 Obasanjo heads for Lome today  ANPP factions reconcile  Man fooled landlord for 5 years dressing as lady  Don’t stop IBB, Buhari’s allowances – senate urge FG  Boat mishap claims 18 children in Jigawa  Missing ship: Reps ask EFCC to probe banks  Niger varsity to be sited at lapai  Crisis in political parties threat to democracy-Atiku  FG denies banning chloroquine for malaria treatment  Monetization workers give FG 12 days ultimatum  Excessive campaign spending :Senate seeks party deregistration  Jigawa revokes C of Os, sacks education secretaries  CNPP rejects invitation  Civil society coalition reject confab  Dikko seeks public input to Kaduna agenda  National dialogue will strengthen democracy –AT Ahmed  Grand Khadi cautions national confab on region  Confab :Leaping before you look  Towards meaningful dialogue  Revisiting indigene/settler syndrome  SOS to Gov Abdullahi adamu  Gunmen kill journalist in Somalia  UN acts on sex abuse allegations in DR Congo, Kenya  NGO urges ‘force’ on Togo  N/Korea marks 63rd anniversary of Supreme Leader  Islam remains source for legislation in Sudan –President  NATO is united over Iraq –Rice  N/Korea quits nuclear talks  ‘Iran will stick to nuclear plan  Saudis vote in national polls  Israel halts security S h a i f l P talks after fresh violence  Northerners tasked on banking industry  .. .urged to form three mega banks  First Atlantic Bank offers N7.5bn shares for subscription  Consolidation: NAL Bank to raise N1Obn, eyes foreign banks  Why Citizens Bank’s chairman was sacked-CBN  FG shops for N75bn to settle workers’ severance package  NEIC commends NMA  Four new ports underway  Police drag wharf‘rat’ to court  BCC: Production resumes amidst community disturbances  NAFCON: Senate c’tte opposes privatization  MTN turns pensioner, 20 others to millionaires  Mr. Biggs, GSK joint prompt ends  Oil prices up as IEA sees tighter supply  Total backs deregulation 6f downstream sector  BPE names consulting firms for EPCL privatization  NEPA moves to improve power supply  … open new service station
 Global fleet MD bags award  Philippine oil companies overcharge consumers –Report  Agu is s till NMA ’s D G –Minister  Church assists mentally handicapped children in Zaria  DG decries women’s marginalization  Anambra to assist FIDA’s delegation to Beijing conference  Former minister extols family unit  Minister wants reproductive health given priority  Commissioner urges governments to invest in girl child education  World confab on women: Task before Nigeria’s delegation  ‘Girls should be enrolled in school’-Binta Masari  National Health Insurance Scheme kicks off May 29  FG sets up agro-aviation wing against pests  Dariye tasks NIPSS on political reform  Gombe councils get township roads  Ibibio Patriarch calls for closer ties  LG awards contract for Bida motor pack construction  “Inability to access funds, bane of SMEs”  Law enforcers ill-equipped to fight corruption –Agabi  Niger commits N6.1b to road projects  Tribunal strikes out chairmanship petition for Kabba/Bunu council  Govt rolls out tankers to solve Zaria water problem  FG restates commitment to Cocoa restoration  China pledges support for Nigeria’s anti-piracy war  Demolition: Trauma of the residents  ... APGA condemns demolition  Dress Cede. U niAbiij a begins implementation  Industrialists plan jobs for FCT residents  Anenih chairs Catholic university launch  2005 Census: Bwari sets up enlightenment c’tte  Karu lawmakers demand explanation on marked buildings  GSM users in Kano speak on poor services  Lagos motor parks: Haven for criminals, drugs, alcoholism  FG to provide barriers on Lagos highways  Ministry clarifies air over rumor on LG fund  $242mscatn: EFCC, counsel argues over Nwude’s health  Census exercise to gulp N34.5bn  Coronation of Borgu Emir postponed  Niger stops Hajj sponsorship, announces 2006 fare  Jigawa NEPA launches anticorruption campaign  IBRU: Court rejects Rabo Lawal access to statement  FG denies scrapping Due Process unit  Fraud: NAHCO suspends GM, HOD Accountant  NITEL staff declare fasting over job losses  Proposed conference designed to short-change north – Gambo Magaji  SIECS decry non-inclusion in confab  Rep petitions PDP chairman over Ajaokuta LG Primaries  PDP is a failure –ISSODIV  2007: Atiku’s aide for Benue guber race  No Robben reliance  Singh eyes Pebble Beach repeat  Man L td fans stage Glazer protest  Serena cruises into third round  Misfiring Roddick claims victory  Crespo brilliance denies Germany at the death  Super subs swing it for Italy  Agony for Wright-Phillips as Dutch hold England  France show signs of return to form  Everything to play for, as night turns to day  Meridian Cup: Africa on the learning curve  Confab: Leaping before you look