YAM BOY:  Hundreds of curious Nigerians flocked to the police station in the northern town of Maidugure after reports that a school boy had been turned into a yam by withcraft.  Three students rushed to the principal's office at Evangelist Primary School to say the boy turned into the yam after he accepted a sweet from a stranger. 
     The principal found the yam and took it to police.  It was being guarded by Divisional Police Officer Adamu Tukur who plans to take the yam for test "to see if we can...unravel this mystery."

(Printed in Thursdays March 23rd's issue of USA Today.  Written by Smita P. Nordwall from wire reports)