 No apology over Pentascope –el-Rufai  Intercity Bank opens N13bn public offer  Five feared dead in Makurdi protests  Senators lambast Makarfi  Grassroot worse hit by FG’s reform – ACF  US criticises Obasanjo’s human rights record  FG abolishes education tax  8 die in Kaduna auto crash  Alamieyeseigha still under probe –ICPC  FG to raise $20m for Tsunami victims  Saraki, son sue newspaper for libel  Jigawa pays N642m to contractors  FG reviews agreement with ASUU  More delegates call for referendum  …it’s unconstitutional –Rep  Resource control: South-South people are ingrates -Ex-gov  Traditional rulers seek constitutional role  Why ANPP attends confab, by Etiebet  LG funds: Lagos takes case to confab  Adamu Chiroma warns against extension  Journalists want their issues addressed  Women want gender equality  Sule Katagun continues siddon look policy  When an Emir can’t find his voice  Haba! Imo state head of delegation  Good one, General Adebayo  Tea breaks and the delegates  We showed them!  FCT delegates demand state status  We must lay foundation for Nigeria’s unity- Gen. Obasanjo  Will Dariye ever learn?  Confab, media and agenda setting  Let Gov. Kure render account  Leave Iran’s nuclear project alone!  Indonesian cleric bags two years jail term  Car bomb kills 10 Iraqi soldiers  China explosion kills 20 children  World united on Syria, says Bush  ‘No specific date for Pope’s discharge’  Michael Jackson was 'victim of own aids’- Witness  Daijur: Janjawid leader exposes Khartoum links  UN backs peacekeepers’ retaliation in Congo  Foreign affairs ministry appoints spokesperson  Allstates Bank signs N3bn pact with Afrexim bank  Akintola Williams endorses ACB’s public offer  NAL, brokers woo investors  Access Bank  ICAN  Intercontinental Bank  Collapsing industries: Emir urges govt intervention  Chamber blames govt for high imports  Only 10% of SMEs are into manufacturing’  KACCIMA urges FG to soft-pedal on reforms  Minister urges Nasarawa to export cassava  BAT launches proudly Nigerian campaign  National institute’s alumni holds AGM  World Bank chief wants ‘passionate’ successor  Dollar strengthens slightly against Euro  Oil prices could hit $80 in 2007, says OPEC  Halliburton bribery investigation expands  Demolition: Wuse market traders remember “black” Thursday  UNESCO relaunches ‘Women Make the News’  A world without women  NGO organises workshop for women  Confab: NAWOJ wants women delegates to canvass for affirmative action  Ghanaian beads production skills underway –Reports  Should men learn how to cook?  Plateau fraud: Woman gets bail  Deaf protest non-inclusion in confab  FCDA inaugurates c’ttee to investigate Wuse Market  FCT gets new FRSC boss  Residents flee Karmo as demolition begins  Treason, unlawful assembly: Six deported MASSOB members arraigned  Lagos commuter buses as vehicles to death  How billboards mutilate Hausa language  Why Kure wants Borgu Emir deposed  Road dualisation: Affected residents assured of compensation  Boni, Alamieyesiegha hold secret talks with Yar’adua  Immigration boss urges posted officers on resumption  Traditional rulers mobilise communities for census  No self-succession scheme will succeed in Nigeria -Mamman Danmusa  Atiku’s AD gamble  2007: IBB loses supporters to Marwa in Keffi  Marwa’s presidential bid gets the blessing of Katsina Emir  ‘Architect Of Total Football,’ Rinus Michels, dies at 77  Van Basten mourns father of Dutch football  Real outgun Beds to close the gap on Barcelona  Formidable Pizarro fires Bayern into cup semi  Decree /07/ NASS to expunge any addition on Bill  Kwara Utd spends Nil.5m on players’ transfer  CAF to monitor four high risk Venues  Fasuba wants govts to assist local athletes  NIP0GA: Bauchi Poly inaugurates publicity c’ttee  EDITORIAL: Ending the culture of official impunity  OBJ: One more example