• Tyrants as democrats? • Probe, but don’t sell. • NDLEA’s credibility. • Global disaster. • Custom: the Indonesian example – Adamu Adamu. • Nigeria Custom Service: the Augean stable? • Not all are corrupt – Odangla. • A harvest of death: a yellow fever epidemic ravages the south-east, wiping out hundreds of lives in quick succession. • Abacha’s regime: no end in sight. • The trouble with the north. • Governance and the Nigerian economy. • NNPC: calm before the storm. • LASU: back from the dead. • NIPSS: polishing policy makers. • Samson’s law of self-destruct. • NEXIM: dusting the theories. • First Bank immortalizes Asabia. • NEPA holds energy workshop. • Unending war: Sudan remains in the grip of violence and misery as its perennial civil war escalates. • Angola: crisis without end. • Bosnia: Ripe for plucking. • BCC Lions, Nationale rise up to Africa.