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Daily trust newspaper. February 24th, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 69 Muharram 16, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-02-24) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 EFCC probes PDP officials over campaign funds  Bomb blasts rock Kaduna barracks  National Confab: NSCIA decries Muslims marginalization  FG proposes 100% tax on luxury goods  Yadudu fears failure  Rail workers’ wives protest non-payment of husbands’ salaries  Union Bank targets N100bn capitalisation …Opens London Subsidiary  Two Sierra-Leonean amputees fault Charles Taylor’s asylum  National Confab: Nigerians speak  UniAgric, BSU join ASSU warning strike  One killed as hunters raze Wase settlement  200 coys raise N567 bn from capital market-SEC  NULGE ‘II canvass LG autonomy –Scribe  Resign now, Speaker tells NASS leadership  Speaker says confab is long over due  APGA defies CNPP, attends confab  Religious leaders meet over peace in Jos  M.D. Yusufu vs Obasanjo: Election tribunal set to hear petition  Farmers Fulani clash claims 10 lives  RATTAWU suspends nationwide strike  Govt refutes death of General Adisa  Students say treatment of corrupt officials selective  Polio immunisation kicks off Saturday  Nigeria’s Finest Hour  Of regionalism and political confab  Confab: Shehu Musa’s crocodile tears  Nigeria’s most lopsided confab  Dr. Yerima is my representative of the year 2005  STAR FEATURE: Nigeria’s agricultural policies :Where is the beef increase?  National confab and the misgivings  Borno: Between opposition and the press  US opposes global Court – Golstone  Earthquake kills 420 in Iran  Shiite names al-Jafari as Iraqi PM  Syrian minister warns of Bush ‘plot’  Behold! Toilets with music, newspapers  Nude man steals police car  Thieves steal built-in swimming pool  Couple delays wedding to make arrest  Policemen too weak!  Mbeki criticises US over Zimbabwe  .. .Four journalists flee after raids  Ethiopia calls for closer Eritrean ties  Rwanda, Sudan to discuss Darfur conflicts  CBN mops N64.7bn excess liquidity  Inflation rate now 10%, says FOS  N25bn recapitalisation: Prudentbank goes to capital market  JAIZ moves to raise capital base  First Atlantic, Chartered Bank open offers  Ex WorldCom boss bullied staff – Witness  Oil prices hold above $51  Nokia says it plans no price cuts  Dollar bounces back against Euro, Yen  Why Soludo’s banking reform is faulty - Falalu Bello  Ore costs hit global steel firms  Air France-KLM named airline of the year  Ten farmers bag BAT awards  Averting ASUU’s warning strike  LG makes payment of teachers' salaries priority  University to take delivery of 17 hostels  Slow implementation of UBE worries FG  Japan to build $3m schools in Paiko LG  Ijaw community donates computers to Islamic varsity  Unijos introduces new post-graduate course  No division in ASUP, says official  Banker canvasses more private sector funding for varsities  Nigeria Sat-1 will enhance good governance –Anvim  NGO launches new educational initiative in Kano  Students decry selective treatment of corrupt officials  Fedpoly Nassarawa matriculates 4,500 students  Kano govt distributes furniture to school principals  Vandals strike again on NEPA transmission line  Suspect runs amok at Lugbe police station  Education secretariat to take over occupied schools  Shagari urges support for el-Rufai  FG to make Abuja carnival epoch event  Human development is our concern -Shekarau assures NAFDAC boss  1000 hernia patients get free treatment in Takai  Kiru LG pledges more support for education  Tsunami relief c’ttee to hold fund raising dinner in March  Kano urged to intervene on rates of shops  LG boss wants Bagwai clinic to be upgraded  Ogunlewe picks holes on 4th Mainland bridge  LASG warns against illegal structure  Good Samaritan killed while separating fighting neighbours  Road accidents claimed 1,733 in 2004  Distribution of ID card begins in Adamawa  Commissioner explains governor’s continuous absence  Monetisation: FG asks agencies to submit financial cost  Airspace closure: FG to sanction erring pilots  Yobe to review land charges  States want dismissal of revenue commission’s suit  Gombe Assembly orders probe on water scarcity  Akume gives motorcycle loans to workers  Free for all fight as two cult groups clash  Group backs creation of chiefdom in Plateau  Anambra Assembly okays 2005 budget  Gombe water project to serve as dedicated line –NEPA  2007: Gov Sani campaigners begin consultation in Kaduna  ANPP chairman expresses dismay over adultery case against legislator  Jigawa NAFDAC threatens closure of water factories  Ekiti earmarks N40m for farmers, youths  IBB endorses UK group  Confab: Can it divide the Senate?  Rep urges electorate to check elite  Gov Sani’s posters flood Makurdi  2007: NDP puts up IBB for presidency  Mantu marks birthday with lecture on democracy  Better life reforms not political  Torrential rain delays start of Match Play Championship  Rose so sweet for Raptors  Stam still bitter over United exit  Martinez sets up clash with Myskina …in Qatar  Safin slumps to shock Dubai loss  Vieira still hopeful after Arsenal’s Munich nightmare  Luxemburgo puts Real win down to attitude, preparation  Benitez defends Dudek after blunder  Del Piero: Juve need ‘perfect’ show to beat Real  Kenya sack Harambee Stars coach  O’Neal injured in Heat loss  Egypt opt for Saudi Arabia  NFA surrenders contract documents to NFL  Rangers boss banks on youth  Hayatou in flight scare  NFL clears Kwara Stadium  Abubakar denies report on reversal of referee's payment  A background for the National Conference
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Daily trust newspaper 25th February, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 70 Muharram 17, 1426 A.H
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-02-25) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 KADUNA BOMB BLASTS: Hoodlums raid barracks  Bush burning caused explosions –Kwankwaso  Yelwa residents raise alarm over abductees  CBN takes over Mint  Electoral Act: Supreme Court delivers judgement May 28  Pope readmitted to Rome hospital  Uwais bars Ehindero from appearing in court  Shehu Shagari: An exemplary President  TELECOMS LAW: Supreme Court strikes out AG’s suit against LASG  Court order SSS, DMI to produce Al-Mustapha today  Gunmen kill policeman at Cuban Embassy  NIT EL contract: el-Rufa’i fails to honour Reps invitation  Reps to sanction parastatals for breaching fed character  Why budget is delayed — Senate  CNPP writes SGF over nominees  Tobi, Kukah seek media cooperation  Rep wants FG to address NSCIA complaints  LG boss commends FG  APGA faction protests Okorie’s nomination  Cross Rivers: Gov Nyame’s misplaced generousity  Plight of the Hadeja/Nguru wetlands farmers  Well done, Hon. Bornoma  Re: Stealing in the name of Lord  Immunity clause: A new kind of AIDS  Case for an Ibo I-G  Algerian violence claims 150,000 – Bouteflika  Uganda, DR Congo to attack rebel camps  Togo’s parliament furious over sanctions  Explosion claims 24 in Sudan  Somali leaders visit home  Lebanese PM signals readiness to resign  Bush backed down on threat—Iran  Car bomb kills 15 Iraqi Policemen  Furniture outfit invests at free trade zone  ‘How our business survived in Nigeria’  Ministry gets c’ttee on commodities  Atiku charges stakeholders on made-in-Nigeria goods  UK trade mission visits Nigeria March 7  Nigeria seaports still unsafe -Licensed customs agents boss  Oil price hits 4-month high  Dollar slips against Euro  FG renewed efforts against VVF scourage –Minister  The hue and cry against women’s protest  Reps drums support for Child Rights Act  Stella to create a platform for women empowerment  Menopause starts much earlier than you think  Water scarcity bites harder in Abuja  Two CBN staff docked over forgery  Yaba Tech to confer fellowship on el-Rufai  Woman, 28, in court for impersonation  Traders besiege parade ground for market stall allocation  Kano slums and low income workers  Victim benefits from state’s passenger insurance scheme  NEPA to disconnect military formations, govt offices over N1bn debt  Fire disasters: Dilemma of Lagos Fire Service  Ebonyi suspends LG chairman  Plateau sells off unserviceable vehicles  Reps kick against Due Process bill  Yobe assigns portfolio to new commissioners  Kebbi buys 25 patrol vehicles  ‘Hospitality industry needs govt encouragement’  Video of Eedris Abdulkareem’s Je Garin Kano out  Interesting twists emerging in Michael Jackson’s trial. Jury selection complete  M-Net seeks new ideas from filmmakers  Yobe gov accused of witch-hunting opponents  Former envoy, Jida says confab will strengthen democracy  ...as Senator decries general voter apathy in the state  NERA frowns at attempt to impose Alii as PDP chairman  2007: AD convention chairman denies Atiku link  Group canvasses support for Dariye  Obasanjo has no hidden agenda- Gov Abdullahi  Goalkeeping curse returns to haunt Man Utd  Porto share honours with Inter  Milan’s Crespo wary of United backlash  Referee Mana ruins Dolphin, Insurance clash  NFL accuses NFA of undermining league  How Enyimba daze Zamfara  Ogunjobi: Panel submits report, keeps mum  Okocha may shun Nigeria, Gabon match  Contract managers and privatization
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Daily trust newspaper Thursday, March 10, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 79 Muharram 30, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-10) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 NATIONAL CONFAB: Obasanjo rebuffs muslim leaders  Senate passes N1.799tr budget  … Admits failure over debt relief. Begins another world tour  Niger demands 80% N revenue accruing to NEPA  Conjoined Zimbabwean twins separated  Nigeria earned N345.8bn from crude sales in January 1. External reserves hit $19.59bn  Soludo heads new Mint board  NITEL: Pentascope asks court to stay proceedings  National Mosque fund raising begins today  Reps reject Obasanjo’s amendment to lottery bill  Northern Speakers visit Lake Chad oil sites  Robber to die by hanging  Plateau appoints traditional rulers for new chiefdoms  Gombe lawmaker dies  Confab stalemates on rules of procedure  FG deliberately ‘anti-north’  1966 coup killings unnecessary –Aduwo  A letter to IGP Sunday Ehindero  Nigeria’s ‘most attractive’ career path  Re: Is Shekarau carrying vengeance too far?  