31.   The hanging was filmed and the videotape sent to Nigerian ruler Gen. Sani Abacha, the magazine said, citing sources it did not identify.

32.   The home state of Nigerian military ruler Gen. Sani Abacha is suffering from acute epidemics of spinal meningitis, gastroenteritis, cholera and measles.

33.   The Nigerian ruler Wednesday dissolved his Cabinet in a surprise move seen as a possible step toward putting more hard-liners in government.

34.   The report, which quoted unidentified sources close to Soyinka, came one week after the writer met in New York with Nigerian military ruler Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.

35.   U.S. Ambassador Walter Carrington, who has been a vocal critic of Nigerian military ruler Gen. Sani Abacha, was to have been the guest of honor.

36.   U.S. President Bill Clinton last month annoyed Abacha with a telephone call in which he warned the Nigerian ruler not to execute any of the coup convicts.

37.   He noted that UN officials were to brief the meeting on Sunday morning on UN efforts to press Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha towards democracy.

38.   He stepped down the following year, becoming the only Nigerian military ruler ever voluntarily to hand over to elected civilians.

39.   He was the only Nigerian military ruler voluntarily to hand over to elected civilians.

40.   It was the second time in four months that Obasanjo, the only Nigerian military ruler ever voluntarily to have relinquished power to elected civilians, had been detained.