71.   ULIMO was the first group to begin disarming following the signing of a revised peace deal in the Nigerian federal capital Abuja last August.

72.   Under a peace deal signed in the Nigerian federal capital Abuja last August,

73.   Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe left Sunday for the Nigerian capital Abuja for talks with General Sani Abacha under an African initiative to help restore democracy in the country.

74.   McHenry, who flew directly Sunday into the Nigerian capital, may already have left the country after his meeting with General Abacha, said the source.

75.   Meanwhile, many banks and offices in the Nigerian capital remained shut Thursday as staff were forced to stay at home because of fuel shortages.

76.   Obasanjo said he had met military leader Sani Abacha and Abiola Monday in the Nigerian capital to discuss the crisis.

77.   Nigerian and Cameroon forces have clashed twice on the disputed Bakassi peninsula, in the Gulf of Guinea, official sources in the Nigerian capital said Wednesday.

78.   Nigerian leader General Sani Abacha held talks here Wednesday with Liberian warlord Alhaji Kromah, a source close to the presidency said in the Nigerian capital.

79.   Police Thursday killed two suspected armed robbers and arrested five others in Kubwa town, near the Nigerian capital Abuja, national television reported.

80.   Radio Nigeria last Tuesday began its maiden transmission from Abuja following the formal transfer of its headquarters from Lagos to the Nigerian federal capital.