Much ado about headcount  Re: Obasanjo’s war against Islam  Israelis to leave West Bank towns  Saddam’s trial begins Oct  19 bodies found dead in Iraq  Lebanese president to push for new govt  US unease over fresh law in Taiwan  State of emergency to remain in Nepal  Colombia extradites rebel ‘Sonia’  Chechen resistance ‘to continue’  UN to review Iraq inspection work  ‘Don’t die in six months’  ‘Free public transport for good dressing  Man in cold seeking love  25bn capitalization NAL partners Indian bank  …Intercity begins sensitisation on IPO  Belgium eyes Virgin Nigeria  Obasanjo urges OPEC to check oil prices  JAIZ  Broad Bank  Access Bank  Northern speakers visit Lake Chad oil sites  International Oil price stays close to $55  Customs agents urge NASS to sanitise shipping industry  ‘Stocks will boast maritime sector’  No parastatal’ll be spared in reforms –Minister  Continental Airlines summoned over Concorde crash  Volkswagen gets off on poor start  British Airways names Irishman as new CEO  EADS shares drop, as Jumbo Airbus takes off  FG worried about high cost of LPG –Paki  Regional securities body elects A l-Faki as chairman  Nagarta radio: Building on listenership tradition  Proposed de-nationalisation of ASUU  UBE expends N3.12bn (on 9,650 primary schools  Rep. sponsors workshop for maths, English teachers  Don charges media to give more attention to scientists  19 northern states to I fund ABU —Gov  Sokoto requires N35bn for primary education  Gov. Goje assures ATBU of assistance  Gov. Mu’azu lauds NTI over teachers’ education  Katsina ETF seeks private elaboration to revive education  Mathematical Centre designs programme to enhance maths study  Provost warns students against vices  UC issues guidelines for non-degree courses  Three schools win Nestle Milo arts competition  Gov Shekarau wants demonstrating students suspended  MFCT doctors have V no cause to fear’  FCDA shuts Herbert Macaulay Way. evicts road side traders  FCT CJ swears-in 19 new magistrates  MTUN collections for union’s welfare –chairman  Abaji LG awards N13m contract for primary schools  TV station for Abuja, soon —el-Rufai  Women tasked on campaigns against HIV/AIDS, others  Argungu festival gets N180m boost  Obasanjo urges NASS to expedite action on environmental bill  Bauchi govt provides succour to railway women  Atiku condoles Benue over death of first republic politician  North must develop itself, Gov. Mu’azu  Jigawa blames police for communal clash  International Women’s Day: Tinubu preaches gender equality  LASG donates 50 cars to magistrates  Sanitation: Ministry gives Computer Village traders ultimatum  Police arrest fake officer in Agege  KNSG to transform Quranic school  College deterioration worries speaker  KNSG woos Chinese investors  Kumbosto expends N20m on computers  Takai disburses Nlm materials on girl child education  200 women in Garun Malam benefit from goat loan  Kwara D PM s indicted, to refund N23m  Plateau gets Solomon Lar library foundation  Poverty Alleviation: State managers converge in Damaturu  Threat to demolish NPA mosque M worries PHC Muslims  Policeman detained for assaulting 7-year old  Goje pledges to investigate Ashaka Cem over marginalization allegation  NPC staff threaten to sabotage census  Crisis: US to establish mobility hub for Africa  Fayose denies report on secretariat relocation  Katsina awards 525m contract to electrify 29 villages  Jigawa sets up c’ttee on assets of agric supply coy  APGA condemns detention of Chairman b EFCC  Aide vows to drag Yerima into presidential race  Don’t politicise census, Kogi deputy gov warns  Group salutes Masari on This Day award  Benue PDP chieftain condemns Ali, Anenih’s emergence as leaders  Majestic Chelsea show Europe they mean business  United struggle to find positives after Milan defeat  Yamusa berates Eagles’ handlers  Colleges of Education Games prelim flags off  Shekarau Babes head to Holland March 25  ICC to relocate to Dubai  Lopez better tactician than Ranieri, says Albelda  ‘Greek league matches are fixed’  Pennant drops drink-driving appeal  Adamawa storm FI FA over promotion ticket  Nigeria Gabon world cup cracker: Doubts over Okocha’s fitness  Bauchi soccer clubs set to end rivalry  AFN wants states to hold competitions  ACB Football Club plan return  Sports devt: Gabros official lambasts govt  Between performance and perfection
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Daily trust newspaper Wednesday, March 9, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 78 Muharram 29, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-09) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 EXTERNAL DEBT: Reps order Obasanjo to stop payment  Confab: Delegates canvass removal of immunity clause  NNPC RECRUITMENT: Fed character official confirms violation of guidelines  Makarfi seeks truce with senator  Budget: Senate pegs oil benchmark at $32.Oil boom back in Nigeria  Atiku denies visiting IBB over Ribadu  Security threat: Self imposed chief in police net  JNI/SCIA meet on N5bn National Mosque fund  Treasury looting: Abacha, Bagudu want case dismissed  Zamfara deputy speaker removed  NYSC abolishes JAMB admission letter for service  Ogbeh tasks Ali on PDP  Weekly Trust Editor loses mother  CLOSURE OF FINETEX, NORTEX: Union accuses manager of importing textiles from China  Ibori: Appeal court delivers judgement March 21  I’m vindicated -freed Islamic scholar  Kwara workers reject new tax regime  FG advocates free movement between Nigeria, Tunisia  TIT BITS  Elders do it better  Where is Katagum?  Boring delegates  Name droppers and their effect  President speech: what’s the big deal?  Asom Bur’s day of shame  Late comers and their antics  Delegates get ’60 63 constitutions  Confab in rowdy session over resource control  How AD delegates emerged  FG ignored Taraba State — Delegate  ACF accuses Obasanjo of instigating Nigerians  Obasanjo’ll implement Confab report, says Tobi  Bauchi speaker cautions Confab on referendum  Insight on smuggling at seaports  Tackling the pension albatross  Of confab and separatist tendencies  Bondage as Taraba’s second name  Open letter to Gov Kure on tertiary education  350,000 African refugees back home in 2004 –UN  S/Leone war crimes trial begins  500 women treated for in Darfur-Report  S/ Africa renames capital Tshwane  DR Congo needs to end widespread rape cases -Right group  Militiamen kill 20 in Somalia  Syrian troops leaving Lebanon  Briton shot dead in Afghanistan  Security summit opens in Madrid  Muslims face more hostility, intolerance in post 9/11 Europe  Bush appoints hardliner as UN envoy  ‘Palestinians occupation main cause of Muslim anger in US’  Kosovo PM faces war crimes charges  Again, WAMZ shifts Eco deadline  Obj tasks Afrexim Bank on African trade  British cosmetics coy sets up plant in Nigeria  NEPZA plans more free trade zones  Tsunami, solid minerals dominate mining confab  ‘Why Nigerian industries are fast collapsing’  Akwa Ibom  AKIIPOC  Trade Fair  Oil price slips but holds above $53  Martha Stewards returns to work  UK card fraud rises above £500m  Boeing CEO ‘flies’ into sex storm  LSE board meets after D. Boerse scraps bid  Revenue boss wants expatriates to pay tax  Many state varsities may crumble –Dr. Yusuf  Land Act hampers provision of houses, says FMBN boss  FG to assist in the construction of Church centre  Post-tsunami construction threatens forest  Cross River to spend N 1.5n on housing  FG gives 1004 estate residents 30-day quit notice  Katsina launches campaign on neem trees  Expert makes ease for wildlife conservation in Nigeria  FG to re-award contract for Onitsha-Owerri road  Ogun state housing programme takes off  El-Rufai attributes environmental degredation to human activities  Gov Ibrahim inaugurates environment project in Yobe  Flood threaten one million in Kano  Landslide may shut down beverage company  Delegate urges more investment in infrastructure  Kwara assures on agric infrastructure  Minister canvasses committee for cotton development  Minister lauds reduction in rice importation  MISTOWA Iaunched in Abuja  Agriculture: Most potent weapon against poverty –Saraki  Power outage hits Kubwa  Theft o f iron rods: court arraigns policemen  Secretariat declares support for charity organizations  el-Rufai inaugurates c’ttee on AIDS confab  Poverty: Villagers revert to trade by barter  Kano Muslims urged to assist Abuja mosque rehabilitation  NEPA pledges prompt repaid of faults  Emir of Kano urges support for census  Police promotes servicemen  Bayero tasks Muslims on Islamic education  PAYE deductions: LASG companies premises  … threatens to shut down Chevron hqrs  14 Unilag students, woman, charged with arson  Withheld LG funds :House accuse FG of victimizing Lagos  Ribadu is pursuing private agenda –NYA Chairman  Bozimo inaugurates task force on police welfare  Gowon urges Nigeria to unite  Rivers orders arrest of illegal users of govt plate numbers  FG to standardise highway billboards  Suswan kick-starts water project in Benue  N95m equipment for Kano hospitals  NBTE chief tasks ASUP on confab  Adamawa gov. commends NASS  Jigawa explains non-payment o f salaries  Customs impound 2,500 cartons of frozen chickens  Water corporation manager blames NEPA for scarcity  Lawmaker launches poverty alleviation scheme  Project group names festival date  Drum wins top African film prize  The Michael Jackson Trial: Alleged to have physically abused boy  The star puzzle  ..A crumbling prosecution witness  Representing the new woman  Rethinking social security  Marwa condoles Emir of Lafia, family of late Senator Haruna  Ajaokuta LG fire blamed on political opponents  North, most marginalised part of Nigeria -Shehu Sani  UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Real’s defensive resolve faces Juventus test  Arsenal must hold firm against Bayern  Depleted Leverkusen soft target for Liverpool  Mourinho hits back at UEFA  I’m fit, raring to go, says Zidane  Wade, O’Neal lead Heat to sixth win  I’m unaware of club owners sack threat –Galadima  Makinwa chooses Inter  WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP: Nigerians want early preparation  CAF CLUB CUPS: Pundits praise performances of Nigerian clubs  Ex-international, King, criticises Chukwu  A word for the Emir of Borg
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Daily trust newspaper Tuesday, March 8, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 77 Muharram 28, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-08) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 Workers protest planned sack of 74,000. It’s “Right sizing” not sack - says Bode George  NATIONAL CONFAB: Tobi stops debate on 3rd term for Obansajo  Prison fire claims 140 in Dominican Republic  Reps order IGP to refund N2.3bn to NHF. Why we defaulted – Ehindero  Irene Chigbue is new BPE DG  Obasanjo wants 40% rise in non-oil revenue  I will mobilise funds for national mosque -Obasanjo  Women, children in child trafficking drama protest  Presidency re-presents due process bill to Reps  US warship not on Nigerian waters –Ambassador  Police confirm 8 dead in border clash  PDP: Ogbeh hands over to Ali today  Appeal court president reconstitutes panel to hear cases  Abacha’s confab more democratic than Obasanjo’s - Justice Commissioner  MOSOP seeks referendum for outcome  Obasanjo can’t source money from nation’s accounts -Dr. Adeyemi  Gombe sets up c’ttee to collate memoranda  Vox pop from Gombe  Royal father lauds constitutional role for institution  Ja ‘iz: Keeping hope alive  A vote for debt forgiveness  Let’s have more human owls please!  Is Rev. Kukah now arrogant?  