Tuesday August 6, 2002

NEWS
Revenue:Compromise Deal, Escrow Account on the Card | Attack on Gov Kure: Minister May Be Expelled, Prosecuted | Nigeria's Oil Reserves Now 32bn Barrels | As The Nation Bleeds: Our President Goes to Jamaica Again | Odili Not After Nwuche's Life - Police | Na'Abba to Obasanjo: Sign 2002 Electoral Bill Now | LG Polls Without New Voters Register Unconstitutional - Ohaneze | How to Eradicate Poverty in Nigeria, By World Bank Chief | Bribery Scam: Three INEC Chiefs Arrested, Released | 'Relationship Between Awo, Akintola Families Cordial' | Sharia: Condemned Woman Knows Fate in Two Weeks | Kano Protest: Police Release 43 Suspects | Econet Blames NITEL for Interconnectivity Problems | Politicians, Parties Pleased with Postponement of Council Polls | BPE Announces Fresh Time-Table for Ports Privatisation | Controller Calls for Adequate Funding of Prisons | NANS Lists Obasanjo's Anti-youth Policies | Sani Happy with Sharia's Smooth Take-off | NUC Warns on Fake Scholarship Syndicate | Two Communities Settle 220-year-old Rift | Ex-councillors Plead for Salary Arrears | AP Probe Panel Takes Off Thursday | Tinubu Hinges Sucess of Democracy on Judiciary | First Lady Loses Sister | No ID Cards, No Elections, Says Igbo Youths | ASUP Serves 21 Day Strike Notice over Salary Package | New Assays for Monitoring HIV/AIDS | Education Tax Fund Grants N28.5m to Two Agencies | Ebonyi to Establish Ten Modern Schools | Okada Riders Protest as Lagos Slams Charges | Obasanjo Unrepentant Despot, Says Unongo | ASUU Warns Against Extending Unilorin VC's Tenure | PENGASSAN, NUPENG Reject Move to Scrap PTI | Enugu Police Boss Assures 14 Fleeing Lawmakers of Safety | Royal Fathers Urged to Caution Politicians | Defence Joins Information Super Highway | NULGE Raises Alarm over Missing N18m SPEB Fund | Gov Explains Call for Voters' Register Boycott | Ex-Senate Leader Set to Quit PDP | Enugu Postpones Council Polls Indefinitely | Nnamani Chides Lawmakers over 'Show of Shame' | Delta to Sponsor More Pilgrims to Jerusalem | NECO Extends Sale of GCE Forms to August 31 | LASU Resumes for 2001/2002 Session | 16 Die in Benin-Asaba Road Crash | Kidnapped Woman Jumps Out of Speeding Vehicle | Anti-Graft Panel Arraigns Ex-LG Boss, Wife | Govt Can't Cope with Health Needs, Says Expert | UNTH Denies Rejecting Poor Patients | Women Want Law Against Female Genital Mutilation | Homicide Case Against Kanti Bello Adjourned |
STATE OF THE STATES
Farmers May Abandon Farmland to Sand Dunes | Champion Breweries Records N125m Loss | Jang Gives Reasons for Jos Crises | UPTH Starts Endoscopic Surgery Soon | Don Calls for Urgent Implementation of Policy on Environment | UNFPA Orders for Additional $1 Million Contraceptives | Shelter Belt Drying Up | My Disagreement With Ogbulafor Will Soon Be over - Kalu | Experts Call for Training of Nurses for Reproductive Health | LG Polls: Chairmanship Aspirant Warns Against Rigging | Newborn Baby Abandoned | 2003: Workshop Recommends Reinforcement of Emergency Management Agencies | Director Caught With N.7m at State Assembly | Bill on National Commission for Special Persons, Sabotage - Don | Man found in Security Van Charged to Court | Police Command Reiterates Readiness to Combat Crime | Primaries Result not conclusive - Imo PDP | Jigawa to Get Machine Tools Industry Soon | Eliminating Frictions in Executive, N/Assembly Relations | Shelter Belt Drying Up |
ARTS & REVIEW
