US Senate bargainers announced a bipartisan framework Sunday responding to last month’s mass shootings in the country, a modest breakthrough offering measured gun curbs and bolstered efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs. The proposal falls far short…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs new gun control measures after mass shootings
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a sweeping package of new gun-related laws on Monday in the wake of the murder of 10 black people by 18-year-old, Payton Gendron, at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14. Among the new measures,…
UTME: JAMB to further screen 27,105 results
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board said it would further screen 27,105 results of candidates who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The board made this known on Monday, in Abuja. In the statistics made available in the Weekly…
Nine dead in shooting at Buffalo supermarket
At least nine people have been killed in a shooting at a supermarket in New York state, US media report. Police are at the scene in the city of Buffalo and say a suspect has been taken into custody. Officers…
Fraud: FBI nab Dapo Abiodun’s aide, Abidemi Rufai, in New York
The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested Abidemi Rufai, a Senior Special Assistant to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, over $350,000 employment fraud. Rufai was arrested on Friday evening at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New…
New York’s daily coronavirus cases top 1,000 for first time in months
New York surpassed 1,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time since early June – an increase partially tied to the Hudson Valley and Brooklyn. The concerning state figure comes as city officials, struggling to contain COVID-19 clusters in some…
US Open gets green light to go ahead without fans
The US Open has been given the green light to run without fans in August by New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Tournament organisers had decided to push ahead with plans to run the event at the USTA Billie Jean King…
Covid-19 and the dark sides of the medical world – Magnus Onyibe
According to preliminary test trial reports of 350 patients administered with a combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin medication in the state of New York, within three to four hours, breathing was restored, zero intubation, zero hospitalisation and zero death. If…
Thousands of NY COVID patients are being treated with anti-malarial drug
As many as 4,000 seriously ill coronavirus patients in New York are being treated with the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, state health officials say. President Trump has touted hydroxychloroquine as a potential life-saver, although there is no widespread scientific evidence to…
Coronavirus cases continue to rise in New York and throughout US
The number of coronavirus cases in New York surged by more than 4,500 on Saturday, jolting the statewide number of infected past 11,600 on the eve of an unprecedented lockdown from Brooklyn to Buffalo aimed at containing the deadly bug.…