By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun It happened on a hot, dusty afternoon in Auchi. No warning. One minute the fresh graduate was laughing with friends, the next—screech, crash, silence. A hulking truck, said to fly the Dangote badge, tore through the lane. Driver bolted. People yelled. A lecturer in a beat-up Corolla chased him down, got…
By: Akinde s. Oluwaseun ‘Losing my son changed everything,’ Davido told ABC News in a recent chat. The Afrobeats star — real name David Adeleke — is still grappling with the pain. His three-year-old son, Ifeanyi, died in 2022 after drowning in a pool at their home in Lagos, Nigeria. Daily Post reported the tragedy…
By: Akinde .S. Oluwaseun It started like a done deal. Ademola Lookman — freshly crowned African Player of the Year — looked set to leave Atalanta. Inter moved. Atalanta slapped a €50m price on him. Inter’s opening, about €45m, didn’t cut it. Gazzetta says that €50m tag is aimed mainly at foreign clubs, so La…
By: Akinde .S. Oluwaseun For a while Onyedika was the talk of the transfer window. The 24‑year‑old Super Eagles midfielder — moved from Midtjylland to Club Brugge three years ago — and he’s become a regular there. Milan even sniffed around last year until they signed Youssouf Fofana. Now Graham Potter wants a tough, defensive…
By: Akinde Semiu Oluwaseun Europe’s not having it. Flames lick cities and countrysides alike. France, Spain, Albania, Portugal, Greece—they’re all in this. Temperatures are spiking over 100°F. It’s wild. Wildfires? Not new here. But now. The climate crisis is turning up the heat, making everything drier, more dangerous. Imagine this: in less than two decades,…
By: Akinde Semiu Oluwaseun The whistle once ruled David Coote’s life. Now? It’s silence. Football’s rulers handed the disgraced ex-Premier League referee an eight-week suspension Tuesday, slapping him with mandatory “education” after his toxic 2020 rant about Jürgen Klopp went viral. “That German thinks he’s God,” Coote sneers in leaked footage, trashing Liverpool’s tactics. The…
