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y\ C$2 00 • Ghana C2 000 • Saudi Arabia SR10 00 • Germany DM3 50 • CFA Zone 1,500 • USA . $3 50 • Italy 12 00C 300 Zimbabwe $’30 • France 13F • Kenya Sh20 • UK £2 00 • The Gambia D4 • Liberia L$2 00 mmmm One more patient mny die from Malaria before you read this over. Worldwide, some 3 million people die yearly fiom malaria related complications, while 2.5 billion people in 90 countries aie at risk, but they need not be. Malaria and other common ailments are easily curable if essential diugs ate readily available. Yet from experience, where such drugs aie available, they aie almost unaffordable by most Nigerian families. That is why at the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF), we are working to ensure that essential drugs for ante natal care and curable ailments such as waterborne, parasitic, and childhood diseases among otheis, come within the reach of every Nigerian. To obtain your dr ugs at a ctieap rate all you need do is get a doctor ;s pi esci iption from any Fedeial, State or Local government health institution. All PTF drugs feature our logo and are approved for quality and genuiness by the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Conti ol (NAFDAC) In the last two years, we have commissioned several local pharmaceutical firms to provide drugs worth 3.7 billion Naha to boost health care services to the Nation; in the process creating job opportunities and most importantly saving lives. Making Essential Drugs Available & Affordable PETROLEUM (SPECIAL) TRUST FUND .. Here to sen/e. Outline FEBRUARY 2, 1998 NIGERIA’S WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE VOL. 27 NO. 4 Nigeria: 13 Cover: 6 Water scarcity which hit Enugu recently has killed both social life and the economy of residents* Musa Bamaiyi, chairman Who Succeeds Diya? NDLEA reveals that corruption among drug agents has made the body Despite General Sani unqualified for gazetting. Abacha's seemingly un Political Update: 18 preparedness to appoint a First rate politicians abandon their interest new CGS to succeed in the presidency and scramble for Lieutenant-general Ola- positions in the Senate and House of Representatives* Isa Mohammed, dipo Diya, names of some chairman UNCP concludes that his likely successors are being party's victory at pools means people's touted acceptability of its programmes. Africa: 21 The military government in Sierra-Leone Summit: 33 contends with both diplomatic and military forces bent on reinstating the Home from the Range democratic government it toppled. World: 22 Peter Enahoro, reputable The United States and Britain are poised journalist and sole on using force to ensure Iraqi cooperate administrator of Daily with UN weapons inspection team Times speaks on Nigerian Business + Economy: 28 journalism and his recent All states in Nigeria aim improved life appointment for their citizens in their different 1998 budgets. Business + Sports: 38 Economy: 26 Nigeria steps up preparations to host world in the next world youth soccer fiesta. Crash Of ’98 4. Letters Twenty-six Nigerian 5. Editorial Suite distressed banks are 17. Nigeria Briefs liquidated and their licences revoked but their 23. Global Notes depositors demand for 30. Business Briefs their deposits 32. In the News Newswatch (ISSN 0189-8892) is published weekly by Newswatch Communications Limited, No. 3 Billings Way (off Secretariat Road), Oregun Industrial Estate, Oregun, P.M.B. 21499, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. Telephone: 4960950. Fax: 962887. Telex: 27874 NEWCOM NG. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form, in whole or in part without permission, is forbidden. Printed in Nigeria by Academy Press Pic, Ilupeju. T LETTERS ■ Go, Military, Go ■ Meaning of Transition political parties is nothing but the normal storm in a beer glass that will soon die My plea to the members of our armed Your obituary of the still bom fourth away earlier than expected. They are all forces (Cover January 5) is tha t they should playing a game blindly without the rules stop disturbing our peace, causing and regulations, and from the onset they unnecessary distractions and tension and were aware of this. But may I remind you that they should spare us further military that transition is a word used for the trials and executions by going back to dead. RIP, fourth republic. Please let's their barracks and allow the civilians to begin the fifth republic. salvage our country. All these Nigerians Peter Agba Kalu, trooping to Abuja on solidarity visits and ■ Aba, all those holding rallies in different parts Abia State. of the country in condemnation of the alleged coup plotters, do they delight in Correction the execution of coup plotters, as was done in 1976,1986 and 1990? Do they want In Events of '97 (January 5), the another round of executions in 1998? Are honourable minister of science and they not aware that the Nigerian civil war technology, major-general Sam Momah, could not have occurred, that those was referred to as a lieutenant-general. Nigerians that lost their lives during the Please note that the honourable minister said civil war could not have died, that all was promoted to the rank of major- those Nigerians who were killed during general in 1996 and not lieutenant-general coups or executed for attempted coups republic was a confirmation, that the as you erroneously reported. since 1966, could not have died, if the transition programme is going on as /.E. Anyanwu, military did not in the first instance desired by the military and not the Ministry of Science and Technology, interfere in the governance of our country? politicians. (Cover, December 29). Abuja. Equally, the threat to pull out by other • Newswatch regrets the error. Typed reactions to the contents of Newswatch, should be addressed to Newswatch Letters, 3 Billings \Nay (Off Secretariat Road), Oreguh Industrial Estate, P.M.B. 21499, Ikeja, Nigeria. All letters must bear the correct names, addresses and signatures of the writers. 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IT p- ^ allegedly led by his own number two, Oladipo is the electronic gadget. Obviously, the | \ [I Diya, a lieutenant-general. It was, to use a wonders of science and technology do cliché, nipped in the bud, thanks to the tape JL wonders for mankind. None of us can -J J X m ! j ^ | - - jX^ recorder. The tape recorder finished Nixon live without them. NEPA and NITEL for EZZCfl ll Al VJ IXW but it saved Abacha. See? Whom the gods starters. No light, no phone and some of us love, the tape recorder saves. When the news broke, Nigerians whose us from our ancestors. This is a modem world middle name is scepticism, said, oh common, precisely because we have these little things what else is new? This: the little wonders of that make life less nasty, less brutish. We work easier with the science and technology. This time, the video camera, the same computer; we travel faster with the aeroplane; we cook faster with gadget that does wonders for CNN and NTA, was there to throw the the microwave oven; medical sciences deal with our illnesses. Radio doubts of the Doubting Thomases in their own face. Our traditional and television keep us informed and entertained. rulers were the finît in the line, as indeed, they should be, to view those But as it often happens in human progress, what makes life easier video tapes and listen to the audio clips. This disbelief as it was bound and better also makes life, well unpleasant. Nearly twenty-four years to happen, dissolved into incredulity, sizzled into umbrage and boiled ago, the late Richard Nixon leamt that elementary lesson. And he over into rage. You can understand why the Oba of Lagos, Adeyinka became the first American president in this century to be disgraced Oyekan condemned the coup plot in a language that sizzled with the out of power. Never mind Deep Throat and all that. What brought rage of a disappointed monarch. Since then, various groups of one of the world's most powerful men down to the dust was this little Nigerians, including, yes, journalists, have seen and heard the tapes. electronic aid employed in the White House to preserve for posterity, Each group, if the news media are to be believed, emerged from halls Nixon's days in power. It was the tape recorder kept by his secretary, shaking their heads in conviction and running their mouths in Rose Woods. When the tape squeaked, Nixon's bravado dissolved obligatory anger. and he was driven promptly out of power. Never has such a powerful So, what else is new? Conspiracy theories. We now hear that Diya man been laid by the heels by such a small thing.