11.   Several delegates had complained they had been coerced by party leaders to back Obasanjo, according to Nigerian newspaper reports.

12.   The offices of many Nigerian newspapers were among the businesses destroyed.

13.   The letter was distributed to several Nigerian newspapers on Friday.

14.   The Paris-based group also demanded an open trial for Niran Malaolu, an editor of Nigerian newspaper The Diet.

15.   The offices of many Nigerian newspapers were among the businesses looted and destroyed.

16.   There were unconfirmed reports that one person was killed in the violence, Nigerian newspapers said.

17.   Witnesses say dozens, if not hundreds, of people were killed, numbers supported by Nigerian newspapers.

18.   His statement, the third concerning possible clemency by high-ranking officials in the regime, was published on the front pages of some Nigerian newspapers Thursday.

19.   A leading Nigerian newspaper editor, who asked to remain anonymous, suggested the lawyers were seeking to exploiting their fame.

20.   A leading Nigerian pro-democracy politician has been shot dead, plunging the opposition to the military regime into deep crisis, Nigerian newspapers reported Saturday.