Category: Media Stories

When the striker called out racism in football, it ended her international career. She explains why the fight was worth it. Interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian Eniola Aluko is one of only 11 female footballers to have played more than 100 times for England. She has scored some of the Lionesses’ most memorable […]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Although Olufolasade Adamolekun could have represented Nigeria or the United States, the highly rated attacker has chosen Jamaica’s Under-17 Women’s team instead. Adamolekun, who was born in Austin, Texas, to a Jamaican mother (Michelle) and a Nigerian father (Larne), said that she has a soft spot in her heart for the Caribbean […]

Omolabake Adenle is a 35-year-old Nigerian who founded Aja.la Studios, a company that builds natural language & speech processing applications for African languages. She holds a PhD in Bayesian Signal Processing from Cambridge University where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Tau Beta Pi Honors Fellow. She had been shortlisted for the Innovation Prize for Africa […]

1) Let’s start with some background of your organisation and your role. I am currently the MD of Lavayo Advisory Services. Lavayo is an advisory and project development firm primarily involved in the energy (oil and gas, power) sector in Nigeria. 2) Any particular projects that you are currently involved in that you are excited […]

Chelsea striker Eniola Aluko made history by becoming Match of the Day’s first ever female pundit. Aluko joined Mark Chapman, Kevin Kilbane and John Motson in the MOTD2 Extra studio on Sunday to discuss the weekend’s biggest action as one of the show’s experts. The Nigeria-born 27-year-old has won 83 caps for England, playing in […]