A massive passenger plane had to land at a small New York airport because of runway closures at Kennedy Airport during the winter storm. WNYW reports that the Airbus A380 landed at 12:25 p.m. Thursday on a snowy runway at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor. The Singapore Airlines flight originated in Frankfurt, Germany. The […]
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has said that the population of the state is galloping above 24 million. The governor, who spoke at a round-table on infrastructure financing organised by the Harvard Business School Association of Nigeria (HBSAN) in collaboration with the State Government held at Eko Hotels in Lagos, said the state and […]
Read More A New York man who admitted to beating his boss to death with a shovel has been sentenced to 21 years to life in prison. Thirty-seven-year-old Rickey Bolden, of Monticello, previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a plea agreement. The Times Herald-Record of Middletown reports he was sentenced Friday. Authorities say Bolden was employed […]
Read More A plane has clipped wings with another plane while taxiing at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration says the right wing of EgyptAir Flight 986, a Boeing 777 headed to Cairo, touched the left wing of London-bound Virgin Atlantic Flight 4C. It happened just after 7 p.m. Monday. There were […]
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New York’s mayor on Monday signed into law the repeal of a 91-year-old piece of legislation that had technically banned dancing in thousands of bars, clubs and restaurants in the city. The city council voted overwhelmingly on October 31 to axe the law, which had come into effect in 1926 during Prohibition and which campaigners […]
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A few more days and the last of Hurricane Sandy’s damage will finally be cleared from Mohamad Rahman’s southern Brooklyn home — five years after the storm ravaged New York. Two young women install a door frame on the two-story house’s ground floor under the watch of Ben Fransua, who manages construction for an organization […]
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The President, Muhammadu Buhari has left New York for the United Kingdom. Buhari left New York on Thursday where he attended the 72nd United Nations General Assembly meeting. The President on Tuesday addressed the gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States. He pledged Nigeria’s solidarity to the […]
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President Donald Trump’s decision to end protections and benefits for young people who were brought into the United States illegally as children faces a legal challenge from New York and other states. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman will announce a multistate lawsuit to protect beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program […]
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Online retail giant Amazon on Thursday opened its first brick and mortar bookstore in New York, selling a limited range of its highest-rated books and letting customers browse products as in times gone by. Amazon, which launched as an online bookseller in 1995 but which now sells everything from designer clothes to groceries, bided its […]
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Donald Trump’s election jolted liberal America, but perhaps nowhere more than in his native New York, where city-dwellers are processing their woe with everything from yoga to body art to demonstrations. Many residents of the cosmopolitan cultural mosaic — where 79 percent of voters backed Democrat Hillary Clinton — are horrified by the Republican’s harsh […]
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The Afghan-born American wanted for bomb attacks that rattled New York and New Jersey last month pleaded not guilty from his hospital bed on Thursday to charges of attempted murder. Ahmad Khan Rahimi’s public defender entered a plea of not guilty on state charges that his client attempted to murder five police officers and unlawfully […]
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The Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Mr Tony Elumelu, has won the Africa Investor Person of the Year Award at the Africa Investor CEO Institutional Investment Summit in New York. Receiving the award, Elumelu, extolled stakeholders in the public and private sectors committed to improving access to power in Africa. He equally acknowledged the staff and […]
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