Photo: Mentally challenged woman gives birth to baby girl on a street in Calabar

A mentally ill woman in her thirties delivered a
baby girl on Ndidem Usang Iso, Marian road,
Calabar’s most highbrow street, yesterday, June 9
at about 3:50pm. According to CrossRiverWatch,
eyewitnesses around said the lady has been a
familiar face in the neighbourhood before she
became pregnant.
When a CrossRiverWatch reporter visited the
scene of the delivery after the mother and baby
had been moved to the hospital, one shop owner
told our reporter that:
"We did not see her again for some time after she
became pregnant. I think she was raped. She
returned some days ago and sat in that place and
has been feeling very uncomfortable since
yesterday. Nobody knew it was labor that was
disturbing her. It was when the baby started
coming out that people called the health workers
who came here to assist her."
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong,
responded immediately by going to the scene
personally with an ambulance to handle the
situation. On arrival, she took the mother and the
baby to the General Hospital, Calabar for expert
medical attention.
Dr. Asibong also promised that after their
discharge from the hospital, the mother and child
will be referred to a psychiatric hospital.
The mentally ill lady refused to go to the hospital.
She later agreed after a friend of hers, another
mentally ill woman, came and begged her.

Harry Potter Stars Get Sorted into . Hogwarts Houses and Their Results May Surprise You

We know Harry Potter characters Ron Weasley,
sister Ginny Weasley and friends Neville
Longbottom and Luna Lovegood were sorted into
the Hogwarts school's house of Gryffindor, but what
about the actors who played them?
Rupert Grint, 27, Bonnie Wright, 25, a mustache-
clad and pretty hot Matthew Lewis, 26, and Evanna
Lynch, 24, who is as cheerful and delightful as her
onscreen counterpart, were "quizzed" by the online
Sorting Hat on the Pottermore website, almost five
years after the final Harry Potter movie, Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 2, was
released.
A Youtube video shows the four answering the
magical being's questions, which consist of queries
such as "White or Black?" and "Which of the
following do you find more difficult to deal with—
hunger, loneliness, boredom or being ignored?"
And the results? Only two of the actors are indeed
true Gryffindors, known for their bravery, while the
other two were both sorted into the house of
Hufflepuff, whose members are known for their
dedication, hard work, patience and kindness.

Scott Disick Believes He Has the ''Kardashian Curse'' After Kourtney Breakup and He's Willing to ''Try Anything'' to Get Rid of It

Following his breakup with Kourtney Kardashian ,
the father of three is convinced he's been plagued
with the rumored "Kardashian curse" that affects
the men in family. In an attempt to prove his theory
is correct, he visits a card reader with Kendall
Jenner in this bizarre clip from Sunday's all-new
episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
"The cards talk a lot about a load of negative
energy," the psychic tells him. "Everything that you
try to do, you have a tendency to have many
obstacles in front of you. To answer your question, I
would probably say you do have a curse." Uh oh…

Huge monument found 'hiding in plain sight'

A huge monument has been discovered buried
under the sands at the Petra World Heritage site in
southern Jordan.
Archaeologists used satellite images, drone
photography and ground surveys to locate the find,
according to the study published in the American
Schools of Oriental Research.
The large platform is about as long as an Olympic
swimming pool and twice as wide.
Researchers say it is unlike any other structure at
the ancient site.
The study, by Sarah Parcak of the University of
Alabama, Birmingham, and Christopher Tuttle,
executive director of the Council of American
Overseas Research Centers, describes the find as
"hiding in plain sight".
Petra dates back to the fourth century BC, when it
was founded by the Nabataean civilization, who
inhabited parts of what is now Jordan, Iraq, Syria
and Lebanon.
Surface pottery suggests the platform was built in
the mid-second century BC, when Petra was at its
peak.
It is thought the structure may have had a
ceremonial purpose.
The survey also revealed a smaller platform was
contained inside the larger one, which was once
lined with columns on one side with a vast staircase
on the other.
Mr Tuttle told National Geographic that someone in
decades of excavation "had to know" the structure
was there yet it had not been written up.
"I've worked in Petra for 20 years, and I knew that
something was there, but it's certainly legitimate to
call this a discovery."
Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Petra each
year, although numbers have been hit by the
conflict against so-called Islamic State.
The site is best-known for the Treasury Building,
which is carved from sandstone and featured in
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Thousands line route for Ali farewell

Thousands of people attend a farewell procession
for boxing legend Muhammad Ali in his home city of
Louisville, ahead of a funeral service.

Photos: Meet Pakistani mother who burnt 16 year old daughter alive for eloping

A Pakistani mother who burned her teenage
daughter alive as punishment for eloping to marry
her boyfriend proudly shouted about her murder in
the street afterwards.
Parveen Rafiq, tied her daughter Zeenat, 18, to a
cot, doused her in kerosene and set her alight in
the family home in Lahore, eastern Pakistan.
Mrs Rafiq then went outside and began shouting
on the street to neighbours that she had killed the
teen for bringing shame on her family, while
beating her chest. Zeenat's 'crime' was getting
married to her partner Hasan Khan, a motorcycle
mechanic, before a court magistrate last month,
Police official Sheikh Hammad said.
'Perveen killed her daughter Zeenat Bby burning
her alive around 9:00 am on Wednesday,' Haidar
Ashraf, a senior police official told AFP.
'Zeenat was unwilling to go back to her home and
told me that she would be killed by her family, but
later agreed when one of her uncles guaranteed
her safety.
'The day we eloped she had been abused,
there was blood on her nose and on her
lips,' Hassan told CNN. 'She was in
distress; she asked me to take her away
and marry her.
'After two days, she called me and said
that her family had gone back on their
word and asked me to come to get her, but
I told her to wait for the promised eight
days. Then, she was killed.'Hassan's
mother Shahida Khan said that Rafiq's
family 'had promised that not even one hair
on her head would come to harm.'
'We called up her uncle and he told us that they
will bring her back to us themselves -- we trusted
them,' she told CNN.
Hassan Khan, her husband of 11 days, today
buried his wife, who was found to have smoke in
her lungs suggesting she was still alive when she
was set on fire.
'We went to her house, she was gone, she was
finished and they had thrown her burnt body on
the stairs,' he said.Naseem Bibi, Perveen's
younger sister, told AFP:
'After killing her daughter, Perveen went
out on the street, took off her shawl and
started beating herself on her chest,
shouting: 'People! I have killed my
daughter for misbehaving and giving our
family a bad name.'
'My sister declared a long time ago she
would not allow her daughter to marry a
Pashtun,' she said.
The victim's sister Shazia also blamed Zeenat for
defying her mother, but said she had urged her
mother to cut ties with her instead of killing her.
Perveen's husband died several years ago and
her relationship with her daughters had
deteriorated, according to Shazia.
'Our mother became distressed because of
her daughter's disobedience and because
she felt there was no man in the house to
rein her in.'