Tuesday January 9th, 2001

NEWS
PDP on War Path with Obasanjo | N'Assembly Concludes Projects Breakdown, Certifies 2001 Budget | Commissioners Forge Strategy on Oil Windfall, Others | 15 Soldiers Held over Foiled Coup in Cote d'Ivoire | GSM Auction: NCC Pre-qualifies Five Companies | Brighter Outlook for Economy This Year - Asiodu | Police Arrest OPC Chieftain in Ilorin | Adesina Blames Military for Spate of Assassinations | NEPA Commisions 15 Distribution Transformers in Lagos | Oyo SSG Accuses Corrupt Politicians of Attempt on his Life | Sharia, Oil Price Top Agenda | Northern Governors Oppose Privatisation of New Nigerian Newspapers | NDDC Board Swings into Action | Armed Youths Block Rivers Waterways | Emulate Akpata, Cleric Tells Nigerians | Group Endorses Adisa for 2003 Elections | Friends of Late Umorens Demand Independent Investigation |
BEHIND THE NEWS
The Battle for Control of Nigerian Telecommunications(I) |
BUSINESS
Employed Nigerians are Under-utilised | Fiscal Policy 2001: Mild Applause from Ops | Consortium invests $240m in Transora | Government Fine-tunes Guidelines for Marginal Field Operation | Rehabilitation of Egbin, Afam, Others Top Power & Steel Budget | Global Energy Consumption Quadruples | OPEC, Others Agree to Lower Oil Output | Agbara/Ota Gas Project Nears Completion | Petrobras US$50 million name Change Stopped | Algeria invites bids for building oil refinery | Industrialisation: Key to Economic Growth | Parcel Force Solicits Support for Bpe | How Murphy Turned Guinness Around | MAN Honours Six Industrialists | 40 African Countries Benefit from German Experts Service |
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE
NHF: Nigeria's Only Hope of Cubing Homelessness - Bichi | NLC Calls for Scrapping of Housing Fund | Govt Urged to Review Building Materials Tariffs Downward |
POLITICS
Politics of Ebonyi's Historic Oil-find | Tinubu Is Not Particular About Second Term -Aide | Borno Assembly Revokes C of O on School Property | We Need Second-tier Government in Abuja- Bwari | Governorship Hopeful Joins Imo PDP | LG Tackles Govt Parastatals over Rates |
ARTS & REVIEW
Trends in Nigerian Commercial Law |
COMMENT
The Festivals of December | ACF and the Rest of Us |
EDITORIAL
Still on the Pfizer Drug Test |
LETTERS
Now that NDDC Board is Inaugurated | The Main Cause of Crime in Our Society | Armed Bandits at Mile 2 |
LAW
Whither Amnesty Clause as Oputa Sits in Port-Harcourt? | Court Strikes Out Shell MD's Application to Set Aside Order | FMBN Asks Court to Strike Out It's Name From N20 million Suit |
CITY DIARY
Tears, Pain, Sorrow as the Umorens are Buried | Lion's Club Equips Diabetics and Eye Centre in Lagos |
FEATURES
AIDS Cure: Deploying the Herbal Armament | Death of a Carpenter |
SPORTS
Bonfrere Raises Alarm over Hopeless Eagles' Camp |
EXTRA
In Defence of Year 2000 | Through the Minister's Looking Glass |