Wednesday June 20th, 2001

NEWS
Senate to Ige, Agagu: We'll Order Your Arrest | Bankers Committee Rejects New Clearing Criteria | How INEC May Register New Parties | 11 Council Bosses Sue FG | Supplementary Budget: Ciroma Submits Revenue Profile | Democratic Processes Delay N/Assembly Commission - Obasanjo | FG Lists Priorities for NEPA Privatisation | Editor Arraigned over Defamation of Obasanjo | Court Quashes Ohwovoriole's Appeal against Anti-Graft Commission | FG Pledges 26% of Annual Budget for Education | N25bn Spent on NAFCON's Rehabilitation- Minister | Assurance Bank: BPE Opens Bids Today | Abuja Gets 8 New Districts | Nurses Threaten Nationwide Strike, Issue Ultimatum | Senate Warns Foreign Missions over Killing of Nigerians | Court Adjourns Suit on PDP, Harry, Others | May/June SSCE: WAEC Protests to FG, National Assembly | Chikwe, Na'aba others Prevented from Receiving Merit Awards | MOSOP Condemns Killing of Youth in Shell/Ogoni Clash | FG Holds Zonal Workshop on Poverty Eradication | Police Hands off Black Maria Operations | Joint Govt-Preshipment Agencies Committee Set Up | Two Arrested for Vandalising N2m Railway Communications Gadget | Robbery Suspects on the Run, Justice Ministry Tells Court |
POLITICS
PDP: The Morning After | Fresh Pledges, As NF Debuts in C/River | Kwankwaso Set to Drop 7 Commissioners | Give Southern Kaduna a State - Senator | New Boss Promises to Expose PDP | Minister Commends Adamawa Governor | Ige Denies Reports of Decampments in Esaoke AD | Two Years of Democracy: Deputy Speaker Commends House |
BUSINESS
We Can't Stop Gas Flaring by 2004-Shell | Banks Blame CBN, Selves for Inter-bank Default | Delta Disburses N1.6bn as Pensions and Gratuities | The Profit Game | Chevron Staff Held Hostage in Ondo | LG Executes N154 million Worth of Projects | Commerce Minister Calls for Strategy to Encourage Cocoa Consumption | Harvard Trust Opens Branch at Onitsha | IMB's Energy Master Fund Ready for Investment | Privatised Firms Enliven Stock Market, Raise Market Capitalisation | Firms Defy Economic Indices in First Half | The Economy, The Customs and Politics of 100% Examination | Be Pragmatic in Product Design, Monye Tells Insurers | Motor Insurance Forms the Core of our Claim Settlement - Bolarinwa | 'Standard Alliance to Continue Tapping from Emerging Opportunities' | Re-orientate Premium Payment Habits, Says Erhabor | Challenges of Capital Market Reporting | Investors Trade 13.7m Shares for N180.9m | Naira Gains 10 Kobo at IFEM | CBN Urged to Enforce Rural Banking Policy | First Bank Floats New Financial Products | Fidelity Bank Boss on the 100% Inspection |
TRAVEL & TOURISM
BA, Virgin Woo Travellers on the Lagos-London Route | Tourism Needs Revolution - Experts | Abuja Sheraton Wears New Look | Ekiti Spends N18 Million on Ikogosi Warm/Cold Spring |
ARTS & REVIEW
Stemming Child Abuse | Akwa-Ibom Rides the Art Waves |
COMMENT
Judges and Corruption | That Electoral Fraud in Kebbi |
EDITORIAL
Rawlings and Democracy in Ghana |
LETTERS
Re: Govt Okays New NITEL Tariffs | Attention, Gov Tinubu and Kosofe Boss |
CITY DIARY
'Old Boys' Showcase Kings College | Imo State Embraces Bakassi Group |
FEATURES
Trying Times for the Refugee Convention |
RIGHT OF REPLY
Nigeria is God's Doing |
SPORTS
Oneya Invites Amokachi for Sudan | Home-based to Square Against Sudan -Erico | Kano Govt Beefs Up Security at Eagles' Camp | Coja Courts Stakeholders | Ozekhome Wants Decree 101 Repealed | Coca-Cola, IGI, Berger, Pepsi Console Anazia's Family |
EXTRA
Before the OPC Makes Triumphal Entry | A Word for S.M. Afolabi |