 N55M BRIBERY SCANDAL: EFCC releases Osuji. Reps seek explanation from C ’ttee chairman  House not party to bribe - Ningi  Confab: ANPP expresses confidence in Tobi’s leadership  Reforms impossible with level of corruption – Ciroma  Soldier rapes nursing mother  NUPENG, PENGASSAN issue strike warning  Argungu ends with catch selling N2m  Al-Mustapha’s family barred from seeing him  Sani Toro wins by election  FG announces guidelines for sale of FCT houses  Ciroma, Waziri turbaned in Fika  NASS divided over agitation for foreign debt cancellation  Oyo civil service undergoes major reforms  FG, states, LGs share 208bn  Katsina to spend N8bn on primary education in 2006  New transformers for Gombe  Akanbi wants constitutional recognition for ICPC  Bauchi seeks return of onshore-offshore dichotomy  ‘Shari’a supremacy, wish of all Muslims’  Delegates want HYPPADEC commission  LG Funds: Lagos, FG feud will scare investors -delegate  Memorandum of the Bauchi state delegation  Confab: Religion and development  Collapse of Health Interactive Column: Our triumph  Letter to Lamido on Father Kukah  Re: Behind the scenes of Hajj 2005  Kogi needs state TV station  Woman leads US Muslims to prayer  ...Mid East Muslims denounce Amina’s prayer  Ethiopia deploys 30,000 troops to Eritrean border  France donates N5million to rescued children  Privatisation: NICON bids for management-buy-out  CBN confirms Esene as FSB MD  Goje urges banks to support real sector  No regime change at World Bank –Wolfowitz  MAN decries delay in privatising power sector  ..13% MRR will help real sector, if ... MAN DG  MSME Fair  Peak  Confab  High oil prices to continue -IMF boss  ...rise above $56  Shell  TOTAL  Local Content  Customs to raid super markets for contrabands  High interest rates, hinder poultry expansion — Badmus  Kwatan-Sule, a point of cultural harmony  ICT integration critical in bank mergers - Soludo  RMRDC boss tasks media on S&T reporting  Kwara sets up databank for farmers  Achi reappointed as CCLT boss  Science reporters elect exco  Child pornography  Humanoid  Copyright  Digital tax to aid poor nations  Outsourcing new technologies from CeBIT 2005  EU threatens Microsoft new fines  Microsoft launches paid search technology  Traders make homes in Karu Market  Magistrate remands legislator’s domestic staff over 14,000 euros  Area one market demolition effected despite legal suit  NURTW chairman says alcohol still banned in motor parks  School sends SS 3 students on forced holiday  Group launches NGO against sectarian violence  Bunkure LG distributes goats to women  W e have nothing to hide — Shekarau  Audu Bako College to introduce fish, bee farming subjects  KNSG pledges to provide building for Islamiyya  Women urged to discuss issues with husband  Pensioners receive N2.7bn  Shekarau woos investors  OPC, Asari Dokubo-led NDVF clash averted  Court arraigns alleged child traffickers  EFCC recovers 5,000 cheque leaflets from forgers  LASG to convert waste to fertilizer, energy  Immunity clause must be removed -Mantu  NEPA scares investors from Nigeria - Jigawa Deputy Gov  Youth groups plead for more board appointments  Publisher donates IG ’s programmes to police  Gov Idris pledges support for rural dev  College demotes 5 mgt staff for alleged students’ incitement  Al-Mustapha: court orders FG to release witnesses statements  Sultan pledges support for 2005 census  Obasanjo orders establishment of educational institution for Kebbi  Military hospital records over 40% of malaria cases – Agwai  Anti-violence Bill to sanction Anambra traditional rulers  Kogi Assembly passes 2004 Appropriation Bill  ‘Resource control advocates misunderstood’  Casey clinches China play-off win  Clijsters wins Indian Wells titles  Dalglish calls for no ‘stupidity’ in Turin  Bekele back to world-beating best  A high-stakes derby  Kaduna Utd pip Buffalo  Sharks devour Nasarawa  WAUG: LOC tours media houses  Basketball League shield our target –Popoola  CONFEDERATION CUP: Insurance knock out Kamsar  Wikki out-class Berger  EDITORIAL: Agenda for PDP leadership  Privatisation: From public to private monopolies