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    Daily trust newspaper Wednesday, March 16, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 83 SAFAR 6, 1426 A.H.
    (Lagos State: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-16) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
     NLC survives new labour bill  Monetisation gulps N100bn  NATIONAL CONFAB: Removal of immunity my expectation –Obasanjo  … says NASS sabotages privatization  CBN approves Sterling Bank group merger  Imminent volcanic eruption worries Reps  Fire razes Makurdi modern market  2003 polls were partially dishonest —American scholar  HIV/AIDS: World Bank Withholds Funding for Borno  Basic Education for all by 2015 still elusive –Prof Tahir  Tinubu wants Ngige to join AD  Al-Mustapha’s trial stalled  Commissioner, 4 others face court over N68.2m fraud  Union wants discontinuation of pension deductions  Fire guts Al-Bashir’s residence  Plateau needs N10bn to reclaim mining sites  ...state ‘varsity gets first VC, registrar  Appoint IGs through proper means —Usman Farouk  Ex-General against regional military  Ex gov, Goni, asks FG to settle foreign debt  Gombe delegate wants ACF, Afenifere, others scrapped  Abdullahi Ibrahim heads 50-member biz c’ttee  Stop recycling old leaders -Delegate urges  Make university education three years –Delegates  We are functional at | confab –AD  Traditional institutions, agents of disunity -Shehu Sani  When the AC’s stopped  Brisk business for photographers  Tobi can be tough too  Well done, Muazu  Overzealous security men (and women)  Apologies won’t do  PDP: Ogbeh’s successor as ‘the last Imam’  A vote for social dialogue  MASSOB as storm in a tea cup  Re: 2007: No dark horse as President  NEPA, please give Miringa transformer  Farmers urged to benefit from community plantation scheme  Nigeria’s rice importation drops  Adamawa set to boost cocoa production  UN urges Ethiopia, Eritrea over border impasse  Sudan criticises US over sanctions  Uganda warns Somali warlords  180.000 died in Darfur- UN  World court hears DR Congo’s first case  ...gives ultimatum to rebels  Landmines affect one million Mozambicans-Reports  Clinton goes home after heart surgery  Jackson boy denies being abused  ‘Russia offered $10m to Maskhadov killer’  Parliament deliberate on ant invasion  Pay with your fingerprint at the supermarket  Police cart away Chiluba’s clothes, shoes  Mussolini’s granddaughter on hunger strike  Egyptian president holds talks in Syria  US admits difficulties of Iran intelligence  Australian Media criticized over treatment of Muslims  Pakistan ‘lost’ Bin Laden trail  US Congress to probe World Bank accounting error  Oil prices surge above $55, ahead OPEC meeting  CBN clears N55bn in Katsina zone  Why SMEs fail to perform –SMEDAN  NCAA to audit airlines  NCS Ibadan surpasses revenue target  Japaul proposes 15k dividends to shareholders  NPA launches aerial surveillance helicopter  ...pays allowances to estate residents  NCAT to acquire N40 million radar  Forum charges airlines on consumer protection  Virgin fits upper class suite unto Gatwick aircraft  Dollar steady ahead of capital flow data  Nigeria is benefiting from TAC –Ambassador Daura  Erosion cuts off 3 Enugu communities  Obasanjo welcomes increased private sector interest in mortgage financing  Duke warns against bush burning  FCDA to construct four multi-level car park  Conservation foundation deplores state of zoos  FCT commences 2nd stage of cadastral land registry  Nigerians query sale of FG properties  FMBN denies truncating new housing policy  FG spends N3.7b on 4 bridges  NSE task governments on engineers  ...to link roads in bitumen, gas producing areas  NPA pays port residents three years housing allowances to leave  Iran to allocate $50m for rebuilding Afghanistan  SSS, el-Rufai parley on security  Area One traders sue el-Rufai  Vendor arraigned over stolen copies of Daily Trust  Magistrate remands two over stolen car  ACOMORAN sacks own chairman  Ministry staff charged for intimidation  Man in court over sexual assault on 4-yr-old  Chief praises clean up exercise  Fake ampicillin syrup producers nab bed  Madobi expends over N200m on projects  Fire disaster'. School receives N70,000 donation  KNSG to construct 1,528 houses  158 VVF patients undergo free treatment  Public, private hospitals warned over medical waste disposal  AD chieftain cautions A against calumny  Tinubu calls for full implementation  Tinubu appoints new press secretary  Lagos expends N1.3b monthly on new LGs  Oba of Lagos declares support for confab  HIV/AIDS spread worries Jigawa  Yar’Adua signs N31bn 2005 appropriation Bill  Commissioner cautions FG over scrapping of joint account  FG urged to build good roads  MT African pride: Afolayan receives court martial report  ...committed to funding energy research centres – DG  Jigawa to develop mineral deposits  Crash landing: Yuguda condemns media reports  Benue electoral commission postpones election in Kwande LG  Sultan appeals for housewives’ participation in census  Reps probe use of ecological fund  C’ttee blames police inefficiency on funding  Barracks rehabilitation c’ttee warns two contractors  Anti-human trafficking hotlines launched in Akwa Ibom  NTA to acquire screening rights  ...Filmmakers lack adequate funding—NFCMD  Obasanjo backs film village*Gives Institute N20 million  Chief Chikelu the humorist  Amaka Igwe seeks protection against big ‘poachers’  Group plans dance drama to honour Segun Olusola  World’s first ‘blind’ art exhibition ends in London  Rethinking social security (II)  Confab: FCT delegates must defend Fed character, mayorship –Hon. Sidi Ali  My expulsion is unconstitutional – Ngige  2007: Benue North-East wants governorship seat  Senator Gyado, Hon Suswan receive decampees to Benue PDP  Freeman supports London 2012 bid  Injury ‘delays Klitschko defence’  Cup semis to stay in Cardiff – FA  Hasselbaink to miss UEFA Cop dash  Real confident of Woodgate return  Monaco aims at Champions League spot in Strasbourg  Schumacher eyes Sepang fight back  Lewis takes on former manager in High Court  Tornadoes seeks Insurance’s fall in Benin  Coreman: NPA not scared of Enyimba  Why I wept — Tornadoes coach  My boys broke down – Ekundina  FG doles out N27.5m to Olympics heroes  African U-17 championship: Ambassador pledges support for Eaglets  Makarfi Volleyball Championship opens Saturday  NFA approves new adidas design  Police evict illegal occupants at National Stadium  Purchase of fire equipment: FFS expresses displeasure  Muslims and the confab; The case of being the victim
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    Daily trust newspaper Thursday, March 17, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 84 SAFAR 7, 1426 A.H.
