1.   The Nigerian government was now reportedly attempting to mediate between the two SPLA groups.

2.   These are the circumstances under which successive Nigerian governments have attempted to indigenize, in the hope of gaining control over their economic and ultimately their developmental destinies.

3.   At the same time, residents of these oil-producing zones have complained that together, Shell and the Nigerian government have done little to develop the area.

4.   But for people long subjected to the stunted development apparently willed on the delta by Nigerian military governments, that spilled oil was a bonanza beckoning.

5.   But it has not shaken the bond between Shell and the execrable Nigerian government.

6.   Critics of Shell contend the company has considerable influence over the Nigerian government and could have done much more to prevent the execution of Saro-Wiwa.

7.   Earlier, the company rejected demands by activists to use its influence with the Nigerian government to get the sentences overturned.

8.   Fela returned to Nigeria a militant, releasing albums of incendiary African pop that loudly took the Nigerian government to task for corruption and brutality.

9.   For the rest of his life, he was an enemy of various Nigerian governments, as much a political figure as a musical one.

10.   Immigration officials say that the young man had told them he did not want to meet with anyone from the Nigerian government.