 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