Friday January 3rd, 2003

NEWS
Ekwueme, Rimi, Gemade Protest Panels' Composition | OPEC to Raise Oil Output by 500,000bpd | Again, Anambra Guber Primaries Postponed | Why I Joined NDP, By Nwachukwu | Ondo Finance Commissioner, Wife, Arrested | Workers' Strike Paralyses Fed Medical Centre in Abeokuta | Experts Suggest Ways to Stop Gas Flaring | PDP Chieftain Cautions Against Agents of Disunity | FG Seeks End to Conflict in Sudan | FRSC Hikes Fees for Licences, Number Plates | Abuja Remains Sleepy After Holiday | Clergy Urges Fairness for Stable Polity | Meseko Wins PDP Primaries | Kwankwaso Woos Primary Election Opponents | NDP Election Nomination Guidelines Out | 'PDP Decampees Lack Self Confidence' | Na'Abba, Rimi, Gwadabe Protest Kano Gov's Nomination | PDP Convention: Nkwocha Predicts Obasanjo's Victory | Aspirant Alleges Fraud in Anambra Primaries | Another Aspirant Picks Lagos AD Guber Form | Kwara PDP Defends Saraki | APGA Crisis: Scribe, Treasurer Suspended | Guber Aspirant Eyes ANPP | Sacked CBN Workers Insist on Redress | Gombe Line Gets Govt Order on Revenue | Egwu Warns Against Electoral Fraud | ANPP Gives Senatorial Ticket to Adamu | Duke Promises Prompt Salary Payment | Aspirant Pledges to Boost Agric | Bauchi Presents N23.2bn Budget | Adefarati Happy with Civil Servants | ...Ebonyi Votes N12.6bn |
BUSINESS
Car Sales Decline in Lagos Ports | ECOWAS Gets $3m ADB Grant for Railway Feasibility Study | 'How to Stop Gas Flaring By 2008' | Obasanjo to Commission N4 Billion Shell Gas Project | Agents Get Till March to Renew Licence | Electronic Manifest to be Enforced This Month | Kuwait Boosts Security for Oil Tankers | IMO and Challenges of Increasing Disaster at Sea | 'We're Out to Realise FG's Vision on Bunkering' | Imperatives of New Security Code for Ships | ANLCA Begins Reconstitution of Dissolved Committees | Exporters 'Never Had it So Good' | U.S. Tracks Al Qaida Ships Used for Terrorism | Resurfacing of Lagos Airport Runway Soon | Lufthansa to Launch First B747 In-flight Internet Broadband | KLM in Codeshare With S/Africa's Comair | Aviation Workers Seek Full Autonomy for NCAT | How Sonic Cruisers Will Work | Airbus Outshines Rival in Tough Year | American Airline Plans to Lay Off 415 Workers | Tilton's Path to Bankruptcy Surprised Airline Industry | ICAO Seeks Financial Support for Needy Countries | Airlines to Offer Internet Access in 2003 | Changing Global Economy and Nigeria Public Administration | Lagos Records 35,041 Accidents in 10 Years - FRSC | Group Offers to Repair Nigerian Roads | World Air Transport Confab for March | 'Train Crossings Still Hazardous Despite Warnings' | Uganda Railways' Sale for Jan 2004 | Train Derailed by Landslide |
WEEKEND REVIEW
Culture Parastatals: A Mixed-Bag |
COMMENT
Nwuche and Rivers Guber Race | The Lingering Niger Delta Question |
EDITORIAL
The Good News from Kenya |
LETTERS
Insensitivity to Youths' Unemployment | What's NNDC Up to? | Letter to INEC |
POLITICS
How Delegates May Vote |
HEALTH
2002 Best Health Inventions | Researchers Revive 15-year-old Frozen Blood |
FEATURES
Immunisation as Key to Childhood Development |
MARKET NEWS
New Year: Equities Market Opens Stronger | ...Global Markets Kick-off with Gains |
MONEY GUIDE
Foreign Bank Explores Business Opportunities in Nigeria | New Naira Note Dealers Throng CBN Precints |
RELIGION
Principle Concerning Afflictions and Trials | Contemplate and Be Thankful |
SPORTS
Oyo Aspirants Use 3SC As Campaign Tool | Korea/Japan 2002: Agali Blames NFA over Eagles' Slump | Ghana Outstrokes Nigeria in Junior Tennis | Abuja 2003 : No Plans for Preparations-Scribes | Cricket League Resumes after Break | Ehiogu Faces Lengthy Lay-off | FA Cup Steals Premiership | 'Ronaldo Defied Odds in World Cup Resurgence' | Hopman Cup: Battling Novak Stuns Hewitt | Dakar Rally: Peterhansel Sets Pace |
EXTRA
Audu Ogbeh's Metamorphosis |