Monday July 2nd, 2001

NEWS
FG, MTN, Econet, NITEL Meet Over GSM | CBN Jerks Up Minimum Rediscount Rate | Nigeria Overruns Sudan, Brightens Chances | Bill on Debt Management Under Way | Why North Conceded Presidency, By Ciroma | House Debunks BPE's Claim on N43.6bn NITEL Fund | It's South-south President or Nothing, Says Harry | Biafra Fought FG, Not Nigerians - Ojukwu | MAN Initiates Moves to End Ports Congestion | House Begins Probe of Shell, Agip, Mobil, Four Others | AD Seeks to Curtail Obasanjo's Foreign Trips | Senator Vows to Drag Colleagues to Anti-Corruption Commission | CBN Approves Two Licences for Islamic Banking | NNPC Explains Foray Into Fuel Retailing | House Queries NITEL's $185m GSM Deal | Okilo Urges Nigerians to Be Patient with Obasanjo | Why New LGs Can't Function - Anyim | FG Told to Conduct Census Now | Why Obasanjo Appears Slow - Runsewe | Ex -Sudanese PM Cautions on Sharia | 1997 Coup: Abdulsalami Abubakar Keeps Mum on 1997 Coup | NAICOM Faults SEC's Move to Regulate Pension Scheme | 2003: Igbos Restate interest in Presidency | OPC: AD Accuses FG of Double Standard | Why ECOWAS Court was Established - Donli | Decampee Legislator Threatens to Sue House over Expulsion | Govt Told to Arrest Food Crisis | FG, Tobacco Firm Forge Partnership against Desertification |
STATE OF THE STATES
Two Councillors Arrested for Alleged Forgery | NEPA Owed N1bn in Abeokuta District | Industrialists Urged to Raise Standards of Goods | Community Seeks Compensation on Destroyed Property | Council Boss, Councillor Quizzed over Calabar Rampage | Alamieyeseigha Lures Banks to Bayelsa | Applicants Express Disappointment over Aborted ICPC Test | Tinubu Describes Asiwaju Title as Reward for Excellence | Adebayo Seeks Second Term, Says No Retrenchment of Workers | Udenwa Warns Commissioners |
POLITICS
In Bayelsa, a Speaker's Journey to Political Oblivion | Resource Control: 'I Was Misquoted' - Gambo-Jimeta | 'Obasanjo Is Sowing Seed of Progress' | Lawmaker Seeks Re-opening of Technical College | AD Seeks to Curtail Obasanjo's Foreign Trips |
BUSINESS
Under-declaration Traced to Multiple Tax, High Tariffs | Jos Steel Rolling Mill Records N889m Loss | An Account for Purposeful Women | Endless Budget 2001 | The Return of Gateway Bank | Procter & Gamble: Between Trademark and Consumers' Goodwill | Lever Brothers Nig. Plc Wins Environmental Friendly Awards | Market May Sustain Impressive Half Year Performance | Ashakacem Explains Implication of BCI's Acquisition by Lafarge | AshakaCem Warns Against Massive Importation | Three Banks Shop for N4 Billion | LASACO Assurance Bounces Back to Profitability | Prospects of the Nigerian Economy | The Foreign Content of Port Congestion | Why Other Quad Nations Should Join EU Over Full Quota for LDCs | Empowering Entrepreneurs | UNIDO to Give Instrumentation Support to SON | 'Liberalisation is Another Form of Resource Control' | Stock Market Records Slow Price Movements | Nigeria's External Debt Down by N44.1bn | Lagos State Shops for N25bn in September | CBN Bars Seven Firms from IFEM | Treasury Bills Demand Drops to N14.2bn |
ARTS & REVIEW
Marketing the Culture Ministry | The Transition from Video to Celluliod |
COMMENT
Religion and Integration in Africa | The Intrigues of Resource Control |
EDITORIAL
No to OPC Option |
LETTERS
On the President's Frequent Trips | The Image of Nigeria through Her Currency |
CITY DIARY
Gruesome Murder of Cops in Ogun |
FEATURES
Nightingales on War Path? | Scale-up Industrial Production - Madu |
SPORTS
Getting Involved in the African Game | NFA Prunes List of Invited Falcons | P/Harcourt Hosts President's Cup Play-off | Nwajei, Ngerem Bag Govt. Nominee Slots | Ghana and the New Threat to Nigeria, Liberia | Cameroon, South Africa Qualify for Korea/Japan | Desert Warriors Trounce Namibian Zebras | Erratic Venus Qualifies for Quarter-Final | Eagles Celebrate in El-Merrekh, as Sudanese Mourn Defeat | ...As Kafelnikov Considers Retirement |
EXTRA
The Economics of Owambe | Privatisation Monitor |