• Jukun war/The third front. • The July 4 election. • For a differential salary structure. • De Klerk’s cross. • Aminu and Alhaji as scapegoats – Mohammed Haruna. • Senate battle royale: The Social Democratic Party and National Republican Convention return to the polls to test their strength as the National Assembly elections come up next Saturday. • Presidency: the incumbency factor and all that. • Nzeribe acting treasonably: Apostles of the "hidden agenda" thesis appear vindicated as Chief Arthur Nzeribe, billionaire SDP presidential aspirant, calls for an extension of the transition programme to 1996. • Ensure adequate collateral security. • NNPC: Direct sale is best. • LBN records 1.2 billion Naira turnover. • The bottomline: ANC first suspended talks with the government, then last week it withdrew altogether. • The battle of Houphouet Boigny: opposition turns down President Boigny's peace gesture. • Labour pains: the struggle against the then common enemy, Soviet Union may have been won but the child may come out a still birth. • Doves fly in: to the relief of Arabs and George Bush, Likud hawks lose the election. • Presidential retrenchment – Bilkisu Yusuf. • Hajj for all by the year 2000. • Much ado about a prize: NUJ heads for the law court in a bid to stop the Nigeria Media Awards. • Nigeria's suspension: FIFA is wrong. • Sport seminar: sporting women.