Author: Opalim Lifted

Defending champion Bayern Munich slipped to their first Bundesliga defeat of the season as they were thrashed by Eintracht Frankfurt. Omar Marmoush, Eric Ebimbe, and Hugo Larsson put Eintracht 3-0 up after only 36 minutes at Deutsche Bank Park. Joshua Kimmich pulled one back before Ebimbe and Ansgar Knauff scored for Frankfurt. Second-placed Bayern Munich are three points behind Bayern Leverkusen, who travel to third-placed VfB Stuttgart on Sunday. England captain Harry Kane, who played the full 90 minutes, failed to score for only the third time in 13 Bundesliga games this season. He has 18 goals from 13 league…

Manchester United were booed off after they suffered a humiliating hammering at home to Bournemouth in the Premier League. Erik ten Hag’s side, teetering on the brink of crisis, were stunned by a Bournemouth side who recorded their first win at Old Trafford, just three days after their victory against Chelsea breathed new life into their campaign. The Cherries led through Dominic Solanke’s early goal. Andoni Iraola’s men were fully deserving of their lead, and headers from Philip Billing and Marcos Senesi in the space of five second-half minutes completed what must go down as one of the most famous…

Mohamed Salah scored his 200th Liverpool goal as Jurgen Klopp’s side produced a late comeback against 10-man Crystal Palace to move top of the Premier League and increase the pressure on former boss Roy Hodgson. Salah became only the fifth player to reach that landmark for the club, joining Ian Rush, Roger Hunt, Gordon Hodgson and Billy Liddell, when he ignited the fightback with a 76th-minute equalizer. It was Harvey Elliott who delivered the decisive moment inside the first of 10 minutes of added time, producing a stunning strike from the edge of the penalty area to lift Liverpool above…

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has said that the appreciation of the naira in recent weeks is insufficient and incapable of inspiring manufacturers’ confidence in the economy. MAN President Francis Meshioye said the current performance of the local currency was not at a level capable of boosting business confidence, he told Punch News. He called on policymakers to ensure a sustained run of naira appreciation to ease the forex burden that manufacturers are currently contending with. Meshioye said, “The trend should be sustained. What everybody is looking for is for the naira to further appreciate to the point where it…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) says it discovered over 4,800 illegal connections on oil pipelines in the country, leading to 200,000 barrels of crude losses daily, which is a grim picture of the country’s major income earner. “We have over 4,800 illegal connections on our pipelines. That means in some lines, within 100 kilometres of pipelines, you have as many as 300 insertions,” the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, Mele Kyari, told the Senate Committee on Appropriations on Friday. “Therefore, even when you produce the oil, you cannot deliver it at the required pressure, and therefore the…

Dangote Oil Refining Company says its plant is awaiting the second shipment of barrels of crude in three weeks after it received its maiden shipment of one million barrels on Friday. Dangote Group said in a statement that the STASCO vessel sailed to the refinery’s single-point mooring, where it was discharged into the refinery’s crude oil from Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited. Chronicle NG reports that the first crude feedstock for Dangote’s 650,000 b/d refinery arrived in the country, according to SP Global quoting market sources and tanker tracking data. After years of delays, the analytical firm announced…

Tottenham Hotspur’s faltering form has invited the “Spursy” tag from critics who see it as typical of the club, but manager Ange Postecoglou says he wants to focus on the work at hand instead of labels. The club briefly led the Premier League table, winning eight of their first 10 matches, but dropped to fifth after a five-game winless streak. “What I need to know is that this club hasn’t won anything for 15 years. That’s all I need to know,” Postecoglou told reporters on Friday. “That’s the reality. There’s no going away from that.” Tottenham have not won major…

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that Russian and Belarusian athletes who qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics will participate as neutrals. The conditions of their inclusion include competing without the flags, emblems, or anthems of their country. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the authorities banned athletes from those nations. Ukraine has threatened to boycott the games if the ban is not upheld. The decision comes after Olympic sports federations asked the IOC to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals in Paris earlier this week. “The executive board of the IOC has decided…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will stand again for a fifth term in office. He announced it at an awards ceremony for participants in the full-scale war he launched against Ukraine in 2022. It comes a day after election officials set March 15–17, 2024, as dates for the presidential election. Mr. Putin, 71, is widely expected to be re-elected, as there is little opposition and he has complete control over Russian media. Mr. Putin served as president in 2000–08, returning to the role after a stint as prime minister in 2012. This means that he has already been…

Canada will more than double the cost-of-living financial requirement for incoming international students on January 1, 2024, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship (IRCC) Marc Miller announced on Thursday. Under the current requirement, which has been in place since the early 2000s, study permit applicants need to show they have $10,000 saved to cover their tuition and the cost of living in Canada. However, Miller said the financial requirement hasn’t kept up with the cost of living over time, resulting in students arriving in Canada only to learn that their funds aren’t adequate. “Moving to a more accurate cost of…