    (Lagos State: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-17) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
     IBB can contest in 2007 –Obasanjo  Confab: Kano seeks supremacy of Sharia over constitution  Royal father arrested for cattle rustling  Ibori: Police clear Uwais, others of corruption  Ngige moves to stop removal • I won quit PDP – Dariye  BPE: Reps begin probe of Bala today  NASS approves N355bn for debt servicing  Nigeria to get stable power supply by 2008 – Makoju  Diesel price hike: NARTO suspends strike  Election rigging bane of democracy in Nigeria –Mbu  LG funds: Abia councils file suit against EFCC  Judge sentences man to death by hanging  Gov Bukar supports Obasanjo over immunity  No apology for coup – Useni  Anyaoku opposes resource control  Domestic tourism will foster unity – Delegate  Traditional institutions: Group slams Shehu Sani  Delegate canvasses new prison reform  Nuhu Ribadu  How the times have changed for VCs  No UNILAG, no!  Kumbotso: Thanking Gov. Shekarau  Still on Nigeria’s lopsided confab  Well done Goje, but...  56 Journalists killed in 2004 –Report  Zimbabwe lifts ban on Newspaper  Press freedom: The Aljazeera story  Ugandans ask world court to spare rebels  Thousands flee Kenyan clan raid  ‘Zimbabwe poll not free and fair’  Nigeriens protest tax rise  Malawian journalists arrested  Somali leaders back calls for foreign troops  Hungary marks National Day  NAHCO for privatisation June –Chigbue  FG, IDA embark on MSMEs project  Former WorldCom boss, Ebbers found guilty  NESG holds summit June  Petroleum Act: Oil producers, DPR disagree over amendments  ExxonMobil fetes long term investment strategy  NMGS boss urges FG to seek alternative to oil  First Atlantic Bank leads capital appreciation stock  Okonkwo endorses ACB’s IPO  WEMA Bank now Western Union agent  NCS charged to emulate military, others  Ajibola, Asalu endorse NAL’s N10bn offer  US trade deficit hits record $665.9bn in 2004  When weed threatens Hadejia-Nguru wetland  Memo to the reform conference (I)  Senate w ants Prof. Oyibo honoured by AU  Education key to eradicating poverty –Obasanjo  NUC declares war against academic corruption  Aiichi polytechnic proceeds on early vacation  FG pledges to fund research centres  Support private institutions, rector urges FG  PTA donates N1.3m to community school  Registrar blames teachers over vices in schools  Gov. Idris charges governing council to lift varsity  Science reporters form association  Confab: ASUP unhappy over exclusion of academia  Kogi varsity to run medical, engineering courses  Mixed opinion trail FG’s call for debt cancellation  Water scarcity hits Kano Municipal  Jigawa to train 150 IT students  Residents accuse Kano govt of bias in mosquito control  Unemployment cause of violence - Deputy gov  Sino-Afric supplies 9,215 tonnes of fertilizer to KNSG  Chinese businessmen set up market in Ojota  N15bn NSE Bond:' LASG begins billion repayment  CAPDAN security men, police clash at computer village  Child trafficking: Titi Abubakar visits rescued kids  Group tasks media on rape, child abuse  Shomolu NEPA gulps N30 million  Memorandum submitted by Kano State delegation  Community divided over Abia, Rivers  Benue govt to probe market fire  Assembly orders AG to recover N290m council’s funds  Ex-councilors’ suit: Court stalls judgement execution  Gov Saraki unhappy over nonpayment of severance allowance  Bribery allegation bothers NPC  Aliero signs 2005 budget  Plateau security council wades into threat to peace  Jigawa laments inactivity of FERMA  Nigeria, Niger unite against Quealea birds invasion  PDP inaugurates probe panel on Dariye  Forum supports banning ethnic associations  Gov Tinubu urged to scrap new LG councils  2001: AD suspends Adasu for supporting IBB  USA-based group lauds Ali’s emergence as PDP chairman  No early cheering for Chelsea  ‘Monumental disaster’ United only hope –Neville  Troubled Dortmund poised for summer clear-out  French probe Ronaldinho’s bank account  Bay Hill showdown for big three  Heat blaze into playoffs  Sharapova shackles Zuluaga  Mancini: ‘We made it hard on ourselves’  ‘Abdulazeez remains out of NFL board’  Pillars on course for league crown  Naira rain for Gombe  ‘Gabon too dangerous to be underrated  NIGERIA/GABON WORLD CCUP CRACKER: Galadima okays Liberation Stadium  Gabon, a must win for Eagles –Enakahire  Obasanjo’s ‘Home Grown’ Economic Reform Programme
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    Daily trust newspaper Monday, March 21, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 86 SAFAR 11, 1426 A.H.
