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A large survey of plant-based foods and beverages sold in the UK has found that mycotoxins, toxic compounds naturally produced by fungi, are widespread across vegetarian and vegan products. Researchers analyzed 212 plant-based meat alternatives (PMBAs) and plant-based beverages (PBBs) purchased from UK stores. Every product tested contained at least one of 19 mycotoxins, and some contained several. The study was led by the University of Parma in Italy and coauthored by Cranfield University. Researchers examined a wide range of products commonly available to UK shoppers, including burgers, vegetarian chicken pieces, vegan sausages, and oat, almond and soy-based milks. Why…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has suspended all processes leading to its 27 September elective congress and removed the leadership of the country’s major domestic leagues as part of interim measures following the resignation of the federation’s top officials. The decisions followed the resignation on Thursday of NFF President Ibrahim Gusau, General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi and members of the federation’s Executive Committee amid a deepening crisis in Nigerian football. The National Sports Commission (NSC) has endorsed Emmanuel Ikpeme, who was Deputy General Secretary of the NFF, to oversee the federation’s Secretariat as interim General Secretary. Ademola Olajire, the federation’s Director…

Strange Neighbors, an art-house nature documentary with no narration, no interviews and no human protagonists will open this year’s Oldenburg Internationales Film Festival, the first time a doc has launched the German indie fest. The directorial debut of cinematographer Mi Steinbach, Strange Neighbors was shot over three years on Schwarztonnensand, an island and nature preserve on the German Elbe river, smack in the middle of one of Europe’s busiest waterways. The island, just over 2 miles long, was created in the late 1960s from sand dredged during the deepening of the Elbe shipping channel that serves the port of Hamburg,…

FACTFILE with Lanre Alfred I have often wondered what truly distinguishes Tony Elumelu from every other wealthy Nigerian. Is it the size of his fortune? The market value of his companies? The private jets, sprawlinag estates, investment portfolios and invitations to the rooms where presidents, monarchs and captains of industry redraw the world’s economic map? Or is it something less visible, something that refuses to appear on a balance sheet? To get a fair idea about the immensity of his wealth, one simply has to look beyond his massive fortune and storied worth. The real wealth glimmers from very deep…

‘Typical Trump. It’s sort of a silly joke.’ Canadians are reacting to US President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’. It comes amid a spiralling trade war between the two nations.Published On 28 Aug 202628 Aug 2026Share ‘Typical Trump, silly joke’: ‘Lake America’ has Canadians laughing on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Eromosele Abiodun The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), has announced enhanced enforcement of the statutory requirements for indigenous participation in Nigeria’s Cabotage trade and maritime activities. This disclosure was contained in a marine notice issued pursuant to the agency’s statutory mandate of implementing applicable laws including the NIMASA Act 2007 and the Coastal and Inland Shipping (Cabotage) Act 2003, in addition to the Cabotage regulations and implementing guidelines. Under the enhanced enforcement regime, all persons and entities requiring vessels for Cabotage operations are required to use vessels that meet applicable Nigerian ownership, registration, manning and construction requirements and…

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump administration.The lawsuit, filed in March in a California district court, accused the Trump administration of unlawfully retaliating against Anthropic for setting “red lines,” or unacceptable military use cases of its AI technology.“The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics,” Judge Rita F. Lin, a district judge in the northern district of California, wrote in the ruling.She also wrote…

He bounded into the packed rally, a spring-heeled intruder whose very presence announced a coup at last year’s Labour conference. And so it was. Andy Burnham spoke with ebullient self-confidence, yet without aggression or a barrage of insults. They tried to stop him with a bogus constitutional fix barring him from standing in Gorton and Denton. But those Labour hierarchs lost it without him. His subsequent Makerfield victory proved their mistake and opened the door right into No 10 without dispute.At that standing-room-only rally on proportional representation he made a pitch-perfect noteless speech of personal passion about the failure of…

Cross River State government delegates at the ongoing 17th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Mongolia say they are using the global conference to attract potential investors and development partners to address the state’s worsening environmental challenges. The delegates—Martins Achadu, Chairman of the Cross River State House of Assembly Committee on Education and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Matters, and Catherine Ubi, Clerk of the State House of Assembly—said they had leveraged their participation at COP17 to draw international attention to the state’s land degradation, erosion and flooding…

Boxing’s best young prospects tend to be handled carefully and are given time to learn before dangerous tests arrive.Itauma, however, has been fast-tracked to his world-title shot.Francis Warren – son of Queensberry chief Frank – first noticed him as a teenager, sparring established professionals. Former British heavyweight champion Jeamie ‘TKV’ Tshikeva was there even earlier.”Moses was a big 11 or 12-year-old, around 75 to 80kg, (11st 11lb to 12st 8lb) and sparred an adult of the same weight,” TKV says. “He really showed up, put hands on this grown man, and I was shocked.”The guy he sparred was around 25.…