Nigeria and transparency international  Odili’s silent revolution on roads  Zamfara governor and 2007 Presidency  The growing currency for Hijab argument  ‘One million need urgent food aid in Mali’  President Mbeki, Swazi king to meet  ‘EU fails to find plan to end Darfur killings’  Moroccans protest over war prisoners  Mozambique PM attacks Blair’s Commission for Africa  Togolese top politician returns home  Criminal gangs use Islam to intimidate victims in London  Guerrilla attacks claim 16 Iraq  Iraqi Christians nominate Ayatollah for Nobel Prize  Indian police kill ten suspected Maoist rebels  Israeli bank ‘in laundering scam’  Syrian, Lebanese leaders discuss pullback  CBN withdraws N101bn from economy  Access Bank’s 3bn offer over subscribed  Afribank beats CBN’s due diligence, raises N11bn  NSE still bearish, index drops by 4.12%  Oceanic Bank invests N1.02bn in SME’s  Manny Bank plans N8bn public offer  Grema urges recognition for local shipping coys  FG, JOMALIC to implement seafarer's blueprint  Companies invest $400m in CFTZ  Belgian envoy wants stronger ties with Nigeria  NPA pays N2m each to contractors  Citroen C6: A comfortable freeway cruiser  DaimlerChrysler CEO says do more mergers  Nokia fixes in-car communication solution to VW Passat  Pagani Zonda “F” debuts at Geneva show  GM chooses Opel to build mid-size cars  Shareholders laud share price of ACB  Low equity prices dominated trading last week  ‘Minister, NASS ‘ll be casualties of labour bill’  Labour leader threatens secession over former NULGE boss  TUC condemns use of consultants for due process  Civil servants get transportation boost  Police nab suspended NUBIFIE treasurer  ...as court restrains Akinwalere  NARTO wants PPPRA scraped  PENGASSAN, NUPENG reject sack in Shell, NNPC  ITF embarks on skills audit  ABU SSANU distributes cars to member  ‘Unemployed is Nigeria’s greatest crises  …as ASUU elects exco  Fund advocates transformation of SIWES  Motor Park life: Passenger is king  Textile workers want industry consolidation *lose $3bn to factory closures  Body receives motion on Nigerian Textile industry  NUBIFIE to picket Union Bank over checkoff dues  SACTWU embarks on reforms  NUJ petitions FAAN over assault  CFTU stresses need for poverty reduction  ALGON boss flays confab composition  Resident doctors apprehensive over MFCT dissolution  Committee counsels PLWA on vengeance  Bedwetting: 9-year-old girl asks for fistula repair  Training: 30,000 pupils learn HIV/AIDS basic skill  1.11 million children immunised in Niger  AIDS may kill 80million Africans by 2025 -UN  ANAEMIA  PEPTIC ULCER  Ojowu stresses importance of ICPD PoA  Presence of fake, adulterated products worry FG  This man needs help  Lack of policy document on PHC undermines policies – communique  Zamfara attributes low HIV/ AIDS prevalence to sharia  MFCT dissolution throws doctors into dilemma  NTIC honours best mathematics pupils  C AC boss charged with contempt  Theft of iron rods: Police sack three  Anti-crime officer says achievement is to FCT police boss  FCT to develop efficient social welfare policy  Nassarawa LG to settle 2002/ 2003 workers leave grants  Irrigation water washes away Hadejia - Nsuru road  Kano NDLEA arrests 23 drug suspects in 2004  Kano Emir tasks traders on community health project  NIPOST assures BUK of better-quality service  ... indigenes receive honours  Resource control advocates heckled at confab  Elite responsible for Nigeria’s woes – Dara  Confab gets website  Plateau delegate. wants SOMPADEC, HYPPADEC established  Thanks, Mr. President  Tobi as a teacher  Interesting statistics  Tea break, no prayer break  Tinubu urges OPS to resist proposed VAT hike  Impeachment: AD saves Lagos speaker  UNILAG reopens March 29  Lagos Muslim group loses leader  Obasanjo assures Kogi of foreign investments  Workers decry sale of FG houses  Arms recovery: Two rocket launchers handed over  Makarfi Vs Senate: GOVAN accuses Senate of myopia  Immigration officers plan strike over deployment  Improve lot of host communities, Obasanjo tells oil coys  Food poisoning: Kwara police parade Ilorin woman  BLPAW urges women to work together  Governor Adam locks out commissioner, officials  Sanga LG N101m secretariat project takes off  Dariye signs into law, 2005 Appropriation Bill  Council seeks legal standing for Sharia  Borno PDP names reconciliation committee  2007: Former NPA boss pledges to industralise Kebbi  Rep wants F C T c’ttee leadership changed  Igala laud election of Ali as PDP chairman  Y SA launched in Ekiti State  Abuja court cautions APGA factions  National Dialogue Won’t Be Business as Usual – Alibe  UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Milan, Barca, Bayern out to break English hearts  Mourinho, Rijkaard square up at Stanford Bridge  Ancelotti alert to United’s threat  Lyon must regain poise against Werder  Henry warns Bayern to expect fired-up Arsenal  Woods returns as world number one  Man. Utd to miss Saha, Neville for Milan clash  Flying Eagles skipper warns Brazil  CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: We respect Hearts –Abdullahi  Hearts protest against Dolphin FC  Wikki fight back to win  NFL meets on Ranchers Bees boss  Nasarawa halt Pillars  Enyimba in good start  EDITORIAL: Obasanjo Vs ASUU again?  Nuhu Ribadu Vs General Babangida
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Daily trust newspaper Monday, March 7, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 76 Muharram 27, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-07) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 RECRUITMENT: NNPC violates Fed character. We did nothing wrong –Spokesman  Confusion over sack of BPE DG  25 injured in Jigawa, Bauchi border clash  I stand by my words - Makffi tells Senate  Policeman dismissed as calm returns to Makurdi  CAC boss charged for contempt  Police, others fail to remit contributions to NHF  Tribalism, religious bigotry, Nigeria’s problems - Maitama Sule  BON MD to resign  Poverty level has dropped – Kpakoi  Nigeria’s presidentialism too expensive –Ex-minister  Miyetti Allah takes case to confab  Referendum: Lawyer blasts Afe Babalola, others  Debate on Obasanjo’s speech continues today  Prof. Jega advocates investment in infrastructure  Scholar wants confab to deliberate on 1996 draft constitution  MASSOB not in support of Confab  Ribadu: Between patriotism and overzealousness  Re: Bush, Obasanjo and Musharraf. Three of a kind  FCT: What does Bagudu and Ngbako want again?  Egypt and democratic reform  Rights abuses rampant in US -Bukhari Bello  Sharon is a war criminal- UK mayor  ‘200 al-Qaeda members operate in UK’  Pope makes brief appearance  Syria withdraws from Lebanon... US seeks full withdrawal  Early men had better brains –Report  Old remedy for pimple  In printing, the faster the better  Confab: Go-slow areas  A cynical look at ‘resource control  Recapitalisation: NAL Bank to raise N10bn  First Atlantic Bank predicts share price appreciation  Jaiz shareholders endorse public offer  FSB gets new chairman, holds AGM  Bank reforms to encourage SME financing — Obasanjo  Total chief wants greater access to OPEC reserves  Shell supplies gas to Korea  ChevronTexaco affiliate signs Agbami FPSO construction contract  ...moves to sell UK outlets  PDTF boss bags Eisenhower fellowship  Equity prices appreciate at exchange  NAICOM approves two new insurance products  The thrills and drills of the 2005 hajj  Why cybersecurity legislation is difficult –AG  Microsoft to train software developers  CBN, NDIC express fear over e-banking system  SMEDAN  New iPods  Over 80% software in Africa is illegal-Microsoft  Property: Globacom, Microsoft to settle out-of-court  Mobile phone T virus hits US  HP gets aggressive on printer pricing  World tech expo begins in Japan  African telecom regulators laud NCC  Alcatel, Microsoft to develop internet TV  Abuja zone consumers owe NEPA N80m  Producers condemn increase in price of ‘Pure water’  Sacked workers take UB A to court over allowance  Farmer in court for attempting to sell friend  FG releases N40m for Zuba-Abuja highway  Court charges man with illegal firearms possession  Polio: 44 personnel trained  ‘Shariah: KNSG demolishes sports club  Road: Shagari qtrs residents send SOS to Shekarau  Kano to revive groundnut production pyramid  USAID lunches farmers cooperative in Kano  Five service opens outstation  ITF trains 20,000 workers in Kano  LG spends N50m on women centre  House committee discusses Arochukwu- Ohafia landslide  Cross River Councils have failed –Speaker  NOSOSA commends Shekarau  Waste disposal charge : LASG seals up business premises  FG says it released funds for 20 councils  Foreigner in court for duping Nigeria  Man, 28, docked over N450,000 theft  Lagos redevelops Yaba Industrial Estate  Muslims work to develop estate, propagate Islam  18 new refineries underway  Saudi deports 10,000 Nigerians  Balarabe Musa launches book on election rigging  My life is under threat –ANSIEC Chairman  Dariye, Akume hold secret talks  GSS Gombe closed down  Sokoto earmarks N2.7bn for road construction  Reps move to check menace of robbers on highways  Kudirat: Court fixes April 7 for hearing  Land ownership tussle: PLSG urged to implement Plateau Peace Conference resolution  Donald Duke to appear in court with certificates  Demolition of FRCN’s Sokoto FM station  FG spends N300m for ammunition storage facilities  FIRS warns banks, agencies over tax arrears  APGA asks Supreme Court to dismiss Kalu’s appeal  Obasanjo’s conquest of the PDP  Confusion in IBB’s camp in Kwara  Leave Makarfi alone Senators urged  IBB to declare presidential ambition march 26 -Prince Ekpenyung  Mourinho confident of winning Premiership crown  Ferguson knows title climb has become mountain  Gattuso targets United move  Collina to referee Chelsea, Barcelona clash  Better late than never, insists Costacurta  Gateway fail to nail Kwara Utd  Utaka fires Gabon warning  Sharks squeeze past Berger  NFA finds Ogunjobi ‘negligent’  League chief in show of shame  CAF Awards: NFA accused of cover-up  EDITORIAL: As Tata Balogun formally retires  The Kukah I didn’t know
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Daily trust newspaper 28th February, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 71 Muharram 20, 1426 A.H
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-02-28) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 Senator Haruna Abubakar is Dead  Presidential system best for Nigeria - Obasanjo insists  Confab reconvenes today  General Adisa buried in Ilorin  Nenadi Usman queried over confab funding  Hajj2005: Jigawa pilgrims board denies shoddy deals  AU sets to restore peace in Somalia, Cote d’Ivoire  Military formations to be decongested of explosives -General Azazi  Plateau creates 29 DAs  Shagari bares mind on birthday celebration  IBB holds secret talks with Lawal  Southern govs want true federalism  JNI cautions CAN sec. gen. over representation  Plateau people demand posthumous pardon for 1976 coupists  Toby charges Ijaws on confab  We have no confidence in Sokoto delegates-PDP  Branding of NEPAD  Supreme Court and confab: The unanswered questions  Re: Confab and Zamfara Governor’s blunder  Another name for Abuja Business school  Benue State and PDP Chairmanship  Atiku gives Boni pass mark  Police arrest 6 council chairmen for fraud  Fayose appoints new council of Obas chairman  Gani wants Dariye impeached  UBE, key to tackling illiteracy, poverty –Osuji  Anambra professionals lament underdevelopment  Russia, Iran sign nuclear deal  W/Africa lifts sanctions on Togo  Saddam’s half-brother ‘captured’  Pope waves from hospital window  Increase participation in ADB, Nigeria told  N25BN CAPITALISATION Shareholders endorse Inland Bank’s rights issue, IPO  FG raises hope on economy  ...House deputy leader seeks support for ACB  Afribank  NBM Bank  Oil holds above $51 on consumer concerns  YUKOS asks Court to reconsider dismissal  Bank of America loses Card data of Senators  CTs: Atiku foresees Africa’s marginalization  Summit discourages foreign aid on IT  Galadanchi warns FG over rural telephony  Starcomms hits Maiduguri market  MWEB  Handsets  Technology  Linksverse  IT Kiosk  E-mail  British Council launches UK mosques posters today  List of discredited past Oscar-winning films out  Winning an Oscar: Peer group approval?  MFCT to remove abandoned vehicles *Dissolves FCT fire service department  Principals, students criticize mock WASSC exams  AMAC donates vehicles to security agents  Gov Goje cautions confab delegates  Marwa greets Obasanjo over Thisday award  ...New pro-Obasanjo group emerges  Ranchers wallop JUTH  Ofere shoots Rangers to first away win  Kwara win, rake in million  .. .pay N13.3m debt to coaches, players  Ikpeba blasts Odegbami  National Confab: An inauspicious beginning  The scramble for Nigeria
