Michael Jackson’s personal assistant told Wednesday of the “frantic” scenes as doctors battled to save the star’s life — and how medic Conrad Murray suggested a cover-up minutes after his death.

Rainstorm has destroyed 56 houses and foodstuff valued at over N15 million in Ankpa, Kogi State.

EDO State Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Services, Mr. David Akwo, Monday, in Benin, said that the Command has beamed its searchlight on foreigners in the state with a view to checking the infiltration into the state by members of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

Nigeria ranks second after China in child mortality record just as diarrhoea claims 500,000 children worldwide daily, Dr. Otive Igbuzor, the Executive Director, African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, has said.

Some parents in Lagos on Wednesday lamented the increase in school fees of their children in private nursery and primary schools in the state.

Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be hiding near the western town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border under the protection of Touareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said.

An 18-year-old man, Ifeanyi Ukaegbu, was on Wednesday docked at an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling an eight year-old girl.