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  A missing Brooklyn, New York, USA drug dealer whose dismembered body was stashed in a fridge for four months was a registered sex offender who had series of child molestation cases breathing down his neck, police say.   Kawsheen Gelzer, 39, who has been on the state sex offender …

Ozempic has become a popular drug among the Hollywood elite to lose weight, would it soon become popular in Nigeria? Ozempic is an injectable drug prescribed once every week to help adults with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar.

A state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador after one of the country’s most-notorious drug gang bosses escaped from prison.  Adolfo Macias – also known as Fito – was first reported missing from his cell on Sunday, Jan. 7.  Ecuador’s prosecutors then filed charges against two prison guards as …

A new drug is wreaking havoc across Sierra Leone, turning many of its youngsters into “zombies” and some of these drugs are made from human bone fragments.   “Kush” is made from a mixture of herbs, toxic chemicals, and even human bones. The drug, which costs just 20p a joint, …

The Food and Drug Administration has decided to allow Florida to import millions of dollars worth of medications from Canada at far lower prices than in the United States, overriding fierce decades-long objections from the pharmaceutical industry, according to a senior administration official. The approval is a major policy shift …

Barely hours to the new year, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a Qatar-based businessman, Agu Evidence Amobi, and one other, Uchegbu Onyebuchi Obi with consignments of psychoactive substances at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.     While Amobi was arrested on …

  South Korean actor, Lee Sun-kyun had begged police not to announce his last appearance for questioning over an alleged blackmail plot just four days before his apparent suicide, officials confirmed Thursday December 28.     Sun-kyun, best known for his role as Park Dong-ik in Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 Academy …

A judge in New York City has rejected a request from Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to review the 2019 ruling that sentenced him to life in prison.     Guzman, 66, led the powerful Sinaloa cartel that is blamed for thousands of deaths in Mexico for decades. He escaped from Mexican prisons twice and …

The Jigawa State Police Command has arrested 26 suspected phone snatchers, motorcycle thieves, burglars and drug dealers in various parts of the state.   Spokesperson of the command, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, December 23, 2023, said two motorcycles, 6 computer laptops, vandalized …

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 75-year-old woman, Sekinat Soremekun, for dealing in illicit drugs in Lagos State.   The 75-year-old woman was arrested in the Oshodi area of Lagos State on Friday, December 15, 2023.   The spokesperson for the anti-drug agency, …