Major news items in leading Nigerian newspapers

Xinhua News Agency | February 19, 2005 | Copyright

LAGOS, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items in leading Nigerian newspapers on Saturday.

This Day:

-- Fresh insight into Thursday's public endorsement of the proposed National Dialogue by Southern Senators Forum came on Friday as the group said it took the step to correct what it called a "wrong position" it embraced earlier on the matter. This is on the heels of withdrawal of the suit earlier instituted by a group of 57 members of the House of ...

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