• A rail behind time. • Triangular drama over apartheid. • Botha’s ‘breakthrough’. • Yankee, no deal: Nigeria unbending on wheat ban and increasing local production. • ‘Sanction’s not the question’: Ambassador Lyman says Nigeria, US should not get to that point. • Foot in the mouth: Police Superintendent Ogugbuaja gets the boot. • New laws on the scroll: Legal experts confer, seek resolution ofconflicting laws. • Concert of leaders: Forum discusses palliatives for ailing continent. • A toast for forty: University of Ibadan celebrates, but aches. • Sermon from the hills: Babangida tells offideological and religious extremists. • Sharia shakes Aniagolu. • Who cures the doctor? A rash of complaints as physicians fail to live up to Hippocratic oath. • The legal angle: Barrister Oshisanya says mistakes are no defences for negligence • AIDS: not yet a safety-valve, Faulty medical handling heightens the scare. • Now it’s war of words: Khartoum, Nairobi trade charges over support of rebels. • Deep in dilemma: Whichever way Israeli elections go,Palestinians areno betteroff. • No longer a gentleman’s game: Contestants resort to mudslinging as presidential race enters last lap. • Charting a new course: Kohl's Moscow visit promises improvedEast-West co-operation. • Termites of the economy: Foreign exchange merchants bite deeply into the naira. • Assuaging the thirst: Gongola State seeks loans for Yola water project. • A jolt from within: building expects unfold new techniques. • Can they cope?:Uncertainties over privatisation worry brokers. • New style drug adverts: Consumers' get ‘consult your physician’ warning. • Friendship through art: Bulgarian cultural troupe thrills Nigerians. • A nappy affair: kiddies all set for pears baby contest finals. • A painful inheritance: Musical drama captures Black past in beautiful idiom. • Images of the Sahel: Onabrakpeya explores relationship between man and environment. • Another Amina steps in: Al Bishak takes a revolutionary stance infiction.