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Daily trust newspaper 1st March, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 72 Muharram 21, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-03-01) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 Traditional ruler offers N200 to rid Kaltungo of snakes  2007:We’re investigating IBB- Ribadu  Suicide bomber kills 110 in Iraq  NITEL, Pentascope deal shoddy –Ex NITEL ED  Atiku, Wabara, Masari mourn Senator Haruna Abubakar  Obasanjo receives report on Darfur  PLSG vs EFCC Court fixes March 23 for ruling  ‘Palliative is the proper solution to fuel hike’  I did not call Obasanjo a killer - Gov Kalu  ATBU reopens, security men take over campus  Obasanjo to launch multi-billion Naira corporation  Adisa was a patriot - AbdulZaraq (SAN)  Confab now sits Fridays  Tahir wants Plateau crisis, others discussed  Delegates discuss Obasanjo’s speech today  Don indicts govs over contradictory statements  Press cameras worry Gemade  Which kind of deputy chairman is this?  Boos and cheers in the house  Women power displayed  Women want genderless language at confab  Confab: Alternative scenarios  Confab as Obasanjo’s national soliloquy  Will Taraba ever enjoy the dividend of democracy?  Tsunami: A dinner to save humanity  An update on public service reform  Census 2005: Genuine skepticism  Darfur atrocities go on –Report  DR Congo to punish UN attackers  British Council begins leadership programme  Burundians vote in constitutional referendum  Somali militia leaders reject troops  Togo: France commends ECOWAS  Sharon issues fresh threat in Mid East  UN debates Iran’s nuclear row  Malaysia migrant deadline looms  ...as Israelis It accused of stealing land  Syrians threaten Arabic TV station  Shiites minority to increase roll in Saudi poll  New Zealand demands Israeli apology over espionage  Man, 63, sleeps with cows  Clinton urges Taiwan, China to forge closer ties  NAL Bank’s 4bn share offer opens  First Atlantic targets N12bn from offer  ‘How Evidence Act makes “419ers” above the law’  Oil prices hold above $51  Qatar, Shell sign mega gas project deal  Kia launches fuel cell fleet, five doors Rio  Uruguayan president to drive Mahindra vehicle  Iran gets Mercedes assembling plant  PAN denies 25% price slash on 306  Katsina NITEL staff to enjoy state benefits  V-Mobile to expand nationwide  Glo Mobile offers 805 free text messages  Reltel Introduces Bonus-car  Fund managers favour stocks over bonds  ASUU identifies disabilities in national confab  Telecom workers task confab on job creation  ‘Cordial mgt/staff relations secret of Chida’s success  Transporters protest extortion  TUCN condemns sack in Guinness  Ladipo urges A N LC A to maintain peace  How the new pension scheme will work  Monetisation: Disengaged drivers drag minister to court  …as workers stage protest in Abuja  The viability of NSITF as a social security agency  LGs owe retirees N50m in Kogi  Four policemen lose jobs in Kaduna  Islamic scholar urges more battle against VVF  Polio: Zamfara gov’s wife canvasses for support  Medical Council retires registrar, deputy  NGO solicits financial support  HIV/AIDS infected children get food supplem ent  Regulatory bodies tasked on staff training  Drug resistance compounds malaria treatment –expert  DANDRUFF  Treatment  PURITIS (RASHES)  Treatment  PURITIS (ITCHING)  Treatment  When lawyers debate issues on HIV/AIDS  GSM masts, handsets: How harmful?  FCT budgets N53bn for 2005  el-Rufai recommends dissolution of MFCT  NYSC coordinator commends CDS members  Monetisation'. Court orders minister to appear before it  Allocation fees: Jisalo tells traders to stop complaining  Judge frowns at refusal to honour court summons  Rain douses Abuja heat waves  Gwale debunks criticisms over projects implementation  KNSG reduces civil service corruption by 75%  UNDP, KNSG move to fight VVF  Special allowances for teachers underway  Finance Ministry ordered to publicise monthly state accounts  9,000 Kano students to receive scholarship  Southern govs urge FG to release LG funds to Lagos  Lagos to sanction firms using noisy, smoky power plants  .. .vows to prosecute child traffickers  FRCN Sokoto FM station demolished  ‘Eight states participated in Kaduna Trade Fair’  Governor orders probe into finances of Yobe SEPA  Census: Mixed reactions trail exclusion of ethnicity and religion  Best Actor: Jamie Foxx gets the nod  …His trek from comedy to the big screen  The movie Ray  NITT plans technology centre  Al-Mustapha, others, escape contempt charges  Cmdr. urges speedy rehabilitation of barracks  Nagarta Radio Commissioned  A troubled national conference  Mourinho may face inquiry by English FA  …blasts press after win  Blooming Rose leads Raptors past Lakers  Match Play champion, Toms, returns to world’s top ten  Arthurs serves up maiden title win  At last, work commences on abandoned ABS complex  Clubs scramble for Enyeama  Makinwa strikes again  Kaka earns Milan derby win to end Inter’s run  Ibrahim Babangida joins China train  Gombe edge Insurance  Ogunsanya dumps 3SC  I’m under pressure –Amodu  Naval Academy clinch Ramat Cup  ...Norwegian envoy urges YSFON to upgrade tourney  YSFON launches anti-AIDS campaign  EDITORIAL: Cassava policy  Vision 2010 and the political conference
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Daily trust newspaper 2nd March, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 73 Muharram 22, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-03-02) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 PDP NEC may scrap NWC today  NO-GO AREAS: You can’t gag us –Delegates tell Obasanjo  Bomo canvasses parliamentary system  Late Haruna Abubakar buried in Lafia  World Bank doubts N25bn capitalization  FG appoints new DG for VON  I executed 6064 projects in Kano – Kwankwaso  FG dissolves MFCT as el-Rufai heads FCDA board  NNPC redeploys 51 mgt staff  Gombe to spend N1bn on airport construction  Reps c’ttee indicts member over unethical conduct  Club owners to recall Galadima, three others  C’ttee canvasses recognition for Nigerian engineers  M-Tel now has 921,000 subscribers  FUT Minna reopens March 14  Emir accuses police of abetting crime  Security Breach: Court rules on AI-Mustapha’s application March 18  Scarcity of bread likely if-Adamu  Media must ensure success — Gana  Address Nigeria’s debt burden, Ganduje urges confab  Procedure for Obasanjo’s inaugural speech causes stir  Delegates get Globacom lines  Muslim delegates ’ll promote Muslim interest–Adegbite  Saraki, Igbinedion support no-go areas  Delegates urged to revisit local govt system  Confab may be extended  ..reject no-go areas  ANPP’s travails  Dismantling business bottlenecks?  Gombe: Goje’s critics misfired  Open letter to Comptroller of Customs  Gov Ibrahim, dissolve this cabinet  Police arrest 6 over farmers, normads clash in Kogi  Why LGs fail to perform - ALGON president  Dariye: PLHA urged to investigate allegations*Groups condemn warrants of arrest  Gov Mu’azu and human owls!  Nigeria: Elite hegemony and our future  Chief Imam supports BC mosque exhibition  Zimbabwean media decry newspaper’s closure  Burundi voters back constitution  Stranded pilgrims get refunds soon-DPA  Fresh clashes erupt in Cote d’ Ivoire  Sudanese govt to withdraw troops from Darfur  W/African envoys meets new Togolese leader  Bin Laden calls for attacks inside America  Hamas gives fresh conditions for peace  ‘Lebanon future unclear after PM quits’  Iraqi attack: Death toll now 125  Nuclear row: America lures Iran with economic incentives  Nuclear weapons: Can they be stopped?  Liquidation: Savannah Bank wants judge to transfer case  NDIC may change deposit insurance design – MD  N2bn loan: Kogi denies indebtedness to CTB  NSE trading bearish  Benin Oba seeks support for ACB  Capital Bank reveals “the best kept secret”  Banking giant, HSBC posts $17.6bn profit  Ex-WorldCom CEO denies role in fraud  Oil supply may exceed demand — OPEC  Oil prices hold firm near $52  Local content: Shell moves exploration team to Nigeria  ‘Presidential approval not delaying oil block biddings’  LNG may get terminal in Italy  Dangote group ventures into steel manufacturing  Privatisation: NNDC takes interest in KRPC, steel coy  ExxonMobil participates in deepwater discovery  Dollar gains ground  ‘Plastic bags takes over 50 years to decompose’  FG committed to preventing Bar Beach ocean surge —Ogunlewe  Poor maintenance culture, bane of Nigeria’s economy-BICL Boss  Irrigation, water supply drag FG to states  Obasanjo urged to intervene in Bachama crisis  2 million children to get polio vaccination  FG documents cultural assets nationwide  Minister pledges grants to cotton farmers  Kaduna Assembly investigates Saminaka food tragedy  Inter-religious conference holds in Zamfara  Immunisation: el-Rufai seeks LG boss, traditional rulers support  Community gets electricity after 2-year outage  FCDA warns relocated traders  Man, 27, faces court over forgery  Car falls off bridge  Nassarawa LG residents tasked on 2005 census  Rep gives cash, materials to constituents  KNSG takes stringent measures against loan defaulters  Kano to improve water services in metropolis  Chellarams holds sensitisation forum on fire incidents  DFID to spend N500m on Lagos this year  Withheld LG fund: LASG insists it’ll not compromise stand  UniLag to reopen soon  Julius Berger yet to commence Ogun bridge project  Akwa Ibom sets up Tsunami disaster relief committee  12 died and two injured in a fatal auto crash  Masari explains Nigerian parliament  Kwara approves N69m for flood control in Ilorin  Electricity razes Cross River community  Gov Bukar threatens exco members over performance  National confab, a political gimmick –ACF NEC member  ANPP commends Abaji council chairman  PDP chairmanship: Plateau elders support Tapgun  Confab: PDP youths canvass sanction for Ngige, Alamieyeseigha  Pro-IBB groups strategise plan for2007  PDP UK chapter changes leadership  Arts Council boss is dead  Black ‘street’ literature A comes of age in U.S  Ex James Bond, Sean Connery in a $30 million US lawsuit  Can FG successfully reform film industry?  Bad taste and fake accents on radio  A repackaged magazine  Inter’s Facchetti throws in towel over title  Keane in court on assault charge  Nedved to miss Real return  Pires joins Arsenal injury list  Three Northern teams occupy Premier League summit  Nasarawa Utd partners Club Brugge  Dolphin player, Ayodeji, buried  Clubs to pay N1m for fans violence  NFL backtracks on Globacom  Izilein challenges NFA over Eaglets  Basketball Academy launched in Lagos  HFN warns players over transfer clearance  Orok Oyo wants speedy action on Decree 101  Supporters club targets N200m  Boosting power supply  Telecommunication or teleconfusion?
