Dr. Kombo Mason Braide is the CEO, AlphaNumerix (Fuel, Combustion, Energy & Process Engineering Consulting) Ltd, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He was a one-time consultant to Nour Development Corporation, Paris, France,  the Area Manager, Pipelines & Products Marketing Company Ltd (systems 2E & 2EX), Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and the Manager, Petroleum Products Research & Laboratory Services, Research & Development Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

Dr. Kombo Braide, who is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, is also a member of the Institute of Energy, the Institute of Petroleum, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He is a graduate of the University of Leeds, England, where he obtained a BSc in Fuel & Combustion Engineering in 1975, an MSc in Combustion, Energy & Explosion Studies in 1977, and a PhD in Fuel & Energy Engineering in 1980, specialising in alternative liquid fuels.

Kombo Braide has varied interests, ranging from alchemy, physics, extraterrestrials, alternative history, conspiracy theories, futurism, science fiction, cartoons, lateral thinking, propaganda, and music.

He writes with some concern for objectivity, enlightenment, and a compulsive desire to generate argument, and controversy, within the limits of reason. He is not a member of any political party on Planet Earth. In fact, he is deliberately ideologically non-Euclidean: neither right, nor left, nor centre.  He takes delight in observing what he calls Nigeria’s “culture of compliant complacency”, with its tendency to reduce even serious issues to unproductive nihilistic arguments, cynicism, gibberish, and diametric opposition for its sake.