 EXTERNAL DEBT: Reps order Obasanjo to stop payment  Confab: Delegates canvass removal of immunity clause  NNPC RECRUITMENT: Fed character official confirms violation of guidelines  Makarfi seeks truce with senator  Budget: Senate pegs oil benchmark at $32.Oil boom back in Nigeria  Atiku denies visiting IBB over Ribadu  Security threat: Self imposed chief in police net  JNI/SCIA meet on N5bn National Mosque fund  Treasury looting: Abacha, Bagudu want case dismissed  Zamfara deputy speaker removed  NYSC abolishes JAMB admission letter for service  Ogbeh tasks Ali on PDP  Weekly Trust Editor loses mother  CLOSURE OF FINETEX, NORTEX: Union accuses manager of importing textiles from China  Ibori: Appeal court delivers judgement March 21  I’m vindicated -freed Islamic scholar  Kwara workers reject new tax regime  FG advocates free movement between Nigeria, Tunisia  TIT BITS  Elders do it better  Where is Katagum?  Boring delegates  Name droppers and their effect  President speech: what’s the big deal?  Asom Bur’s day of shame  Late comers and their antics  Delegates get ’60 63 constitutions  Confab in rowdy session over resource control  How AD delegates emerged  FG ignored Taraba State — Delegate  ACF accuses Obasanjo of instigating Nigerians  Obasanjo’ll implement Confab report, says Tobi  Bauchi speaker cautions Confab on referendum  Insight on smuggling at seaports  Tackling the pension albatross  Of confab and separatist tendencies  Bondage as Taraba’s second name  Open letter to Gov Kure on tertiary education  350,000 African refugees back home in 2004 –UN  S/Leone war crimes trial begins  500 women treated for in Darfur-Report  S/ Africa renames capital Tshwane  DR Congo needs to end widespread rape cases -Right group  Militiamen kill 20 in Somalia  Syrian troops leaving Lebanon  Briton shot dead in Afghanistan  Security summit opens in Madrid  Muslims face more hostility, intolerance in post 9/11 Europe  Bush appoints hardliner as UN envoy  ‘Palestinians occupation main cause of Muslim anger in US’  Kosovo PM faces war crimes charges  Again, WAMZ shifts Eco deadline  Obj tasks Afrexim Bank on African trade  British cosmetics coy sets up plant in Nigeria  NEPZA plans more free trade zones  Tsunami, solid minerals dominate mining confab  ‘Why Nigerian industries are fast collapsing’  Akwa Ibom  AKIIPOC  Trade Fair  Oil price slips but holds above $53  Martha Stewards returns to work  UK card fraud rises above £500m  Boeing CEO ‘flies’ into sex storm  LSE board meets after D. Boerse scraps bid  Revenue boss wants expatriates to pay tax  Many state varsities may crumble –Dr. Yusuf  Land Act hampers provision of houses, says FMBN boss  FG to assist in the construction of Church centre  Post-tsunami construction threatens forest  Cross River to spend N 1.5n on housing  FG gives 1004 estate residents 30-day quit notice  Katsina launches campaign on neem trees  Expert makes ease for wildlife conservation in Nigeria  FG to re-award contract for Onitsha-Owerri road  Ogun state housing programme takes off  El-Rufai attributes environmental degredation to human activities  Gov Ibrahim inaugurates environment project in Yobe  Flood threaten one million in Kano  Landslide may shut down beverage company  Delegate urges more investment in infrastructure  Kwara assures on agric infrastructure  Minister canvasses committee for cotton development  Minister lauds reduction in rice importation  MISTOWA Iaunched in Abuja  Agriculture: Most potent weapon against poverty –Saraki  Power outage hits Kubwa  Theft o f iron rods: court arraigns policemen  Secretariat declares support for charity organizations  el-Rufai inaugurates c’ttee on AIDS confab  Poverty: Villagers revert to trade by barter  Kano Muslims urged to assist Abuja mosque rehabilitation  NEPA pledges prompt repaid of faults  Emir of Kano urges support for census  Police promotes servicemen  Bayero tasks Muslims on Islamic education  PAYE deductions: LASG companies premises  … threatens to shut down Chevron hqrs  14 Unilag students, woman, charged with arson  Withheld LG funds :House accuse FG of victimizing Lagos  Ribadu is pursuing private agenda –NYA Chairman  Bozimo inaugurates task force on police welfare  Gowon urges Nigeria to unite  Rivers orders arrest of illegal users of govt plate numbers  FG to standardise highway billboards  Suswan kick-starts water project in Benue  N95m equipment for Kano hospitals  NBTE chief tasks ASUP on confab  Adamawa gov. commends NASS  Jigawa explains non-payment o f salaries  Customs impound 2,500 cartons of frozen chickens  Water corporation manager blames NEPA for scarcity  Lawmaker launches poverty alleviation scheme  Project group names festival date  Drum wins top African film prize  The Michael Jackson Trial: Alleged to have physically abused boy  The star puzzle  ..A crumbling prosecution witness  Representing the new woman  Rethinking social security  Marwa condoles Emir of Lafia, family of late Senator Haruna  Ajaokuta LG fire blamed on political opponents  North, most marginalised part of Nigeria -Shehu Sani  UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Real’s defensive resolve faces Juventus test  Arsenal must hold firm against Bayern  Depleted Leverkusen soft target for Liverpool  Mourinho hits back at UEFA  I’m fit, raring to go, says Zidane  Wade, O’Neal lead Heat to sixth win  I’m unaware of club owners sack threat –Galadima  Makinwa chooses Inter  WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP: Nigerians want early preparation  CAF CLUB CUPS: Pundits praise performances of Nigerian clubs  Ex-international, King, criticises Chukwu  A word for the Emir of Borg