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Daily trust newspaper: trust is a burden vol.10, no.74 Muharram 23, 1426 A.H. 3rd March, 2005
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 NATNAL CONFAB: Tobi’s appointment improper –NBA chieftain  Delegates may ask for referendum  Senate moves against Makarfi today  British court upholds girl’s right to wear hijab  FG expects N300bn from sale of30,000 houses  Disagreements delay 2005 budget  Ali emerges PDP chairman  Illegal airfields, channels for arms importation –Minister  Customs impounds nine trucks of fake drugs  Attack by security agents: Court awards Nlm to Islamic scholar  Dariye: Adjourn to 2007, defence counsel prays court  IBB: EFCC has secret agenda- Bwari  FG approves guidelines for 2005 oil licensing round  Northern speakers meet on oil, confab  Malu explains presence at confab  Igala delegates urged to canvass restoration of LG reform guidelines  ‘The poor are marginalized’  FG appoints four youths  Role of the judiciary in democracy –Uwais  Is this confab derailing?  Three days of the National Confab  Of development and our underdevelopment  Tribute to Abdulkarim Adisa  BPE privatisation: Letter to Mr. President  Adieu Emma Arinze  Banning foreign vegetable oil  Letter to Mr. President on agric reform  Misery in Afghanistan  Saddam tribunal judge shot dead  London Peace confab supports ‘Palestinian State’  Syria to pullout soon - al-Asad  Hong Kong leader ‘to step down’  Togo: W/African leaders approve new President  Group sues Rumsfeld over prisoner abuse  US court bans juvenile executions  Uruguay gets new president  Naked man threatens neighbours with sword  ‘World’s record for non-stop drumming’  The ‘tsunami gifts’  Country bans use of plastic bags  ACB unveils 25bn shares offer  Naira depreciates at DAS  CBN sells N 137.3bn treasury bills  NITEL  V-mobile  Starcomms  NCC orders GSM operators to drop activation charges  Illegal Commissions: EFCC recovers $5m for V-Mobile  NITEL’S NEW MANAGERS  MTN refunds N400m to customers  Lagos Airport  NAHCO  US company admits Benin bribery  Oil prices hover under $52  ‘Illicit drug sales booming online’  Ex- HP CEO, Carly Fiorina eyes World Bank top job  insurers liaise on pension fund administration  First Atlantic Bank gets stakeholders’ support  Bearish trading persists at Exchange  NURTW calls for transport bank  Local bourse can absorb more IPOs –Shareholder  More inland container ports underway  ICAN boss advocates maritime accounting  NMA gets new DG  Customs seizes luxury bus with smuggled goods  Nigerian crew receives MT Genesis Explorer  I am not bothered by critics –Gov Ali Modu Sheriff  The ongoing silent ‘revolution’ in UNN  NUC declares UNIPORT best governed varsity  Ogun spends N30m on polytechnic library  Unimaid convenes conference on university education  Kogi education board embarks on certificate verification exercise  Yobe polytechnic commences academic programmes  NANS oppose ASUU planned strike  Kogi varsity holds convocation March 12  NUC names top 10 over-crowded universities  Danfodio varsity to offer engineering courses  Fed Poly Idah introduces new dress code for students  ANCOPSS president charges stakeholders on funding  World Bank grants N455m to FCT Fadama project  House c’ttee reduces ei-Rufai’s budget proposal  Displaced Wuse Market traders relocate to Herbert Macaulay Way  Soldiers beat police inspector, take him away inside car booth  Ex-policeman bags 3 months jail for possessing fire arms  KNSG seeks WHO, UNICEF’s assistance on mosquito control  Excessive heat worries Dutse residents  NOA moves to promote community participation in education  Board establishes tax academy in Kano  Security guards nab fake doctor  LG inaugurates education endowment fund  FG issues relocation letter to 1004 estate residents  Suit: LASG chides, AD factions over additional councils  Govt establishes monitoring c’ttee on commercial vehicles  Lagos to spend N518m on abattoir project  Be prudent, accountable, Agabi tells LG chairmen  Dutse emirate distributes N125m Zakkat to the needy  Cross River needs N65m to complete electrification project  Osun police arrest 16 policemen over extortion  Show proof that the drugs are false -Judge tells NAFDAC  Police ban private security guards from carrying firearms  Adefarati solicits Yoruba, North-East alliance  2007: New group wants Ijaw as VP  NARTO issues 14-dav ultimatum over diesel price  Hausa/Fulani community seeks speedy selection of Mambila chief  Narcotic boards warns Nigerians over Internet drug procurement  BA seek policemen’s arrest over Benue killing  NULGE wants career LG staff appointed DPM, HODs  Dariye: MBF criticizes London court over arrest warrant  Obasanjo lauds NSITF  Ethno -religious conflicts: US official  Rural electrification for 400 communities in Kwara  Minister identifies problems plaguing African continent  FG targets 1m tonnes of cotton by 2007  Pankshin LG boss advocates upward review of council allocations  Poverty Alleviation: Borno builds TV viewing centres  Gov Abdullahi commended over NASEEDS  My recall threat, a ruse Kumalia  2007: New pro Marwa group, G36 debuts  Gov Saraki lists conditions for accepting Lawal into PDP  Pennant guilty of wasting talent  Iverson burns Bucks  Woosnam to captain Europe’s Ryder Cup team  Barcelona held by 10-man Espanyol  Robben plays down Barca comeback  Second-string Gunners show steel  Baros sees end of road at Liverpool  Inzaghi hoping for United return  Gombe players are hungry –Tenge  Onikeke defends C'wealth title in Ghana  Lawmakers wade into NFA crisis  NFA invites Okocha, Martins for Gabon  NTF names players for African juniors  Chelsea gives Okocha Euro hope  Five stadiums for 2006 Nations Cup  General AbdulKareem Adisa
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Daily trust newspaper: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 75 Muharram 24, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-03-04) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 No apology over Pentascope –el-Rufai  Intercity Bank opens N13bn public offer  Five feared dead in Makurdi protests  Senators lambast Makarfi  Grassroot worse hit by FG’s reform – ACF  US criticises Obasanjo’s human rights record  FG abolishes education tax  8 die in Kaduna auto crash  Alamieyeseigha still under probe –ICPC  FG to raise $20m for Tsunami victims  Saraki, son sue newspaper for libel  Jigawa pays N642m to contractors  FG reviews agreement with ASUU  More delegates call for referendum  …it’s unconstitutional –Rep  Resource control: South-South people are ingrates -Ex-gov  Traditional rulers seek constitutional role  Why ANPP attends confab, by Etiebet  LG funds: Lagos takes case to confab  Adamu Chiroma warns against extension  Journalists want their issues addressed  Women want gender equality  Sule Katagun continues siddon look policy  When an Emir can’t find his voice  Haba! Imo state head of delegation  Good one, General Adebayo  Tea breaks and the delegates  We showed them!  FCT delegates demand state status  We must lay foundation for Nigeria’s unity- Gen. Obasanjo  Will Dariye ever learn?  Confab, media and agenda setting  Let Gov. Kure render account  Leave Iran’s nuclear project alone!  Indonesian cleric bags two years jail term  Car bomb kills 10 Iraqi soldiers  China explosion kills 20 children  World united on Syria, says Bush  ‘No specific date for Pope’s discharge’  Michael Jackson was 'victim of own aids’- Witness  Daijur: Janjawid leader exposes Khartoum links  UN backs peacekeepers’ retaliation in Congo  Foreign affairs ministry appoints spokesperson  Allstates Bank signs N3bn pact with Afrexim bank  Akintola Williams endorses ACB’s public offer  NAL, brokers woo investors  Access Bank  ICAN  Intercontinental Bank  Collapsing industries: Emir urges govt intervention  Chamber blames govt for high imports  Only 10% of SMEs are into manufacturing’  KACCIMA urges FG to soft-pedal on reforms  Minister urges Nasarawa to export cassava  BAT launches proudly Nigerian campaign  National institute’s alumni holds AGM  World Bank chief wants ‘passionate’ successor  Dollar strengthens slightly against Euro  Oil prices could hit $80 in 2007, says OPEC  Halliburton bribery investigation expands  Demolition: Wuse market traders remember “black” Thursday  UNESCO relaunches ‘Women Make the News’  A world without women  NGO organises workshop for women  Confab: NAWOJ wants women delegates to canvass for affirmative action  Ghanaian beads production skills underway –Reports  Should men learn how to cook?  Plateau fraud: Woman gets bail  Deaf protest non-inclusion in confab  FCDA inaugurates c’ttee to investigate Wuse Market  FCT gets new FRSC boss  Residents flee Karmo as demolition begins  Treason, unlawful assembly: Six deported MASSOB members arraigned  Lagos commuter buses as vehicles to death  How billboards mutilate Hausa language  Why Kure wants Borgu Emir deposed  Road dualisation: Affected residents assured of compensation  Boni, Alamieyesiegha hold secret talks with Yar’adua  Immigration boss urges posted officers on resumption  Traditional rulers mobilise communities for census  No self-succession scheme will succeed in Nigeria -Mamman Danmusa  Atiku’s AD gamble  2007: IBB loses supporters to Marwa in Keffi  Marwa’s presidential bid gets the blessing of Katsina Emir  ‘Architect Of Total Football,’ Rinus Michels, dies at 77  Van Basten mourns father of Dutch football  Real outgun Beds to close the gap on Barcelona  Formidable Pizarro fires Bayern into cup semi  Decree /07/ NASS to expunge any addition on Bill  Kwara Utd spends Nil.5m on players’ transfer  CAF to monitor four high risk Venues  Fasuba wants govts to assist local athletes  NIP0GA: Bauchi Poly inaugurates publicity c’ttee  EDITORIAL: Ending the culture of official impunity  OBJ: One more example
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Daily trust newspaper Thursday 17th February 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no.64 Muharram 9, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-02-17) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 Bala Usman rejects nomination - PROSA CO sets up confab c’ttee  Wabara stops senators’ motion  FG seeks dismissal of Reps suit  Fire guts Wuse new market  NLC wants delegates to elect leadership  Surprise absentees from list  Obasanjo told to strike balance on appointments  Adisa tackles Saraki on Northern Union  MTN induces Reps with N16bn  Plateau: Dariye, legislators head for collision  FG identifies 193 illegal airstrips in the country  Niger Assembly passes law to derobe Borgu Emir  FG receives N61.8 billion Abacha loot  Togo apologises to Nigeria  Let Faure Gnassingbe be  Battling poverty on the wrong front  Revenue: Between tourism and oil  Thank you Adamu Adamu  Letter to Gov Adamu  Zimbabwe damps down on journalists  US development aid nets $19 billion  AISA wants greater role in AU  Pastor hands $14,000 to congregation for investment  Farmer paints pigeons to keep off predators  Woman, 79, attacks cops with cane  Lebanon: Thousands mourn al-Hariri  Yemen arrests five Al-Qaeda suspects  Iraq’s Sunnis demand US exit  Egypt offers border guards for Gaza  Israel to organise pullout with Palestine  Northern governors to rescue BON  Emir, Yar’Adua woo investors to Intercity Bank  Oil prices steady  First Bank earns N40bn in 9 months  World’s longest range airliner  Chartered Bank opens 2.4bn shares offer  FCM B board heralds IPO  Diversification, solution to economic woes -Hon. Nguwje  British investors eye Nigeria – Envoy  4 How Africa can attract global oil market’  SMEDAN’s techno expo opens March 9  The hostel privatisation crisis (IV)  NUC indicts lecturers over publications in journals  Ministry launches j staff shuttle buses  Minister inaugurates centre for earth study  Yobe to establish university  ETF takes HIV/AIDS campaign to schools  Non-accreditation of varsity’s college of medicine worries politician  Zamfara earmarks N1.7bn for schools rehabilitation  Don blames over-population for poor educational standards  BUK receives N70m hostel grant from bank  Govt to separate JSS/ SSS in unity schools  NCC donates 20 computers to school  UNILAG postpones resumption  FG begins $100m science, technology initiative  Minister commissions N4.5m FGGC, Abaji library  Robbers rob widow of N200,000  NEPA urges residents to pay up or get disconnected  Petitioner writes NHRC on Wuse Market demolition  FCT opens camp for Makarfi championship  Woman arraigned over criminal intimidation  BUK receives donation for new hostel  Doguwa LG gives goats to women as loans  Emir tasks drug manufacturers on NAFDAC  Polio to be eliminated soon - NPl Coordinator  Kano flags off schools census  Tax: LASG threatens closure of erring companies  Lagos opposes fresh proposal on Bar Beach development  LG to prosecute those who fell trees  NARTO warns of high transport cost  Justice Uwais tasks lawyers on book writing  Reps c’ttee chairman flays deputy over recapitalisation policy  Court grants bail to suspected horsemeat consumer  Kogi Gov gets education award  Postponement of NHIS launch not politically motivated - NHIS boss  FG approves dualisation of Abuja-Lokoja road  Masari wants reps to deliver democracy dividends  Borno assembly to probe LG boss over fraud  PDP chieftain alleges plot to kill Gov Daniel  PDP youth group denies plot to impeach Wabara  2007: Bafarawa lauds Kalu’s courage  Gov Goje orders arrest of political thugs  Why Okocha failed again  Outrage greets Jay Jay loss  Eto’o sparkles on big stage at Barcelona  NFL insists on security plans  NFA disowns MINAJ  Broadcast Right: Club owners dare MINAJ  ...Phase out play-offs  Kwara United ‘II remain in Ilorin –Bello  Nigeria hosts commonwealth handball championship  CAF award challenges Enyeama  Enyimba will win FIFA Club world cup  Further thoughts on the National Conference
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Daily trust newspaper Wednesday 16th 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no.63 Muharram 8, 1426 A.H.
