 NATIONAL CONFAB- Senators query Wabara  .Platform for Obasanjo’s self-succession – CNPP  N10OO note out August  Election tribunal ruling: Senator, Rep resign  New population policy seeks voluntary birth control  Police kill two in Kaduna, Port Harcourt  Police killing: Protesters block Akume, Ogbeh with coffins  ABU, BUK lecturers begin warning strike today  Jaiz dispels investors fear  Why Obasanjo enacted cassava bread policy - Presidential aide  Anenih, Okorocha differ on one party state  NNPC, ChevronTexaco sign N146bn Agbami vessel contract  We closed Abuja airport for security reasons - Yuguda Mb senate  Women group may organise protest confab  Conference^ examine our problems –Ezekwesili  Shagari expresses support  Abba-Gana tasks civil society delegates  It’s coup against NASS- Historian  BPE paid N3.4 bn to privatized coys workers- Dr. Bala  I won’t retrench workers -Gov Daniel  Ibru: Counsel apologises to court over walk out action  Kwara hosts international seminar on Islamic literature  C’ttee chairman seeks supports for Petroleum Act amendment Bill  A Social critic’s burden  The regions and political confab  Confab: Cautioning Gani, Soyinka and Enahoro  Soyinka and the national conference  Re: Kure’s turn to give account  National confab and the misgivings  National dialogue and national security  Togo’s parliament reverses constitution changes  Ceasefire expires in north Uganda  African peer review mechanism commences in Nigeria  Mugabe blasts Britain  Egyptians stage anti-Mubarak protest  Avalanche claims 146 in Kashmir  US embassy gets new information officer  N/Korea gives conditions for talks  Chartered Bank to merge with 2 others  10 banks dominate January transactions in NSE  ‘Private banking most profitable in Nigeria’  Frontier Funds nets N26.6m profit  River Niger dredging contract: EFCC recovers N660m from banks  FG acquires 78 patrol boats for $65m  Japaul floats maritime stock soon  Shippers council boss stresses need for commission  R ep assures of Calabar port dredging  Blair commission commits £6m to poverty eradication  Oil prices rise to $50  World airlines spend $1.6bn on missing baggage  Saving the environment from man or vice versa  40 people killed in Indonesian garbage slide  SPDC completes N43 m per unit Stallion Terraces  Obasanjo commissions Mararaba housing estate  FG receives quotation on Eleme j unction flyover  Ogunlewe tasks private sector on South-South infrastructure  Absence of walkways causes death in Lagos -BICL boss  UN consultant gives panacea for food insecurity  GSP develops improved groundnuts seeds  FG targets .6m tonnes of cocoa by 2008  IITA wages war against cassava disease  Agric ministry organizes fish farming workshop  NAPEP trains 300 farmers on cassava, fruit processing  Heat wave hits Abuja, environs  Woman charged for allegedly duping Plateau of N10m  Traders besiege FCDA over market accreditation  DNCR staff docked for obstructing presidential convoy  Hike of plate number prices blamed on joint task force  Janguza Barracks worst in Nigeria -Commanding officer  Tsunami funds c’ttee pledges fair play  Villagers build house for environment activist  KNSG to Kano of mosquitoes  Hospital partners with LG on health problem  Corruption: NEPA reads riot act to staff  NEPA averts protest over electricity blackout in Aujara  FG budgets N10bn for highway expansion in Lagos  Lagos promotes 49 civil servants  IGP orders raids on illegal roadblocks along seme mile II  Biafra Phillip Effiong’s book out  Titi Abubakar, Dangote launch The Impossible President  From child soldier to rap superstar  Amnesty ‘adopts’ Hotel Rwanda  Obote ranted at me for 30 minutes—Robin White  Slavery: Cruelest trade How a minority of abolitionists won over the majority  Okonkwo Complex in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (III)  SOME HARD FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TARABA  FIRS collects N1.2 trillion in 2004  IBB’s I campaign kicks off in South-West  Accident rate down by 67% — Hananiya  Attorney-General wants improved welfare for magistrates  Police arrest vigilante leader in Gombe  Horse eating case: Witness affirms defendant’s guilt  Ekiti earmarks N55m for Assembly complex  Motorcyclist in dilemma over knocked down boy  Plateau: Kanam rejects new traditional ruler  Motorcycle loans: Yobe NUT seeks payment subsidy  DFID: Joint wetlands livelihood project  ‘Strengthening the structures of democratic governance in Nigeria’  Obasanjo intervenes in Borno PDP crisis  2007: Sokoto philanthropist denies guber ambition  Confab: Opportunity to address our problems –Abashe  Nigerians in UK canvass support for IBB  Rep advises Ohaneze on confab  Confident United bank on Van Nistelrooy return  Mourinho nurses Chelsea to the Nou Camp  Porto expect cautious approach from Inter  Els misses Accenture Match Play  Woods eyes return to top spot  Agassi Into second round in Dubai  Davis Cup woe for Philippoussis  Zamfara Utd. dare Enyimba  Nigeria better than Ghana – Osim  Amokachi disappoints Lafia fans  Nasarawa’s Eseluka targets league goleador  Insurance celebrate end of jinx  Ogunjobi: FIFA grants document stolen from Glass House  NFL gives Globacom 7 days ultimatum  3SC striker dreams League Shield  Club proprietors to face sanction for misconduct  Nigeria and the Security Council seat  National Conference: The price of bad faith