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A Nigerian court has granted bail to the country’s former attorney general, Abubakar Malami, along with his wife and son, who are facing money laundering charges.Malami, 58, was one of the most influential figures in the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari between 2015 and 2023.He was charged in December with 16 counts of money laundering and abuse of office, and has been held in prison since then.In court, he pleaded not guilty to all charges. He previously described his arrest as politically motivated.The lawyer, who is married to Buhari‘s third child, Nana Hadiza, recently left the ruling All Progressives…
Sarah Julian,BBC Radio WMandLee Bottomley,West MidlandsBBCWest Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford said the decision “wasn’t influenced by politics”The chief constable of West Midlands Police (WMP) should lose his job over a decision to ban Israeli football fans from attending a match in Birmingham, a number of MPs and a leading Jewish organisation have said.Senior police officers and city council leaders were questioned by MPs on Tuesday about why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were stopped from being at Aston Villa’s ground on 6 November. WMP insist it was on safety grounds, based on evidence of Maccabi supporters’ previous behaviour.But politicians…
Xabi Alonso has reportedly struck a ‘preliminary agreement’ to become Liverpool head coach amid rumours Arne Slot could be sacked this week. The Reds are having a poor season in the Premier League with the defending champions currently 14 points adrift of leaders Arsenal. Back-to-back Premier League draws means they are just seven points ahead of 14th-placed Crystal Palace with Slot coming under increasing pressure. The Liverpool board backed Slot in the summer transfer window with the Reds spending over £400m on new signings. There was a report earlier this week which claimed Slot ‘will not continue as Liverpool manager beyond this…
Fiat will bring the most affordable version of the new Grande Panda, fitted with a pure-petrol engine and a manual gearbox, to the UK. The powertrain comprises a 1.2-litre turbocharged three-cylinder engine that sends 99bhp and 151lb ft of torque to the front wheels via a six-speed shifter. Fiat UK’s managing director, Kris Cholmondeley, told Autocar that it will be priced at “an even lower, better price point” than the £18,995 hybrid. In its native Italy, the pure-petrol Grande Panda is €2000 (£1700) cheaper than the hybrid, suggesting that it could arrive in the UK at around £17,000. That would make…
MTV shut down its remaining 24/7 music channels in several countries, including the UK and Australia, at the end of 2025. The main MTV network shifted its focus to reality shows long ago and it occasionally dips back into music with things like the Video Music Awards, but this shutdown felt like the end of an era. If you yearn for the days when MTV actually played music videos, though, you might be in luck. A developer who goes by the name of Flexasaurus Rex has paid tribute to the MTV of old with a web app that has several…
A candidate to replace Erik ten Hag in 2024 was baffled by the interview process put in place by Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, according to reports. The Red Devils made the decision to sack Ruben Amorim on Monday with the Portuguese head coach falling out with Jason Wilcox over formations and plans for the January transfer window. Earlier this week, former CBS Sports reporter Ben Jacobs revealed the reasons that Man Utd made the decision to end Amorim’s time at Old Trafford. Jacobs wrote on X: ‘More on Ruben Amorim’s sacking. #MUFC believe there haven’t been enough signs of…
Thomas Ingenlath has returned to his old role as chief designer at Volvo, nine years after leaving the Swedish brand to run its EV sibling Polestar. Ingenlath originally became Volvo’s lead designer in 2012. In his five-year tenure in that role, he was responsible for a complete stylistic overhaul that defined the look of crucial models including the XC90, V90 and XC40. The German also designed the future-looking Concept Coupé (below) and Concept 40.2, which would go on to become the Polestar 1 and Polestar 2 respectively. In 2017, he was named the CEO of Polestar ahead of it being hived…
IBM will continue to take the lead role developing artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud for the Wimbledon tennis tournament in its role as digital transformation partner. The long-standing relationship has seen IBM introduce rudimentary stats for the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the early 1990s, the first website for Wimbledon grand slams in 1995, and the initial use of AI in 2017. Now, IBM’s Watson AI, sitting in IBM Cloud, is personalising content in a bid to encourage fans who try out digital platforms to do so again and again. Usama Al-Qassab, commercial director of The All…
How far has Intel’s embedded Arc graphics come over the years? Enough to let me play Battlefield 6 at up to 190 fps in 1080p, with the graphics settings set to high, all on an unassuming Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5. There was no need for dedicated graphics, just the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H’s built-in Arc B390 GPU.There’s a catch, of course: Intel’s XeSS3 AI upscaling and 4X frame generation is the big reason why I was able to see such high fps figures. I was playing Battlefield 6 on a controller, with the Lenovo laptop connected to a TV, and…
A plot to kill Burkina Faso’s military leader, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, has been thwarted, the West African nation has announced.The sophisticated plan had been hatched by Lt Col Paul Henri Damiba, the military officer ousted by Traoré in September 2022, the security minister said in a late-night broadcast.”Our intelligence services intercepted this operation in the final hours. They had planned to assassinate the head of state and then strike other key institutions, including civilian personalities,” said Mahamadou Sana, further alleging that the plot had been funded from neighbouring Ivory Coast.There has been no comment from either Col Damiba or Ivory…