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 FG silent on chairman, secretary  Enahoro, Soyinka may attend  Kabiru Yusuf leads Daily Trust team for coverage  Obasanjo picks 93 delegates  Discrepancies in states’ list  Justice Nasir advises delegates  Group berates appointment of Ogun delegates  Why FG insists on National Confab Atiku  Middle Belt wants independence  Northern Union out for unity of North -Dr. Sarak  Confab not alternative to N/Assembly –commissioner  Hajj: pilgrims airlift ends tomorrow  NICON privatisation to be completed this year  Niger moves to depose Emir of Borgu  KNSG receives N1.2bn from failed fertilizer contract  Senators oppose additional powers for EFCC  Education, panacea to fight against crime -Dr. Goldstone  2007: Not very subtle battle lines  Random rambling on Middle-Belt  Remembering Jika and Nas  Keep it up, Gov. Idris  Nigeria: Leadership and imperative of prayers  Apropos of Shekarau’s war of vengeance  Lebanon: The murder of Rafiq al-Hariri  Leaders react to killing of al-Hariri  US condemns al-Hariri’s murder, warns Syria1  Lebanese army ‘on alert’ after Beirut bombing  Lebanese opposition calls for resignation of govt  Al-Qaeda dismisses Islamist involvement  Philippines vow crackdown on rebels  Man blames tumour for bank robberies  Woman tears off ex lover’s organs with hand  Iran mosque fire kills 59  Chinese mine explosion leaves 203 dead  Suspect forgets wallet at scene, calls police  Iraqi shi’ah alliance meets to decide PM  Wild turkeys move to barbecue town  Emir wants Katsina Airport alive for Hajj 2006  NCAA to enforce N.5m illegal mast fine  ..as FAAN plans for nation’s airports  Security operatives seal off NAHCO  RCC denies report on Kano Airport equipment  Group alerts on alleged concession of oil wells  Mrs Mandela lauds: Globacom’s world-class facility  Valentines Day: M-tel donates N.5m for boy’s heart cure  V-Mobile connects Damaturu  Ndnkwe pledges better phone networks  Fadama III: World Bank emphasises rural transportation  2005 budget: Obasanjo pledges 10% increase to agriculture  Yobe govt earmarks N1.9bn for water resources  Fertiliser: FCT procures 25 tons for farmers  Forum urge FG to develop agriculture for export  Produce marketing not so black- farmer  ‘Lack of funds stalls Kaduna bypass road project’  UDBN to construct student hostels for 25 varsities  FG to alleviate accommodation problem of Africa Re  PCBR c’ttee warns contractors against shoddy jobs  Property owners owe Plateau govt N99m  LG chairman warns against bush burning  Council passes bye-Iaw on cellophane disposal  Forum calls for dualisation of regional roads  FG allays fear on Ocean surge  Mande inaugurates GCLME project  FCT NSE chairman loses father  Wuse New Market traders obey relocation order  Three security guards docks for negligence  sales clerk nabbed for falsifying account  Parents want government to reduce school fees  New NGO inaugurated in Abuja  Valentine Day: Students donate gifts to orphanage  FCT judges urged to shun unwanted litigation  Winners receive N1m each from Globacom  Staff welfare paramount for development –BU K VC  Muslims urged to be brothers’ keepers  Bunkure LG donates Qur’an to mosques, schools  LASG, LG chairmen may clash over revenue  Works controller denies approving Falomo under bridge motor park  Seven jailed for illegally boarding ship  First Islamic estate in Lagos for launch tomorrow  Rebuilding Our House  Arthur Miller’s Death o f a Salesman: Great theatre, about far from great lives  Running down Abuja, Nigeria and Nigerians  Okonkwo Complex in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (II)  Foundation condemns youth/ police clash in Numan  Protestors destroy NEPA office over power outage, outrageous bills  Forgery: Controversy trails withdrawal of suit over Gov Duke  Court okays Bakassi hand over  Akwa Ibom to stage cultural festival soon  Councillor killed in robbery attack  Sherrif, Kumalia jostle for the soul of Borno ANPP  Faltering Valencia begin UEFACup defence  Stoudemire leads scorching Suns to topple Jazz  Coaching changes to blame for Kenya’s slide – Tergat  Secret of my success, by Siasia  NFL shifts grounds for Abuja clubs  Yarima donates 38-seater bus to Zamfara United  Kwara govt reacts to ban on Ilorin stadium  Tornadoes will fall  Siasia worried over player’s low turn-out  Abbey eyes the Premiership  Basketball: Can Erinfolami transfrom Delta Force?  IBF invites Daniel to world academy  Ekezie rejoins Atlanta Hawks  Puling a violent police culture  The Me-Generation, language and politics
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Daily trust newspaper Friday 18th February,2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no.65 Muharram 10, 1426 A.H.
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 MTN Cards: Reps suspend Yerima  NNPC to fund confab –Na ‘Abba alleges  …Southern senators endorse  Women protest marginalization  Togo: Faure meets Obasanjo  Governors want 50% of excess crude shared  Ajaokuta managers buy Delta Steel for N4 3bn  Save the last textile mill, UNTL staff appeals to Makarfi  Britain increases aid to Nigeria by N25bn  IBB lauds Reps, says democracy has great future  Former deputy senate president in London hospital  FG signs tourism master plan  NNDC declares N83m profit  198 delegates represent North  Controversy trails Plateau list  TMG picks holes in nomination process  Senator faults confab objectives  Selection process undemocratic - Ex-minister  Togo’s maggot in the apple  EFCC and the law  Kebbi 2007:.How not to choose Aliero’s successor  Kogi : Time for power shift  Togo: OATUU condemns Eyadema’s son presidency  Iran to help Syria against threats  Ugandan rebel commander surrenders  Central Africa seeks end to conflict  Lebanon: Al-Hariri’s family demands probe into killing  US expresses concern over terrorism in Nigeria  FG sets up oil stabilization fund  Oil price rises above $48  Kano zone customers owe NEPA N361m  SPDC completes Gbaran/Ubie gas project  Chevron Texaco in peace talks with community  Japan’s central bank  Dollar falters between Euro and Yen  Can a woman relinquish her baby  Obasanjo advocates women’s right  Protest over violence against women in Namibia – Reports  Cleric berates western media over women’s freedom\  Sidelining women at the national conference  60 in hospital with water borne diseases  South African coy to fabricate SME machines in FCT  10 burnt in bus accident along Abaji road  NURTW refutes report  Ashura: Celebration according to different creeds  Kuramo Beach: Prostitution in different guise  British high commission sacks Nigerian staff for extortion  Court arraigns lecturer for beating colleague  Teenager stabs man to death  Corruption: NEPA staff issue conditions to the management  Muazu reshuffles cabinet, appoints five commissioners  AMBON urges FG to alleviate economic hardship  Tsetse flies invade Bauchi, kill 500 cows  Cross River to set up boundary c’ttees  Tl admits weaknesses in corruption rating  Yobe explores spring water for revenue  Tidjani: Counsel, argues over court jurisdiction  Census: Jigawa Ulama canvass support  Ekiti pays N1.8m compensation to victims of police brutality  Reps to inspects areas affected by T yplia grass  Doctors set for another strike  Complications mar distribution of ID cards in Benue  Is it a dialogue or a conference?  Manchester United named richest football club …for eight year running  Federer overcomes nervous start  Ronaldo returns from engagement bash with toe injury  Spurs crush Hornets to match league’s best record  Roddick advances after first victory over Clement  NFAplans legal action against MINAJ  Dolphin players in auto crash  Okocba blunder: Heads wlArolA-Suleiman  Ogunjobi: Panel submits report on Monday  Gabrous dreams league title  Lorfa hails the return of ex-Eagles stars  Nigeria: Why process isn’t due
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Daily trust newspaper Tuesday 15th February, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 61 Muharram 6, 1426 A.H.
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 Mrs Akume’s friend died at thanksgiving service  Confab opens Feb 21.FG list out today  NNPC may resume oil search in Chad Basin  FG vows to restore peace in Togo. One killed as opposition protest  DND test confirms parents of ‘Baby81’  Senate to pass 2005 budget today  Northern Union: I am not rattled, says Awoniyi  Hyenas wreak havoc in Kebbi  NNPC told to subject self to due process  Destitutes, Okada riders, traders contribute to Jigawa pension scheme  Mrs Abacha, others mourn Wada Nas  Northern senators explain rejection of confab  Former perm sec lambasts NASS  Gov Mu’azu okays conference  NCF to insist on multi-party democracy  Full text of Obasanjo’s speech  Feature: A day set apart for love  Re: The mother of all confabs...  Open letter to late General Murtala  Boni’s diatribe against Adamu: Matters arising  The meeting of columnists  Haba Trust newspapers!  Yobe as theatre of the absurd  Beyond the criticisms against Goie  Thousands nee DR Congo in fresh fighting  UN appeals for more Sudan funds  Kenya’s Kibaki defends corruption record  ...Morocco arrests soldiers over sex scandal  Mbeki condemns Togo transition, warns Cote d’ Ivoire  EU urges restraint overEthiopia-Eritrea dispute  Iraqi Shi’ah move to form coalition  Sharon orders crackdown on extremists  .. .Turkey expresses concern over vote  Explosion in Lebanon kills six  No independence for Kosovo- Serbian president  Station offers free valentine’s divorce  Avalanche kills five in Greece  Birds crashland after getting drunk  Leyland resumes operations soon  Mercedes warns of difficult 2005 market  PAN to display 14 models at Kaduna fair  BPE hands over “Abacha refinery” to core investor  FG begins privatisation of quarry companies  MAN urges Kano govt to establish power plants  AISA faults Africa’s performance at international steel market  NARTO blames high transport cost on interest rates  French workers to put in 48 hrs a week  NLC urges unions to forge common front  Benue NUT initiates loan scheme for primary school teachers  Association faults Africa’s % performance at international market  Akwa Ibom civil servants reap benefits of monetization  Applicants flay difficulty in accessing NDE loans  Union accuses Arewa Textiles mgt of violating laws  Delta youths organise employment summit  Labour leaders disagree over confab  Pension: Union threatens to shut 37 companies  Anti-retroviral therapy in Nigeria  Virginity and Discharge  Miscarriage and causes  Duration of Menses  Pre-mature ejaculation and remedy  Police apprehend fake drug dealers  GSK introduces new pack for Zinnat  Experts fault govt’s review of malaria treatment policy  Minister gives recipe for health sector improvement  Malaria parasite resistance not peculiar to Nigeria –Lamb  Africa’s health systems compounds threat of communicable diseases – Lambo  VOA campaigns against HIV/AIDS spread  NGOs, CBOs’ activities in combating HIV/AIDS scourge get commendation  INDIGESTION IDYSPEPSIA  IRRITABLE BOWEL MOVEMENT  NURTW lauds exit of Balogun  Wuse market: Traders lose N2bn, demand compensation  Bakassi Market traders brace up for demolition  .. .may open tomorrow  Kubwa market traders invite el-Rufai  British Council entertains city residents  Gwale pays workers N40m monthly  Madobi LG employs 30 health personnel  KNSG to enact law on achaba riders  13 wards to get projects in municipal LG  Lagos approves kola pod cottage industry for Ikorodu  Electronic tax clearance certificate for Lagos taxpayers  Police warn OPC factions over bloody clashes  LASG berates NCP over call to dissolve LGs  Police arrest bizman with corpse inside car  FG to procure seven asphalt plants  NEMA acquires N l.lbn helicopter  55 cultists detained in Ilorin prison  Immigration reshuffles top hierarchy  Federal service commission tasked on job creation  Newspaper vendors protest arrest, extortion by SSS operatives  Stop N20 extortion, IGP tells police  Obasanjo wants more women in elective offices  Hajj: Kabo rejects failure allegation  Dariye: Court begins hearing on abduction case  Daura LG earmarks N58m for market discongestion  Ibori appeals court verdict  ID Card: Adamawa state cards ready  Senate’s questionable opposition to confab  Confab‘Il complement the constitution - AfF. Ahmed  Yoga helps gigs bear pain  UEFA chief, Johansson, quits as AIK chairman  Robinho upstages Tevez as Santos thump Corinthians  United hopeful of Ruud return  Milan keep Juve within their sights  Luxemburgo record seventh straight win  C'lijsters launches comeback in Antwerp  Bryant returns but Lakers fall to Cavaliers  Thorpe to miss world championships  OKOCHA BLUNDER: CAF meet on NFA protest  Goals, red cards, crowd trouble open new season  Amokachi pulls crowd in Ibadan  TV BLACKOUT:NFL gives MINAJ ultimatum  3SC coach hails Amokachi  Hajj 2005: Same old story?  Stealing in the name of Lord
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Daily trust newspaper Monday 14th February, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no.61 Muharram 6, 1426 A.H.
