AFRICA

Two teenagers from Iyana-Ipaja, Ogun State allegedly conspired with an elderly church member to sell their organs to a specialist at Redwood Specialty Hospital in Abeokuta for N100.00 without inform their parents. Unfortunately, one of these teenagers fell ill and started vomiting. Her father sent her to the hospital because …

A family in the Dominican Republic exhumed their grandmother nearly a decade after her burial. When Margarita Rosario was dug up at La Colonia Cemetery in Jarabacoa, she was found to still have a full head of hair, some skin, and enough bones to be able to stand with little …

Elon Musk has lost his title as the world’s richest person after selling Tesla stocks to fund the $44 billion purchase of Twitter.   Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH, and his family took the ‘world richest’ title with a personal wealth of $185.4 …

Ndambi Guebuza, the son of Mozambique’s former president Armando Guebuza will serve 12 years in jail after he was convicted in a $2 billion corruption case, a court ruled Wednesday. The scandal emanated from loans to three state-owned companies — Indicus, Ematum and Mam — meant to finance a fishing …

South Africa’s justice ministry has confirmed that the man who killed the South African anti-apartheid hero, Chris Hani, has been released on parole. Last month’s decision by the constitutional court to free Janusz Walus drew widespread criticism in South Africa. Mr Hani’s widow described it as diabolical. The hugely popular …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission has arrested Singer Oladapo Oyebanji alias D’banj, according to a popular Nigeria news portal, PremiumTimes. He was arrested and detained Tuesday after ICPC operatives closed in on him, forcing him to surrender himself at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja. Premium Times …

A popular Imo state-based entertainer and politician, Chukwunonye Irounno, is dead. The deceased is believed to be the MC of Peter Obi’s campaign. Chukwunonye was also the Labour Party (LP) House of Assembly Candidate for Okigwe Constituency in the state. According to report, he died on Monday night in Owerri …

  A female university student has suffered under the hands of her attackers after she allegedly stole phone. According to reports gathered by filasconews.com, the female student called Yalewa Sunde of Kenya was invited into a room by his new Facebook lover. After doing what they wanted to do in …

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday and directed that the budget instead be used to build dormitories for children with special needs. The 61st Independence Day event was to cost $445,000, money that will be used to build eight dormitories in primary schools …

A Kenyan woman who was arraigned for stabbing her 74-year-old grandmother in the stomach after a quarrel over a piece of uncooked fish, has pleaded guilty to charges of causing grievous bodily harm.   The suspect identified as Binti Asma Juma, was arraigned before Mombasa Chief magistrate Martha Mutuku, on charges …