Five police officers were hospitalized after a suspected drug dealer kicked over a table covered in heroin during a raid at a Bronx home, sending powder into the air, cops said Friday.
Police were executing a search warrant at the Willis Ave. address near E. 140th St. in Mott Haven about 7:30 p.m. Thursday when one of the drug dealers flipped the table, authorities said.
With so much powder floating in the air, the five officers were taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for exposure for heroin
The Nigerian Army has arraigned over 80 soldiers at a General Army Court Martial in Maiduguri over various offences.
Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Brig Gen Abdul Ibrahim while inaugurating the General Court Martial at Maimalari Cantonment Maiduguri, yesterday, said success of military operations was largely dependent on discipline of troops.
“Acts of cowardice, desertion, unsoldierly behaviour and other forms of undiscipline has no place n any army, more so am army executing war, “ the GOC said.
President of the Court, Brig Gen Wisdom Etuk has already commenced trial processes with the presence of …
Transition Committee Chairman of Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, Canice Mbah has raised the alarm over alleged incessant invasion of their farmland by the Fulani herdsmen in the state.
According to the chairman who addressed members of the state correspondents chapel in Owerri yesterday alleged that productivity of their farms has been reduced by the action of the cows who feed on their crops.
He also alleged that women in the area have refused going to their farms for fear of being raped by the herdsmen.
“Our women no longer go to their farm because of fear …
An inmate of Oko Medium Correctional Centre, in Benin, Edo State, Victor Ogunsuyi, who had spent more than 13 years awaiting trial, was yesterday set free by the State Chief Judge, Justice Esohe Ikponmwen.
Ikponmwen gave the order for Ogunsuyi’s release during the on-going Correctional Service decongestion visit.
He also ordered the release of Joel Ogbeide, who had spent over six years in custody awaiting trial. They were among four inmates set free by the outgoing Chief Judge at the Oko Centre.
Others included Moses Okoro, whose case file was missing and had been in custody for over seven years.…
Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court on yesterday admitted to bail, a Briton, James Nolan ,who is standing trial in the controversial gas supply contract, (P&ID) that led to $9.6billion judgement liability against Nigeria, in the sum of N500million and a surety in likesum.
The Judge ordered the Briton who was charged alongside his compatriot, Adam Quinn ,at large , to produce a serving Senator to stand surety for him in the same bail sum.
In addition, the court said the Senator must be someone that does not have a criminal case that is …
Justice Oshodi on Friday ruled that the defence counsel of Chilaka Ifeanyi (fourth defendant) and Victor Aduba (sixth defendant) did not provide sufficient proof to the court that they were coerced into giving the statements to the police.
He also noted that the 1999 Constitution did not state that confessional statements to the police must be in a particular form and …
Kyiv, Ukraine – A year after her death, hundreds gathered in front of Ukraine’s presidential administration in Kyiv, the capital, to remember murdered activist Kateryna Handziuk.
Carrying signs reading “Who ordered the murder of Katya?”, they were also there to demand justice.
Handziuk, a 33-year-old anti-corruption activist from the southern city of Kherson, died on November 4, 2018, from burns sustained in an acid attack.
Those who allegedly ordered and organised the plot against Handziuk remain free.
The mood at the Kyiv protest was sombre as Handziuk’s father, Viktor Handziuk, addressed the crowd.
“It’s been a very difficult year,”
The incident took place at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, allegedly in the full glare of the Vice President who was gracing the opening session of the Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit organised by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) chaired by Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa.
Narrating his experience to newsmen, Adeshida said he was at the venue to take
A Chinese pilot has been banned from flying after a photo went viral showing a female passenger in the cockpit.
The photo was taken in January on an Air Guilin flight from Guilin city to Yangzhou city, state media said, but was widely shared this week – causing the airline to take action.
It shows a woman posing in the cockpit with refreshments laid out next to her.
Air Guilin said in a statement the pilot had violated air safety regulations.
‘Thanks to the captain’
The incident took place on 4 January on flight GT1011 from Guilin city to Yangzhou
No fewer than 13 students of the Kogi State University, Ayingba, have been killed by unidentified persons suspected to be members of a secret cult.
The killings according to eyewitnesses, started on Friday last week when nine students, including a 200-level female student and her boyfriend, were hacked down on the campus and at different points.
Channels Television gathered that some of the victims were attacked on Stadium Road and Our Lady of Fatima’s Lodge where they were brutally murdered and their body dismembered by their assailants.
They said it was a reprisal carried out by one of the cult …
Two of Ireland’s youngest convicted killers have been sentenced for the murder of schoolgirl Ana Kriegel, with one of the teens receiving life in prison.
A man was stabbed to death Monday at a Maryland Popeyes after what appears to have been an argument over the restaurant’s re-released chicken sandwich, police said.
