Friday May 11th, 2001

NEWS
Dosunmu, Others Must Quit Senate, Says AD | NITEL System in Near-collapse | Lagos Enron Power Project Begins Next Month | PDP Takes Awoniyi to Disciplinary Committee | Obasanjo in US, Meets Bush Today | Protest Greets Presentation of Constitution in Port -Harcourt | States to File Suit Against FG, Says Tinubu | Soldiers Flood Senate with Petitions | 2003: Mbang Dares Babangida | $10bn Oil Field Contract: Senate Makes Case for Indigenous Companies | Nwodo Defends Obasanjo on Liberalisation | Slave Ship: Interpol Detectives Visit Benin Next Week | World Bank Chief Replies FG | No Delineation of Wards Until 2006 - INEC Chief | No Going Back on National Conference - Ohaneze | We Shall Keep Faith with Afenifere -Lagos Speaker | Airways Not For Sale Now - Kuta | House Moves to Create More Border Posts | Rail Rehabilitation: Senate, Minister Disagree over Chinese Company's Performance | FG to Build Modern Barracks for Police - Akiga | Senate Gets Bill on National Security Commission | $140m Consortium Funding Planned for Moribund Delta Steel | Kwara Gov to Run for Second Term | Group Expresses Disappointment over Constitution Review Panel's Recommendations | DMO to Take over Local Debt Management, Says DG | NSA for Launch in Enugu Tomorrow | Decamping may Terminate 4th Republic - APP Chieftain | Management Crisis Looms at Steel Company | Akwa Ibom Draws Battle Line with Mobil | Attah Condemns Oil Liberalisation Policy | LASU VC: Court Rules on Application May 17 | Anambra Raises Reconciliatory Committee | Group Rejects Paramountcy of Benin Monarch | Texaco Workers Insist on Removal of Two Directors | Nigerians in London Protest Racial Attacks by West Indians |
STATE OF THE STATES
Clan Head, Two Others to Die by Hanging | Igbo Group Honours Zik, Ekwueme, Ironsi, Others | Owena Hotel Needs N70m to Upgrade Facilities | Shell Contract Staff Protest Alleged Slave Labour | Govt Moves to Tackle Information Flow Problems | Assembly Suspends Council Boss | Pfizer to Launch Four Drugs | Assembly Uncovers Fraud in LGCs | Egbedore Council Accused of Illegal Demolition | Govt Returns Mission Schools | State Demands Apology from Police over Crime Wave | Bafarawa Frowns at Anti-Sharia Attitudes | Bako Identifies Bane of Nigeria's Development | Egwu Calls for More Efforts to Combat HIV/AIDS |
POLITICS
Criticisms Will Not Deter Me - Egwu | ALGON Wants Refund of Deducted Revenue | Surulere Crisis: Concerned Youths Seek Tinubu's Intervention | Igbo Youths Condemn Vendetta against Okadigbo | National Confab: Yoruba Leaders Disagree over Representation | CRS Government Summons Council Bosses Over Boundary Disputes | Six Commissioners Defend Budget | Katsina Governor Warns SIEC against Bias | Councillors Accuse Chairman of Fraud |
BUSINESS
Aviation Workers Oppose Bilateral Air Services Agreement | SAP Accuses CBN of Irregularities | Otudeko Urges Nigerians to Sustain Entrepreneurial Culture | Workers Protest against Retirement in VON | TUC Raises Alarm over High Cost of Living | Atiku to Open Reliance Bank Today | Union Urges Nigerians to Ponder over Mass Sack | Nestle Appoints Kuye, Ifezulike, Mshelia as Directors | Chartered Bank Promotes 100 Staff Members | Controversy over Citing of Bus Terminus | FG Urged to Arrest Sliding Exchange Rate | Passengers' Distress: Govt Told to Sanction Airlines | MMIA Customs Realises N3.8 Billion in 2000 | When Massive Congestion Takes Toll on Lagos Ports | Congestion: Bode George Suggests Dry Ports | Agents Call for Scrapping of Pre-shipment Inspection at Ports | Shareholders Disagree with FG over Funding of SMEs | City Express Donates N10m to LBS | CBN Recalls Defaulting Banks to Clearing | New Nigerian Restructured with N1bn | Global Bank Donates N5 m to LBS, targets N2 bn Equity |
ARTS & REVIEW
Inspired by the People | Good to be Back | The Nigerian Shaba Ranks | Audu Enters Coliseum's GHR |
COMMENT
Why Egwu Deserves a Second Term | Anyim and the Senate |
EDITORIAL
Still on ASUU Strike |
LETTERS
Senate Presidency and the South East | APCON, We Disagree |
CITY DIARY
Relations of Accident Victims Suspect Foul Play | Nigerian Appointed Police Chief in London | Anambra Community Adopts New Burial, Funeral Rites | Three Couples Win Dunhill's Free Tickets to Europe, New York | Adamawa Traditional Ruler Urges Community to Shun Divisive Acts |
FEATURES
Slave Ship: Not Yet Clear Waters |
RIGHT OF REPLY
Still on CIL: A Letter to the President |
SPORTS
Ghana Mourns Dead Fans | Police Probes Accra Soccer Tragedy | FIFA Reacts to Accra Stadium Disaster |