Author: Opalim Lifted

Nigerian streetwear makers have looked beyond the Edo State Governor’s, Senator Monday Okpebholo’s, difficulty in pronouncing figures in monetary terms during his presentation of the 2025 budget to the State House of Assembly. The business-goal-orientated streetwear makers have taken to the Internet with a branded shirt prototype that features the inscription “It is confusing me,” a remark Okpebholo made following his struggles during his state budget presentation on Tuesday. Chronicle NG reported that during his presentation, the governor emphasized that the proposed budget, estimated at N605 billion, represents a 25% increase over the 2024 budget. The Appropriation Bill’s title is…

Ademola Lookman’s impressive performance, including a goal, could not prevent Atalanta from succumbing to a 3-2 defeat against Real Madrid in Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League clash. Real Madrid handed the Serie A leaders, Atalanta their first defeat in this season’s revamped Champions League after Mbappe gave them the lead with a strike from inside the box in the 10th minute before he was forced off with an injury. Charles de Ketelaere equalised with a penalty after Aurelien Tchouameni tripped Sead Kolasinac from behind just before the break but Vinicius Jr stroked home a rebound in the 56th minute to put…

Liverpool are all but through to the Champions League last 16 after Mohamed Salah’s penalty clinched victory at Girona. Arne Slot’s side were gifted a second-half spot-kick when former Manchester United and Everton midfielder Donny van de Beek caught Luis Diaz’s heel in the penalty area. Salah dispatched his penalty with ease, sending Girona goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga the wrong way to net his 46th Champions League goal. Returning visiting goalkeeper Allison Becker made a handful of good saves as Liverpool continued their perfect start to this season’s Champions League, and the Reds will be assured of a top-eight finish -…

A Sudanese military air strike on a market in North Darfur killed more than 100 people on Monday, a pro-democracy lawyers’ group said Tuesday, in a war marked by claims of atrocities on all sides. The emergency Lawyers said Monday’s air strike also left hundreds injured in Kabkabiya, a town about 180 kilometres (112 miles) west of El-Fasher, the state capital that has been under siege from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since May. Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced in a 20-month war between the RSF and Sudan’s military that has left the northeast African…

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) have urged “the government of President Bola Tinubu to immediately and unconditionally release activist Dele Farotimi and drop all charges of criminal defamation and cybercrimes against him, as he is detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his human rights.” The groups also called on “the Tinubu administration to immediately and unconditionally release all journalists, bloggers, human rights defenders and activists currently detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights and doing their legitimate work.” The statement followed the press conference on ‘Nigeria: Backsliding on Human…

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) says it will sanction airlines for delayed ticket refunds. In a statement on Tuesday, Michael Achimugu, NCAA’s director of public affairs and consumer protection, said ticket refund compliance remains a key pillar of the agency’s consumer protection agenda. Achimugu stressed that airlines must strictly adhere to refund timelines as stipulated under Part 19 of the NCAA Regulations of 2023, which seeks to safeguard passenger rights. “Cash purchases must be refunded immediately, and by cash. Refunds for electronic payments, including mobile apps and internet banking must occur within 14 days,” the director said. Achimugu cited…

A Jordanian man has returned to his home country after spending 38 years in Syrian jails, an official said on Tuesday, after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad ended an agonising wait for his family. The man, named Osama Bashir Hassan al-Bataynah, was found in Syria “unconscious and suffering from memory loss”, Jordanian Foreign Ministry Soufian al-Kodat told AFP. Kodat said the al-Bataynah’s relatives reported his disappearance in 1986 when he was just 18, and that he had been in jail ever since. “He was transferred from Damascus to the Jaber border crossing (with Jordan) where he was handed over…

There are no protesters in sight yet at the Ministry of Justice, Abuja for the support of human rights activist, Dele Farotimi over the legal battle between the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti. The protesters were expected to converge at 7:00 am on Tuesday morning at the ministry’s premises to rally support for the lawyer and human rights activist. However, our correspondent said the presence of security operatives deployed to maintain peace and order during the protest, were seen at the location. This was after organisers of the protest, the Take It Back Movement on Monday, vowed to go…

A rare Roman coin featuring the portrait of Brutus, the assassin of statesman Julius Caesar, sold Monday at a Geneva auction for 1.98 million euros, according to organiser Numismatica Genevensis. The historic item was purchased by a “European collector following intense bidding among eight online bidders” for more than 1.83 million Swiss francs ($2.09 million), the dealer said in a statement. The coin was originally priced at more than 800,000 euros. Weighing eight grams and similar in size to a euro, it is “a piece of history” marking the last chapters of the Roman Republic, Frank Baldacci, director of Numismatica…

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva underwent surgery after a brain haemorrhage related to a recent fall, the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo said Tuesday. “The operation went without complications” on Monday night, and Lula was “doing well, under monitoring” in an intensive care unit, the hospital said in a statement posted on the president’s Instagram account. The hemorrhage was linked to a fall Lula suffered on October 19, the hospital said. Lula had hit his head after falling in a bathroom at the presidential residence in the capital Brasilia and received several stitches. He was admitted to the…