Matters Arising from a Transition | Spiritual Manual and Guide to Worship | Harmony for the Continent | A Song and a Verse for the Milk of Life |
BUSINESS
NAFDAC Defends New Tariffs, Import Guidelines | NNPC, Mobil Reach Deal on $1.5bn Oil Project | Six French Companies Seek Joint Venture Partners in Nigeria | Obasanjo Stops Consultants, Dollar Payment for Residence Permit | MAN Embarks on Industrial Survey 2002, Directory | CFAO Re-invents Itself, Repositions for Challenges Ahead | 'Manufacture Fabrics for Shirts, Trousers' | Amidst Pressure, Nigeria Pledges Allegiance to OPEC | Rivers, NLNG Clash Over Naming of $100 Million Gas Vessel | US Pressures Africa to Raise Crude Oil Output | Algeria Awards 7 Exploration Licences | Chevron Makes New Oil Discovery Offshore | Grounded Ships: Focus Shifts to Preventing Oil Spill | Nigeria Pledges Allegiance | Enhancing Crop Output by Effective Agrochemical Use | The Place of Agriculture in Sustainable Development |
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE
10 Nigerian Crocodiles Seized at London Airport | National Housing Programme: Case Adjourned till October 2nd | Group Urges UN to Fund Land Development in Africa | Builders Elect National Officers | FG, States Urged to Improve Access to Housing | LSDPC Constructs Housing Estate in Ikorodu | Imo Housing Project: Contractors Mobilised, Speed Up Construction | Concern for Physical Planning in Lagos (1) |
POLITICS
Faderera Akintola's Death, Loss to Yorubaland - Adesanya | 2003:Youths Call for Egwu's Resignation | Why LG Elections Can't Hold Now-Rivers Speaker | Bill Seeking Welfare for Disabled Before Assembly | Call on Obasanjo to Resign Ridiculous-Haruna-Elewi | Group Alleges Plot to Destabilise Edo North PDP | C/River Guber Race: A Gov and His Deputy | 'Why North Wont Give Up on Sharia' | 2003: Will Dafinone Run for the Presidency? |
MARKET NEWS
All-share Index Dips 0.3 Per cent | US Stocks Register Modest Losses |
MONEY GUIDE
Dutch Auction: Sanusi Meets Bank CEOs Tomorrow | Ajekigbe Becomes Ethics Committee Chairman | Obasanjo Tasks ACB Management |
COMMENT
Masses Revolt, Sign of Impending Danger | Politics of Service and Starvation |
EDITORIAL
As The Nation Bleeds: Our President Goes to/NOBR> |
LETTERS
Still on June 12 Interpreters | The Meaning of Second Term | Obasanjo and the Abacha Deal |
LAW
Financial Crossroads | Need to Obey Court Orders | 'Handling of Ige's Murder Shameful' |
CITY DIARY
Tears, Anguish as Customs Destroy Frozen Chicken | Lagos Holds Missing Children in Remand Homes | British School Donates N1.5m Generator to Police | Bishops Denies Allegations of Financial Impropriety | Christians Urge Members to Join Politics | Businessman Wants Missing Case File Investigated |
FEATURES
Living Positively with HIV/AIDS | Adieu, Jolly Good Fellow |
SPORTS
The Games Master | Manchester Proves Cynics Wrong | Blair Cool on Olympic Bid | Du Toit Voted Top Athlete | Highs and Lows of Manchester 2002 | HFN Bars National Players from U-20 Tourney | Nigeria Battles Angola for S'Final Ticket | Zidane, van Nistelrooy Vie for Top Euro Prize | Ajax Wins Tourney | Bolton Boss Warns Okocha | Dortmund Wants Ikpeba Out | ... As UAE Club Eyes Okonronkwo | Williams Takes Classic Title | Aussie FA Officials Ridicule 2014 World Cup Bid | Ronaldo: Barca to Match Real Euro for Euro | George Best 'Makes Progress' | Lennox Raps 'Biased Ref' | Fergy's Ready to Axe Beckham |
EXTRA
Obasanjo, the Seated African President |