Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi sentenced to death

An Eyptian court today sentenced former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi to death over a mass prison break in 2011, weeks after he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters during his time in power. Morsi was removed as president y the military in July 2013 following mass street protests against his rule. Since then, the authorities have banned his Muslim Brotherhood movement and arrested thousands of his supporters.

All death sentences must first be sent to the Grand Mufti, Egypt's highest religious authority, for his opinion on whether they should stand.

Senate passes anti-Tobacco bill, culprits could get up to 6 months jail term

The Senate yesterday passed the Tobacco Control Bill. According to the deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu who presided over the plenary session on Tuesday May 12th, the bill will ensure effective regulation and control of production, manufacture, sale, labeling, advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco and tobacco products in Nigeria.

The bill among other things specifies the places cigarette smokers could smoke and areas where smoking is forbidden and also the punishment to be meted out to defaulters when they smoke in non-designated areas. Culprits could get up to six months in jail

70 Year Old Woman Kidnaps 3 Year Old Girl in Kwara & Uses her for Begging

A 70-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday for allegedly kidnapping a 3-year-old girl in Ilorin, Kwara State, and using her for begging.  

The parents of the girl had declared her missing on Wednesday, March 25th, Vanguard reports.  One of the girls relatives spotted her with the suspect at a worship place, popularly called Ori-Oke at Basin area of Ilorin, where she was seen begging.  

At least 600 migrants rescued from drifting boats

No fewer than 600 migrants have been rescued after (at least) 2 overcrowded boats, with many women and children on board, were towed by local fishermen to the shores of Aceh province in the Indonesian waters.

The migrants are believed to be Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.

According to BBC, Indonesian authorities and aid agencies believe the rescued group had been at sea for about a week and may have been trying to reach Malaysia.

North Aceh police chief Achmadi said at least 50 of the rescued people were taken to hospital as the group was generally suffering from starvation and many were very thin.

Actress Mercy Aigbe opens up on why her first marriage crashed

In the interview she said that her present husband proposed to her in an eatery. The pair officially got married at the Ikoyi Registry in 2013. (Instagram )

Prominent Yoruba actress Mercy Aigbe-Gentry has spoken on why her first marriage did not work in an interview with the Sunday edition of The Punch.

According to her the marriage did not work because she was young, naive and most importantly she had issues with her mother-in-law. Mercy Aigbe said that her mother-in-law did not want her son to marry from another tribe.

19-yr-old boy tells how he hypnotized married women into sex with magic ring

A 19-year-old boy, Chukwuebuka Ani, was the cynosure of all eyes, for the wrong reasons, that is, when he confessed to detectives at the Nsukka Area Command of the Enugu State Police, how he used a magic ring to hypnotize married women and single ladies into having sex with him and thereby initiating them into a secret cult.

Woman Gives Birth To Twins With Separate Fathers

It sounds as though you may have heard this story on a television talk show like Jerry Springer, but it has transpired in a courtroom in Passaic County in New Jersey, United States. According to USA Today, this is only the third case ever recorded in the country’s history, where a woman has been proven to have given birth to a set of twins where there are two different fathers involved.

What began as a routine paternity test, soon become one for the text books as the woman’s claim for support from the first man fell apart.

When she applied for public assistance for the twins who were born in 2013, she named one of the men as the father of the children.

Tourists To Be In Trouble For Fondling Statue’s Boobs in China

It is one of those afflictions that affects many men the whole world over; an obsession with breasts. Freud and co. will tell you that this affinity for boobs stems from the day you first get a taste of that precious nectar from your mother. 

Others might argue that since baby girls also go through this life-giving treatment, that some men just grow up to be immature little boys. 

Either way, we can’t deny that a lot of men just can’t stop themselves when presented with the opportunity to grab a hold of one. Seemingly, this is the case whether they are real fleshy delights or the kind solid kind that belong to statues of famous historical Chinese figures.

Unfortunately for those who dabble with the latter, Chinese authorities see it as disrespectful and have begun cracking down on such behaviour. Several men visiting a complex of hot spring pools at Huaqing Pool, have been spotted taking photographs with their hands on one such statue recently in Xi’an city, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. 

Watch: The Best Paper Airplane Ever?

I first learnt how to make a paper plane back when I was a small child. I think it was a combination of mischievous friends coupled with an obscenely boring teacher.

 My buddy made one too and his was a bit better. So good, in fact, that it sailed across the classroom as we sat there in amazement to watch as the fate of the plane was decided.