    (Lagos State: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-21) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
     N55M BRIBERY SCANDAL: EFCC releases Osuji. Reps seek explanation from C ’ttee chairman  House not party to bribe - Ningi  Confab: ANPP expresses confidence in Tobi’s leadership  Reforms impossible with level of corruption – Ciroma  Soldier rapes nursing mother  NUPENG, PENGASSAN issue strike warning  Argungu ends with catch selling N2m  Al-Mustapha’s family barred from seeing him  Sani Toro wins by election  FG announces guidelines for sale of FCT houses  Ciroma, Waziri turbaned in Fika  NASS divided over agitation for foreign debt cancellation  Oyo civil service undergoes major reforms  FG, states, LGs share 208bn  Katsina to spend N8bn on primary education in 2006  New transformers for Gombe  Akanbi wants constitutional recognition for ICPC  Bauchi seeks return of onshore-offshore dichotomy  ‘Shari’a supremacy, wish of all Muslims’  Delegates want HYPPADEC commission  LG Funds: Lagos, FG feud will scare investors -delegate  Memorandum of the Bauchi state delegation  Confab: Religion and development  Collapse of Health Interactive Column: Our triumph  Letter to Lamido on Father Kukah  Re: Behind the scenes of Hajj 2005  Kogi needs state TV station  Woman leads US Muslims to prayer  ...Mid East Muslims denounce Amina’s prayer  Ethiopia deploys 30,000 troops to Eritrean border  France donates N5million to rescued children  Privatisation: NICON bids for management-buy-out  CBN confirms Esene as FSB MD  Goje urges banks to support real sector  No regime change at World Bank –Wolfowitz  MAN decries delay in privatising power sector  ..13% MRR will help real sector, if ... MAN DG  MSME Fair  Peak  Confab  High oil prices to continue -IMF boss  ...rise above $56  Shell  TOTAL  Local Content  Customs to raid super markets for contrabands  High interest rates, hinder poultry expansion — Badmus  Kwatan-Sule, a point of cultural harmony  ICT integration critical in bank mergers - Soludo  RMRDC boss tasks media on S&T reporting  Kwara sets up databank for farmers  Achi reappointed as CCLT boss  Science reporters elect exco  Child pornography  Humanoid  Copyright  Digital tax to aid poor nations  Outsourcing new technologies from CeBIT 2005  EU threatens Microsoft new fines  Microsoft launches paid search technology  Traders make homes in Karu Market  Magistrate remands legislator’s domestic staff over 14,000 euros  Area one market demolition effected despite legal suit  NURTW chairman says alcohol still banned in motor parks  School sends SS 3 students on forced holiday  Group launches NGO against sectarian violence  Bunkure LG distributes goats to women  W e have nothing to hide — Shekarau  Audu Bako College to introduce fish, bee farming subjects  KNSG pledges to provide building for Islamiyya  Women urged to discuss issues with husband  Pensioners receive N2.7bn  Shekarau woos investors  OPC, Asari Dokubo-led NDVF clash averted  Court arraigns alleged child traffickers  EFCC recovers 5,000 cheque leaflets from forgers  LASG to convert waste to fertilizer, energy  Immunity clause must be removed -Mantu  NEPA scares investors from Nigeria - Jigawa Deputy Gov  Youth groups plead for more board appointments  Publisher donates IG ’s programmes to police  Gov Idris pledges support for rural dev  College demotes 5 mgt staff for alleged students’ incitement  Al-Mustapha: court orders FG to release witnesses statements  Sultan pledges support for 2005 census  Obasanjo orders establishment of educational institution for Kebbi  Military hospital records over 40% of malaria cases – Agwai  Anti-violence Bill to sanction Anambra traditional rulers  Kogi Assembly passes 2004 Appropriation Bill  ‘Resource control advocates misunderstood’  Casey clinches China play-off win  Clijsters wins Indian Wells titles  Dalglish calls for no ‘stupidity’ in Turin  Bekele back to world-beating best  A high-stakes derby  Kaduna Utd pip Buffalo  Sharks devour Nasarawa  WAUG: LOC tours media houses  Basketball League shield our target –Popoola  CONFEDERATION CUP: Insurance knock out Kamsar  Wikki out-class Berger  EDITORIAL: Agenda for PDP leadership  Privatisation: From public to private monopolies
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    Daily trust newspaper Friday, March 18, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 85 SAFAR 8, 1426 A.H.
    (Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-18) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
     NATIONAL CONFAB: Northern delegates protest c’ttee membership  Police foil biggest bank fraud  NNPC RECRUITMENT: Kupolokun writes 19 govs  New cars for military officers  Reps query NASS mgt, Anyim over N3.4m tyres  Commissioner’s son defrauds lady  Kogi stakeholders to meet over housing policy  Kaduna water board on the verge of collapse –C’ttee chairman  Sen. Oyofo accuses Wabara of malice  I’am into active politics -IBB  Rural telephony Bill gets second reading  Workers give FG two-week ultimatum over sack  Plateau ex-speaker backs probe of Dariye  Six million Nigerians HIV positive –expert  Emir calls for establishment of inter-religious commission  Lottery: FG discontinues case against Lagos govt  Gov Idris moves to check ghost workers  Nigeria’s Debts are questionable-Hon. Lawan  Predictable speeches  Shehu Sani Vs Traditional rulers  What!  No more thanks, Mr. President  Delegates love titles  Growing high table  Sada Ilu  OPC may take over state police -Oyo delegate  Presidential system not too costly -Prof Yakub  How to avoid desperate political contest, by Ganduje  Kogi delegate wants power shift in constitution  FG moves to privatise airports, aviation agencies  VF calls for political integrity  Economic posterity depends on transportation - NITT, DG  Work begins at Itakpe mining coy  Makarfi approves security allowance for councilors  Kwara UNPP chairman loses mother  In defence of Babangida  Thoughts on jobless doctors  Watching the watch dog  Reps unfair to Hon. Yerima  Re: Zamfara Rep escapes mob attack  The Senate and Abiola’s reparations crusade  Of national confab and referendum  Nigeria proposes tribunal for Sudan  Opposition MP to challenge Mubarak  Outcry as S/Africa names street Gandhi  Cannibalism: Rebels boil victims alive in Congo-UN  Kenya protesters in police battle  ECOWAS inaugurates council of elders  Bus explosion kills 30 in Chin  Yemeni journalist languishes in jail  Lebanon: Hezbollah rejects call to disarm  Dismay over Wolfowitz’s nomination to head World Bank  EU postpones Croatia entry  Russia power boss survives attack  Two men walk six days non-stop  Fat-measuring machines Installed in fuel stations  Retirement home for aged call girls  JPMorgan settles WorldCom suit for $2bn  US stock futures take a hit on GM loss warning  Tsunami: Nigeria to set up early warning systems  NCAT rector seeks for corporation o f aviation stakeholders  China’s first private airline airborne  US airline faces Concorde inquiry  Oil prices scale new highs, OPEC helpless  First Bank pledges to revive education  Equity Bank honours staff  Prudent Bank goes to the market  University appoints Intercontinental Bank to sell admission forms  Investors endorse Chartered Bank ’s offer  ASUU can holds its own dialogue –UDUS VC  Mission to Chad  Poor reproductive health kills African women-UNFPA  Mrs. Atiku urges women to fight for rights  Female genital cutting unIslamic –Islamic Scholar  Between courtship and marriage  Items for a great kitchen  When debt comes calling  Old Wuse Market gets enlarged parking