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 Justice Tobi, Kukah head confab  PDP may sanction house members over confab  Shi’ah coalition wins Iraqi polls  Oceanic Bank raises N17.6bn from IPO  Akume’s outrider dies in crash. Kills Catholic priest  Shi’ah coalition wins Iraqi polls  West African Bank governors seek removal of subsidies  Court declares Bauchi election tribunal illegal  Pension Act: NLC suspends deductions in private sector  Why we rejected confab budget - Sen. Tsauri  EU earmarks N20bn for 2005 census  FG distributes ID cards in Benue today  Plateau PDP crisis deepens  Obasanjo meets senate over foreign debt  Kebbi advocates state police  Bauchi CNPP rejects confab list  Don’t accuse us j of taking bribe -Sen Wada  Borno Muslims decry neglect of North East  Success of confab lies on sincerity – Ohaneze  Kwara confab nominees not cronies – govt  Re: Abdulkadir Abacha still on wanted list  Why we must not talk to Gov. Sani  Special Project on Reputable Printing Companies in Nigeria  Togo: Long live nepotism!  Census 2005: The technical blunders  Govt securities sales hit N63.6bn  Shareholders endorse Intercity s Bank’s audited accounts  NAIC pays Bauchi farmers N8m claims  Muazu makes case for ‘smaller’ banks  Chartered Bank launches ATM  NSE index rises by 2.66%  Somalis protest against AU troops  American playwright Arthur Miller is dead  Embassy donates to National Islamic library  Floods claim 300 in Pakistan  Israel to release 500 Palestinians prisoners  John West Packaging Limited: commercial Printing at its best  NITEL unveils software on detailed billing system  Motorola plans huge investment in Nigeria  Microsoft enforces anti-piracy policy  LG vows to out-sell Samsung, Siemens  Union Bank deploys ATMs at Kaduna fair  El-Rufai inaugurates ministerial advisory c’ttee  Water vendors to withdraw supply to Water Resources Ministry  Army pledges to help FRSC  Civil servant faces forgery charge  Abuja NEPA loses N11m cables to vandals  Kumbotso sets up computer training centre  Shekarau severs police support for hisbah guards  Wudil hisbah/ shariah c’ttees get N200,000 boost  Emir solicits support for police  NGO to provide N3m water scheme for desert trees  Lagos helicopter shuttle service takes off July  Eric Moore residents sue Dock MD over threat of eviction  LASG to draft civil servants to classroom  SCSN to establish 3 additional Shariah panels in Lagos  Trailer plunges into Lagos lagoon  2007: Bauchi youth group A declares support for Marwa  Rivers LG chairman bags ‘best LG merit award’  Jigawa communities hold rally for senator  FCT APGA condemns demolition of Wuse market  50 lawyers to hasten prosecution of Abuja, Lagos suspects  Dariye cautioned against installation of traditional ruler  Henry declares everlasting love for Arsenal  Mickelson in seventh heaven  NBA superstar Malone to bow out  Iverson’s 60-point haul leaves Magic spellbound  Nigerian stars on song in Europe  Ilorin sports complex to gulp N150m  TV blackout for star match  Pillars get N25m boost  ... hold NPA at Onikan  Togo succession crisis  Hajj without tears
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Daily trust newspaper Wednesday 23rd February, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 68 Muharram 15, 1426 A.H.
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 NATIONAL CONFAB- Senators query Wabara  .Platform for Obasanjo’s self-succession – CNPP  N10OO note out August  Election tribunal ruling: Senator, Rep resign  New population policy seeks voluntary birth control  Police kill two in Kaduna, Port Harcourt  Police killing: Protesters block Akume, Ogbeh with coffins  ABU, BUK lecturers begin warning strike today  Jaiz dispels investors fear  Why Obasanjo enacted cassava bread policy - Presidential aide  Anenih, Okorocha differ on one party state  NNPC, ChevronTexaco sign N146bn Agbami vessel contract  We closed Abuja airport for security reasons - Yuguda Mb senate  Women group may organise protest confab  Conference^ examine our problems –Ezekwesili  Shagari expresses support  Abba-Gana tasks civil society delegates  It’s coup against NASS- Historian  BPE paid N3.4 bn to privatized coys workers- Dr. Bala  I won’t retrench workers -Gov Daniel  Ibru: Counsel apologises to court over walk out action  Kwara hosts international seminar on Islamic literature  C’ttee chairman seeks supports for Petroleum Act amendment Bill  A Social critic’s burden  The regions and political confab  Confab: Cautioning Gani, Soyinka and Enahoro  Soyinka and the national conference  Re: Kure’s turn to give account  National confab and the misgivings  National dialogue and national security  Togo’s parliament reverses constitution changes  Ceasefire expires in north Uganda  African peer review mechanism commences in Nigeria  Mugabe blasts Britain  Egyptians stage anti-Mubarak protest  Avalanche claims 146 in Kashmir  US embassy gets new information officer  N/Korea gives conditions for talks  Chartered Bank to merge with 2 others  10 banks dominate January transactions in NSE  ‘Private banking most profitable in Nigeria’  Frontier Funds nets N26.6m profit  River Niger dredging contract: EFCC recovers N660m from banks  FG acquires 78 patrol boats for $65m  Japaul floats maritime stock soon  Shippers council boss stresses need for commission  R ep assures of Calabar port dredging  Blair commission commits £6m to poverty eradication  Oil prices rise to $50  World airlines spend $1.6bn on missing baggage  Saving the environment from man or vice versa  40 people killed in Indonesian garbage slide  SPDC completes N43 m per unit Stallion Terraces  Obasanjo commissions Mararaba housing estate  FG receives quotation on Eleme j unction flyover  Ogunlewe tasks private sector on South-South infrastructure  Absence of walkways causes death in Lagos -BICL boss  UN consultant gives panacea for food insecurity  GSP develops improved groundnuts seeds  FG targets .6m tonnes of cocoa by 2008  IITA wages war against cassava disease  Agric ministry organizes fish farming workshop  NAPEP trains 300 farmers on cassava, fruit processing  Heat wave hits Abuja, environs  Woman charged for allegedly duping Plateau of N10m  Traders besiege FCDA over market accreditation  DNCR staff docked for obstructing presidential convoy  Hike of plate number prices blamed on joint task force  Janguza Barracks worst in Nigeria -Commanding officer  Tsunami funds c’ttee pledges fair play  Villagers build house for environment activist  KNSG to Kano of mosquitoes  Hospital partners with LG on health problem  Corruption: NEPA reads riot act to staff  NEPA averts protest over electricity blackout in Aujara  FG budgets N10bn for highway expansion in Lagos  Lagos promotes 49 civil servants  IGP orders raids on illegal roadblocks along seme mile II  Biafra Phillip Effiong’s book out  Titi Abubakar, Dangote launch The Impossible President  From child soldier to rap superstar  Amnesty ‘adopts’ Hotel Rwanda  Obote ranted at me for 30 minutes—Robin White  Slavery: Cruelest trade How a minority of abolitionists won over the majority  Okonkwo Complex in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (III)  SOME HARD FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TARABA  FIRS collects N1.2 trillion in 2004  IBB’s I campaign kicks off in South-West  Accident rate down by 67% — Hananiya  Attorney-General wants improved welfare for magistrates  Police arrest vigilante leader in Gombe  Horse eating case: Witness affirms defendant’s guilt  Ekiti earmarks N55m for Assembly complex  Motorcyclist in dilemma over knocked down boy  Plateau: Kanam rejects new traditional ruler  Motorcycle loans: Yobe NUT seeks payment subsidy  DFID: Joint wetlands livelihood project  ‘Strengthening the structures of democratic governance in Nigeria’  Obasanjo intervenes in Borno PDP crisis  2007: Sokoto philanthropist denies guber ambition  Confab: Opportunity to address our problems –Abashe  Nigerians in UK canvass support for IBB  Rep advises Ohaneze on confab  Confident United bank on Van Nistelrooy return  Mourinho nurses Chelsea to the Nou Camp  Porto expect cautious approach from Inter  Els misses Accenture Match Play  Woods eyes return to top spot  Agassi Into second round in Dubai  Davis Cup woe for Philippoussis  Zamfara Utd. dare Enyimba  Nigeria better than Ghana – Osim  Amokachi disappoints Lafia fans  Nasarawa’s Eseluka targets league goleador  Insurance celebrate end of jinx  Ogunjobi: FIFA grants document stolen from Glass House  NFL gives Globacom 7 days ultimatum  3SC striker dreams League Shield  Club proprietors to face sanction for misconduct  Nigeria and the Security Council seat  National Conference: The price of bad faith
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Daily trust newspaper Tuesday 22nd February, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 67 Muharram 14, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-02-22) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 NATIONAL CONFAB: No hidden agenda against North- Delegates  Jerry Gana defends Tobi, Kukah’s choice  Conference adjourns till Monday  I won’t be used for hidden agenda -Niki Tobi  Nigeria’s unity non-negotiable – Obasanjo  FG seeks diplomatic support for “Due Process”  FG to approve seven new private varsities  Barrack contractors warned over substandard building materials  EFCC recovers N98bn from fraudsters  AG blames foreign ministry over ignorance of treaties  Reps explain Yerima’s suspension  NNPC denies funding confab  Report must only be recommendations for review -Gov. Ibrahim  JNI decries Muslims marginalization  North-east zone gets think-tank  Scrapping of states dangerous for Nigeria -Dr. Tahir  Confab numbers and trivia  Muazu sets Bauchi agenda  Confab? Stupid blackman!  Makarfi’s opponents and posterity  Nigeria’s economic reform and the IMF  Good luck conferees, but…  Gusau, Awoniyi: Like teacher, like student  Time to stand for something  National dialogue and national security  Iran: 26 years after revolution  EU, US back ECOWAS sanctions on Togo  Germany cuts Kenya anti-graft aid  ...Kassongov calls for reconciliation confab  Mugabe sacks minister over election bid  Libya, Egypt support AU over Darfur crisis  US wants me assassinated – Chavez  Portuguese socialists win polls  Israel releases 500 Palestinian prisoners  Russia backs Iran in nuclear row  Al-Qaeda gives conditions for peace  Indonesia landslide buries 13,100 missing  Mistakenly freed inmate returns to prison  Landlord gas tenant in eviction dispute  Man blows up car with cigarette  $118 Debt: Court rejects IILL’S objection  CBN clears N139bn in Sokoto zone  NBM Bank  UBA  Afribank  PAN claims leadership in Nigeria’s auto market  Nissan’s ‘smart’ cars return to lanes  GM to end production of Envoy XUV  US Dollar up slightly against Euro  Kebbi to establish small-scale industries  Union wants confab to bridge societal gap  AUPCTRE seeks legal redress for FUMTA staff  NUTGWUN urges patronage of Nigerian textiles  Forum examines implications of pension reform Act  Association condemns govt involvement in road transportation  NITEL mgt , committed to staff welfare –Mashi  Railway workers send SOS to FG over pay  Monetisation: FG receives ultimatum from SSAUGSG0C over FRCN workers  Trade unions flay govt policy on education  RTEAN moves to check illegal toll collection  CAT seeks 50 months pay arrears for NigerCem  Is the NDE delivering?  Transporters demand better welfare for police  Shell staff hold courses  PENGASSAN, NUPEG liaise with PPPRA on oil stability  USAID takes HIV/AIDS fight to rural areas  Lambo warns against female genital mutilation  Cross River intensifies campaign against HIV/AIDS  NHIS, Labour unions fine-tune smooth take-off of NHIS scheme  Akwa Ibom receives 128,000 insecticide treated nets  CMD applauds Zamfara govt for establishing dialysis, centre  Medical expert discovers new causes of infertility  PILES  ORAL CAVITY CARE (TEETH AND GUMS)  UNFPA treats 200 VVF patients  PMG-MAN assures availability of ACT drugs soon  Resident doctors call for integration into NHIS, NPI  C’ttee to review NHIS law set up  Area One traders lament impending demolition  We did not set fire to Bakassi Market-MFCT  FCDA completes N1.5bn satellite town road project  Head of orphanage calls for understanding with underprivilege  Lagos disburses N25m to skilled trainees  Lagos confab delegates to demand release of LG funds  LAHA calls on FG to set leadership example  HIV/AIDS awareness: LASG signs MOU with 41 NGOs  Kebbi commended over Quranic recitation competition  September 11 attack strengthens Islam in US  Police arrest killer of Bassa LG boss  UK youth facilitate posters of British mosques  Achaba boys attack Jigawa FRSC office, injure 30 officers  FG signs N190m Akwa Ibom road project  Fuel scarcity hits Benue  Dariye commits N11b to road construction  Cross Rivers spends N300m on boreholes  Islamic scholar seeks to fight crime with prayers  NEPA staff clash with students over disconnection  …warns against harassment of staff  ‘Strengthening the structures of democratic governance in Nigeria’  Bridge could miss rest of season  Mauresmo fights back to win title  Iverson stars as East beat West  Federer wins title in Rotterdam  Eastman: Bidding his time  Knockout round to revive Championships League sparkle  Bayern’s Ballack likely to miss Arsenal clash  Decree 101 FIFA warns Nigeria over delay  Okocha vote: NFA admit guilt  Kwara Utd, Lobi go top  I’m not broke -Amokachi  Nasarawa grab first points  Nationale pip Dolphin  Privatisation of hostels  Yerima and the whistle on corruption
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Daily trust newspaper Monday, 21st February 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no.66 Muharram 13, 1426 A.H.
