By: Akinde Oluwaseun The warning is blunt. Thousands of Scottish homes, sitting in the shadows of rising seas and swollen rivers, may never see the flood protection they were promised. Why? Leadership tangled. Funding short. A system that watchdogs now call “not fit for purpose.” The numbers hit hard. Four hundred thousand households could be…
By: Akinde Oluwaseun Luis de la Fuente stood under the bright lights at Las Rozas on a late August morning. Papers shuffled. Cameras clicked. And just like that, Spain’s journey toward the 2026 World Cup had its first names etched into the story. The squad? A cocktail of everything Spanish football claims to be right…
By: Akinde Oluwaseun So the ex-footballers are fired up. Understandably so. Guys like Taribo West and Austin Eguavoen were at a service for the late Peter Rufai, and they felt the government had just forgotten him. Left him behind. It’s a sad story. But then, someone else chimed in. And it wasn’t just anyone. Enefiok…
By: Akinde Oluwaseun Well, the writing was on the wall, wasnt it? It’s happening. Nicolas Jackson is packing his bags for Germany. You could just feel it coming. First, he’s nowhere to be seen for the friendlies against Leverkusen and Milan. Then, he’s a ghost for the West Ham match. Gone. And when the club…
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun It was a typical London drizzle when Enzo Maresca took to the press conference, a grin tugging at the corners of his mouth. “Andrey’s not going anywhere,” he said, almost as if he’d been waiting for someone to ask. The young midfielder, who’s been slipping in and out of the midfield like…
By: Akinde Oluwaseun Imagine a builder in Lagos wiping sweat from his brow, the sun beating down like a furnace. That’s the new normal, and the World Health Organization just put it in black‑and‑white. In a joint report with the World Meteorological Organization, WHO says millions of workers are now battling heat stress that isn’t…
