Tuesday May 14, 2002

NEWS
House Rocked by Another Bribery Allegation | Council Dissolution, Recipe for Chaos, Says ALGON | Nigeria's Crude Reserves Now to Last 34 Years | Ige: Police List 15 for Investigation | Senate Set to Repeal Electoral Act Today | 2003: Use Numerical Strength, Buhari Tells Northerners | Port Harcourt Refinery Resumes Production | FG to Enact New Laws Against Illegal Structures | Nigerians are Tired of Ethnicity" - Gana | Retirement Age Still 60 Years - Head of Service | Benue,Nasarawa Commission Holds Inaugural Sitting | FAAN Sacks 17 Top Managers | PLP Moves Against Izuogu, Questions Merger with PDP | Nasarawa PDP Accuses Ex-Senate Chief of Anti-party Activities | Lagos Gets 2,000 Additional Policemen | Nigerian Among Victims of Rail Crash | Group Deplores Aviation Ministry's $59.6m Radar Plan | FG Defends N10m Donation to Crash Victims | Voter's Card: Lawmakers Divided on Use of Picture | 60-Man Forum Wants 'New Kaduna State' | Anambra Education Commission Accuses NLC of Destruction | Mysterious Fire Guts Enugu NUJ Office | OPC Bill: Fasehun Gets Leave to Sue Obasanjo | N350m HIV/AIDS Care Project Kicks Off Nationwide | Army Denies 'Robber Captain', Others | Ondo N500m Scam: Prosecution Seeks to Amend Charges | Special Adviser Flays ACF over Attacks on Atiku | Benue Officials Move to Escape Anti-graft Commission | Councillors Suspend Nnewi South LG Boss | Atiku, Nyema Disagree over Self-succession Bid | 2003: Party Chieftains Differ on Buhari's Chances | Nwosu Solicits Support from Nigerian Physicians in US | Robbers Kill Police Inspector | 'Buhari's Entry into Politics Not a Threat to PDP' | Agip Pledges Commitment to MOU With Communities | Bayelsa House in Financial Crunch | Waku Faults FG's Privatisation Policy | Senator Stresses Need for Private Business Initiatives | NGO Earmarks N560,000 for Wheelbarrow Loans to Youth | Book on Ex-BPE Boss, Zayyad, Launched in Katsina | Island Club Elects New Officers | S/Leone Elections: Police Arrest Under-age Voters | Commerce Minister Gives Kudos to Anti-graft Panel | Damilola: Parents Get 11,000 Pounds Compensation | Revenue Commission Accords FCT State Status | British Council to Create Awareness at Fair | Lagos Commutter Drivers Get May 20 Date to Paint Vehicles | Police Arrest 58 Officers over Misconduct | Obasanjo Decries Uncensored Media Programmes | PDP Boss Chides Bafarawa over Presidency | UNDP to Reverse Privatisation If - Jambo | INEC Boss Seeks Constitutional Roles for Royal Fathers | Rector Cautions Against Anti-social Behaviour | Kwankwaso Laments Low Patronage of Library | NEPA Commissions Substations |
ARTS & REVIEW
A Prince and the Poetry of His Politics | Book on Oputa for Launch |
BUSINESS
Commercialisation: We'll Meet Cash Call Obligations - NNPC | Recruitment: DPR Dumps Andersen, Shell for WAEC | Nestle Worldgroup Places Nigeria on Priority List | Envoy Plans to Boost Trade Between Nigeria, Poland | Tantalizer Boosts Sales with Co-branding | First Aluminium Invests N673m in Mill Upgrade | Coke Vs Pepsi: The New Cola Wars | Review of Tariff Structure to Favour Local Production | Envoy Lists Causes of Trade Barriers | Shell Completes First 4-D Seismic Survey in Swamp | Privatisation: NEPA Allays Workers' Fears | OPEC Output Slips During Iraq Embargo | US States Seek End to Oil Mergers |
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE
