Wednesday Feb.4th, 2004

NEWS
NNPC to Cut Fuel Imports by 75% | IBB Set Nigeria on Econ Ruination, Says Buhari | Reported Air Crash: FG Suspends Search Operations | Soludo: Social Welfare Tops Reform Agenda | Econet Disowns EWI, Masiyiwa | 2004 Budget May Be Ready Next Week - Lawmaker | NLC Writes Mugabe, Wants Labour Leader Reinstated | PDP to Sponsor LG Reform Bill in N/Assembly | Part-time Programmes Threat to Varsity System - NUC | IBB Group Intensifies Campaigns in Ondo | LG Polls: ANPP Petitions Edo SIEC | Attah Calls for Prosecution of Fake Drugs' Owners | AD Legislators Move to Reconcile Leaders | MAN Appeals Judgement on Lagos Sales Tax | Court Stops Chevron-Texaco, Others from Paying Royalties | Agagu Orders Recovery of N4m | Osun Plans Houses for Workers | NDIC to Insure Community Banks' Deposits | Three Arraigned Over Illegal Firearms | 'Maintain Cordial Relationship with Police' | Rivers Outlaws Militia Groups | Fire Guts Warri NITEL Office | VAT: Lagos Carpets Federal Inland Revenue | Imo Needs 13,000 Staff for Polls | Robbers Kill Corporal on Sallah Day | Anambra Decries Frivolous Spendings, Warns Chairmen | AD Closes Case Against Fayose | Group Tells Obasanjo to Resign | Egwu's Wife Promises Scholarship | Youths Threaten Oil Pipelines | Kwara to Constitute Boards This Week | Oyo Sets Up Committee on Return of Public Schools | NDE to Train 50 Women on Fish Preservation | ASUU Opposes FG's Directive on Academic Calendar | 'Why I Changed Fayose to Oluwayose' | Anambra Indigenes Commend Ngige | Bayelsa Government to Resettle Displaced Communities | Benue Postpones Council Polls | Discipline: Lagos Govt Urged to Employ More Inspectors | Obasanjo's Policies Phantom, Says Balarabe Musa | FRSC to Impound 'IBB 2007' Vehicles | Appeal Court Dismisses Abana's Application for Fresh Evidence | 'Redeem Your Pledges to EducationTrust Fund' | Oyo Declares Free AIDS Test | N110m Equipment for Plateau Road Agencies | N100m Motorcycles for Niger Health Workers | Group Declares Support For Fayose's New Education Policy |
Tunisia 2004 Update
Sex Scandal: Agali Clears Self, Chides Chukwu | Cameroon Edge Out Egypt | South Africa in Crisis Talks | Eagles Target Squirrels for Quarter Final Ticket | Babayaro Difficult to Manage -Keshi | We Must Win Today's Match-Okocha | 'I Want Highest Goal Scorer Award' | Keshi, Bonfrere Write off Cameroon | How Eagles Will Play Today |
POLITICS
Again, FG, States at 'War' Over Councils' Status | 'No Need for a New Presidential Jet' | I Have No Hand in Speaker's Impeachment, Says Igbinedion |
BUSINESS
Why Closed Banks' Loan Recovery is Difficult - NDIC | Pension Reform Not Anchored on Insurance'll Fail - Expert | 'Quoted Firms Boost Tax to FG' | Stabilising the Financial Services Sector | Should Banks Accept Peg on Minimum Deposits? | Stock Market Up 12 per cent in January | Life Insurance: Police Received N150m Claims in 2003 | Pakistan's Nuclear Salesman 'Driven by Greed' | 'Revolution On to Make Insurance More Aggressive' | Dangote, Oceanic: Lesson In Partnership | Insurer Mobilises Colleagues Against Pension Reform Proposals | Irish Consultants Step Up Protest on Insurance Scheme | Security Benefit to Reinsure Mutual of Omaha | $96b Pension Bailout Causes Rift | Coopetition: 'A Distinctive Feature of Insurance' | 'Women Face Pensions 'Discrepancy' | Insurance Performance Improving - Group | EIB International Bank Reaps Benefits of Restructuring | Vitafoam to Pay 30 Kobo Dividend Per Share | Honda Cruises into Surprise Profits in Third Quarter | Nampak Enhances Performance in First Quarter | Euro Strength Curbs Eurozone Manufacturing Growth | AG Leventis Sustains Earnings in Nine Months | LG Captures Global Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner Market | Drupa 2004 to Feature 1,800 Exhibitors in Germany | World Bank Authorises Trust Fund for Iraq |
ARTS & REVIEW
Engineering the Fate of a Nation | The Return of the Native |
COMMENT
Campaign for Oil Minister | Attacking Poverty at Source |
MARKET NEWS
NSE Expresses Confidence on Tinapa Project | 'Public Sector Pension Scheme Has Collapsed' |
MONEY GUIDE
CBN Appoints Afribank as Settlement Bank | City Express Offers Corps Members Life Line | Prudent Bank Pledges Support for SMEs |
DEVELOPMENT
NAPEP: We Are More Than Keke NAPEP, - Says Kpakol | Ghana: Traditional Medicine to Enter Public Healthcare | Liberia: Govt's Mixed Record after 100 Days in Office | ... Combatants Want Security Assurance from the Public to Disarm |
EDITORIAL
Councils: Apply Local Remedies |
LETTERS
Californian Option is it | OBJ's Many Battles | Upgrade the Polytechnics | Anambra: Time of Reckoning |
EDUCATION
Remembered By What They Had Done | Kwara Moves to Stop Exam Cheats | Cowbell Rewards Excellence in Varsity, Poly Exams | First Bank Boosts Students ' Education | State of Varsities Worries Don | Be Good Ambassadors, Students Told | NABTEB Exam Commences March 25 |
FEATURES
For Enugu Pupils, A Respite Against Hunger |
CITY DIARY
Neimeth Donates N.1m Drugs to Prisons | Nkrumah Leadership Awards Hold in April | Mixed Feelings as Badejo Departs Catholic Secretariat | Muslim/Christian Church Marks 15th Anniversary |
SPORTS
Sex Scandal: Agali Clears Self, Chides Chukwu | Cameroon Edge Out Egypt | South Africa in Crisis Talks | Eagles Target Squirrels for Quarter Final Ticket | Babayaro Difficult to Manage -Keshi | We Must Win Today's Match-Okocha | 'I Want Highest Goal Scorer Award' | Keshi, Bonfrere Write off Cameroon | How Eagles Will Play Today | Transfer Scandal: Agent to Sue Orjinta | FIFA Tasks Abidoye Over Violence | Zwane Receives Two-year Ban | UEFA Rejects Wales Appeal | There's More to Mali Than Me - Kanoute | We're Not Afraid of Cameroon - Ogunjobi | Mali's Traore Sets Sight on Europe | Zimbabwe Bow Out With Victory | Wadsworth Sacked by Congo | Hantuchova Battles Past Molik | So Long, Good Old Pharaohs | Pepsi Commends Super Eagles | Ljungberg Rib Injury Blow for Arsenal | Hadji Heads for Espanyol | Ochei for Hertha Berlin | ...Sibaya Retires Ahead Nations Cup | MTN's Corporate Responsibility Commended | Egypt ian Coach Quits After Cup Exit | Falcons Promise Victory | Khoza Quits as SAFA Vice-President |
DIPLOMATIC MATTERS
Nigeria/US: Averting Finger Print Warfare |
EXTRA
The Cries from South-South |