lot  New magistrates urged to shun corruption  Accommodation, Abuja’s most difficult side  Meningitis immunisation suspended due to vaccine shortage  Bwari council urges workers to embrace computer  Muslim pilgrims get luggage  Police Command gets new PPRO  FCT Fadama project moves to check conflicts  Behind the scenes of Hajj 2005  Child trafficking: How the police rescued 64 kids  Lagos assembly dissolves c’ttees  Borno engages army in civil works  Bayelsa gov. advocates permanent solution to Niger Delta crises  Police halt students’ riots  Afe Babalola advocates return to parliamentary, regional govt  Reject accident victims, pay N50,000 fine—FRSC  Nasarawa judicial workers give 21-day ultimatum  Police prosecutors and lawyers enjoined to be diligent  NBA loses member  NPC to spend N35.5bn on 2005 Census  Hospital renovation gulps N964m  FG denies awarding contract for ghost road  Jigawa Youths protest alleged diversion of LG funds  FG promises payment of N2.4bn for Sokoto road construction  Reps pledge to resolve Pension problems  Obasanjo commissions projects in Kebbi tomorrow  IQP set to meet target on NHF  New Constitution Almost Ready –Senator Hambagda  SIECS canvass for more responsibilities  C4D commends South-South Assembly  2007: Senators who want to be governors  Chelsea chasing centenary success with European glory  Bayern Munich's hopes rely on Makaay  Juninho dreams of Lyon ’s glory  Ample options ensure Ancelotti will have strong hand  Race for Europe at heart of derby  Casey shares lead at TCL Classic  Shearer double gives Olympiakos a Dyer night  Magic make Davis disappear  Udinese end Milan’s treble hopes  Federer betters in-form Ljubicic  Galadima looks beyond Gabon  Akanni backs Siasia  Gombe coach pursues victory in Makurdi  We did not beg for Eagles –Odili  Zamfara United robbed  NPL pledges to place league on world map  Enyimba should be ruthless –Ukadike  Nasarawa striker leads scorers’ chart  EDITORIAL: EFCC and IBB  In Defence of Babangida
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    Daily trust newspaper Thursday, March 11, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 80 SAFAR 1, 1426 A.H.
    (Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited,, 2005-03-11) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
     N2.5bn raised tor national mosque rehabilitation  Confab may seek referendum –Tobi. No-go areas to be discussed  DP expels Ngige, Uba. To probe Dariye, NWC  FG stops govs from deducting LG funds  NUB may merge with FCMB  FG lifts sanctions on Togo  Border Clash: Police deny complicity  Bugaje replaces Yakasai as BON MD  Gov Akume’s assailants to be named soon –IGP  I will never abandon Buhari –Bafarawa  Ex-gov, cleric, decry Obasanjo’s attitude  Ports concession: Nigerian firm wins Apapa terminal  Atiku, Buhari, Shekarau, others condole Weekly Trust Editor  Over fifty vessels engage in bunkering –Minister  Indian hemp dealer makes brisk business in Kaduna surburb  Housing Fund: NNPC, CBN get ultimatum  Zamfara women cry out over inadequate medicare in hospital  Extinguished delegates  Grey-haired youths?  Jigawa demands ICT control  Katagum reclaims seat from Kukah  Talk the talk  Season of apologies  Beckoning at Ojukwu  Debate on Obasanjo’s 3rd term ambition resurfaces  Delegates asks FG to renegotiate foreign debt  Conference creates 18 c’ttees  Delegate alerts colleagues on dangers of resource control  Delegates canvass restitution  NGWS tasks national confab on gender inequality  Lawyers take over confab  Father and son in conference  Special case explained  Poor Jerry Gana  Comedians-cum-delegates  Walking stick and Nigerian unity  Memo to the political reform conference  The EFCC and Nigerian Politics  Agenda for the new BPE leadership  Abakwa: When measles struck  Re: North is marginalized  Yar 'Adua: A true democrat  Case for a solid minerals commission  Italy’s dilemma in Iraq  Darfur: AU seeks solutions to human rights violation  ‘Sudan needs $7.8 billion for reconstruction over 2 years’  Blair’s African commission creates road map  Earthquake hits S/Africa  Observers, journalists to pay for Zimbabwean elections  Lebanon parliament reappoints PM  Hong Kong’s leader resigns  Israeli troops kill Palestinian activist  ‘Tibet can be part of China’ - Dalai Lama  Gunmen kill Baghdad police chief  .. .30 Iraqi bodies found near Syria  Italy disputes US hostage account  Tokyo remembers 1945 US bombing  Kosovo ex-PM surrenders to UN court  Behold! Siblings living with dead parent  Commissioner leads protest march to NEPA office  BPE warns speculative bidders  Four banks settle in WorldCom case  IMF wants OPEC to raise production  ACB  Chartered Bank  Panasonic  V-mobile  Turkish investors  Another RoRo port for Tin Can Island  Waziri leads trade mission to China  Kupolokun warns NNPC staff against corruption  Top airlines wage snack war  Nigeria spends 40% of forex on food imports  UBA ATM cash withdrawals hit N1bn  CBN directs banks to support real sector  ‘N25bn capitalisation may stall Islamic Banks  Oceanic Bank rewards customers  Bank of England retains 4.75% rates  Oil prices hit $54.36  Asia’s biggest airline to cut 5,900 jobs  Boeing investigates Stonecipher’s affair  Singapore tops tech economy table  Dollar nears 9-week Euro low  Motor Park life: How wives deceive husbands there  Why are women so passionate?  Declare International Women’s Day public holiday –NWC chairperson urges FG  Gombe assists women with N10m  300 women to be empowered  The significance of women’s day  On discrimination against women  Women have something to offer –Hajo Sani  FCT parents’ grumble  Bush burning responsible for Abuja heat waves -AEPB official  Area one trader’s appeal for restraint  FRSC appoints 127 special marshals  Over 4000 deportees arrive Kano, recount experience in Saudi  Withheld LG Funds: LASG debunks Bode George’s claim  Women ’s Day: Reduce prices of Kerosene, cooking gas, FG urged  ...signs light rail contract with US coy  Railway concessioning: FG inaugurates committee  ETF challenges staff on service delivery  Police declare three councilors, scribe wanted in Osun  Alfa counsels PDP members to embrace Ali  MOPOL commander withdraws Anambra’s Denutv Speakers Orderly  Don’t disconnect military formations - Kwankwaso urges NEPA  That Saminaka food tragedy  Muslim, Christians must live together –Archbishop  Court orders medical attention for Brazilian bank fraud suspect  Hamam Tijjani: court fixes April 8 for trial  Police nab NURTW members over Iwo crisis  Yobe emulates military over law officers’ welfare  Registration: Oyo gives school teachers 3 months ultimatum  PDP chieftain condemns destruction of Sokoto FM station  Nasarawa woos developers to Karu  NOA boss hinges development on utilisation of youth’s potentials  THE PLACE OF MORA UTYINPOLITICAL REFORMS: Morality And Quest For An Enduring Political Culture In Nigeria  2007: I am not fronting for anybody –Marwa  Champions League shows changing face of English game  Wenger faces rebuilding task at Arsenal  Capello goes wild with delight  Lyon raise ambitions, eye European glory  Stoudemire shines as Suns eclipse Spurs  2012 Olympics: Paris under the microscope  Flying Eagles confident of overcoming Brazil  Eagles draw South Africa  Lawal battle ready for Gabon  Rivers govt rescues NFA  Ranchers boss resigns for assaulting FA official  NFL dangles hammer over six clubs  Confab: Adding insult to insult
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    Daily trust newspaper Monday, March 14, 2005: trust is a burden vol.10, no. 81 SAFAR 4, 1426 A.H.
