H. A. Ajimotokan (PhD, REng)

Power, Energy&Process Engrg Academic @unilorinNGR| President 2013-14 @csacranfield #CranfieldUni| Tweet news, hints & tips| RT isn't Endorsement, etc.

[H. A. Ajimotokan (PhD, REng) @Haajims]

The approval of my promotion to the rank of *Professor* in the dept. of Mechanical Engrg at the University of Ilorin was conveyed today.
It’s with a great pleasure, privilege and honour to take on this new title/role with its associated privileges, rights and responsibilities.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Acceleration of Israel’s 'ethnic cleansing' of Palestinians must spur global action to halt West Bank annexation, says Amnesty International

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/zOic6rNxiV

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Best assist this week❓

@Lays_football | #UCLassists

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The UN General Assembly has adopted a Ghana-led resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity,” passing despite opposition from the US, Israel, Argentina, and European countries.

[LERRY @_AsiwajuLerry]

The Rise of Usain Bolt.

From a constant failure to becoming the Greatest Athlete the World has ever seen.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

German Foreign Ministry has condemned Friday’s attack on a UN base in southern Lebanon that seriously wounded three Ghanaian UN peacekeepers.

🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ https://t.co/sXuD8wi2SO

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Trump has declared on social media that the US is at war with Iran. That’s also where his old views about a war on Iran are resurfacing. Posts also show how his national security team’s positions have shifted over time. Al Jazeera’s Phil Lavelle reports.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Iran’s Fars and Tasnim news agencies say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed at his office early Saturday while “performing his assigned duties.”

A 40-day period of public mourning has been declared.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"We had a bunch of people who bought into this bullshit line that Donald Trump would be an antiwar candidate, Donald the Dove, it was bullshit, the people who fell for it should apologize today or hang their heads in shame." - me.

Our full discussion: https://t.co/N8yRp3k6Rv

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.

Read my full statement:

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has criticised US President Donald Trump’s pledge to impose tariffs on European countries over their opposition to a US takeover of Greenland. She calls it a ‘mistake’ driven by misunderstanding.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

#ICYMI: Masked Israeli settlers threw stones at the car of Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of an Israeli human rights NGO. Ascherman, known for his long-standing efforts to protect Palestinians from settler attacks, has previously been arrested for defending them.

[University of Ilorin, Nigeria @UnilorinNGR]

#ICYMI: A former Director, Central Research Laboratories, University of Ilorin, Prof. Musa Toyin Yakubu, has been elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).

👉🏼 https://t.co/rVlXpyjz3i

Graphics: @MuqtadirYunus
#UNILORIN | #BetterByFar 🎓 | #Academic

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

In 1983, Steve Jobs predicted the next 50 years of technology.

His predictions:
• iPhone
• Internet
• Softwares
• App stores
• Artificial Intelligence

10 futuristic predictions from this talk that came true:

1. Every major revolution starts ugly

[Yorùbáness @Yorubaness]

Legendary Picture of King Sunny Ade and Fela Anikulapo Kuti at the airport in 1979

[TVC News @tvcnewsng]

Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, has welcomed the appointment of a renowned investigative journalist and distinguished alumnus of the Vetter by far University, Mr Babajide Kolade-Otitoju, as the Director of News, TVC.

[H. A. Ajimotokan (PhD, REng) @Haajims]

2026 Grammys: Fela Kuti to receive Lifetime Achievement Award https://t.co/t0A575bla5

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Four things that prove Japan might be the best country in the world

[Salahu @salahudeen33]

The Qur'an....

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Let me explain in plain English why every Nigerian industry and Government must start funding university researches.

Imagine your company wants innovation.
You hire 4 researchers.
You pay ₦1 million per month each.

That’s ₦4 million monthly
₦48 million yearly
For 4 brains.

Now pause.

With just ₦20–30 million as a research grant, you could engage:
• 20 PhDs
• 50 MSc students
• Multiple professors
• Labs + peer review
• Global validation

Inside a university.

More brains.
More ideas.
Less cost.
Better results.

This is why industries fund universities abroad.

Tesla doesn’t do all research alone.
Apple doesn’t.
Shell doesn’t.
Pfizer doesn’t.

They pay universities to think.

Universities produce:
• Patents
• Prototypes
• Breakthroughs
• Spin-off companies

Industries take the IP.
They scale it.
They make billions.

Everyone wins.

So why do foreign governments fund university research?

Because research = economic weapon.

The US funds universities →
Patents →
Companies →
Exports →
Global dominance.

China funds universities →
Factories →
Technology transfer →
World market control.

Germany funds universities →
Engineering breakthroughs →
Industrial supremacy.

Now compare Nigeria.

Our universities are idle.
Lecturers are broke.
Labs are empty.
Students are underused which pushed the to join cults.

Yet industries are crying:
“innovation no dey”
“foreign tech is expensive”
“we can’t compete globally”

How will you compete when you don’t invest in thinking?

We turned universities into glorified secondary schools.
No serious grants.
No serious research.
No serious industry collaboration.

This must change.

If Nigerian industries redirect even 10% of HR & R&D budgets to university research:
• Universities get busy
• Students become inventors
• Lecturers become innovators
• Industries get cheaper innovation
• Nigeria gets patents
• Nigeria gets relevance

This is not charity.
It’s smart capitalism.

No serious country develops without industry-driven university research.

Until Nigerian industries wake up,
we will keep importing ideas
and exporting our talents and future.