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

The world watches while almost two million people are starved to death deliberately, while they are shot like games /animals when they go look for food rationed intentionally... because some people want to displace them forcefully and take what is left of their land...we all know this is no more about 20 hostages left. They could have been released based on the January agreement ... but some people want to continue to use the excuse of the war to remain in power to escape justice for their corrupt acts and to prosecute their long-dreamed vision of Riviera ... Two state solution is dead... There could not have been a better time to perpetuate this evil. Terrorism was created because of bullying . It has been sustained because some nations/ people chose to bully others, forcefully impose themselves on them, take their possession, change their leaders through the back doors, create chaos intentionally to take their rare earth resources , and occupy their lands and make it their own. It ...

Today is " workers' day " in Nigeria . What may not be obvious to many is the level of decline in the purchasing power of this class of people in our country. Nigerian workers have seen a decline in their purchasing power, up to 90% in the last ten years under the current party that promised so much and delivered so little... What N100k will buy in 2015 is worth N1 million today. Check the price of petrol , egg, bread, rice, fish, tomatoes, garri , used car , cement , clothing , coke , beer , flight , etc, they have all gone up by almost 900%. During the same ten-year period, revenue accruing to the purse of the Federal government has increased because of increased IGR , and foreign exports; naira has also been devalued by as much as 90% since then, when you compare an exchange rate of N165 to $1 in 2015 to now N1600. Most Nigerians spend naira, not dollars. If revenue converted to naira has increased by almost 900% for the government, they should at least increase sa...

I just returned from a short visit to my native country, Nigeria . I went to visit my soon-to-be octogenarian mother and to attend to other personal issues. I continue to be amazed by the resilience of Nigerians and the sense of hope people have amid horrible situations. Here are a couple of observations: 1. Poverty has returned to the pre-millennia era. Post the fourth republic that ushered in the presidency of OBJ , the middle class had been decimated in Nigeria. Professors could not afford to buy “Tokunbo” cars let alone new ones, nor could they build a house of their own. I remember some of my professors wore car-tire sandals popular with farmers... The turn of the century ushered in prosperity through pragmatic leadership led by OBJ, despite all his flaws and greed. The last 10 years under the current party have reversed that trend... You can see hunger visible in the faces of the majority of Nigerians, and the middle class is gradually being eroded. People's purchasing pow...

MAGA destroyed DEI but they want to implement DEI at Harvard ... They claim the school is not diverse enough. They have too many liberals , so they need to hire more conservative , whether they meet the hiring requirement or survive the rigor of delivering excellence at Harvard or not. This is what they claim DEI is all about - hiring people based on race, they claim, but they have no issue telling Harvard to hire based on political ideology.... You read the same thing about BLM and Antisemitism . They say BLM reflects poorly on the history of America... Critical race theory is false history... slaves loved being in captivity, they loved their masters and served willingly... there is no more discrimination based on the color of your skin in America - but all the metrics point in the opposite direction... Jewish Lives Matter ; Black Lives Matter , and Palestinian Lives Matter ... All Lives Matter . A terrorist life should not be equal to 20 innocent Palestinian life... It is okay t...

  Until Ordinary Nigerians Seize the Power that Belongs to them, There Will Not Be Progress in That Country When I see the shameful drama unfolding in the Senate in Nigeria , I see impunity. When those who are supposedly elected into political offices are abusing the power they hold in trust for the rest of us in daylight, then you know they have no fear of the electorate... The Senate President in Nigeria , Akpabio , forced a motion that obviously failed, down the throat of his colleagues... The motion was to humiliate Senator Natasha and force her to apologize for daring to accuse Akpabio of alleged sexual harassment before she is re-admitted to the senate after serving the unlawful six-month suspension imposed on her. What saddens me the most are the fellow female senators who have either kept quiet or have reprimanded Senator Natasha for speaking out, including the wife of the president, Remi Tinubu , who faced many sexist comments and threats when she was a senator. Remi Tinu...

Budapest Memorandum , 1994. It was a promise of protection against any unprovoked aggressors.. in exchange for what? Nuclear arsenal ... once bitten, twice shy...   Who signed the memorandum, Ukraine , Russia , France and United Kingdom . Who gave up nuclear weapon, Ukraine. Who was attacked unprovoked, Ukraine. Who broke agreement, Russia and its Western allies . Russia attacked a sovereign nation with a flimsy excuse, and the West failed to protect Ukraine other than giving them weapon needed too late, they offered nothing...now the West wants to take Ukrainian minerals on top of all their losses. When I say some have lost any form of humanity.... this is an example.    African countries need to learn a lesson or two here... nobody, I mean no nation will save you and look out for your best interest if you don't look out for yourself... not the US , not China , not Russia, not UK or any foreign nation for that matter. When they give you one million in aid, know they ...

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...