Wednesday June 23rd, 2004

NEWS
Tanker Owners Suspend, Resume Services | Plateau: Community Gives Conditions for Peace | Monitor LG Spending, Obasanjo Charges Monarchs | Security Breach: Fanny Amun Recounts Experience | Court Summons AGF to Produce Constitution | FG, Benin Republic to Cooperate on Roads | Pension Bill Won't Affect Oil Workers - Senator | MTN: Students Protests Poor Services | 'Senate Is Not Reconvening for Anti-Labour Law' | UI Cult Clash: Death Toll Rises to Six | 2007: Obasanjo's Performance Won't Affect Me - Marwa | Robbers Storm Bank, Kill 3 in Delta | Protesting LUTH Workers Demand Resignation of CMD | Nigeria, Korea Plan Youth Exchange Programme | CLO Urges Review of Election Tribunals | Niger Delta: Youth Leaders Decry Ethnic Crisis | Obasanjo Sets Up Lagos Fishing Terminal C'ttee | Ojora Wants Agip/Oando Merger Dissolved | Gowon Kicks Against SNC | Umar Blames Enthno-religious Crisis on Unpopular Policies | CCG Condemns FG Plans to Ban NLC | 10,000 Civil Servants for Training | SEC Introduces Capital Market Courses in Varsities | $242m Scam: Court Restates Summons on Ribadu | FG Urges Judicial Enforcement of Cabotage Law | Nigeria Plans Donors' Conference on Lake Chad | Nnamani Blames Politicians for National Crisis | FG to Assist Ekiti on Devt | Akinfenwa Pledges to Reconcile Aggrieved AD Members | Vmobile Launches Bumpa Card | Varsities Get N400m Grants | 'Blocked Drains Responsible for Lagos Floods' | VC Wants Autonomy Bill Passed | Petroleum Deregulation Anti-people - Bamgbose | 'No Police Expert to Detect Forged Certificates' | To Stop Fuel Crisis, Revamp Refineries - Ndume | Benin Floods: Youth Protest Losses | Ngige Summons Market Leaders over N3.6m Debt | Bauchi Seals Up 8 Fuel Stations, Ekiti Warns Marketers |
CITY DIARY
Kano Crisis: Family Recalls Ordeal | Ogun NURTW Pledges Support for Daniel | Tinubu's Wife Tasks on Less privileged | 339 Repatriated Drug Convicts Seek Pardon |
BUSINESS
Nigeria Records N163bn Balance of Payment Deficit | Labour, STB in Fresh Crisis Over Unionisation | Vehicle Insurance Sticker: NIA Set to Rescue NAICOM | Perpetual Assurance Posts N18.6m Profit in 2003 | Pension Versus Lump Sum | ...Scheme Worse Than AIDS, Say Ghanaian Teachers | NIA Facilitates Specialist Insurer with N2b Capital Base | Harnessing the Export Potential Of Cassava | Encouraging Mass Participation in IPOs | Maltex Re-launches Product in Kano | Bush Faces Harder Sell on Social Security Plan | UAE Firm to Invest N1.3b in Battery Production | 'How to Boost Nigeria's Foriegn Earnings' | Benefits of STB, US EXIM Bank Partnership | ALSCON's Privatisation and Challenges of Due Process | Developing Savings Culture in Nigeria | 'Bank Mergers Bother Some Consumers' | The Capital Market and the Vision of NEEDS | FG Backs Made-in-Nigeria Exhibition in South Africa |
ARTS & REVIEW
A Challenge for Africa | Oil stains and the Lagos underlife |
COMMENT
Letter to Tunji Bello | Voda-come, Voda-go |
DEVELOPMENT
Rural Woman: Most Constant Source of Energy | Ebonyi Rural Woman: A Catalyst for Positive Change | Rethinking the Nigerian Reform Programme | Financing NEEDS With Tax Revenues: Strategies That Make Sense |
EDUCATION
Kwara SPEB and the Missing Millions... | Teacher Earns Suspension over Examination Misconduct | 'Rekindle Patriotism Through Primary School Pupils' | Muslim Students in UK Call for Campus Prayer Rooms | Provost Tasks Students on Behaviour | Institute Unveils Strategy for Managers, Organisations | Don Warns on Outbreak of Epidemic in Lagos |
EDITORIAL
A Cassava Revolution |
LETTERS
National Conference, A Must | Nigeria Police Under Obasanjo | Making Deregulation Functional | Child Abuse Endangers Society's Future |
MARKET NEWS
Oceanic Bank Goes Public on Friday | Investors Support Trade Bank's Offer |
MONEY GUIDE
Cost of Funds Crash as N218bn Hits Money Market | Kaduna Secures N500m Housing Loan | Gateway Bank Holds Final of Project Nigeria |
FEATURES
Educating the Nation Through Girl-child |
SPORTS
Germany 2006: NFA to Go Tough on Absentee Players | Nicon Boost Varsity Soccer League | Euro 2004: Italy Crash Out Despite 2-1 Win Over Bulgaria | Golf: Umo, Marah for France | Falcons Team B Resumes Camping | Dolphin, Pillars in Game of Death | Athens 2004: Ebewele Stakes Wager on Boxing | ...As Nkoyo Predicts Good Outing | Technical Director: Amun Tackles NFA | Abebe Backs Galadima's Quit Threat | Sports Ministry Hunts for New Talents | Kikelomo May Replace Kanu | Wimbledon: Serena Advances, Dementieva Falls | England Fan Killed in Lisbon | Dutch Face Latvia in Survival Fight | Rooney 'the New Pele' | Ronaldo Out to Break English Hearts |
POLITICS
ANPP: An Opposition Party in Coma? | One Year After, Has S/West Changed Under PDP? |
EXTRA
Not Yet a Triumph of Politics |