 Bala Usman rejects nomination - PROSA CO sets up confab c’ttee  Wabara stops senators’ motion  FG seeks dismissal of Reps suit  Fire guts Wuse new market  NLC wants delegates to elect leadership  Surprise absentees from list  Obasanjo told to strike balance on appointments  Adisa tackles Saraki on Northern Union  MTN induces Reps with N16bn  Plateau: Dariye, legislators head for collision  FG identifies 193 illegal airstrips in the country  Niger Assembly passes law to derobe Borgu Emir  FG receives N61.8 billion Abacha loot  Togo apologises to Nigeria  Let Faure Gnassingbe be  Battling poverty on the wrong front  Revenue: Between tourism and oil  Thank you Adamu Adamu  Letter to Gov Adamu  Zimbabwe damps down on journalists  US development aid nets $19 billion  AISA wants greater role in AU  Pastor hands $14,000 to congregation for investment  Farmer paints pigeons to keep off predators  Woman, 79, attacks cops with cane  Lebanon: Thousands mourn al-Hariri  Yemen arrests five Al-Qaeda suspects  Iraq’s Sunnis demand US exit  Egypt offers border guards for Gaza  Israel to organise pullout with Palestine  Northern governors to rescue BON  Emir, Yar’Adua woo investors to Intercity Bank  Oil prices steady  First Bank earns N40bn in 9 months  World’s longest range airliner  Chartered Bank opens 2.4bn shares offer  FCM B board heralds IPO  Diversification, solution to economic woes -Hon. Nguwje  British investors eye Nigeria – Envoy  4 How Africa can attract global oil market’  SMEDAN’s techno expo opens March 9  The hostel privatisation crisis (IV)  NUC indicts lecturers over publications in journals  Ministry launches j staff shuttle buses  Minister inaugurates centre for earth study  Yobe to establish university  ETF takes HIV/AIDS campaign to schools  Non-accreditation of varsity’s college of medicine worries politician  Zamfara earmarks N1.7bn for schools rehabilitation  Don blames over-population for poor educational standards  BUK receives N70m hostel grant from bank  Govt to separate JSS/ SSS in unity schools  NCC donates 20 computers to school  UNILAG postpones resumption  FG begins $100m science, technology initiative  Minister commissions N4.5m FGGC, Abaji library  Robbers rob widow of N200,000  NEPA urges residents to pay up or get disconnected  Petitioner writes NHRC on Wuse Market demolition  FCT opens camp for Makarfi championship  Woman arraigned over criminal intimidation  BUK receives donation for new hostel  Doguwa LG gives goats to women as loans  Emir tasks drug manufacturers on NAFDAC  Polio to be eliminated soon - NPl Coordinator  Kano flags off schools census  Tax: LASG threatens closure of erring companies  Lagos opposes fresh proposal on Bar Beach development  LG to prosecute those who fell trees  NARTO warns of high transport cost  Justice Uwais tasks lawyers on book writing  Reps c’ttee chairman flays deputy over recapitalisation policy  Court grants bail to suspected horsemeat consumer  Kogi Gov gets education award  Postponement of NHIS launch not politically motivated - NHIS boss  FG approves dualisation of Abuja-Lokoja road  Masari wants reps to deliver democracy dividends  Borno assembly to probe LG boss over fraud  PDP chieftain alleges plot to kill Gov Daniel  PDP youth group denies plot to impeach Wabara  2007: Bafarawa lauds Kalu’s courage  Gov Goje orders arrest of political thugs  Why Okocha failed again  Outrage greets Jay Jay loss  Eto’o sparkles on big stage at Barcelona  NFL insists on security plans  NFA disowns MINAJ  Broadcast Right: Club owners dare MINAJ  ...Phase out play-offs  Kwara United ‘II remain in Ilorin –Bello  Nigeria hosts commonwealth handball championship  CAF award challenges Enyeama  Enyimba will win FIFA Club world cup  Further thoughts on the National Conference