Akinboade Popoola MD

Medical Doctor ||Emergency Medicine Enthusiasts || Volunteer||Researcher ||Adventurer| Hodophile

[Akinboade Popoola MD @drpops_]

RT @TheSPPG: This is a national search for the best of Nigeria's public hospital doctors to join politics.

The ones who kept reporting wh…

[Enomfon Akpan @mydearenomfon]

A few days ago, I asked women to share their academic achievements. The response was incredible.

Now, we're bringing some of those women together to share the stories behind the certificates, the challenges, sacrifices, and lessons that shaped their journeys.

[Elena @elenacute01]

OMG! PURE CHAOS IN THE SCAN ROOM! The terrifying moment a routine procedure turns into a sudden fight for survival!

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

Dickson, Obi, Kwankwaso have a historic opportunity not because they are special but because providence may have decided to grease the machine of Nigeria’s democracy through their partnership. They have a duty to posterity to keep their eyes on the ball. This is how men are made

[Ogbeni @OgbeniAdugbo]

Here is the lady from the Joy Soap advert in the 1980s and 90s, radiant, admired, and unforgettable, yet now aged and transformed, looking completely different.

Her story whispers a timeless truth: beauty fades, applause dies, and nothing lasts forever, but the seeds of kindness, character, and legacy are what truly endure.

[👑 SCOUSER @iam_serfrankie]

After watching this video, I now have an understanding of why the Nigerian military has a budget of over 400 billion and yet insecurities still have a place in the country.
I also understand why our corrupt leader squanders public funds and has the confidence that nobody will judge them.
Our heroes lied to us, they made us feel Abacha was the villain in the whole story.

The Nigerian military has been a scam right from the onset.

[D3VID 🐢 @DurkioWiz]

Patience Ozokwo (Mama G) was asked how she feels playing wicked roles in movies, wait for her response 😂😂😂

[ajimotokan oluwafemi isaiah @ajimotokanoluw3]

The day I read in Harrison that itraconazole shouldn't be prescribed for pt with ventricular dysfunction was the day I knew that medicine should be a sole hustle. However, the pay must make sense

[Jonny Acheson @jonny_acheson]

Today I am celebrating 17 years of working as an Emergency Medicine Consultant in the busiest ED in the UK, while living with #Parkinsons for nearly 10 years of them.
At diagnosis this was just a pipe dream.

[Dr Moeketsi @AusBassie]

Day 163

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings.

He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why?

Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself...

Tom Bombadil is an enigmatic, merry hermit of the countryside, known as "oldest and fatherless" by the Elves. He is truly ancient, and claims he was "here before the river and the trees." He's so confounding that Peter Jackson left him out of the films entirely.

This is understandable, since he's unimportant to the development of the plot. Tolkien, however, saw fit to include him anyway, because Tom reveals a lot about the underlying ethics of Middle-earth, and how to shield yourself from evil.

The hobbits meet Bombadil early on in their quest, before they reach Bree and the Prancing Pony Inn. He rescues Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow, and invites the hobbits to stay at his house in the Old Forest.

There, the hobbits realize something strange about him: the Ring has no power over Bombadil whatsoever.

When he wears it, he remains visible. He treats it as a plaything, making it disappear with a magic trick. Indeed, at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf rejects the idea of giving the Ring to Tom, for he would likely misplace it or forget about it entirely.

So just who is he, exactly?

When Frodo asks this very question to Tom's wife Goldberry, she simply responds "He is." It's a cryptic answer that echoes God's famous answer to Moses in the Book of Exodus: "I am who I am."

Thus, many theorize that Bombadil is God, some kind of angelic being, or even the spirit of the Music of the Ainur (due to the fact that he is constantly singing). But Tolkien's letters reveal something considerably more interesting…

In April 1954, Tolkien wrote:

"The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…"

So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him.

To Bombadil, the One Ring is simply a ring, and the possibilities of what can be achieved through its power are of no importance. He is able to resist its evil precisely because he is entirely content with the world around him.

At the end of the story, having accomplished what he set out to do in Middle-earth, Gandalf pays Tom a visit before returning to the Undying Lands:

"I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time."

If Bombadil is the epitome of simply enjoying life and being, Gandalf is the epitome of doing. He guides the hobbits, fights the Balrog, and runs up and down Middle-earth to help destroy the One Ring.

But now that he's finally liberated from doing, he immediately heads to Bombadil's. He does so with a sense of relief, as if he's at last able to access a purer and higher mode of being — a sort of innocence that cannot be fully experienced by those consumed by doing.

Of course, by this Tolkien doesn't disparage the value of action. The entirety of LOTR displays the importance of rising up against evil, even in the face of all odds. But with the inclusion of Bombadil, he does remind readers that fighting isn't all there is.

Bombadil reminds us that while it's important to strive and *do*, it is just as important to occasionally step back and *be*. Indeed, your ability to do so plays a crucial role in helping you resist the allure of evil…

Read the full piece here:

https://t.co/aqK2daehIL

The unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings...

[Ọládélé 🇳🇬👑 @Theoladeledada]

There are over 5 million Nigerians on X. If all of us come together, we follow each other. We all engage ourselves, we will end up making like $50k each every month in X.

[legalnaija @LegalNaija]

In 1987, Baba Adeleke bought land in Ibeju-Lekki.

It cost him ₦12,000.

He was a primary school teacher. It took him three years to save that money.

He built nothing on it. Just held it. Told his four children it was their future.

He died in 2019 believing he had given them something.

He had no idea what he had actually given them.

🧵 A thread.

[Dr Moeketsi @AusBassie]

Day 161

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

Ghana bread VS Nigeria bread

[Dami @damileearch]

Most fortresses were built upward. Minas Tirith was built down.

Each generation expanded further down the slope, quarrying rock from the mountain and reusing it for the next wall. A city that doubled as a military trap.

The technique has a real name. Look up living rock architecture.

Built backwards. That's the genius.

#LOTR #Architecture #MiddleEarth

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for a series that tells the story of the survivors of Pompeii.

• Starring Tom Hiddleston

• Coming soon to Disney+