    (Lagos state: Media Trust Nigeria Limited, 2005-03-14) MEDIA trust Nigeria limited
     Nigeria’s debt not forgivable –French Envoy  Confab: Northern delegates meet today  FG appoints Prof. Oloyede as co-scribe  FG resumes oil exploration in North  Fish oil reduces heart ailments – Research  Obasanjo says IMF still reluctant about reforms  Tafa Balogun’s accounts frozen – EFCC  Alameseigha, Kalu get Katsina traditional title  FG to commence sale of Apo qtrs. April 1  Intercity merges with First Interstate bank  900 get Marwa’s endowment scholarship  Nigeria’s nuclear research for peaceful purpose -DG, Energy commission  NIS moves to address officers grievances  Daily Trust loses staff  Plane crash: 100 escape death  Group offers N200,000 scholarship  Farmers to get N12.5 billion from Agric Bank  Goje, Bafarawa condole Weekly Trust editor  Bafarawa refutes report on LG funds  Anambra Saga: Expulsion is cosmetic, says Anglican Bishop  Confab adopts “One Nigeria, One voice” slogan  We didn’t influence appointments, membership, says CAN  Women decry low representation  Nigeria is multi-religious, not secular —Orire  Muslims hail Oloyede’s appointment  Scholar warns Muslims over ethnic-based agenda  Speak with one voice, Adamawa PDP chairman urges northern delegates  Essential Shagari at 80  2007:Atiku’s delicate poise  Re: Obasanjo Rebuffs Muslim leaders  Re: T he scramble for Nigeria  Re: Open letter to Gov Kure, my error  Confab: For Northern delegates’ eyes only  Gov Sheriff and Kumalia’s conspiracy theory  UK army may recruit more Muslims  Africa casts doubt on Blair’s commission report  Eight killed in US Church attack  Ukraine seeks technology ties with Nigeria  Somali Muslim workers ‘fired’ over prayers  Historic election begins in Central African  Egypt frees top liberal on bail  Iran rejects US nuclear incentive  Fighters killed in Saudi Arabian raid  Powerful quake jolts Iran  ...as thousands flee after floods  US contractors killed in Iraqi blast  144 years of chequered censuses  NUB reiterates stand-alone option  ICPC, Sarumi disagree over anti-graft crusade  OPEC meets Wednesday, may pump above oil limits  Customs impounds luxury bus with contrabands  ... Rep seeks Nigeria’s withdrawal  First Interstate Bank moves to raise N17bn  NSE: 100m STB shares floating on NSE  NAL protests CRN’s embargo on new branches  CBN explains drop in NSE’s January transactions  CentrePoint Bank earns N726m  Ousted Boeing CEO’s wife seeks divorce  Oil price rises again to $54  Delta Airlines may file for bankruptcy  Sale of Enron’s Oregon utility blocked  China ’s textile exports soar  US budget problems obstacle to growth Greenspan  Dollar slips again  Internet craze: Hunting wild animals online  CeBIT fair: TV leads 3G mobile phones  Samsung  Sony  Motorola  Vodafone  Gates  Microsoft security practice raises fears  Internet telephony ready for Plug-and-Play  Revenue boards seek N45m for computerisation  Microsoft sites IT village at Katsina-Ala  Subscribers charge Mashi to turn around NITEL  Bankers’ Institute holds IT confab  Dove Media partners with TITV  Re-allocation o f houses: Confusion in Gwarinpa Housing Estate  AMAC PDP chairman counsels Rep over utterances  AEPB begins trial of roadside traders  Taxi drivers invade Gwagwalada VIO office  Water vendors cause accident in Dantata Village  Industrial waste threatens Kumbotso residents  KNSG to tackle over crowdiness in sec. schools  Bagwai LG earmarks N51m for electrification project  ...purchases N3m goats for women  Pure-water hawkers protest price increment  Three die in road accidents  Army declares Lagos ammunition depots safe  Female Muslim nurses allege threat over hijab  Detectives hunt suspected rapist, murderer  Lagos plans expansion homestead fish farm  Karu generates N12m revenue  Obasanjo extols Commonwealth  Akwa Ibom spends N83m on socioeconomic study  Makurdi, environs get first rain  Ministry launches accident prevention programme  Ex-NPC chairman urges commissioners to find census money  Shehu Yar’ Adua commemoration begins Thursday  Jigawa sets up c’ttee over crises  Negligence: Court awards N75.7m against First Bank  Aminu Kano Foundation for launch April 19  Ngige bans public gathering in Anambra, heads to court  Tidjani Faces fresh charges  Course 21: Commandant commends students performance  NEMA assists Sokoto flood victims  After the presidential speech, what next?  Brazil’s Romario to play for non-league English club  Wenger concedes he may have under-spent  Venezuela court clears way to avoid possible FIFA ban  Swedish referee Frisk retires following death threats  Pierce leads Boston to dramatic double overtime win  Tornadoes whips Nationale  Gamji Cup flags off in Kano  Babayaro out of Gabon clash  Dolphin deny Hearts’ claim  In defence of Reverend Father Kukah
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     Rep escapes mob attack in Zamfara  IMF endorses our reforms –Okonjo-Iweala  NATIONAL CONFAB: Delegates make case for agric subsidy  UN Security Council: AU demands two permanent seats  PRIVATISATION: ANPP cautions against private monopolies  Why I was dismissed -Justice Senlong  FG hands over Iron-Ore coy to Global  FG sets up conflict resolution c’ttees  UN should adopt Islamic approach to community dev-Gov Sani  Human rights, challenge to Nigeria’s democracy -Rep  NCAA investigates Chanchangi accident  “Obasanjo’s explanation on confab delegates unacceptable”  Adewusi, Coomassie warn against state police  Vox pop from Kano  Nigeria'. Between globalisation and glocalisation  Of reform confab and distrust  Confab: Sanusi Lamido’s disturbing thesis  El-Rufai and Wuse market demolition  Roads and Dariye’s arithmetic  Nationalconfusion conference?  