Thursday January 16th, 2003

NEWS
Ekwueme Calls for Fresh PDP Convention | Bayelsa, Nasarawa, 2 Other Govs May Lose Nomination | IMF Warns Against Single Currency in W/Africa | OPEC Woos Non-members on Stable Oil Supply | INEC to Display Voters Register February - Guobadia | N/Korea'll Continue Its Nuclear Programme - Envoy | Senate Debates Request to Sack Saleh | Okadigbo Loses N8m to Fraudsters | Govt Explores Ways to Reduce Interest Rates | FG Pleads for Condemned Nigerian, Others in Libya | Omisore's Personal Staff Redeployed | WEMFA Awards for Top Public Officers | Obasanjo, Buhari Meet at Remembrance Day | Savannah Bank Wants New Judge for Suit | Robbers Kill 3 Anti-crime Cops | Delta Assembly Probes LG Committee Chairmen | Bamaiyi: Court to Rule on Stay Application | Factional Head of Celestial Church Sworn-in | Udenwa Tasks FG on South-east Economy | 2003: New York Group Backs Odili | Emeka Offor Inaugurates Youth Employment Scheme | Group Opposes Renaming Jos Airport | Econet Moves to Ikot-Abasi | '336,000 School Teachers Not Qualified' | FUMTA to Recover N3.2bn Debt | Subscribers Owe NITEL N52m in Jigawa | Police Kill 7 Robbery Suspects | LG Polls Still Uncertain, Says Benue SIEC Boss | 2050 to Perform Hajj in Adamawa | Bafarawa Opens N42m Research Centre | Doctors Get 48-hour Quit Notice |
Politics Extra... Ahead 2003
Senate Confirms Three New Ministers | Appropriation Bill: House Shifts Passage to Feb 13 | Tinubu Commissions Fluoroscopy Machine | Court Nullifies AD Chieftains' Expulsion | ANPP Apologises to Aggrieved Presidential Aspirants | Aikhomu Battles Dissent in Edo ANPP | ICPC Determined to Carry Out Mandate - Akanbi | Group Commends Bayelsa PDP over Primaries | Release Keyamo Now, Journalists Plead |
e-BUSINESS
Nitel GSM: The Delays in Second Phase Launch Delays | Sobig Virus Sows Few PC Problems | 'Nigeria's Telecoms Made Giant Strides in 2002' | The Disappearing Computer | IT Firms Expand From PCs to Payroll | Microsoft, UBA Sign Agreement | More Computer Viruses Expected in 2003 - Expert |
COMMUNICATIONS
Nextel To Roll Out Direct Connect Across US | Broadwing to Take $2 Billion Charge | Researcher Sits on Both Sides of Bug Battle | Liverpool Teams Up with Encryption | GSM Operators Achieve Quiet Interconnection | Starcomms CEO Gives Kudos to Growth in Telecoms Sector | ITU Partnership to Provide Satellite Services |
ARTS & REVIEW
It'a A New Dawn at ITPAN | CNN Head, Walter Isaacson Resigns | Grammy Hopeful, Alpha Blondy Wants Peace for Homeland |
COMMENT
Udenwa on the March Again | Good Governance and Great Leadership |
THISLIFE
Anyaoku: Stepping into Septuagenarian Club | Restlessness as His Second Nature |
EDITORIAL
Constitutional Coup de force in Togo |
LETTERS
Tinubu, Wake Up! | Letter to Inspector- General of Police | Re: Barbarism in Plateau State |
CITY DIARY
Red Cross Arms Youths against Exuberance | Boy, 17, Dies in Lagos Well |
POLITICS
PDP Stalwart Chides Buhari over Attack on Party | Jigawa Govt Carpets Dalhatu over ANPP Guber Primary | Anioma People Urged to Vote Ibori | Igbo Youths Declare for Obasanjo | 'I 'll Attract Federal Presence to A'Ibom' | ANPP, PDP and AD Tussle for Supremacy in Borno |
MARKET NEWS
CSCS Clearing & Settlement Hits N59.311bn in 2002 | Investors Stake N2.299bn on Shares |
MONEY GUIDE
IMF Insists Naira is Over-valued | Trade Bank Rewards Tea Account Holders | Guardian Express, IMB Open Branches |
RIGHT OF REPLY
In Defence of My Mummy |
SPORTS
Aiyegbeni Gets Work Permit | NVBF Eye Foreign Technical Adviser | Jigawa Plans N500m Stadium | Scribe Assures On Maltina Cycling | Westerhof Takes Cover in South Africa | WC 2010: Cameroon Denies Nigeria | FA Bans Henry's Celebration Jersey | Japan Beckons for Mboma | Aussie Open: Agassi, Venus Williams Cruise |
EXTRA
Obasanjo and Echoes from the Past (2) |