By: Akinde Oluwaseun The story everyone’s been waiting for finally has an ending. Sort of. Simon Ekpa, the Nigerian-born Finnish citizen who’s been stirring up trouble from thousands of miles away, just got slammed with a six-year prison sentence by a Finnish court. And now? The Nigerian government is seriously considering bringing him home once…
By: Akinde Oluwaseun Olayemi Cardoso remembers the smirks. When the Central Bank first floated the idea that diaspora remittances could be a big player in Nigeria’s foreign exchange game, critics brushed it off. Too shaky. Too small. But two years down the line, numbers are doing the shouting. What began as a modest $200 million…
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…
