51.   A two-day summit of the ECOWAS Committee of Nine is scheduled to begin Friday in the Nigerian capital.

52.   A summit of the ECOWAS Committee of Nine on Liberia opened Saturday in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, with eight west African leaders in attendance.

53.   After its assignment, the panel left Kano for Abuja, the Nigerian capital.

54.   An Israeli businessman has committed suicide at his home in the Nigerian economic capital Lagos, police said Saturday.

55.   Another round of talks was scheduled with the team early Friday in the Nigerian capital, he added.

56.   And on Thursday, Rawlings himself went to the Nigerian capital Abuja to talk his Nigerian counterpart General Sani Abacha, with Liberia the main topic on the agenda.

57.   Buses, owned by state governments, were already in the Nigerian capital for the rally, expected to commence about midday, local inhabitants said.

58.   Donald McHenry, who arrived Sunday in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, has refused to talk to journalists about his mission.

59.   Five years ago the Nigerian capital experienced a similar scare.

60.   Factional leaders last month voluntarily disarmed their forces to African peacekeeping troops under to terms of a peace pact they signed last year August in the Nigerian capital Abuja.