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The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) says it will arrest people who buy goods from traders operating on roads, medians, walkways, setbacks and other unauthorised public spaces across the state. The agency stated that the enforcement would begin next week, with both the traders and their customers liable to arrest. LAWMA’s Director of Public Affairs, Mukaila Sanusi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, quoting the agency’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Muyiwa Gbadegesin. Mr Gbadegesin explained that the move was part of the authority’s efforts to curb illegal trading, indiscriminate waste disposal and the obstruction of public infrastructure.…

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Oasis’ reunion gig at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium was a “hugely emotional” experience that took Noel Gallagher by surprise, the directors of a film charting the brothers’ comeback tour have said.Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s portrayal of the band’s world tour in 2025 also captured the moment Liam and Noel reunited in the rehearsal studios following a 15-year hiatus.Reflecting on the opening gig, Southern said: “You saw grown men who probably rarely express their emotions crying and hugging each other.”Noel says in the film that he completely underestimated what it would be like, and it really did kind of hit him…

Abia State Government, with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), will distribute 3.03 million insecticide-treated nets across the state’s 17 local government areas. The Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, disclosed this on Monday while briefing reporters on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting in Umuahia. Mr Kanu ‌‌‍‌‍⁠⁠‌‍‍⁠‍‌said the distribution, valued at more than ₦1 billion, was part of the government’s efforts to reduce malaria-related illnesses and deaths. He said Abia had not conducted a mass distribution campaign for insecticide-treated nets since 2010, making the planned exercise significant in strengthening malaria prevention efforts. The commissioner described the planned…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington will ‘obviously not’ follow the UK in sanctioning illegal Israeli settlements. France and Canada are also taking action, as the UK says Palestinians face ethnic cleansing by Israeli settlers in parts of the occupied West Bank.Published On 8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026Share US won’t join UK ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

One Palestinian student found herself facing permanent expulsion and the revocation of all her academic credits at Zefat Academic College in Israel, after posting a video of a religious preacher praying for the people of Gaza.Another Palestinian student, at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, was suspended for posting a Quranic verse.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe individual cases reflect a sweeping institutional crackdown documented in a report this week by Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023.Adalah received more than 130 inquiries from…

Call Of DutyCredit: ActivisionI had a blast with the recent Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta. Spread across two weekends, the beta included a number of multiplayer maps and modes, the new Warzone Resurgence map, Zodiac and a campaign mission. While most of the maps in the beta were small to medium-sized, I enjoyed most of them a great deal. There was a lot of variety and the maps were more colorful than a lot of previous Modern Warfare games. Despite all that, Infinity Ward made one change between the first and second beta weekends that left me worried…

There’s never really been a game like Grand Theft Auto VI before, one that has completely altered the lineup of games around it. Everyone, it seems, is scared of going up against Grand Theft Auto VI. Everyone, that is, except for Nintendo.It’s a similar situation to the surprise launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong last year, where indie games jumped out of the way of its release. But GTA VI exists on a much larger scale. With few exceptions — including a pair of brave indies — publishers have decided that it’s better to be caught in a glut of releases…

Nabatieh, once southern Lebanon’s economic centre, has been transformed into a ghost town, with buildings destroyed and streets emptied as Israel intensifies its attacks on the city. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports.Published On 8 Sep 20268 Sep 2026Share Israeli strikes transform Lebanese city into ghost town on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Nature, Published online: 08 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02722-yA physics pioneer who provided a new way to describe temperature, and the value of studying fossilized tracks in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.