Sunday August 5th, 2001

NEWS
Afenifere Disowns Falae | FG Bans Importation of Military Uniforms | Bill to Establish Police Tax Fund in N/Assembly | FG Committed to Anti-Drug War - Atiku | Ex-MILAD Oduoye Declares Interest in Osun Governorship | Expert Faults Niger Dock's Claim over Deal with Polish Firm | Obasanjo's Policies, a Threat to Democracy - Harry | Chairmanship Aspirant Unfolds Blueprint for Alimosho | Ambassador Seeks Confab of Middle Belt | Nkwerre Youths Condemn Agitation for Autonomous Community | Killer Snake: Kano Village Invites Snake Charmers, Clerics | Abuja Varsity VC, Others Now Professors | Murder : Military Court in Cote D'Ivoire Acquits Eight Gendarmes | New Executive Secretary Assumes Office at NUC | Ibori Signs Bill Prohibiting Militant Groups | Prisons Comptroller-General Approves Skill Development Training for Inmates | Obasanjo Brokers Peace between Adesina, Alaafin |
STATE OF THE STATES
I'm not on Panel Investigating Alamieyeseigha- Bozimo | National Assembly Member Spurns New Political Associations | Farmers, Artisans to Receive N1bn Micro-credits | Soni Irabor Pleads with Journalists for Co-operation | Church Rehabilitates Widow, Grants Children Scholarships | Abia Receives 20 Tonnes of Fertilisers from FG | NCP Condemns Spate of Violence in Edo | Check De-industrialisation in the North - Gov Hashidu | Deputy Gov, Former NULGE President Trade Accusations | Plateau Police Clamps Down on Impostors |
COVER
Fishing in an Unsettled Niger | Igbo Vote: Can These Men Deliver? | The Substance of Igbo 'De-Marginalisation'? | The Opposition | Nature and Dynamics of Igbo Politics |
ARTSTAND
Politics as Recurring Decimal in Soyinka's Art | The Intimate Life of Helon Habila | The Urge to Write | Kunle Filani On Style and the New Generation |
POLITICS
Ghana: The Rawlings Factor | A General Faces A Barricade | Resource Control, the Akwa Ibom Way | What Does Afenifere Want? | 'Why We Opposed Independent Candidacy' | The Changing Face of Apo Quarters | Can Anyim Stem The People's Fury? |
COMMENT
Transportation and National Integration | Nzeribe and His Fallacies |
LETTERS
Bala: A Dirge for a Patriot | Making Nigeria Economy Work | Bishop Okonkwo Goofed |
IKE OKONTA'S COLUMN
The Beatification of Bola Oyinbo (1) |
SUNDAY COMMENT
Fajuyi: An Honour Well Deserved |
RIGHT OF REPLY
A Mercenary On the Loose | Kalu:A Disaster Foretold? |
SPORTS
Eagles Return to Afro-Asian Cup | NFA Shuns Ikhazobor Tourney | NGFF Greets Super Eagles | Aku, Look Back in Anger; Forward With Hope |
EXTRA
Oputa As Democracy Dividend |