Friday July 20th, 2001

NEWS
Abiola's Last Hours, by Security Detail | ...How Abdulsalami Looted Treasury - Sabo | Behind the CBN Guideline on Public Spending | FG Releases N6bn for Poverty Eradication | I Can't be Blackmailed to Probe IBB - Obasanjo | States Can Create Councils - FG | Obasanjo Wants Nigerian Children to Use Mosquito Nets | Oil Firms Urged to Pay Royalties to Host Communities | Lagos Threatens 'Pure Water' Producers over Waste | Boy, 6, Charged with Murder | Pharmacists Wage War on Fake Drug Dealers | Police Detain 4-year-old Boy for Breaking Car Windscreen | '100% Goods Inspection is for National Security' | Prosecutors Bemoan Poor Facilities in Courts | Expired Milk: NAFDAC Asks Court to Stay Nestle's Suit | Oputa Holds Talks with Obasanjo | Sharia Court Jails Man for Selling Dead Animal's Meat | Bayelsa Govt Awards N18bn Road Contract | Bayelsa Threatens to Deal with Corrupt Officials | Adamawa Releases N7.5m to Pay Pensioners | Group Chides Igbo Leaders | Duke Wants Developed World to Assist Africa | INEC Directs Parties to Stop Activities of Women Wing | Zamfara Introduces Free Feeding for Pupils | Audu Places N.1m on Bandits' Head | Northern Governors Promote Islam With N25m | Corporate Governance, Key to Economic Growth -Anyaoku | NEPA Starts 24-Hour Customers' Service | NF Resolves Crisis, Endorses Executive | Ensure Democracy Dividends, Reps Tell Obasanjo | Arewa Accuses FG of Funding Ruler's Summit | Roll-back Malaria: Nigeria Seeks Chinese Collaboration |
STATE OF THE STATES
Modibbo Decries Shortage of Primary School Teachers | Lawal to Recruit More Tutors | Decree Pegs Council Tenure at Three Years, Says LG Boss | Assembly Panel to Probe Military Administrators Reconstituted | PDP Bans Members from New Parties | Electoral Body Promises Neutrality in Bye-elections | 2
POLITICS
'George, Ashorobi Must Apologise for Our Detention in Abuja' | CRSG Wades Into Council Crisis | PDP Chieftain Canvasses Youths Support for Obasanjo | Councillors Change Mind Over Impeachment | "PDP Set for Compilation of Members' Names" | Why We are Fighting Gemade - Olawepo | Ondo State Impeachment Gale: Whose Turn Next? |
BUSINESS
RORO Port: Time to Count Blessings | FG Tasked on Alternative Modes of Privatization | 'Private Investors Should Go to Onne, Calabar Ports' | 'U.S. Must Build a Dozen Ships a Year to Keep Navy Powerful' | Threat Letter Pitches Customs Service Against Freight Forwarders | 'International Shippers Can Do Everything Online' | Globe Shipping Acquires Boat | 99 Reporters Shipped to Site of Russian Ship Disaster | Academy to Improve Aviation Manpower Established | Participants at NITT Airline Management Course Urges Better Funding | Aero Contractors Wins Safest Airline Award | SAA Airline Freights Cargo Between Lagos, New York | House Committee Seeks Solutions to Unclaimed Dividend | 'No Going Back on Housing Fund' | Magnum Trust Attributes Profit to Prudence | IFEM Demand Drops to $28.4m |
ARTS & REVIEW
A Panorama of Germany | An Advocate for widows' right |
COMMENT
Recovering Our Lost Dignity Abroad | The Problem with Nigeria |
EDITORIAL
Coping with State Electoral Commissions |
LETTERS
Mbadinuju, Bakassi and Anambra State | NAFCON Board Did Not Remove MD |
CITY DIARY
'How to Motivate the Police' | Lagos Health Commissioner Leads Blood Donation Campaign | FAAN Staff School Introduces Day Care Services |
FEATURES
Reinventing African Heritage |
RIGHT OF REPLY
Re: And There Goes My Home |
SPORTS
Athletes/Sponsors Talks Deadlocked | N266m Equipment for Ogbemudia Stadium | Potters' Form Threatens Comets' Title Chase | Leone Stars Throw Match to Lone Star |
EXTRA
Rimi and Political Morality | The Anarchists in Edo |