Wednesday February 21st, 2001

NEWS
CBN Cautions on Release of N198bn Excess Crude Account | House Rebukes Obasanjo over Fuel Crisis | Protesters Disrupt IMF/World Bank Forum in Bamako | House Won't Suppress N4m Bribe Scandal - Na'Abba | Unelected Heads of State Should Not Earn Pension - Soyinka | Resource Control Suit: Ibori Accuses FG of Blackmail | FG Laments Delay in Processing Pensioners' Benefits | INEC Braces up for Challenges Ahead | Oil Companies Yet to Contribute to NDDC | Igbos Protest Sack of Okorocha as NAMA Chairman | Senate Probes Police Attack on Okigwe | FG Laments Deportation of HIV Positive Nigerians | Senate Moves to Forestall Doctors' Strike | Lagos Settles Contractors' Debt | Plight of Refugees Worries ECOWAS Parliament | FG Seeks Russia's Assistance for DICON | Five Finance Firms to Sponsor Lagos Housing Projects | Igbinedion Tasks Judges on Fairness | FRSC Official, Five Others Arrested over Stolen Cars | Lagos Mainland Budgets N.96bn for Services | Ebonyi Releases N30m for Bursary Awards |
TOURISM
How to Handle Air Travel Ailment, by Expert | Environmental Experts Ask Tourists to Show the Way | Elmac Gives Travel Journalists Insurance Cover | 'Political Instability, Poor Economic Performance, Bane of Tourism in Nigeria' |
POLITICS
Imo PDP: Changing the Rules Midway | A Deputy's Turn | Former Deputy Speaker takes INEC to Court | Osun PDP Flays Ige over Osogbo Rally |
BUSINESS
'West African Pipeline Gas Project Still on Course' | SEC Explains Delay in Emergence of OTC, Commodity Exchange | Government Vehicles May Take Third Party Insurances | 'Insurance, Determinant of Economic Development | Insurance Industry Gets Chance to Shape Own Destiny | Insurance Watch | Universal Banking: Attempt to Break Brokers' Back? | Wema Bank Storms Market with Products | Lion Bank Rakes in N40m from New Products | 'How to Spot a Scam' | Continental Trust Embraces Commercial Banking with Optimism | Unclaimed Dividend Divides Nigerian Shareholders | Platinum Bank Targets Higher Capital Base | Texaco Nigeria Plunges 300 Kobo Per Share | CBN Defends New Liquidity Control Instrument | CBN Explains Recall of Erring Banks | Credit Firm to Consult for ADPF |
ARTS & REVIEW
Writer, Witch and Heretic |
COMMENT
Obasanjo and the Challenge of Leadership | Nzeribe's Generational Indictment |
EDITORIAL
A Coastal Road to Hope |
LETTERS
The Task Before the Judiciary | Press, Please Reform |
CITY DIARY
Celebration Galore as Nigeria's First Clinical Babies Turn One | Igbeti Marble Sheds Off Controversy, Bounces Back |
FEATURES
Seme: Supremos of a Border Crossing |
RIGHT OF REPLY
Kalu Will Be Vindicated | Leave Kalu to Tell His Kinsmen the Truth | What Has Intellectual Finesse Got to Do with Leadership? | Let Nobody Choose a Leader for Ndigbo |
SPORTS
Agwai Wants Yakmut's New Job Reviewed | Chess Boss Wants Second Chance | Agwai Says NFA Soccer Academy Not Realistic | Thoughts for All Times | Players, Ponies invade Port Harcourt for Honours | Bonfrere Defies NFA Order to Return for Ghana | Black Stars Declares Readiness for Eagles | Whip Ethiopia Silly, Yusuf Urges Eaglets | Nigerian Athletes Shine in S/Africa | Aku Cancels Facility Tour for Ministers' Retreat |