• Halt the takari syndrome. • Rout this traitor. • The dangers of sovereign conference – Mohammed Haruna. • Banking: sitting in limbo. • Chieftaincy tussle: friend no more. • Marginalisation: the eastern agenda. • National conference: Benin and Mali examples (I). • The big haul: drug law enforcement officers make the biggest catch in Africa. • Open - letter to General Sani Abacha. • The Naira: power in the fall. • Change Naira’s name. • Angola: Savimbi’s games. • Now for reconciliation: Somali warlords agreed for peace talks arranged in Kenya. • PLO/Isael: peace is yet to reign in the volatile Middle East. • Zapatista’s rage: Poor social and economic conditions push Indian peasants to the wall. Violent uprising leaves 100 dead. • Onagoruwa’s agony. • Yekini’s year of glory.