Tuesday July 31st, 2001

NEWS
Go to Oputa, Obasanjo Tells IBB, Abubakar | Oil Prices Rise as OPEC Cuts Output | Britain, France Rule out Debt Cancellation for Nigeria | Uwais Lays Foundation for THISDAY Abuja | No More Mass Disconnection, Says NEPA MD | VON Plans Zonal Offices, Foreign Bureaux | Immigration Upgrades ECOWAS Desk in States | Ekwueme Denies Plan to Destabilise Imo | FAAN Boss Satisfied with Safety Standards at Airports | Borishade Flags off UBE Enrolment | 30,000 Graduates Jostle for 5,000 Teaching Jobs in Lagos | Nigeria, South Africa to Send Troops to Burundi | FCT Minister Justifies Investment Drive | Retiring Belgore Commended for Maritime, Commercial Law Development | Teachers Against Return of Schools | Afenifere Will Not Leave AD for Any Party- Shitta-Bey | Nurses Suspend Strike Action, Signs Agreement with Government | Toxic Fuel Victims Take Case to Senate Committee | Anti-Graft: Nwazota to Testify | FG Sets Up Committees to Buy Surplus Grains | FG Plans Maritime University | NSA Blasts Mahmud Waziri Over New Parties | FG Inaugurates Panel on UNILAG Killing, Destruction of Property | PDP Will Not Fail Nigeria, Says Gemade | House Member Suspended for Anti-party Activities | Ndigbo May Secede If...-Okorie | Detained Youths Leader Gets Bail | Party Crisis Stalls Inauguration of FMB Board |
STATE OF THE STATES
Bakassi Boys Execute Four Robbers | Amputee Gets N50,000 Govt Gift | LG Bill: PDP Warns of Dangers Ahead | Govt Wants Villages Linked to National Grid | 11 Students Apprehended at Govt House | Committee on Fajuyi Commences Work | 20 Students Injured in Cult War | Haruna Pledges to Complete Abandoned Projects |
POLITICS
PDP Has No Economic Plan - Gbenga Aluko | Nigerians in UK Mobilise for Voting Rights | PDP Sweeps LG Bye-elections in Rivers State | AD Wants FG to Honour Fajuyi, Soyinka, Madaki, Saro-Wiwa, Others | Delta Group Defends Ibori Against Indigenous Attack | The Tinubu Factor | Sarumi's Group is Not Deploying Experience - Olorunfunmi | Bode George's Leadership is Biased - Akinlude |
BUSINESS
Minister Defies Obasanjo on Discriminatory NEPA Tariff | Car Sales Boom in Lagos Ports | Directors Learn New Trends in Corporate Governance | Smithkline Beecham Invests N100 million in Drinks Plant | Oil Firm Donates N2.6 million Laboratory Equipment to School | FG Urged To Revisit Exchange Rate , Price of Pharmaceuticals | 'Involve Private Sector in Developing Railways' | Nigerdock May Partake in $460m Bonga Contract to U.K-based Firm | Ports Congestion Delays Abuja EPP Take-off | Conoco's Second Quarter Earnings Up 32% | Conoco's Bitumen Project and 4bn Barrels of Crude | Oil Firms Swim in Excessive Profits? | ABB, Invensys Slash 12,000 Jobs | ESKOM Strike May Add to Big Freeze | NEPA | NLNG Signs MOU for Sale of 4th and 5th Train Volumes | Techno Oil Embarks on Capacity Building | Minister Asks FIIRO to Add Value to Raw Materials | Ibori Urged to Supply Farm Inputs to Farmers | Shell Names New Chief of U.S. Exploration | NSE All-Share Index Dips by 0.1% | Five Oil Firms Boost IFEM with $28.4m | Bank of the North Bags Award | IMB Leads Consortium to Fund MTS Network Rollout |
HOMES & REAL ESTATE
GPA to Fund Nigeria's Environment Projects | Positive Attitude Crucial to Housing Development -FMBN |
LAW
Why It Took Gani This Long | We Hold your Brief | Supreme Court Competent to Interpret Any Provision of Constitution | Court Must Decline Jurisdiction on Political Matters | 'We Will Teach Sharia in Law School' | The New Men of Silk | Presidential Immunity: A Hole in the Armour | International Commercial Arbitration and Multi-National Corporations |
ARTS & REVIEW
Giant Strides of a Legal Titan |
COMMENT
Faulting the Anti-graft Agency | African Union and Challenges of Development |
EDITORIAL
New Tune on the ID Card Project |
LETTERS
Save Polytechnic Graduates | Why Obasanjo Cannot be Trusted |
FEATURES
Liberalisation and its Converts |
SPORTS
NFA Sends Amodu, Keshi to Europe | Irabor Cautions Eagles, Crew on Complacency | 'Ghana Riot Caused by Police Reaction' | Adefarati Wants Eagles in Akure | Coca-Cola Extols Super Eagles Qualification | Liberian Envoy Distraught, Salutes Nigeria | Gargo Blames Ghana's Woes on Foreign Coaches |
EXTRA
Dissecting the Anambra Scenario |