Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari will be leaving the country worse off in debt and security than he found it when he took office in 2015, according to the BBC. While credited with improving infrastructure and implementing important laws, including oil-sector reforms, his presidency was marked by its failure to curb extremist groups in the country, rising debt and inflation, and a spike in armed conflicts between herders and farmers from the Fulani ethnic group. Buhari did galvanise international support to tackle Boko Haram in the country’s northeast but failed to contain resurgent separatist movements in the country’s south-east.
Chef Giorgio Locatelli, who owns two Michelin-starred restaurant Locanda Locatelli, has said he has never become overdrawn and has never gone into debt in a personal bank account. Locatelli credited his financial discipline to his upbringing in northern Italy, where his parents only spent money if they had cash in hand. His parents built a home, while his grandfather invested in a hotel and his uncle built a second. The family all worked together at the hotel, with his mum overseeing the finances. Locatelli’s first paid job was to help out in his aunt’s restaurant, and after working in other restaurants, he landed a job at The Savoy hotel, earning £76 a week.
Joy Haizelden, who was abandoned as a child in China after being diagnosed with the spine defect spina bifida, is preparing to represent Great Britain in wheelchair basketball at the World Championship in Dubai. Haizelden was taken in by adoptive parents and moved to Southampton, before becoming involved in the sport at 13. Aged 15, she was the youngest member of the GB team at the 2014 World Championships and still a teenager when she competed for Paralympics GB at the Rio Games in 2016. Haizelden, 24, now wants to encourage greater representation of wheelchair basketball in the media and schools.
Billionaire Joe Lewis has had a padel court installed on his superyacht as the sport skies in popularity. Padel is the fastest-growing sport in the world with the Bamford Club in the Cotswolds, UK seeing members opting for 'back-to-back padel sessions' rather than work. The club alone can command annual membership fees starting at £2,250 and among the club's benefits are a biomass-heated pool, an ice barrel outside to 'pep circulation', a restaurant serving organic eggs, as well as the two outdoor padel courts in the car park. Tennis courts have become a thing of the past, as padel courts continue to open up all over the world, hotels and resorts are getting in on the action and even estate agents have recognised the value of a padel court at home; helping to replace the traditional swimming pool.
Joy Haizelden, who was abandoned as a child in China after being diagnosed with the spine defect spina bifida, is preparing to represent Great Britain in wheelchair basketball at the World Championship in Dubai. Haizelden was taken in by adoptive parents and moved to Southampton, before becoming involved in the sport at 13. Aged 15, she was the youngest member of the GB team at the 2014 World Championships and still a teenager when she competed for Paralympics GB at the Rio Games in 2016. Haizelden, 24, now wants to encourage greater representation of wheelchair basketball in the media and schools.
Canada's men's wheelchair basketball team finishes 3rd at Ottawa Invitational
CBC
23-05-22 01:36
Canada's men's wheelchair basketball team finished third at the Ottawa Invitational tournament, losing 63-47 to the Netherlands. Fellow Paralympians Nik Goncin and Lee Melymick each added nine points, with Gijs Even leading the Netherlands with a game-high 18 points. The five-day tournament, hosted by Wheelchair Basketball Canada, served as final preparation for the upcoming IWBF world championships in Dubai, running from June 9 to 20. Canada will compete in Group B against Germany, Thailand and Egypt at worlds.
A cocaine smuggling plot involving a shipment from China, an undercover police sting in New Zealand and a cash handover at a Serbian hotel has gone on trial in Sydney. David Edward John Campbell and Tristan Egon Sebastian Waters are accused of trying to import the $1.5bn worth of cocaine into Australia in April 2017 when the drug was found in prefabricated steel in a shipping container. Campbell allegedly arranged for the container to be delivered to an address in Llandilo, near Sydney and Waters is alleged to have been "one of three people who decided together to import the cocaine into Australia".
Russia’s sanctioned interior minister visits Saudi Arabia just after trip by Ukraine’s Zelenskyy
The Toronto Star
23-05-23 05:18
Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev visited Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to hold talks with his counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud. The visit follows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's address to an Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia, highlighting the kingdom's and Gulf Arab states' relations with Moscow despite the ongoing Ukraine war. Kolokoltsev has been sanctioned by the US and other countries since 2018 over Russia's activity in Ukraine and Syria. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has attempted to position the kingdom as a potential mediator between Ukraine and Russia to end the conflict. Since the start of the war, Saudi Arabia has purchased Russian diesel fuel at a discount due to Western sanctions against Russia.
