• Open letter to Abacha. • Before the rotational presidency. • Three hands in one year. • Peering into the abyss. • The Trojan horse cometh. • How tough was tough. • Governors are gone. • Theatre of the absurd. • Junk sensation, junk liars. • Babangida plans to take a second wife. • Osoba’s numerous cars. • NNPC stinks. • Recurring fires, silent probes. • Hijacking: a new crime. • Labour: strikes and unrest. • The collapse of economy: It has been much talk and less action on how to revive the economy. • Prelude to the constitutional conference. • African panorama. • Japan: old guard dethroned. • France: a little to the right. • Colombia: end of the road. • Israel/PLO accord: beyond handshake. • Michael Jackson’s headache. • News clampdown: cat-and-mouse game. • June 12: not to be. • The Chukwumerije phenomenon: he read the riot act. • Sport ’93: world cup fever. • Courts of upsets and tragedy.