“I’m not used to this feeling,” Pacquiao acknowledged afterwards when talking about scoring, his first point in three games since being drafted to the league in October last year.

They may not sell as many records as in their heydey but glam rockers Kiss have inspired a Japanese convenience store to concoct a spicy steamed bun to commemorate the band’s 40th anniversary.

Enugu—An Indian national, identified as Mr. Vishwanath Mishal, has been arrested in Enugu for allegedly arranging his own kidnap and demanding N10 million ransom from his employers.

Lagos—As Lagos doctors in the employ of the state government begin a three-day warning strike today, Governor Babatunde Fashola has appealed to doctors and nurses in the state to reach a consensus to end strikes in the health sector.

National Coordinator, Move on Nigeria, Clem Aguiyi has said the success or failure of the forthcoming general elections lies with the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega.

A man, Ben Okpokiri, 30, on Wednesday, appeared before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, charged with stripping two women and a girl naked.

A middle-aged mother of four, Madam Oluwole, yesterday, broke down in tears on hearing of the arrest of her son, Taiwo Oluwole, for alleged armed robbery, saying he could not ordinarily have been an armed robber but for spiritual attack.

The joint report by the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on illicit financial flows from Africa has made good headlines. Some have described the report as “a turning-point”; others said its recommendations are “game changing,” and capable of addressing the problem both within Africa and globally.

CHAIRMAN of Ohaneze Ndigbo Elders Advisory Committee and first republic minister, Chief Mmabazulike Amechi, yesterday directed Igbo electorate to vote according to their individual choice because Ndigbo had no preferred presidential candidate for the March 28, 2015 general elections.

Obama meanwhile spoke emotionally about a Valentine’s card he received from an 11-year-old Muslim American called Sabrina.

“‘I am worried about people hating Muslims,'” she wrote “‘please tell everyone that we are good people, and we’re just like everyone else.'”

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, told the Senate that only the service chiefs could guarantee the sanctity of the rescheduled polls in view of the security challenges facing the country.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, has said that a state memorial service will be held in honour of Bayelsa women, who lost their lives in the Saturday tragic road accident along the Ahaoda axis of the East-West Road in Rivers State.

LAGOS — The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, in a bid to salvage the Naira from speculators scrapped the official window where it sells dollar to end users through banks twice a week.

Determined to make the federal government comply with court judgment on elections, the All Progressives Congress yesterday wrote a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega asking him to give heed to the judgment barring the involvement of soldiers in elections.

ABEOKUTA—Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, yesterday, raised the alarm that no fewer than 600,000 fake Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, had been uncovered in the state.