Former Nigerian Squash champion, receives heroic welcome on arrival with Can-Am Spyder

History was made on Wednesday, August, 26, 2026, when former Nigerian Squash champion, Moses Olubo who embarked on an extraordinary transcontinental adventure aboard a Can-Am Spyder motorcycle, arrived Nigeria to a rousing welcome.

Olubo who spent a month and twenty days on the road, left his base in the United States on July 1, moved to Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Scandinavian, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain and then Morocco and Mauritania, crossing the Sahara Desert and then navigating the challenging Fouta Jallon Highlands in Guinea Conakry, hitting Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Cote d’Voire, Ghana, Togo, Benin Republic and then Nigeria.

His arrival to the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos was greeted by an ecstatic crowd who commended his courage and determination to circumvent three continents on a Can-Am Spyder motorcycle.

Speaking after his triumphant entry to Nigeria, Olubo said he’s proud to enter the history book as the first person in the world to cover three continents with a Can-Am Spyder, covering about 10,000 kilometers.

Giving an insight of what made him embark on the tedious and dangerous adventure, he said the decision was borne out of the desire to create awareness about children with mental health problem which his son happens to suffer from.

“About three years ago, something profound happened to me. My son who has spent two years in College, developed mental problem. I was taken aback by this development because he was not on drugs nor anything abnormal.

“Prior to that incident, I didn’t know much about mental illness until it happened to my son. So, the reality is that when children are at the age of 16-21years, there’s a good chance they might have my mental illness. Everyone of us have that problem but once you’re 19, yo can escape it.

“After this ugly experience, I was involved in a research back in the United States and we asked a question on why is it that when people have mental illness, they’re rejected by the society.

” There was also a question about how do we promote awareness about mental illness not only in the United States but around the world. So, I decided to promote it.

He further explained that the plan was to have something that will attract attention to the illness which brought about the Can-Am Spyder, but was quick to add that it was said that the machine cannot make it to West Africa because it wasn’t designed for the sub- region but he expressed happiness that he was able to prove the skeptics wrong.

Olubo who also said that he embarked on the journey because he needed to tell his son and every other person with mental illness that they can resist it no matter how bad it is and that with resilience they can overcome the illness noting that it was that resilience that saw him through the journey.

On the problems he encountered on the long and tedious journey, he described them as numerous; saying that some countries, were hostile while others where friendly.
” I encountered some problems on my way but I was not discouraged and my resilience saw me through. In Morocco, they seized my drone and in Mauritania, they seized my helmet.
” In Gambia, they forced me to pay $300 visa fee not minding that I am from an ECOWAS country. While in Guinea Bissau they tried to seize my phone but I was rescued by four Sierra-Leonians.

” In Guinea Conakry, they held me for two to three days because they wanted to extort money from me. In Ghana, the story was the same. There, they took $700 from me and even put a tracker on my bike and getting to Aflao border, they collected 500 cedis from me.

He singled out Côte d’Voire as the only friendly country he passed in the West Coast of Africa.

“The Ivorians were nice to me. Before getting to the country, I had a burst brake and damaged exhaust but they fixed them without collecting money from me.

Recounting his experience with Fulani herdsmen in Guinea, he described them as friendly, noting that they even accommodated him for a night.

According to him, after missing his way trying to climb Fouta Jallon, he encountered some Fulani herdsmen who were initially curious to see him but when he spoke to them in Hausa, having grown up in Kaduna they became friendly and assisted him.
” When the herdsmen first saw me they were curious but after speaking with them in Hausa, they became friendly and even took me to their house where I slept with them on their mat. The next morning, one of them escorted me and directed me on how to navigate my way.

Olubo, who said his next plan is to ride to Ushuaia, the farthest part of Argentina where it is thought the world ended, expressed displeasure with the number of mental ill persons he saw in West Africa; saying that something serious need to be done to check the growing number of mental ill persons in the West Coast of Africa.