• Adamu Adamu goofed. • Saddam a hero! • Unvail the truth. • Drought: Picking up the pieces. • NEPA Men: rights and duties. • The Ooni’s choice. • Thatcher: end at an era. • On being strangers I – Adamu Adamu. • Ghost of Muda: a devastating drought ravages the fax North, and peasants are already recalling 1913. • A salvation army-in-waiting. • CDS stews in own waste. • Remembering Tukur: leading radical and academics gather in Zaria to remember their great leader. • Journalists, Police flex muscles. • Niger goes democracy: the people's voice has triumphed after a prolonged wave of violent protests. • Dousing the fire: Mandela and EW. de Klerk have agreed to meet over black on black violence that has so far claimed several lives. • Europe: talking peace, war. • Gulf: no war, no peace. • The squandering of riches (II) - Kabiru Yusuf. • Statues off oppression. • F.A. Cup final: a celebration of mediocrity. • WAFU’s trouble. • WBC boxing crown: Anyamene hot favourite.