Of society and destructive adverts  NPRC and the PNC: Thoughts on opposing confabs  Report of the Commission of Africa  Togo lays former leader to rest  One million protest Syrian presence in Lebanon  Pope returns to Vatican  Earth quake rocks eastern Turkey  Oil prices fall ahead OPEC’s meeting tomorrow  Lufthansa negotiates takeover of Swiss Air  M-tel rewards outstanding dealers  NCC tasks NITEL on bill collection  FSB leads Valucard scheme  Saab’s CEO resigns over car deal  BMW 3 Series: A new wave of innovative design  Ford ends Thunderbird production  Volkswagen outlook disappoints market  US Dollar up against Euro  Bank’s deposit hits N18bn  FG needs N34.2bn to settle pension liabilities- Abacha  Pension Scheme will assist workers -Sha ’aban  Labour leader cautions on NULGE impasse  NLC opens training school  Sack fever grips NEPC staff  IAP wades into Gateway Hotels impasse  2,000 workers to lose jobs in Jigawa  NUT distributes 18,000 m/cycles to Benue members  DIESEL PRICE HIKE: NARTO, Stakeholders to address crisis in Abuja today  ...commends LG over incentives  ASUP decries south-west zone’s action at confab  ...warns banks against meddling in its crisis  Civil servants want “human face” reforms  Oshimbole canvasses leadership positions for women  Kwara govt, labour on collision course over taxes  Workers berate FG over labour Bill  Chamber demands youth friendly policy graduate employment  Commissioner urges caution in reporting HIV?AIDS cure  Niger state Govt prunes hospital fees  Cholera outbreak: Uni-Abuja medical centre cautions staff, students  Ekiti distributes N1OOm medical equipment to LGs  Foreign mission: NOA wants wives to join husbands  Delta to establish ARV. treatment centre  Minister calls for reflection on fight against HIV?AIDS  FMC Gombe sets up health care fund  FG to scale up access to ART drugs  College gets enlisted in WHO medical schools directory  Obasanjo sets up action group on tsetse/trypanomiasis  House FCT C’ttee harps on budget implementation  UniAbuja to move to permanent site  FCT inaugurates task force fake drugs  Storm destroys property in Abaji  World Bank donates books to FCT schools  CT to export scrap metals  FCDA awards N939m survey contract  Jigawa swears-in 6 magistrates  GOOD SHEPHARD ORPHANAGE: Keyamo files exparte motion  LASG bans NSL operations in its territory  Task force charges two with contempt  ...places embargo on employment  Private schools proliferation worries LASG  Warring communities want judicial enquiry  NPC urged to provide satellite equipment for census  Police warn against firearms possession  Ogun police kill five armed robbers at Sango Otta  FG lifts Embargo on NYSC posting to private sector  Ogun pledges more roads  Kebbi agog for Argungun fishing festival  Jega title holder dies  RMRDC set to boost Kilishi production  Obasanjo in Geneva for global digital solidarity fund  Gov Daniel empowers traders with N20m  Two lawmakers apologise for unruly behavior  Kaduna govt braces up to fight measles, CSM  FG saves N137bn through due process  Marwa canvasses support for Obasanjo reform programmes  Ekiti lawmakers condemn attack on Gov Fayose  EXPULSION OF NGIGE: Group calls for guber polls  2007: Youth group supports IBB  Youth leaders forum reaffirms support for Marwa  Youth Forum wants Gov Abdullahi for president  Inter beware Porto precedent  English FA Cup: Man Utd avoid Arsenal  Olympic Games commission starts Moscow 2012 inspection  Robben return against Kanu  Ajax appoint Blind as new manager  Egyptian council of ministers meets on ACN 2006  Tergat keeps London bid on course  Senior athletes protest over AFN programmes  Africa League round up  ...As cheating mars zonal athletics championship  Benue-Taraba Unity Cup ends in Ukum  Uwua lauds Sardauna Memorial Stadium  EDITORIAL: Why is ICPC so quiet?  Tafa Balogun: Politics of corruption
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     50 feared dead in OPC/Muslims clash  ANAMBRA CRISIS Court restrains Oyinola panel  Tafa Balogun retires  Bonnke crusade raises tension in plateau  Hajj: Saudi takes measures to prevent stampede  Obj solicits foreign investments  UBA,STB to merge  Senators, want review of PDP constitution  FG concludes railways privatization plan  Useni drags FG to court over seized properties  Muslims enjoined to fast on Arafat day  FG concedes 7% revenue to NCS  New gas needed for constant power supply – NEPA MD  Court grants Akande stay of proceedings  Red Cross opens tsunami relief account  FG earmarks N64n for roads  Gov Saraki tasks Kwara Muslims on patience  NASFAT urges govt to hands off Hajj  Nigeria, Brazil negotiate areas of cooperation  Ethnic dialogue panacea for peace, stability- Trust Dialogue  Dep speaker blames neglect for Niger Delta crisis  Three youths docked for setting man ablaze  Reforming Nigeria, Which Model? – Communique  Ogbeh: Between the thief and the receiver  Whiter the Voice of Nigeria?  2007: The bad and ugly  Audu Ogbe, the whistle blower  Udawas return: Governor Goje  Sudan, opposition sign agreement  ‘Mandela canvass more support for Africa’  Morocco seeks EU aid over migrants  Ethiopia committed to boundary resolution with Eritrea – Envoy  Asia tsunami death toll now 175,000  Former Chinese communist leader passes on  16 Iraqis die in pre-election attacks  US frees Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan  Abbas orders activists to join security service  Isreal attacks targets in Lebanon  NAICOM terminates VISER contract  Customs groan under staff shortage  Manny Bank records 22.4% profit  Zenith Bank posts impressive half –year result  Automakers slash prices in China  PAN thanks Nigerians with new 306  Auto parts makers foresee 2005 pains  Toyota to replace unpopular Echo car  Customs seize 40m cigarettes  NNDC reshuffles management positions  Akwa Ibom predicts economic boom in 2005  Commerce council CAC on service delivery  We’ll not give up protest – NLC  Nigeria witnessed industrial tsunami in 2004 – Issa Aremu  Kebbi teachers resume strike  No compromise on public