Tuesday June 5th, 2001

NEWS
Don't Sell PAN Now, Peugeot France Tells FG | NITEL Opens Bids for Equipment Supply | Ilajes Take Adefarati to Anti-graft Body | Why We Honoured Kudirat, By Tinubu | Nigeria Will Honour Her Foreign Obligations - Obasanjo | Convene SNC or Risk Nigeria's Breakup, FG Warned | British Govt to Spend N1.3bn on Nigeria's Development | Electoral Bill: House Sets Up Four-man Committee | FG, NMA Meeting Deadlocked | Flood Victims Get N107m Succour | Indigenisation Policy to Be Revisited- V-P | FG Moves to Douse Tension in Parties | IG Blames Judiciary, Law Enforcement Agencies for Prison Congestion | House Urges NNPC to Clarify Intentions to Import Fuel | Engineers Urged to Promote Growth of Technology | Army Officer Detained for Alleged Murder | Labour Expert Faults ASUU over Strike Action | South-east Zone Not Marginalised, Says Anyim | NDDC Set Up to End Injustice in Niger Delta - Ezeife | Ibru: Bamaiyi's Stalled Trial Commences Tomorrow | Olunloyo Faults Leaders of Thought Meeting | FG to Establish Pilot Bitumen Plant Soon | Ship Explosion: Death Toll Rises to Eight | ASUU- FG Face-off: Poly Teachers Threaten Sympathy Strike | Bill on Solid Mineral Development Fund Underway | Irate Youths Disrupt PDP Meeting in Ondo | Corruption: Nigeria's Rating Worries Cleric |
STATE OF THE STATES
Politicians Advised Against Reckless Spending | Fake Currency Syndicate Smashed | Doctors Urged to Return to Work | FG Embarrassed over Fuel Scarcity in Port-Harcourt | Three New Polytechnics to Gulp N1.9 Billion | Police Interrogate Two Bank Managers over Fraud | Dariye Approves N500m Facility for Sacked Workers | Nigerians Urged to Love One Another |
POLITICS
'AD Decampees Have Soiled their Political Career' | Udenwa's Achievements Lack Direct Benefits - Imo AD | 'Unfounded Allegations Would Hinder Progress of Plateau State' | 2003 Presidency: Ike Nwachukwu Group Opens Office in Lagos | Senate's Decision on LG Term is Illegal - Ekiti Speaker |
BUSINESS
Church Bells Pharmaceutical to Build $3m Factory in Nigeria | FSB Lauches Environmental Campaign | Cadbury Proposes N2.5bn Loan Stock for Expansion | Fresh Moisturising Cream: Increasing Market share via Brand Innovation | Democracy Buoys Confidence of German Investors in Nigeria | SmithKline Beecham Reassures Stakeholders on Product Quality | Cotton Farmers Smile to Banks | LBN Donates N1million Booklets to Lagos State | Nigerian Directors Shower encomiums on Ijewere | Senate Committed to ALSCON's Revitalisation-Sen.Brume | MAN States Demands on Deregulation | Exxon Mobil to Lead $17 Billion Gas Project in Saudi Arabia | Energy Crisis Threatens New York | Addax to commence Drilling in Two Fields in Imo | Chevron-Texaco $35bn Oil Merger Faces Delay | Iraq Suspends Oil Exports | Liberalisation: Beyond the Governors' Endorsement | World Bank Investment to Boost New African Pipeline | NEPA Worried over Attacks on Staff, Vandalisation |
LAW & JUDICIARY
New Face of the Judiciary Imminent? | We Hold your Brief | Arbitration Award is at Par with Judgment of Court | Lawyers Should Stop Corrupting Judges | When can a trial be said to be kangaroo? | Justice Without Receipt at the Lagos High Court | Magistrates Retirement: Re-organisation or Stable Cleasing? | Adherence to Judicial Oath will Boost Confidence in Courts |
HOMES & REAL ESTATE
FG's Merger Plan Stalls Mortgage Business | Architbuilt Moves to Port Harcourt | Remodeling Housing Policies Towards Poverty Alleviation |
ARTS & REVIEW
Holes in the Electoral Law | Reaching God Through Prayer |
COMMENT
Saleh Michika and the NSA | The Banking Blues |
EDITORIAL
Tackling the Doctors' Strike |
LETTERS
We Need a Safe Environment | NEPA, Save Us from Darkness |
CITY DIARY
Opposition Mounts over Lagos Council Arrests of Pedestrians | Poverty, Bane of Nigeria - Don | Group Scores Ekiti Council Low |
FEATURES
Travails of Peace Keepers | Curbing the Excesses of Youths |
RIGHT OF REPLY
Does The President Really Mean Well? | Mbadinuju's Education Programme is in Order |
SPORTS
Akpan Eyes Tennis Federation Job | Ukrainian Club Grabs Enyimba's Ayaya for N7.8m | NICON/NUFOL Semis For National Stadium | PFA Commends American Embassy |