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The Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 140 pump-action rifles and cannabis-infused food products worth N373.8 million at the Tin Can Island Port in Lagos. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Mr Bashir Adeniyi, disclosed this at a news conference on Thursday while highlighting major enforcement operations carried out by the TinCan Island Port Command. Adeniyi said customs operatives intercepted a container on July 8 carrying concealed knock-down components of pump-action rifles. He said 140 rifles had so far been assembled from the recovered parts, while the assembly of the remaining components was still ongoing. According to him, one principal suspect was arrested…

NewsFeedTwo people were killed and 13 injured when an explosion ripped through a minibus in Jaramana, southeast of Damascus. Syrian authorities said the blast was caused by an explosive device planted on the vehicle as security forces launched an investigation.Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

The Sustainability Professionals Institute of Nigeria (SPIN) is set to hold its inaugural Sustainability Conference 2026, a landmark national gathering that will bring together business leaders, policymakers, regulators, financial institutions, among others to explore practical strategies for building resilient and future ready organisations. Scheduled for this month in Lagos, the hybrid conference, themed: “The Adaptive Enterprise: Sustainability Strategies for Challenging Times”, will convene business leaders, policymakers, regulators, financial institutions, development partners, academics and sustainability professionals to explore practical strategies for building resilient and future ready organisations. Delivering the keynote address is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria…

Even in the age of AI-powered autonomous cyberattacks, the crude, tried and tested hacking techniques of tricking victims into doing things they shouldn’t are still producing great results.  Groups of unknown hackers are targeting and breaking into large financial and investment firms in the United States with the goal of stealing sensitive data to extort the victims with the threat of publishing it, Google’s security researchers wrote in a report on Thursday. The company did not name the victims, but Reuters reported that among them there are leading private equity firms such as Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, Blackstone, Bridgewater…

An AI fact-checking tool found errors in molecule boiling points listed in a chemistry reference database.Credit: Monty Rakusen/GettyFor decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation. But an artificial-intelligence model has revealed that some trusted numbers in one reference database have been wrong all along.Sebastian Pios, a theoretical chemist at Zhejiang Lab in Hangzhou, China, was using an AI system to predict the boiling points of several molecules when it began producing values that clashed with long-accepted entries in a 75-year-old reference database. At first, he thought…

Beth LindopAug 6, 2026, 03:13 AM ETCloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.Multiple AuthorsThe scene outside Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Wednesday afternoon was one of frenzied disbelief. As members of the world’s media flanked the doors to the terminal, thousands of Trabzonspor supporters gathered behind metal barriers to catch a glimpse of their new hero.Amid all the chaos, Mohamed Salah simply smiled. Having spent nearly a decade as Liverpool’s “Egyptian King,” Salah is no stranger to receiving a royal reception.However, as he readied himself to formalize his shock move to Turkish…

While watching the 2006 animated film Happy Feet with his daughter, Origame Digital founder Naphtali Faulkner noticed something interesting. “[In the movie], they see the digger fall into the ocean, and it has an almost eldritch quality,” he says. Over time, and with plenty of iteration, Faulkner’s inspirations coalesced, from HP Lovecraft to the 1982 version of The Thing and the works of David Lynch. “I’m a big fan of horror that sits in your head rather than in your stomach,” says Faulkner.In Penguin Colony, players body-switch between species of flightless birds, piecing together cryptic cosmic clues as they tail…

Cornfield Group Chairman, Dr. Babatope Michael Agbeyo, has long demonstrated that business success can go hand in hand with social impact. Chiemelie Ezeobi writes that his enduring commitment to empowering vulnerable communities, supporting education and advancing human capital development across West and Central Africa recently earned him the Security Watch Africa Golden Star Award for Upliftment of Society through Philanthropy in West and Central Africa Business success is often measured in revenue, market share and expansion into new territories. But for Dr. Babatope Michael Agbeyo, Chairman of Cornfield Group, the true measure of success lies in the number of lives transformed, opportunities created…

NewsFeedIsraeli prosecutors have charged a settler with “reckless manslaughter” in the killing of prominent Palestinian activist Awdah al-Hathaleen. Rights group B’Tselem said the charges are the first against an Israeli over a Palestinian’s death in the occupied West Bank since October 2023.Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Sydney Towle, a popular social media influencer who shared her experience living with a rare, aggressive form of cancer, has died at the age of 26. Towle’s family announced her death, from complications related to bile duct cancer that had spread to other parts of her body, on her social media accounts on Thursday.”Syd went peacefully last night after an almost three-year-long battle with cholangiocarcinoma,” her brother Austin said in a video message, alongside their mother, on TikTok. Towle, who was moved to hospice care earlier this week, had over a million followers on TikTok and over 200,000 on Instagram.…