1.   Instead of building an infrastructure, successive Nigerian juntas let soldiers build enormous fortunes, replete with private planes, mutliple mansions and entire fleets of cars.

2.   Moshood Abiola will go free, the Nigerian junta says, along with every other political prisoner.

3.   Shell oil company on Thursday joined the worldwide appeal to the Nigerian military junta to spare the life of a condemned anti-oil activist.

4.   The White House on Thursday joined the international appeal to the Nigerian junta to spare the life of a condemned playwright and environmental activist.

5.   The sentence, which was confirmed Wednesday by the Nigerian junta, has drawn widespread international criticism and calls for clemency.

6.   Nigerian junta chief General Sani Abacha and President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana were leading the negotiations between warring Liberian factions and politicians and civilian representatives.

7.   Nobel Laureate and Nigerian human rights activist Wole Soyinka called Wednesday on Canadians to step up their efforts to bring the current Nigerian junta to its knees.

8.   Pro-democracy activists scaled down plans for a mass protest Wednesday against the Nigerian junta amid a wave of arrests by security agents, an opposition representative said.

9.   The Nigerian military junta has decreed that court judges may accept gifts of money or property from individuals and groups, a judicial source said Wednesday here.

10.   The Nigerian military junta has ordered the release of former head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo, who was arrested last week, Information Minister Walter Ofonagoro said Thursday.