enlightenment – Hananiya  FRSC initiates raffle to sensitise Okada riders  NULGE commends Katsina joint account system  Passengers urged to desist from motorcycles without plate numbers  Unions will provide drivers’ welfare – DWCN  MTUN to arrest members over dangerous riding  NACA, national NGOs and HIV spread  Dexamethasone and breast feeding  Remedy for Blocked fallopian tubes  Breast dissimilarity  Premature ejaculation  Semen analysis and fertility  Mrs Babangida tasks NGO on health care delivery  FG commences modernization of teaching hospitals  HIV/AIDS spread worries KNSG  Pharmacist donates N1m books to ABU  Patients get free drugs in Garko  Doctors may call off strike this week ● as nurses suspend planned strike  Harsh conditions, cause of women’s post reproduction illness – Minister  22 yr-old farmer remanded for murder  FCT completes Muslim pilgrims airlift  Chief wants water project commissioned  Nigerian Legion decorates el-Rufai with emblem  110,000 pupils move to sec schools  Vigilantes group urged to monitor criminal activities  FG earmarks N66m for Kano-Gwarzo road  Nasarawa LG pledges more support for Islamiya schools  Council approves N425m for mass transit  EFCC probes two civil servants over N30m fraud  Fire guts three-storey building in Ikeja  Area boys clash leaves three dead  NDLEA arrests 186 over illicit drugs  Gani says NBA is docoile  Agric. ministry provides farmers incentives  Experts call for observance of traffic regulations  FG commited to completion of Argungu bridge – Minister  Ogbeh: Time out for a maverick?  PDP stalwart chides OBJ over leadership  Lawmaker lauds Ogbeh’s resignation  Canada to assist Nigeria on democary- envoy  2007: New Pro Atiku group debuts  Inter-city Bank Chairman joins PDP  Milan cut Juve’s lead, Chelsea romp clear  Diop late show stuns West Brom  France’s Dhorasso make his mark at Milan  Ronney fate I police hands  Players deny doping allegations  Federer opens with crushing win  Moya suffers shock defeat  Baltacha battles into round two  Serena powers into second phase  Printers of repute in Nigeria  Tragedy hits youth fiesta  Morocco dump hapless Lesotho  Probe panel quizzes NFA HODs  Enyeama off to Europe  Minister inaugurates interim league board today  Ogbeh: A plot within a conspiracy
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     Speakers fault FG’s reforms  Aluko, Awoniyi berate due process  Shonekan advocates economic empowerment of people  Anambra crisis: Ngige must resign – Uba insists  APGA to participate in national dislogue  Hajj Airlift: Mantu gives 24 hours ultimatum  Interest Rates: CBN to review MPR  Dariye demands compensation over emergency rule.  Govs meet Obj over excess crude earings  Masari harps on dept cancellation for Nigeria, Africa  Towards 2007: Afenifere embarks on massive restructuring  NDLEA arrest 85 drug suspects  Presidency explains VP’s absence from two meetings  Businessman sues Rep over NDDC contract  Bafarawa signs 2005 budget  FG declares Jan 20th, 21st as public holidays  Adamawa commends Media Trust for objective journalism  Ripples in the polity  Still on Gombe and its clique  The North after Wada Nas death  JAMB what’s wrong  N5b boreholes project: SOS to water resources minister  Hajj: How pilgrims’ boards frustrate Nigerians  Zamfara: Anka’s error of judgement  Palestinian election: a farce of democracy  Thatcher pleads guilty over ‘coup plot’  Uganda, LRA to discuss ceasefire  Mbeki in DR conogo for peace talks  US to aid Somalia after Govt move  Zanzibar flies new flag  Top Shiite cleric’s aid killed in Baghdad  Isreal asks Russia to scrap missile deal  Abbas set for cabinet shake up  Iran cautions UN nuclear inspectors  Disaster changes use of word ‘Tsunami’  Colombia offer Cash for rebel hunt  Indonesia rebels seek truce  Unrest leaves 17 dead in Pakistan  Shell raises crude output to 65,000  Nigeria to plans second LNG plant  Oil climbs towards $47 on supply concerns  Asian ministers plan gas pipeline  Insurance coys want guarantee on Naira stability  Tsunami: Paris Club agrees on dedt freeze deal.  Euronext holds talk with LSE shareholders  Dollar rebounds against Euro  We are not in haste to merge –Omegabank  JDA reviews compainies’ bids for award of licenses  Globacom launches fibre optic transmission  Japan Airlines to buy 50 A320 jets from Airbus  Seven Coys get NSE’s approval to raise N54m  Customs boss tasks stakeholders on export trade  Jamila Tangaza – First woman to head the BBC Hausa service  Japan, UNFPA to end VVF in Nigeria  Women, key to poverty alleviation  Minister makes case for Nigerian women  Culture, religion limit girl-child education – UNICEF  Between professional associations and NGOs  Lady mechanic initiative requires N25m for projects  Mrs Tinubu charges children on good behavior  NGO trains traditional birth attendants  WRAPA stands by women whose rights are violated – Sauidatu Mahdi  On Abuja ‘s numerous fire disasters  The worrying upsurge of pirates in Lagos  N500m suit: Deputy gov appears in court  Sallah: Prices of rams, poultry drop in Kebbi  Khatami tasks Africans on spiritual rebirth  IITA saves Africa from N28b cassava mealybug  Cross River Police get N100m lifeline  Belgian envoy commends Obasanjo, Akunyili  Cross River loses former deputy gov  Rivers moves to regulate Okada riders  Begging worries Katsina LG chairman  Church bans use of Aso Ebi at weddings  Kwara set to ban hawking of herbs  Bauchi command sacks 26 policemen for extortion  Education ministry reforms inspectorate unit  NPC sends 52 enumerators to Awe LGA  Hospitals to pay N50,000 for rejecting accident victims – FRSC  Prosecutor faults AI-Mustapha’s request  Vigilante group kills four robbers  Don’t derail our democracy, PDP told  2007: I am not fronting for IBB- Marwa insists  No more crisis in ANPP –Gov. Abba  Constituents endorse Rep for Benue guber race  Joint Account system injects sanity in our conduct –LG Chairman  Romania hails Mutu’s transfer to Juventus  Robinho insists he staying at Santos  Mourinho stirs up conspiracy theory  Milan ease past Palermo into finals  Netherlands to play England in anti –racism kit  Tsunami benefit match to be played in Barcelona  Is Benin ready to host Africa’s youth?  Jordaan to head 2010 World Cup c’ttee  Martins grabs hat-trick for Inter  Kotoko sack coach Schmidt  Ogunjobi’s woes not yet over  VMobile/Niger Delta Polo: Ibadan Challenge lifts Governor’s Cup  Lagos MRS tip towin Gen. Hassan Cup  Splinter group nullifies Galama’s meeting  Robson keen to keep Kanu  Pilgrimage to House of God
