatment, early detection and proper care can save a life. However, preventive measures are better than cure. In the last two and half decades, the rush to wealth and greed fueled by a corrupt mindset has created a system where POISON is fed to many daily and we do not know because these poisons are invisible in and on the foods that we consume daily. Many imported foods are poisoned before they reach our shores and the regulatory agencies that suppos...

I am from a country where many people hold their phones in their hands – some will hold two or three phones at a time. Curiosity may want you to ask why? Not because there are no phone pouch they could use, nor is it because their dress is without pockets – how will you know the type of phone they have if they keep it in their pocket? We have a culture where people like to show off because the amount of respect you get  many times is based on who you are, how much money you have, your position in the society, the type of car you drive, where you live, your cycle of friends, how well you speak and write English, a foreign language. The latter is more disturbing because many have equated the correctness of your spoken or written English to how smart you are. Some have picked on my grammatical correctness and I wonder what their point is. Whereas, many of this people cannot speak their mother tongue without diluting it with a foreign language – so if I borrow a leaf from this people,...

Here is the deal: 1."NO COLLUSION" BUT: Son-in-law was allegedly exploring back door communication channel with the Russian government during the election. 2. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: Son had a meeting with a Russian operative during the election in a building that belongs to his father and lied about it multiple times. 3. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: Campaign manager at some point shared demographic data with a known person with ties to the Russian government. The same person is going to jail for lying about this, and he is known to be a friend of Russian Oligarch. 4. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: Three people in the campaign were convicted of lying to the FBI about their contact with the Russians during the election. 5. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: Personal attorney is going to jail for lying about a Russian deal that continued till the month of the election. 6. "NO COLLUSION" BUT: The first senator that endorsed him and later became his first Att...