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-02-21) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 National Conference-The road to perdition?  NATIONAL CONFAB - Monguno, Yakasai, others decry lopsided leadership  …Women groups sue Obasanjo  Gen Adisa flown abroad after ghastly accident  CBN can’t give banks tax waivers-FIRS  Egyptian doctors remove baby’s second head  Delegates get N600 sitting allowance each  Women not marginalized-Dikko  Why we withdrew suit against Confab – Reps  Confab Constitutional – Etiebet  ACF urges North’s confab delegates to unite  South-South charged on common interest  FG shares 50% excess crude revenue  No pressure can stop shariah -Zamjara gov  FG warns ASUU against strike  Adultery: Kaduna Assembly member alleges frame up  National Mosque rehabilitation plan on course –Gov. Adamu  Let no talk turn asunder  As we mourn malcom X today - By Nasir Dambatta  A vote for deregulation  Yoruba elders, call Gani Adams to order  Letter to President Obasanjo  R e : Nigeria’s debt trap  ECOWAS imposes sanctions on Togo  ...Appoints Nigerian to head anti-laundering unit  Bangladesh ferry mishap kills 82,150 missing  Bombings mar Iraq’s Shi’ah festival  FSB returns to profitability: By Ahmed I. Shekarau, Group Business Editor  First Atlantic Bank emerges most active stock  Oceanic Bank opens Bauchi, Minna, Katsina branches  Bank arraigns staff over alleged fraud  FG’s economic reforms will boost capital market - Bank chief  Bank arraigns staff over alleged fraud  FG’s economic reforms will boost capital market - Bank chief  Port concession has no place in law-.Rep  Port police smash suspected container fraud syndicate  ...We’re committed to it, says NPA  Stakeholder sues port compol  Oil prices rise above $48: By A hm ed I. Shekarau, Group Business Editor, with Agency report  Ex Boeing CFO bags jail sentence  Reforms essential to sustainable devt – Lukman  Africa needs extra $50bn to meet MDGs - U K treasury scribe  Consumer council vows to fight poor services: By Andrew Agbese, Reporter (Business)  Trend TV displays at Kaduna Fair  H P , Nokia team for mobile forms initiative  NCC reviews VoIP, VSAT regulations  E-nnovate expo to hold March  APC introduces InfraStruXure into Ghana  Omahosting launches services in Nigeria  ‘Do something’ LG boss appeals to FCT water board  Bwari LG distributes N7m materials to students El-Rufai challenges institute on trans-national communication  FERMA requires j XI 0 0m annually for FCT roads By Godwin Tyonongo, Stringer, Abuja  VOA establishes Kano health reporting centre-From Aliyu Machika, Correspondent (Kano  Flood victims get land in Kumbotso  Woman bags prison term for selling alcohol  Kano schools enjoy rehabilitation work  NULGE commends Rimin Gado over bikes donation  Extortion: Task force f arrests LG officials  Ikoyi/Obalende LG clamp down on lunatics  Unregistered vehicles, spare parts dealers face prison term  Over 50 OPC members in police net over clash  Emir takes Goje to Appeal Court  Obasanjo opens Kaduna trade fair  Retired judge crushed to death  The story of my life – Abdul Razaq (SAN)  Kabo Air completes pilgrims airlift  Police arrest suspected killer of UniJos lecturer  ABU SSANU disburses 150 cars to members  Mrs. Atiku commissions WOTCLEF’s office in Nasarawa today  Water Aid expends N135m in Plateau  AKHA passes into law N87.172bn budget  Even with NASS in place confab still desirable - Banister 'Yancbto  Siasia: No promises in Mali  3SC steal point from Sharks  Wikki tame Tornadoes  Former NFA boss, Ikpeazu, laid to rest  The (not so) national conference
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Daily trust newspaper: trust is a burden vol.10, no.60, Muharram 3, 1426 A.H. 11th February, 2005
(Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-02-11) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
 Obasanjo heads for Lome today  ANPP factions reconcile  Man fooled landlord for 5 years dressing as lady  Don’t stop IBB, Buhari’s allowances – senate urge FG  Boat mishap claims 18 children in Jigawa  Missing ship: Reps ask EFCC to probe banks  Niger varsity to be sited at lapai  Crisis in political parties threat to democracy-Atiku  FG denies banning chloroquine for malaria treatment  Monetization workers give FG 12 days ultimatum  Excessive campaign spending :Senate seeks party deregistration  Jigawa revokes C of Os, sacks education secretaries  CNPP rejects invitation  Civil society coalition reject confab  Dikko seeks public input to Kaduna agenda  National dialogue will strengthen democracy –AT Ahmed  Grand Khadi cautions national confab on region  Confab :Leaping before you look  Towards meaningful dialogue  Revisiting indigene/settler syndrome  SOS to Gov Abdullahi adamu  Gunmen kill journalist in Somalia  UN acts on sex abuse allegations in DR Congo, Kenya  NGO urges ‘force’ on Togo  N/Korea marks 63rd anniversary of Supreme Leader  Islam remains source for legislation in Sudan –President  NATO is united over Iraq –Rice  N/Korea quits nuclear talks  ‘Iran will stick to nuclear plan  Saudis vote in national polls  Israel halts security S h a i f l P talks after fresh violence  Northerners tasked on banking industry  .. .urged to form three mega banks  First Atlantic Bank offers N7.5bn shares for subscription  Consolidation: NAL Bank to raise N1Obn, eyes foreign banks  Why Citizens Bank’s chairman was sacked-CBN  FG shops for N75bn to settle workers’ severance package  NEIC commends NMA  Four new ports underway  Police drag wharf‘rat’ to court  BCC: Production resumes amidst community disturbances  NAFCON: Senate c’tte opposes privatization  MTN turns pensioner, 20 others to millionaires  Mr. Biggs, GSK joint prompt ends  Oil prices up as IEA sees tighter supply  Total backs deregulation 6f downstream sector  BPE names consulting firms for EPCL privatization  NEPA moves to improve power supply  … open new service station  Global fleet MD bags award  Philippine oil companies overcharge consumers –Report  Agu is s till NMA ’s D G –Minister  Church assists mentally handicapped children in Zaria  DG decries women’s marginalization  Anambra to assist FIDA’s delegation to Beijing conference  Former minister extols family unit  Minister wants reproductive health given priority  Commissioner urges governments to invest in girl child education  World confab on women: Task before Nigeria’s delegation  ‘Girls should be enrolled in school’-Binta Masari  National Health Insurance Scheme kicks off May 29  FG sets up agro-aviation wing against pests  Dariye tasks NIPSS on political reform  Gombe councils get township roads  Ibibio Patriarch calls for closer ties  LG awards contract for Bida motor pack construction  “Inability to access funds, bane of SMEs”  Law enforcers ill-equipped to fight corruption –Agabi  Niger commits N6.1b to road projects  Tribunal strikes out chairmanship petition for Kabba/Bunu council  Govt rolls out tankers to solve Zaria water problem  FG restates commitment to Cocoa restoration  China pledges support for Nigeria’s anti-piracy war  Demolition: Trauma of the residents  ... APGA condemns demolition  Dress Cede. U niAbiij a begins implementation  Industrialists plan jobs for FCT residents  Anenih chairs Catholic university launch  2005 Census: Bwari sets up enlightenment c’tte  Karu lawmakers demand explanation on marked buildings  GSM users in Kano speak on poor services  Lagos motor parks: Haven for criminals, drugs, alcoholism  FG to provide barriers on Lagos highways  Ministry clarifies air over rumor on LG fund  $242mscatn: EFCC, counsel argues over Nwude’s health  Census exercise to gulp N34.5bn  Coronation of Borgu Emir postponed  Niger stops Hajj sponsorship, announces 2006 fare  Jigawa NEPA launches anticorruption campaign  IBRU: Court rejects Rabo Lawal access to statement  FG denies scrapping Due Process unit  Fraud: NAHCO suspends GM, HOD Accountant  NITEL staff declare fasting over job losses  Proposed conference designed to short-change north – Gambo Magaji  SIECS decry non-inclusion in confab  Rep petitions PDP chairman over Ajaokuta LG Primaries  PDP is a failure –ISSODIV  2007: Atiku’s aide for Benue guber race  No Robben reliance  Singh eyes Pebble Beach repeat  Man L td fans stage Glazer protest  Serena cruises into third round  Misfiring Roddick claims victory  Crespo brilliance denies Germany at the death  Super subs swing it for Italy  Agony for Wright-Phillips as Dutch hold England  France show signs of return to form  Everything to play for, as night turns to day  Meridian Cup: Africa on the learning curve  Confab: Leaping before you look