Tag: Nigeria
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🇳🇬 🇬🇭 Nigerian National Arrested in Ghana Over Alleged International Card Fraud Scheme
ACCRA, Ghana — Ghanaian authorities have arrested and charged Nigerian national Aderinsola Oluwanifemi Adeleye in connection with an alleged transnational financial fraud investigation involving compromised United States-issued bank cards. According to Ghana’s Cyber Security Authority (CSA), the investigation involved the Ghana Police Service and international law-enforcement partners, including the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and…
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FDA Ghana Closes KFC Osu Oxford Street Branch Over Missing Food Hygiene Permit
Accra, Ghana – The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has temporarily closed the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet located on Oxford Street in Osu, Accra, as part of an ongoing nationwide enforcement exercise aimed at ensuring compliance with food safety regulations. The closure forms part of a broader inspection that targeted food service establishments operating…
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Book Review: The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers
There is a temptation to treat online romance scams as morality plays with obvious heroes and villains. Victims are portrayed as naïve. Scammers become caricatures—faceless criminals hiding behind glowing laptop screens somewhere in West Africa. Carlos Barragán’s The Yahoo Boys resists that easy narrative. Instead, it asks a far more interesting question: What happens when…
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Wole Soyinka Theatre Fosters New Talent in Nigeria and Beyond
IBADAN, Nigeria — For more than seven decades, the Wole Soyinka Theatre at the University of Ibadan has been proving that great stories never go out of style. As the saying goes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating—and the theatre’s long list of successful actors, playwrights, directors, and scholars speaks for itself.…
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🇳🇬🇺🇸 Strategic Shift and Kinetic Action: The U.S. Approach Against the Islamic State in Nigeria
Nigeria’s domestic insecurity has increasingly been instrumentalized within U.S. foreign policy discourse. In November last year, President Donald Trump threatened direct kinetic intervention to counter a so-called “Christian genocide” in Nigeria. Despite these claims, insecurity is driven by overlapping and long-standing land disputes, herder-farmer tensions, communal violence, and organized crime, with the vast majority of…
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🇳🇬 The HELOC Kings: Nigeria’s Cybercrime Masterminds and the Cost of a Stolen Reputation
In December 2025, a U.S. district judge labeled him a “perpetual thief” and a “flagrant serial offender.” Oluwaseun Adekoya, a Nigerian national living in a luxury New Jersey apartment, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for orchestrating a complex fraud that stole millions from Americans’ home equity lines of credit (HELOCs). His case is…
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🇳🇬 Black Axe: Nigeria Mafia Cult
Police units around the world have joined forces in a series of covert operations targeting one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks – Black Axe. Operation Jackal III saw officers in body armour carry out raids in 21 countries between April and July 2024. The mission, co-ordinated by global policing agency Interpol, led to…
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🇯🇲Vybz Kartel and the Skin-Lightening Controversy: What’s Really in These Products and How Do They Affect the Skin?
Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel has long been at the center of regional and international conversations about colorism, skin bleaching, and the commercialization of “lighter skin” as a beauty commodity. Over the years, Kartel has been publicly associated with a line of cosmetic and skin-brightening products—including soaps, creams, and astringents—marketed under the “Vybz” brand. His…
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🇬🇭🇷🇼🇹🇿🇨🇮🇸🇸🇰🇪🇳🇬Skin Lightening Bans Across Africa: Laws on Paper, Products on Shelves
Across many African countries, the fight against harmful skin-lightening products has intensified over the last decade. Nations such as Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, Côte d’Ivoire, South Sudan, Kenya, and Nigeria have all enacted restrictions or outright bans on cosmetics containing dangerous chemicals like hydroquinone, mercury, and corticosteroids.Yet a troubling reality persists: despite these laws, skin-lightening products…
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At Afrobeat Rebellion, Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Artistry and Legacy Come Alive
In honor of Fela Kuti’s 87th posthumous birthday on October 15, OkayAfrica is rolling out a week of stories, from October 13 to 17, spotlighting the Afrobeat pioneer’s life, activism, and legacy. Read them all here. It is hard to imagine that there is anything still to be learned about Fela Anikulapo Kuti. He is…