Tuesday Oct. 21st, 2003

NEWS
Crimes Commission Uncovers N2bn Fraud | Labour Chiefs Regain Freedom | Nigeria to Review WTO Membership, Says Ogbeh | Debt Rescheduling, An Unfair Option - ICAN President | Ngige: New Judge Takes Over from Egbo-Egbo | MTN Introduces Per Second Billing, Reduces Tariff | FG Sets Up Committee to Implement Kolade's Report | Abuja 2003: FG Reserves 100 BMW Cars for CHOGM | Obasanjo to Saraki: You've Proved Sceptics Wrong | Why AD Governors Failed - Atiku | Police Kill 3 Robbery Suspects | Leadership, Bane of Igbo Devt - Ngige, Ohanaeze | 'Cote 'D' Ivoire Crisis Worrisome' | New Nigeria Under Way - FG | Deregulation: Obasanjo Meets 3 Separate Groups | Fake Drug Importers Now Use Courier Operators - NAFDAC DG | Study tour: 7 Police Officers Depart for UK | Election Tribunal: Atiku Ordered PDP Agents to Harass Us - ANPP Witnesses | Don't Interfere with Student Unionism, FG Told | Muslims Plan to Establish Islamic Bank | 'Why African State Parliaments are Weak' | Dikibo Defends South-south Governors over V-P Bid | Seminar Recommends Good Governance for Africa's Growth | African Jurists Confab Holds Next Year in Algiers | Operators Seek Life-line for Maritime Sector | NAWOJ Elects New Executive | US Agency Sponsors Hausa Film on HIV/AIDS | Ohanaeze Inaugurates Electoral Panel | 'Why Educational Standards Are Falling' | Lawmaker Chides Arewa's Call for Mantu, Zwingina's Resignation | I'm Still in Politics - Adefarati | Lagos Siamese Twins Return Sunday | NDLEA Arrests 31 over Drug Offences | CHOGM: Group Plans to Transform Abuja | House Wants Federal Secretariat Established in Ebonyi | 'Why We're in Security Business' | Group Plans Stakeholders Forum in Abuja | New Measures on Port Security Underway | NNPC Builds New Mega Retail Outlets | South-west Muslims Accuse Govt of Marginalisation | Fight for Social Infrastructure, NLC Told | Free Eye Surgeries for 100 in Ebonyi | VC Challenges Botanists over HIV/AIDS Vaccine | Tinubu Urged to Review Schools Approval Fees | Parents Tasked on Children's Moral Upbringing | INEC Chief Lauds Last Elections | Clergy Faults Obasanjo's Leadership |
ARTS & REVIEW
Fictions of Folk-Memory | ITPAN Training School Resumes |
BUSINESS
David-West Urges IMF, Others Not to Grant Nigeria Credit | Enron Saga: US Probes Lagos Emergency Power Project | Finance Ministry to Get Special Unit for Oil Income | Private Sector wants 10% of Budget for Agric | 'Bad Leadership Costs Africa Foreign Investments' | CHOGM: Elizade-Toyota, Transport Sector Seek N657m | SON Acknowledges 7-Up, NB, Others for NIS-compliance | Empowerment and Organisational Growth | Ama Greenfield: 'NB's Investment Raises Economic Tempo in Enugu' | JDZ: Shell, 14 Others Begin Tussle for 9 Oil Blocs | NNPC Links Irregular Fuel Supply to Pipeline Vandalisation | NEPA District Spends N270m to Boost Power Supply | Solving Environmental Problems in the Oil Industry | Accountability, High on ExxonMobil, Chad Oil Project | Shell Investment in Nigeria's Oil Sector Hits $16b | Halliburton Accused of Overbills on Fuel Imports | Saudi Signs $2bn Gas Accord With Shell | $1.2b Amenam Field to Hit 125,000bpd Early 2004 | EU to Take Britain to Court over Nuclear Waste |
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE
Akwa-Ibom Govt Unveils Development Blue-Print | Academy Commends NIGERIASAT-1 Launch | Quantity Surveyors Rename National Secretariat | Skyview's Abuja Princess Terrace Almost Gone | International Community Urged to Provide Safe Drinking Water | Endangered: The Preuss's Guenon | FG, Private Sector Partnership Yields 300 Housing Units | NCF Wants Environmental Laws Reviewed |
POLITICS
Ezeife Blames Military for Rot in Civil Service | Benue PDP to Elect New Chairman | Deregulation: Youth Leader Lauds Obasanjo | Ekwueme at 71, Out in the Cold | 'The Alex Ekwueme I Admire' | Gombe: Why Goje Was Declared Winner - INEC | Katsina Govt Pledges to Assist Journalists | Crisis Rocks PDP USA Chapter |
MARKET NEWS
Industrialist Decries Witholding Tax Deductions | Market Loses Steam, Index Dips by 1.3 Per cent |
MONEY GUIDE
Money Supply Growth Decelerates, Says CBN | Rogers Canvasses Support for Charitable Organisations | Guardian Express Unveils New Identity | Fortune Bank Holds Forum for FICAN |
COMMENT
Perils of Adversarial Mass Media | Beyond the Hurdles of Ineptitude |
EDITORIAL
Testing the Limit of Police Permit |
LETTERS
Why is there No Petroleum Minister in Nigeria? | Odds Against High Court Judges | A Visionary Leader in Jigawa |
LAW
The el-Rufai Allegation: Was There a Cover-up? | 'Discipline of Lawyers, an Absolute Disgrace' | 'MTN Ringtones Deal, the Best' | Collective Agreement Embodied in Contract Binding on Parties | Between Judicial and Political Trials | The Politics of Deregulation | Another First for Lagos Judiciary | el-Rufai Wrongly Villified |
CITY DIARY
Contenders Spoil for War over Vacant Ifo Stool | Rotary Seek Partnership with FG in Rural Development | Group Seeks End to Widows' Maltreatment in Ebonyi | Senator Commiserates with Yobe riot Victims | FG Assesses Destruction in Flooded Jigawa Communities |
FEATURES
60 Minutes with the New Cardinal |
SPORTS
Abuja 2003: Nigeria's Victory Keeps Obasanjo in Suspense | ...'Nigeria's Victory, Double Joy' | Westerhof Sacked Again in S/Africa | 'All Africa Games, a Swindle' | Athens 2004: Akiga Wants Early Preparation | Volleyball Coach Gives Gold to God | Arsenal Guns for UEFA League Lifeline in Kiev | Coke Cup Final Saturday |
EXTRA
Paradise Lost, Paradox Regained |