Wednesday August 1st, 2001

NEWS
Hands Off Ilorin, Northern Govs Tell OPC | Audit Indicts Unipetrol, AP, NOLCHEM | FG, Oil Companies to Review Joint Venture Operations | Ebonyi Defies Senate, Swears in 21 New LG Chairmen | Uwais Lays Foundation for Office Complex in Abuja | Illicit Trade in Arms Worries FG | Tinubu Seeks New Roles for Corps Members | Nigeria Defends Interest at Global Climate Confab | FG Votes N500m to Reactivate Newsprint Company | 'Shoot NEPA Facility Vandals at Sight' | Aviation Workers May Begin Strike Today | Customs Begins Examination of Non-CRI Imports Today | NPC Staff Complain over Unpaid Salary | FG Awards First Bitumen Prospecting Licence | Jos Inland Container Port to Cost N1.3bn | Maduekwe Recommends 'THISDAY Concept' | Rulers Seek Petro-Chemical Industry for Abia | Why We Encourage Private Varsities - Obasanjo | Obasanjo Explains Nigeria's Space Programme | Awoniyi's NF Faction to Form Party | 'Poor Funding Militates Against Technological Take-off' | Women Affairs Minister Commends Female Student Pilots | Policeman Arrested over Extortion | Indigenous Firms Ready to Lift Crude Oil | Presidential Aide Refutes Bribe Allegation | NUPENG Blames Fuel Scarcity on NNPC | NUJ Condemns Attack on Punch Premises | SAN: NADL Congratulates Gani | Man Jailed 11 Years for Rape | Kogi Blacklists 20 Contractors |
STATE OF THE STATES
Cour Orders Reinstatement of 2,500 Workers in Plateau | Audu Dissociates Himself from Posters, Urges Police to Arrest Culprits | Nnamani Canvasses Grassroots Insurance Policy | Igbo Community Suspends Leader in Abuja | Sharia Court Convicts Two Christians | Anti-corruption Drive Will Not Work - Aluko | UNICEF Lauds Govt over Guinea Worm Eradication | 900 Cases of Vandalism Recorded in Oil Sector | I Have Not Lost Grip on Kwara Politics - Saraki | Poly Closed Down over Students' Crisis | Housing Scheme Gets N10m Govt Supplement |
POLITICS
Aikhomu's Many battle fronts in Edo Politics | 2003: Obasanjo's Privatisation Policies May Fail Him - Metuh | Why I Don't Like Borrowing - Egwu | Ondo Youths Condemn George |
BUSINESS
Julius Berger Seeks Fresh Funds from Investors | Nassi Tasks Women Industrialists | Investors Renew Call for African Commodity Exchange | Fortune Bank Creates Brighter Future for Investors | G8 and the Future of Globalisation | Inland Bank Floats Three New Products | GDP Still $351 Per Head | Niger Insurance Outlines Strategies for Growth, Profitability | NIIS Takes Insurance to Grassroots | Sovereign Trust Organises Drivers' Workshop | Shareholders Set to Extend Directors' Tenure in UBN | DN Meyer Pledges to Sustain Performances | Cornerstone Positions to Meet Challenges of Universal Banking | Big Banks and the Assets Game | Union Bank's Total Assets Rise by 70.23% | SEC Reinforces Suspension on Prudential Securities Ltd |
TRAVEL & TOURISM
Is Nigeria Set for Tourist Police? | Starwood Properties Rank Best Golf Resorts for Travellers | Tourism Chiefs Call for More National Parks |
ARTS & REVIEW
Viewing Culture Through Theatre | Toast to African Sound on Goge Africa | UN Heritage Site Threatened | Nigerian Journalist Emerges Winner of World Champion Amateur Poet |
COMMENT
Obasanjo, Anti-graft and the Senate | How Sincere is BPE? |
EDITORIAL
Verdict from the Rotimi Panel |
LETTERS
Recipe for Economic Development | Let's Have Igbo President |
CITY DIARY
Prostitutes Defy Edo's Anti-Prostitution Law, Invade Streets | Pregnant Woman, Daughter Crushed to Death | Man Electrocuted While Adjusting TV Antenna | Ondo Communities Eat New Yam at Last | Group to Equip LASUCOM Premature Babies' Ward |
FEATURES
Lagos Teachers and Return of Mission Schools |
SPORTS
Taylor Floors Igbinedion at NABA Election | NFA Berates Weah over Bribery Allegation | FIFA, GFA Hail Eagles' Qualification | FG Asked to Take over Eagles | Brazil drops Romario against Paraguay | Medals May Elude Nigerian Athletes |
EXTRA
For Abdulsalami, Silence Can't be Golden |