 Hajj: Nigeria seeks 3 days extension  RESIGNATION Senators lobby Ogbeh to rescind decision  Senate passes budget Jan 27  INEC explains disparity in Ogun polls results  Obasanjo submits new revenue formula to senate  Anambra: Snate stands down Panel report  Markarfi, denies presidential interest  Sultan announces Thursday Jan 20 Sallah day  Jigawa denies N1bn gift to Niger Republic  Ogbeh was not forced to resign, says Gana  Senate to review insurance claims  Khatami arrives Abuja on 3-day visit  Works ministry gets N6.7 billion virement  Doctors’ strike: FG releases N7bn for settlement  Committee on Christian pilgrimage inaugurated  Harmattan haze grounds flights again  Deregulation successful –Paki  Swiss to release looted funs to FG  FG writes US over Virgin restriction  Ogbeh: Can PDP survive the heat?  JCB: Jah come black  The world as America’s hostage  Re: “Fraud: JSC probes FCT High Court”  Journalism and censorship: The Kano example  The danger in Ogbeh’s resignation  Borno new breed politicians and the future  How much “aid” will the tsunami survivors get?  UN to deploy troops to Darfur  AU urges action on Cote d’ Iviore  I have failed –Zambian president  Congolese protest poll delay  Kenya clan clashes claim 9  Tsunami: UN demands swift cash  Explosion kills 13 in China  Former Yugoslav leader trial resumes  Oil-for-food officials’ guilty –report  Ukrainian troops to leave Iraq  Suspected British terrorists to be released  Bombing kills six Iraqi police in Tikrit  Some areas may be unsafe to vote-Iraqi PM  Suspected Musharraf assailant flees custody  Iran,EU forge trade ties  Eqyptians eye Palestinian poll system  CBN trades N54.4bn treasury bills  Recapitalisation: O’ dua states back Wema Bank with N6.25bn  Ajaokuta Steel seeks AISA collaboration  Rising energy costs hit world”s biggest aluminum company  Shell to pay $1m to ex-finance chief  Oil prices ease to $45  Officials allege sabotage in Iraqi oil system  MTN, Vmobile, NITEL agree on tariff  British post office eyes telecom market  NITEL engages SSS, EFCC to plug revenue leakages  US’ rural telephony coy buys Western Wireless  FG inaugurates SME implementation committee  Dollar dips against Euro  EU optimistic on Airbus/Boeing subsidy row  Airport operations resume as visibility improves  Nigeria plans total radar coverage of airspace  BA to suspend two Saudi services  Thatch-roofed huts defy urbanization in Makurdi  Environment ministry inaugurates federal programme advisory c’ttee  Survivors of China landslide to get new homes  Ancient granaries found in Egypt  Bauchi begins New year sanitation exercise  Tsunami: 500,000 Indonesians homeless  Refuse takes over Aba  An environmental analysis of Cyprus  1000km Lagos roads to gulp N2.5billion  LASG to demolish illegal structures in six LGs  2004,difficult year for construction industry –NIESV President  NGO tasks KNSG on desert control  Yankari Park draws more tourists  The world’s banker: A story of failed states, financial crises, and the wealth and pverty of nations  U2 show  African people compared  MFCT, Orphange at war over babies  Court discharges man over breach of trust  Tribunal orders retrial council chairman’s case  Two policemen, others die in Mabushi fire  Pregnant mothers complain of vaccine scarcity  N307m expended on inherited projects –Commissioner  7,000 pilgrims flown to Saudi Arabia  Mosque, school construction gulps N4.3m  Dala LG pledges support for pilgrims  Don enjoins traders on mgt. strategy  Market association tasks LASG on incessant fire outbreaks  315 coys indicate interest in car park project  Professionals launch NGO to assist less privileged  Assassination bid on Anambra Rep fails  Akwa Ibom gov dissolves cabinet  Sokoto urged to purchase farmers’ excess grains  Security chief in court for alleged assault  Police arrest couple for duping Okada operator  Emir of Ilorin extols virtues of late Sardauna  Deputy gov tasks journalists on politics  Nigeria records reduction in road accident – FRSC boss  Body raises N3.5 trillion for food production  Ekiti begins construction of Presidential Lodge  Police arrest bullion van, raid suspects  Let states handle pilgrims’ accommodation, agency urges  NGO to drag herbalists before court  Fire guts 300 villages in Jigawa * 19 died inferno  Occultism: Don blames Nigerian leaders  NYSC boss plans better package for staff  Environmentalist marks birthday in desert  NBA honours Fawehinmi  Jigawa police kill four robbers  Kwara to grade traditional rulers  Police arrest suspected killers of minor  ECOWAS training course opens in Abuja  Jigawa courts treats 19000 cases in 2004  Akwa Ibom budgets N83.28bn for 2005  Tinubu’s refusal to re-conduct council elections unconstitutional – Ogunlewe  Anambra govt sues FG over crisis  APGA faction constitutes Board of Trustees  Yarima’s posters flood Ilorin  Rooney set for Manchester United recall  Jorge takes charge of Cameroon  Axed Lehmann hits back at Arsenal manager  Spanish federation vows to halt rise in racism  Livorno sack coach Colomba, turn to Donadoni  Bayern to let Kuffour or Linke leave  Bryant shines as Lakers add to Timberwolves’ misery  Myskina, Moya beaten in Sydney  Deserving Appleby reaps rich reward in Hawaii  Federer calls for tennis to join tsunami relief effort  Rogge urges African nations to bid for Games  Australian Open celebrates its 100th year  EI Guerrouj targets cross country  Di Canio claims innocence in row  Ogunjobi: NFA sets up probe panel  Polish club blasts Ekwueme  No cause for alarm at Enyimba  Obaseki leads League Board  Geremi eager to make Boro switch  Stop sacking coaches, club owners urged  Bauchi govt fires Wikki mgt  Ukraine: Time to move forward  Nas: The Man who stayed loyal