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  Suspected South African drug lord, Yaganathan Pillay, popularly known as Teddy Mafia, has been shot dead. He was 59.    Reports said Pilay was shot twice in the head at his home in Shallcross, south of Durban on Monday afternoon. He died shortly after arriving at Chatsmed hospital in Chatsworth.   After the shooting, two alleged hitmen were beheaded and their bodies burnt on Taurus Street in Shallcross, south of Durban.   Confirming the shooting, Brigadier Jay Naicker of KwaZulu Natal (KZN) South Africa Police Service (SAPS) said Pillay sustained two gunshot wounds to the head and later died in hospital.   “The daughter of this well-known drug dealer, was informed by her father that he would be expecting visitors earlier on Monday afternoon.   “She left him and went to the back of the house. Shortly after that, she heard gunshots and when they investigated they found he had been shot.   He was rushed to hospital, where we were told, he later passed on.”   Naicker said that Pillay’s t

  Suspected Fulani men have killed eight persons during a reprisal attack on Kaya village in Fatika district of Giwa local government area in Kaduna state.   A statement released by the spokesperson of the Kaduna state police command, ASP Mohammed Jalige, states that following the recent attack and abduction of three persons from Tudun Kaura, Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State, the Vigilante personnel of Kaya Village, Fatika District of Giwa Local Government Area allegedly suspected that the kidnappers were Fulani men. ''While on that unsubstantiated suspicion, some Fulani men numbering four (4) were passing through Kaya Village on 1st January, 2021 at about 1830hrs when some people suspected to be Vigilante members of Kaya Village in Giwa LGA of Kaduna State and its neighbouring community –Tudun Kaura Village in Sabuwa LGA of Katsina State, saw them, decapitated them and set them ablaze beyond recognition, except one (1) of them being Musa Lawal who narrowly escaped

  The Ogun state police command has said that the family of 16-year-old Melojuekun Barakat who accused Ogun state commissioner for environment, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun of sexually harassing her can't stop the investigation.    This is coming after the family of the victim announced that they were withdrawing the allegation against the suspended commissioner.   However the Ogun state police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi told newsmen that the victim’s father cannot stop the investigation and charges against the commissioner as he is not the one directly involved in the case.   Oyeyemi argued that the offence was committed against the state and the position of the family is “immaterial”. He added that the state commissioner for police, Edward Ajogun has ordered that the case be transferred to the criminal investigation department at the police headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, for proper investigation.    Oyeyemi said;    “The father of the victim has no loco standi for him to tell t

  A Wisconsin pharmacist has been fired after he was suspected of intentionally spoiling more than 500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.   Steven R. Brandenburg, 46, was released from custody Monday, Jan 4, while prosecutors determine if the charges being considered against him are legitimate.   He confessed to police that he deliberately tried to ruin the vaccines because he was concerned they could alter people’s DNA, WISN reported.   According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19 uses messenger RNA to "deliver instructions for human cells to make a piece of protein like that found on COVID-19, and the body then begins building immunities against that and the coronavirus."   The technology does not alter human DNA.   Jeff Bahr, president of Aurora Health Care Medical Group, told the Journal Sentinel that Brandenburg left 57 vials – each containing about 10 doses of the vaccine – at room temperature the nights of Dec. 24 and 25.   Brandenburg

  Prof. Khalifa Dikwa, Dean of Borno Elders Forum has raised an alarm of nobody being safe in Borno state except in the state capital, Maiduguri.    Speaking in an interview on Channels Television, Dikwa stated that even when Boko Haram insurgents are not physically present, they psychologically disturbing the people.    He said;    “Even if they (Boko Haram) are not physically there, they are psychologically there, disturbing the people. “From time to time, they ride their motorcycles, come and harass them to pay levies and so on. Outside Maiduguri, no even five kilometres, nobody is safe. And they can strike at any time.”   Dikwa also alleged that the military did not heed to the advice of the Private Military Contractor (PMC) to man the country’s land borders after they had “decimated” Boko Haram in 2014.   He added;    “At that time, they (PMC) said, ‘okay, we have done our bit, the rest, it has to be political. Have dialogue at a position of strength.  “And that you should allow t