 PDP NEC may scrap NWC today  NO-GO AREAS: You can’t gag us –Delegates tell Obasanjo  Bomo canvasses parliamentary system  Late Haruna Abubakar buried in Lafia  World Bank doubts N25bn capitalization  FG appoints new DG for VON  I executed 6064 projects in Kano – Kwankwaso  FG dissolves MFCT as el-Rufai heads FCDA board  NNPC redeploys 51 mgt staff  Gombe to spend N1bn on airport construction  Reps c’ttee indicts member over unethical conduct  Club owners to recall Galadima, three others  C’ttee canvasses recognition for Nigerian engineers  M-Tel now has 921,000 subscribers  FUT Minna reopens March 14  Emir accuses police of abetting crime  Security Breach: Court rules on AI-Mustapha’s application March 18  Scarcity of bread likely if-Adamu  Media must ensure success — Gana  Address Nigeria’s debt burden, Ganduje urges confab  Procedure for Obasanjo’s inaugural speech causes stir  Delegates get Globacom lines  Muslim delegates ’ll promote Muslim interest–Adegbite  Saraki, Igbinedion support no-go areas  Delegates urged to revisit local govt system  Confab may be extended  ..reject no-go areas  ANPP’s travails  Dismantling business bottlenecks?  Gombe: Goje’s critics misfired  Open letter to Comptroller of Customs  Gov Ibrahim, dissolve this cabinet  Police arrest 6 over farmers, normads clash in Kogi  Why LGs fail to perform - ALGON president  Dariye: PLHA urged to investigate allegations*Groups condemn warrants of arrest  Gov Mu’azu and human owls!  Nigeria: Elite hegemony and our future  Chief Imam supports BC mosque exhibition  Zimbabwean media decry newspaper’s closure  Burundi voters back constitution  Stranded pilgrims get refunds soon-DPA  Fresh clashes erupt in Cote d’ Ivoire  Sudanese govt to withdraw troops from Darfur  W/African envoys meets new Togolese leader  Bin Laden calls for attacks inside America  Hamas gives fresh conditions for peace  ‘Lebanon future unclear after PM quits’  Iraqi attack: Death toll now 125  Nuclear row: America lures Iran with economic incentives  Nuclear weapons: Can they be stopped?  Liquidation: Savannah Bank wants judge to transfer case  NDIC may change deposit insurance design – MD  N2bn loan: Kogi denies indebtedness to CTB  NSE trading bearish  Benin Oba seeks support for ACB  Capital Bank reveals “the best kept secret”  Banking giant, HSBC posts $17.6bn profit  Ex-WorldCom CEO denies role in fraud  Oil supply may exceed demand — OPEC  Oil prices hold firm near $52  Local content: Shell moves exploration team to Nigeria  ‘Presidential approval not delaying oil block biddings’  LNG may get terminal in Italy  Dangote group ventures into steel manufacturing  Privatisation: NNDC takes interest in KRPC, steel coy  ExxonMobil participates in deepwater discovery  Dollar gains ground  ‘Plastic bags takes over 50 years to decompose’  FG committed to preventing Bar Beach ocean surge —Ogunlewe  Poor maintenance culture, bane of Nigeria’s economy-BICL Boss  Irrigation, water supply drag FG to states  Obasanjo urged to intervene in Bachama crisis  2 million children to get polio vaccination  FG documents cultural assets nationwide  Minister pledges grants to cotton farmers  Kaduna Assembly investigates Saminaka food tragedy  Inter-religious conference holds in Zamfara  Immunisation: el-Rufai seeks LG boss, traditional rulers support  Community gets electricity after 2-year outage  FCDA warns relocated traders  Man, 27, faces court over forgery  Car falls off bridge  Nassarawa LG residents tasked on 2005 census  Rep gives cash, materials to constituents  KNSG takes stringent measures against loan defaulters  Kano to improve water services in metropolis  Chellarams holds sensitisation forum on fire incidents  DFID to spend N500m on Lagos this year  Withheld LG fund: LASG insists it’ll not compromise stand  UniLag to reopen soon  Julius Berger yet to commence Ogun bridge project  Akwa Ibom sets up Tsunami disaster relief committee  12 died and two injured in a fatal auto crash  Masari explains Nigerian parliament  Kwara approves N69m for flood control in Ilorin  Electricity razes Cross River community  Gov Bukar threatens exco members over performance  National confab, a political gimmick –ACF NEC member  ANPP commends Abaji council chairman  PDP chairmanship: Plateau elders support Tapgun  Confab: PDP youths canvass sanction for Ngige, Alamieyeseigha  Pro-IBB groups strategise plan for2007  PDP UK chapter changes leadership  Arts Council boss is dead  Black ‘street’ literature A comes of age in U.S  Ex James Bond, Sean Connery in a $30 million US lawsuit  Can FG successfully reform film industry?  Bad taste and fake accents on radio  A repackaged magazine  Inter’s Facchetti throws in towel over title  Keane in court on assault charge  Nedved to miss Real return  Pires joins Arsenal injury list  Three Northern teams occupy Premier League summit  Nasarawa Utd partners Club Brugge  Dolphin player, Ayodeji, buried  Clubs to pay N1m for fans violence  NFL backtracks on Globacom  Izilein challenges NFA over Eaglets  Basketball Academy launched in Lagos  HFN warns players over transfer clearance  Orok Oyo wants speedy action on Decree 101  Supporters club targets N200m  Boosting power supply  Telecommunication or teleconfusion?