61.   The next summit of the organisation will be held in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, at a date to be set later.

62.   The police closed seven official petrol stations in the Nigerian capital and raided all petrol black market outlets to stop the flow of petrol to potential protestors.

63.   The special committee of nine ECOWAS members meets Saturday in the Nigerian federal capital, Abuja.

64.   The order to arrest Johnson came from the collegiate presidency set up under a peace pact signed in the Nigerian capital Abuja in August last year.

65.   The report by the UNDP technical team was called for in the Abuja Agreement on land reform, signed by Zimbabwe in the Nigerian capital in September.

66.   The Sierra Leonean president left Yamoussoukro for the Nigerian federal capital, Abuja, to pay a courtesy call to head of state General Sani Abacha.

67.   The winner of local elections in a ward of the Nigerian capital Abuja last month will be decided by a coin toss, a government official says.

68.   Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan arrived Monday in the Nigerian capital Abuja on the last leg of a tour that has already taken him to Egypt and Libya.

69.   Two other people died in hospital following the shooting, hospital officials in the Nigerian federal capital said.

70.   Three people were killed in the Nigerian capital in various clashes as the strike called by the Central Labour movement paralysed business, sources said.