THE FUSE

Diezani Alison-Madueke was cleared by a London jury on Wednesday of all six bribery charges against her, dealing a heavy blow to UK authorities who had spent more than a decade pursuing one of their highest-profile corruption cases, Financial Times reported. Jurors at Southwark Crown Court returned not-guilty verdicts after more than 46 hours of deliberation, acquitting Nigeria’s former oil minister of five counts of accepting bribes and one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, covering 2011 to 2015.