1.   In addition, the opposition demanded the foreign ministry and five other cabinet posts.

2.   Opposition demands to dissolve the parliament for fresh elections were not accepted.

3.   In the light of this fresh revelation, the opposition demanded that Miyazawa, the two aides and other witnesses testify before the Diet under oath.

4.   Undeterred, the opposition demanded that he be questioned at the hospital.

5.   But the government resisted using the scheme with the big, frail banks, while the opposition demanded that a mechanism be designed to deal with such institutions.

6.   Labor groups and opposition politicians are demanding Bucaram step down because they oppose his proposals for free market reforms.

7.   The opposition has demanded that the ministry be stripped of some powers, but it has vociferously fought back.

8.   Whatever the opposition demands now, almost no one in Nigeria expects the military to simply surrender power to Abiola.

9.   Opposition demands extension of balloting.