Author: Opalim Lifted

Arsenal’s patchy run of results continued on Wednesday with their 1-0 Champions League defeat at Inter Milan but manager Mikel Arteta had no complaints about his team’s performance on a night when they dominated one of Europe’s top sides. Arsenal, who have only two wins from their last six games, hogged possession and had 21 goal attempts to Inter’s seven at the San Siro, where the winner came via a controversial penalty on the stroke of half-time. “The worst thing of the night is the result because the performance, the attitude, the dominance that we showed against one of the…

It is a scene too familiar, yet always unnerving: a plunge into darkness; a people left stranded in the blackened corridors of a nation struggling to keep its lights on. It happens always. The Nigerian national grid has failed once again; a system afflicted with an illness so profound that it might as well be diagnosed with epilepsy, convulsing and collapsing as unpredictably as a seizure in full spasm. The national grid behaves much like an epileptic patient in the throes of chronic illness. It is a structure that is both unpredictable and tragic, with its episodes as sudden as…

The wealth of billionaire Tesla and X owner Elon Musk has soared by about $13 billion hours after his ally, Donald Trump, won the United States presidential election. Early Wednesday, investors said Trump’s win will also be a win for Musk’s major public holding, Tesla, sending shares of his electric vehicle maker up 13% at the market open, CNN reported. The development lifted the value of the 411 million shares of Tesla that Musk owns outright by more than $13 billion, which works out to a better than a 11,000% return on the $119 million he donated to Trump. No…

Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy will receive “the majority of his unpaid salary” from the Premier League club, a judge has ruled. The France international, who was charged with rape and sexual assault in August 2021, took City to an employment tribunal to claim about £11m before tax in unpaid wages after he was suspended without pay from September 2021 until he left the club in June 2023. Last year he was cleared of a series of rape and attempted rape charges. Judge Joanne Dunlop ruled that City were entitled to withhold his salary for the periods he was…

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has commended the process that led to the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election. Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in a stunning victory, delivering him a second term in the White House after a historic election cycle filled with unprecedented twists and turns and two attempts on his life. In his congratulatory message, Atiku hailed Americans noting that their unwavering faith in the power of democracy and the sanctity of the ballot has once again shown the world the true might of the people’s voice. Atiku was a presidential candidate of the Action…

President Bola Tinubu has rescheduled the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting till further notice. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, passed away on Tuesday night, prompting the postponement of the council meeting. This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday. General Lagbaja, whose death was earlier announced by the Presidency, served as the 27th Chief of Army Staff from June 19, 2023, till his death on November 5, 2024. Tinubu also ordered flags to be flown at half-staff nationwide for seven days in honour…

My friend, Paul, is Jamaican. He has a strong Jamaican twang that sometimes leaves me wondering what he is saying. An explanation on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) diaspora remittance target. Paul and I met at our local pub in London and bonded over our mutual love for crossword puzzles. When he was about 12, his mother left Jamaica for the US, and Paul’s life changed as he became a “barrel baby.” The term “barrel children” was coined by Dr. Claudette Crawford-Brown, a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, and it refers to children who receive food,…

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States after reaching the 279 Electoral College votes, according to Fox News. Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in a stunning victory, delivering him a second term in the White House after a historic election cycle filled with unprecedented twists and turns and two attempts on his life. Trump will be the first president to serve two non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892 — and only the second in history. He was first elected president in 2016, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and…

The dizzying presidential contest between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris hurtled toward an uncertain finish on Tuesday as millions of Americans, US citizens lined up at polling stations to choose between two sharply different visions for the country. A race churned by unprecedented events – two assassination attempts against Trump, President Joe Biden’s surprise withdrawal and Harris’ rapid rise – remained neck and neck, even after billions of dollars in spending and months of frenetic campaigning. Trump, who has frequently spread false claims that he won the 2020 presidential election against Biden and whose supporters attacked the US…

Control of the US Congress is at stake on Tuesday in elections that could flip both the House of Representatives and the Senate, while still leaving Capitol Hill divided between Donald Trump’s Republicans and Kamala Harris’ Democrats. The outcome will play an important role in determining how easily the winner of Tuesday’s US presidential election will govern until the next congressional elections in 2026. Nonpartisan analysts say Republicans stand a good chance of taking back the Senate, where Democrats hold a 51-49 majority. But Republicans could also lose their grip on the House, where Democrats only need to pick up…