1.   Each military service has a transition program.

2.   Nowhere were common concerns more evident than in vocational education and school-to-work transition programs.

3.   The current transition program calls for the faction leaders to resign from these positions next month.

4.   The federal government would require communities to use the money for those same social services for a five-year transition program.

5.   The legislators are considering several new requirements, including unanimous votes by the pardon board, face-to-face meetings with prisoners and mandatory supervised transition programs.

6.   Vocational education and school-to-work transition programs fall short, and the need for them will only grow.

7.   Abacha, a dictator well-known for his brutality, had long promised that his transition program would end military rule in Nigeria.

8.   Abubakar has vowed to continue with the flawed transition program begun by Abacha, but has said that he will move the country toward genuine democracy.

9.   Abubakar has been promising for several weeks to announce his transition program, but has hedged on the timing.

10.   Authorities quashed pro-democracy demonstrations last week and he has vowed to forge ahead with the highly flawed democratic transition program begun under Abacha.