 Saraki, Unongo, Kaita float new northern group  Senate rejects confab  …court summons Obasanjo  AD caucus sues decampees  First Bank gets CBN accent to takeover bank  Yagba East council leader shot dead  States LGs donate N700m to Tsunami victims  Threats will not deter me-NDLEA boss  Senate moves to check VIP closures at Abuja airport  Abdulkadir Abacha still on EfCC’s wanted list –spokesman  ECOWAS court jurisdiction expanded-Donli  Misistry delays contruction of erosion control in Benue  NITEL gets new management staff  Obasanjo inspects obajana cement industry today  ASUU accuses minister of violating labour laws,takes FG to court  Why Nigerians must be productive –minister  FG may revoke N300m Kano airport terminal project  Union kicks against NLC participation  Furore over Jigawa delegates  Muslim delegate should not canavass ethnic agenda –Prof. Abdulkareem  Bello Kirfi leads Bauchi delegates  Southern Kaduna Youths nominee  In defence of scoundrels Agenda for Nyame’s Taraba  Protest and demand for retraction  Confab: still on Zamfara nominees  Re: Plateau civil groups call for probe of Alli’s tenure  America’s successful failure in Iraq  Elite power theory and Jigawa politics  US-European rift over Iran  Isreal,Palestine vow to end violence  Shia hold lead in Iraqi election  Saudi confab focuses on terrorism  …Group claims killing of Italian journalists  Iran celebrates Islamic revolution  Annan recommends 10,000 troops for Sudan  TOGO bans rallies as tension rises  Somali cabinet visits Somalia over relocation  Kenya’s top anti-graft official resigns  ‘Ugandan peace process back on course’  Toda’s fligt sehedule  Blair shuns aviation tax idea  FG lauds contractors over airport terminal  Aviation safety, security summit holds in Abuja  Nigeria,France to improve investment opportunitiers  Communication Trends signs on XL Mgt Services  FG pledges to complete export container depots  Obasanjo, Akume laud Olam’s agric transformation efforts  SMEDAN boss commends Bauchi varsity’s business iniatiatives  Why our merger with GTB failed-Inland Bank spokesman  SMEs groans under N25bn recapitalizations  FCMB to raise N14.9bn from capital market  Oil price fall to one-month low  Bumper oil prices lift BP profits  Anthology Planned to honour late saro-Wiwa  Ngugi’s new novel out in Gikuyu  Baghdad’s blast wall art  Call for submissions  Okonkwo Complex in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus  World Wetlands day: Commemorating poverty and displacement  Urban Shelter builds 750 Housing units  NGO organizes sanitation exercise  FG poised to tackle road infrastructure problem-Ogunlewe  FG ask Ikoyi tenants to vacate houses  Lekki residents scramble to pay levies  National press centre under reconstruction at N103m  China to protect river ecosystem  FEC approves sanitation policy  FG grants bitumen exploration licence to Ogun  Jigawa builds new NYSC camp  MFCT to relocate Karmo residents  Abia lawmarkers kick against illegal structures  Traders begin exodus from Bakassi Market  El-Rufai apologises to residents traders  Old Wuse market traders hopeful of compensation  …re-opens Friday  …sets up probe panel  KNSG extends suspension of LG bosses  Gezawa LG tasks headmasters on mismanagement  Refuse disposal gulps N2m in Municipal  WRECA urged to complete Getso dam  Take release names of Rumfa award recipients  Lagos records first major rain fall  LAWMA clears refuse in lagos metropolis  Archbishop advises Christians about lent  Customs impound N3.89m contraband  Library is engine room of Judiciary-Judge  Women charged on skills acquisition  Census field workers use Donkeys, Boats, Camels in Borno  Due process, major threat to 2005 census- Commissioner  Security Breach: Mustapha insists on documents  MCN urges FG declare public holiday for Islamic New Year celebration  Confab: Gani Adams warns South-West govs over Yoruba agenda  NUPTE lauds FG pent scope contract termination  Agric minister says Nigeria now self-sufficient in vegetable oil  Chad republic begins voters' registration in Nigeria  Anambra Crisis: CRW drugs AGF to court  National confab: Muslims urged to defend shariah  25-year-old pottery close down for lack of patronage  4,800 pilgrims return through Sokoto Airport  10% cassava content in bread an opportunity for Nigeria- FG  Coy recalls 15 sacked workers  G-34 resurrection: What went wrong?  2007: Marwa denies working for IBB, Atiku  Political class tasked on one party state  Rep tasks youths on leadership  ANPP chieftain’ supporters decamp to PDP Kwara  Group reaffirms support for Yarima  French hopes lie with Trezeguet, Henry  Wright- Phillips keen to play anywhere for the World Cup dream  Money can’t buy Gerrard, say Liverpool  Chelsea’s Robben out for up to two months  Giggs against proposed Glazer bid  Shares rise on new Man utd offer  Euro giants catch winter chill  Former NRA boss, Yabilsu, is dead  Flying Eagles stars head for Sweden  IMC to spend N143m on league  Lobi gear up for new season  Kwara Utd Nationale clash in league opener  Ikhana predicts tough times for Kwara Utd  Nigeria’s debt trap (II)  Due process? What due process?