Global Push for Marine Turtle Conservation Heightens | Archibuilt 2002 Focuses on Shelter, Politics | Kolorkote Donates to Explosion Victims | NCF, KADCCIMA to Hold Joint Environment Exhibition | Habitat for Humanity Builds House in Nigeria | Italy's Borzalino Due in Nigeria | FMBN to Disburse Estate Development Loans | Builders Renew Call for Patronage |
POLITICS
Nigeria Can Still be Salvaged, Says Akinyemi | PDP Stalwart Decamps to APP | Election 2003: Lagos PDP Allays Fear for Primaries | Igbos Should Support Obasanjo for Second Term-PDP Chieftain | 'Dawodu Did Not Meet Ahmed' | Why Nigeria is Yet to have Good Governance - AD Chieftain | We'll Instal PDP Govt. in Osun State in 2003-Aspirant | 'Future Elections in Delta State Won't be Violent' | Political Implications of Obasanjo's Declaration | Kebbi: Will Aliero Return? |
STATE OF THE STATES
Gas Turbine Plant, Transmission Station for Okitipupa Soon | Assembly Orders Chinese Oil Firm to Produce EIA | PDP Vows to Win Guber Polls | Civil Servants Give Strike Notice | ALGON Kicks Against Proposed Councils Caretaker Panels | Inland Bank Foresees Rosy Future | State Electoral Bodies are Time Bombs - Bode George | Jos Council Boss Impeached | Bobo Brown Canvasses PR Elixir for Good Governance | Five in Police Net over Fraud | NGO Vows to Fight for Pensioners | Madaki Joins Kaduna Governorship Race | Datti Ahmed Flays Sharia Implementation | Kano Crash: EAS Airline Absolve NCAA from Blame | NEPAD will Empower Rural Women, Says Obasanjo's Aide | Shun Emotional Voting, Osun Electors Told | Buhari Charges Nigerians on Politics | Iga Community, Odenigbo Root for Obasanjo | UNIMAID Gets New Registrar | Degrading Environment Contributes to Cancer - Experts | NNPC to Sanction Hoarders of Petroleum Products | HIV on the Increase in Bauchi |
MONEY GUIDE
NLNG, NAOC to Sell $9.2m at IFEM | Smartpay Gets Global Acceptability | Marina Named Official Bankers for Tax Conference |
COMMENT
Babangida and 2003 | Understanding Bafarawa's Kaduna Declaration |
EDITORIAL
The Police and Mile 2 Robbers |
LETTERS
Curbing Fuel Dealers' Excesses in Owerri | Obasanjo's Declaration: I Was not There |
REPLY
Re: Are Interim LGs unconstitutional? | Nigerian Lawyers Slow to Embrace IT - |
LAW
From the Editor | Interim LGs as Civil Coup | 'Nigerians Will not Subject Themselves to One Party System' | NADL Hosts Chief Justice of Uganda | Justice Battered and Bruised But Alive | No Second Chance for the Police | Power to Amend Order of Parties to be Excercised Judicially | Land Within 100 Metres of Shoreline Vests in FG |
CITY DIARY
The Slaying of a Cop | Lagos Church Launches N200m Building Fund | Presbyterian Church Mourns Air Crash Victims | Edo: Lamentations of Neglect | Birch Freeman Old Boys to Aid School |
FEATURES
Job Creation: The Tourism Option | Future: Recourse to the Past |
SPORTS
Akiga to Camp with Super Eagles | Judokas Vent Frustration on Federation | Nigeria/England Match Scares Japanese Police | Oliseh's Matter is Closed - Ogunjobi | Guinness Supports NFA with N15m | Eagles Begin Final World Cup Build-Up | Babayaro Not for Ireland | Dyer to Sue Moroccan Defender for Tackle | Agassi Pulls Out of Hamburg | English, Argentine Hooligans to Be Tamed | Hayatou Seeks Two Terms for FIFA Presidency | High Ticket Price Scares Saudi Fans | FIFA Chieftain Preaches Ceasefire | Rivaldo Eases Fitness Fears, as Brazilians Trickle into Spain | Camacho Keeps Options Open | Beckham Upbeat as England Fly Out | Opposition Dazzles Owen | Senegal and Cameroon Get Emotional Farewells | Argentine ; ' Witch' Ready to Cast Spell on Eagles |
EXTRA
Questions for the Aviation Ministry | APP: The Merger This Time |