 NATIONAL CONFAB: Obasanjo rebuffs muslim leaders  Senate passes N1.799tr budget  … Admits failure over debt relief. Begins another world tour  Niger demands 80% N revenue accruing to NEPA  Conjoined Zimbabwean twins separated  Nigeria earned N345.8bn from crude sales in January 1. External reserves hit $19.59bn  Soludo heads new Mint board  NITEL: Pentascope asks court to stay proceedings  National Mosque fund raising begins today  Reps reject Obasanjo’s amendment to lottery bill  Northern Speakers visit Lake Chad oil sites  Robber to die by hanging  Plateau appoints traditional rulers for new chiefdoms  Gombe lawmaker dies  Confab stalemates on rules of procedure  FG deliberately ‘anti-north’  1966 coup killings unnecessary –Aduwo  A letter to IGP Sunday Ehindero  Nigeria’s ‘most attractive’ career path  Re: Is Shekarau carrying vengeance too far?  Much ado about headcount  Re: Obasanjo’s war against Islam  Israelis to leave West Bank towns  Saddam’s trial begins Oct  19 bodies found dead in Iraq  Lebanese president to push for new govt  US unease over fresh law in Taiwan  State of emergency to remain in Nepal  Colombia extradites rebel ‘Sonia’  Chechen resistance ‘to continue’  UN to review Iraq inspection work  ‘Don’t die in six months’  ‘Free public transport for good dressing  Man in cold seeking love  25bn capitalization NAL partners Indian bank  …Intercity begins sensitisation on IPO  Belgium eyes Virgin Nigeria  Obasanjo urges OPEC to check oil prices  JAIZ  Broad Bank  Access Bank  Northern speakers visit Lake Chad oil sites  International Oil price stays close to $55  Customs agents urge NASS to sanitise shipping industry  ‘Stocks will boast maritime sector’  No parastatal’ll be spared in reforms –Minister  Continental Airlines summoned over Concorde crash  Volkswagen gets off on poor start  British Airways names Irishman as new CEO  EADS shares drop, as Jumbo Airbus takes off  FG worried about high cost of LPG –Paki  Regional securities body elects A l-Faki as chairman  Nagarta radio: Building on listenership tradition  Proposed de-nationalisation of ASUU  UBE expends N3.12bn (on 9,650 primary schools  Rep. sponsors workshop for maths, English teachers  Don charges media to give more attention to scientists  19 northern states to I fund ABU —Gov  Sokoto requires N35bn for primary education  Gov. Goje assures ATBU of assistance  Gov. Mu’azu lauds NTI over teachers’ education  Katsina ETF seeks private elaboration to revive education  Mathematical Centre designs programme to enhance maths study  Provost warns students against vices  UC issues guidelines for non-degree courses  Three schools win Nestle Milo arts competition  Gov Shekarau wants demonstrating students suspended  MFCT doctors have V no cause to fear’  FCDA shuts Herbert Macaulay Way. evicts road side traders  FCT CJ swears-in 19 new magistrates  MTUN collections for union’s welfare –chairman  Abaji LG awards N13m contract for primary schools  TV station for Abuja, soon —el-Rufai  Women tasked on campaigns against HIV/AIDS, others  Argungu festival gets N180m boost  Obasanjo urges NASS to expedite action on environmental bill  Bauchi govt provides succour to railway women  Atiku condoles Benue over death of first republic politician  North must develop itself, Gov. Mu’azu  Jigawa blames police for communal clash  International Women’s Day: Tinubu preaches gender equality  LASG donates 50 cars to magistrates  Sanitation: Ministry gives Computer Village traders ultimatum  Police arrest fake officer in Agege  KNSG to transform Quranic school  College deterioration worries speaker  KNSG woos Chinese investors  Kumbosto expends N20m on computers  Takai disburses Nlm materials on girl child education  200 women in Garun Malam benefit from goat loan  Kwara D PM s indicted, to refund N23m  Plateau gets Solomon Lar library foundation  Poverty Alleviation: State managers converge in Damaturu  Threat to demolish NPA mosque M worries PHC Muslims  Policeman detained for assaulting 7-year old  Goje pledges to investigate Ashaka Cem over marginalization allegation  NPC staff threaten to sabotage census  Crisis: US to establish mobility hub for Africa  Fayose denies report on secretariat relocation  Katsina awards 525m contract to electrify 29 villages  Jigawa sets up c’ttee on assets of agric supply coy  APGA condemns detention of Chairman b EFCC  Aide vows to drag Yerima into presidential race  Don’t politicise census, Kogi deputy gov warns  Group salutes Masari on This Day award  Benue PDP chieftain condemns Ali, Anenih’s emergence as leaders  Majestic Chelsea show Europe they mean business  United struggle to find positives after Milan defeat  Yamusa berates Eagles’ handlers  Colleges of Education Games prelim flags off  Shekarau Babes head to Holland March 25  ICC to relocate to Dubai  Lopez better tactician than Ranieri, says Albelda  ‘Greek league matches are fixed’  Pennant drops drink-driving appeal  Adamawa storm FI FA over promotion ticket  Nigeria Gabon world cup cracker: Doubts over Okocha’s fitness  Bauchi soccer clubs set to end rivalry  AFN wants states to hold competitions  ACB Football Club plan return  Sports devt: Gabros official lambasts govt  Between performance and perfection