THISDAYonline

Friday June 8th, 2001

NEWS

NEPA's Probe: Ige, Agagu Keep Mum | House Takes on Royal Fathers Over National Confab | London Court Grants Abacha Family Leave to Sue Nigeria | Accident Mars Obasanjo's Visit to Sokoto | Foreign Experts Begin Assessment of Oil Spill Sites | Exit Polls Favour Blair | Failed Banks: NDIC Recovers N718 Million, Expects N2.3 bn | Procter and Gamble: Surviving The Blackmail Game | Three Ex-Administrators to Refund N16m | Police Kill Inmate as Prisoners Go on Rampage | Lagos Seeks Saudi Arabia Consular Office | 'IG not Short-Changing Police Men' | Nigerians Urged to Cultivate Work Culture | 'Let Tenets of Islam Guide Your Actions' | Constitution Review Purely a Legislative Matter, Says Nwuche | Why We Sacked Corrupt Officials - Maduekwe | Waziri Tells AD Decampees to Quit Senate | Jamodu Tasks Multinationals, Woos Investors | Anti-Graft Trial: Accused Seeks Stay of Proceedings | FG, ASUU Meet Today over Agreement | Gani, George Flay Tinubu for Abandoning Seat for Teenager | Nigeria's Post-harvest Losses Massive - Minister | Legislative Units to be Established in Ministries, Parastatals | Bafyau Enjoins APP Leadership to Obey Court Order | Ibru: Court Admits SIP Report | National Frontiers, NSA Agree to Merge |

STATE OF THE STATES

POLITICS

Waziri Advocates Potiskum Man as Next Gov of Yobe | Umbrella Group Emerges in Niger Delta | N/Delta Youths Oppose Proposed Eastern Council | PDP Government Has Failed Nigeria - Hon. Hamza |

BUSINESS

Shell Records Increased Production in First Qtr | Lawmaker Seeks Federal Government's Intervention in Ailing Industries | Lukman Pledges Support for Bunkering Operators | Monye Bags Insurance Award | Abdul Re-appointed as Lion Bank's MD | Olabimtan Becomes Managing Director of OBM Advertising | CEP Bags 13th International Construction Award | Food Workers Call for More Gender-sensitive Trade Unionism | Civil Society Groups Ask Nigerians to Fight for Political Rights | Metal Workers Appeal to Gwadabe, Oshiomhole over SEWUN Crisis | Banker Urges Independent Assessors for Asset Portfolios | Chamber Blames Naira Slide to Poor Macro-economic Management | Globalisation Impairs Aid to Developing Nations - Report | Niger Govt Approves N100mn Loan for SMEs | British Airways Invests ś500m on Products | SA Airways Launches New e-Commerce Venture | Privatisation Suspension: NAHCO Workers Commend FG, Disagree over Shares | Lufthansa Cargo and Air New Zealand to Launch Round the-World Freighter Flight | FG Investigates $19 Million Insurance Scam in Nigeria Airways | Lufthansa Links Europe with Bangalore, India | Foreign Trips: FG Bars Aviation Board Appointees | Kenya Airways Pledges Confidence in Nigerian Market | Aviation Group Appeals for Agbeyegbe's Reinstatement | American Firm to Rid Nigerian Airports of Abandoned Aircraft | NCAA Clears Air on Overloading of Aircraft | NBAA President Jack Olcott Inducted into Aviation of FAME | Ship Owners Decry Indiscriminate Ship Arrest, Seek Legal Reform | ...Uwais Condemns Wrongful Arrest of Ships, Cautions Judges | 'Pre-Shipment Inspection is a Success in Nigeria' | Shipping: Still a Hard Time for Indigenous Operators | IFFN Launches Book on Shipping | MT Real Progress May be Towed to Nigerdock | Maritime on Radio Hits Port Harcourt Airwaves | Urban Bus Drivers Threaten Strike, Allege Cruelty | Eight ECOWAS Union Members Harp on Road Regulations | Oil Marketers Threaten Strike Action | Beyond Nestle's Alleged Importation of Expired Milk | NBC Commissions Benin Factory, Ready to Consolidate | Deregulation of Oil Sector: An Alternative Approach | Investors Trade 25.6m Shares for N160.3m | Naira Firms Up at IFEM Again | Broad Bank Out with New Products | Intercontinental Bank Opens Five New Branches |

ARTS & REVIEW

Still the Sponsor Dependent Cinema |

COMMENT

The Proposal on Legislators Tenure | Between Osoba, Gana and Na'Abba |

EDITORIAL

Rethinking the Lagos Sales Tax |

LETTERS

Two Years of Hashidu's Misrule | Attention, Communications Minister |

FEATURES

Travails of Convicted Peace Keepers |

RIGHT OF REPLY

Bye-Bye Intercellular ...And Multilinks, Too |

SPORTS

EXTRA

A Vote for Fiscal Federalism |