• Where did we go wrong?. • Undiplomatic omissions. • Head-count blues. • The Gender Question. • Fighting shy of fate. • Pain in the NEC: electoral body fights to maintain credibility. • Flight into the doldrums: Nigeria airways’plane crashlands, management seeks solution from all. • Wages of wavering: Christians look beyond Nigeria to fund Abuja Centre. • A monarch’s shopping list: King Moshoeshoe seeks aid and closer economic co-operation between Nigeria and Lesotho. • Too close for comfort: Abuja structures provide easy access to a president’s life. • Dreams die first: Abuja’s gradual transformation lures some, repels others. • Thumbs up for the Democrats. • The logic of security. • A knock on apartheid: White rugby chief’s trip to Zimbabwe jolts racists. • In search of friends: desperate racist leader visits Cote d'Ivoire. • Week of disasters: Thirty die in air crash in Rome, 160 in India. • Uncertainty is the word: As the race nears end, both candidates hope for last minute surprises. • No love lost: Queen Elizabeth visits Spain but political tension between the two kingdoms remains. • Saudi Arabia reconcile. • Quashing the quacks: Influx of unregistered estate agents leads to litigation. • In aid of the farmers: government plans insurance scheme to check agricultural risks. • The wheel of the economy. • Memorials for Giwa: Journalists mark the anniversary of his death. • Tortuous march: Inventions cry for commercialization. • Journey to the origins: Ife inhabitants rededicate themselves at the Olojo festival. • Stemming the tin tide: Tin producer-nations seek better market for the industry. • A rise, a burst: as oil price firms up, EEC threatens OPEC. • Cheerless road to Riyadh: Nigeria yet to perfect strategy to lift Fifa/Coca Cola Cup. • Sting of the graphic warrior: cartoonists criticize society through their art. • Chase for Giwa’s killers: Fawehinmi enlists the power of the written word