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     Hajj: Borno refunds disappointed pilgrims  EID-EL-KABIR: Muslims advised to embrace Islamic injunctions  Protesting UNILAG students raze VC’s residence  Anambra crisis: APGA protests PDP’s violation of court order  How NigeriaSat-1 mitigated tsunami disaster – Minister  Due process certified N290bn capital votes – Ezekwesili  Reps c’ttee recommend phasing-out of Black Maria  Over 40 persons burnt to death in Lagos accident  Nigeria seeks UK support on debt relief  Tafa Balagun worst police boss – CNPP  Security breach: Prosecution gets Jan 31 date over AI-Mustapha’s prayers  Blind man, nine others nabbed for robbery  NUF decries false alarm of Udawa invasion  Okpara counsels Nigerians over National confab  Adamawa crisis: police invites five clergymen  Gov Saraki puts civil servants on their toes  LG election tribunals: principal witness macheted to death  Dialogue: Kudos to Media Trust  Obasanjo and Lokoja-Abuja road project  More questions on MT African pride  What is worst than Tsunami?  Haba JAMB!  Abu Ghraib abuse: The true culprits  UN, Southern Sudanese postpone peacekeeping talks  Mugabe vows improved Iranian relations  AI-Qaida claims embassy blast in Iran  Iran warns US over planned attack  Palestinians vow action against activits  Why NITEL must be sold – BPE boss  NCC plans guidelines on installion of telecom  Insufficient power supply causes high GSM tariffs – MTN boss  NITEL loses union president to robbers  NNPC, Mobil sign $7.7bn deal on LNG/IPP projects  Reforms: Short term costs are inevitable  Shut SPDC flow station re-opens  Pensioners kick against govt neglet  Economics institute releases half-year training programme  Estate developers charged on funding  SMEDAN seeks support of dev partners, NGOs  Lawyers slams N1bn suit0 on UACN  NAGAFF advises freight forwarders on customs duty  GM posts weaker fourth- quarter profit  Sarumi, Agu, Zenith Bank, others bag maritime award  NAPEP, Dangote group offer jobs to 9,250 youths  Association commends Kure over IBB varsity  Ogun awards scholarship to 50 indigenes  VCs and the maintenance of discipline (II)  NANS accuses Obasanjo over PDP crisis  Kogi versity lecturers threaten strike  Primary school systemfor shake up  UNN staff get computer ownership scheme  Students plead for release of colleagues  Oyinlola promises qualitative free education  Minwaya Festival: the pride of Shani people  NSU gets fifteen-member Governing Council  National Open Polytechnic underway  UBE to feed Primary school pupils  ICAN visits Nasarawa varsity  Reasons for sallah festival  Sallah festival: Residents troops out of FCT  Develop plot or risk relocation, planning authority warns allotees  EL-Rufai vows to protect MFCT’s staff  Bank recapitalisation may delay auto market take off  Tinubu accuses PDP of stalling LG funds disbursement  Double taxation may cripple govts business  Woman, 32,docked over N5m visa scam  Two docked for stealing 504 cartons of Chemiron capsules  Settler/stringer syndrome undermines devt. – Obasanjo  Dariye urges Plateau to embrace spiritual transformation  IG’s retirement a diversionary tactics  PTF drugs destroyed in A/Ibom  Ogun Muslims told to emulate prophet Muhammad  Makurdi youths introduce bon-fires for ceremonies  Kaduna speaker advised to resign honourably  Rep suspects politics for alleged marginalization of Daura  IG’s retirement: Rep hails presidency  2007: IBB lauds harmonization of campaign groups  Group urges wider consultation on national conference  Nigerians wants the best in life –Marwa  Yakubu Toon deal in the balance  Parallel referees body emerges  Henry, Ronaldinho in EUFA 2004 team  Sharapova promotes Moscow 2012 Olympic bid  Millions for Flying Eagles  Police warn Wenger and Ferguson  Benitez defiant after Cup shock  Clark ready to return  Khan to make bow at senior ABAs  Galadima wins first battle against IMC  Nigeria are champs in West Africa Karate tourney  Minister tasks U-20 to win AYC  Ex-NFA scribe, Yusuf, slams FIFA  V mobile set to break polo cultural barriers in eastern states  Crawling on Kneepads
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     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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     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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     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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     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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     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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     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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     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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     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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     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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     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