31.   Nigerian soldiers command and make up the vast majority of the West African intervention force that is defending the government of Sierra Leone against a rebel army.

32.   Scores of people died in fighting this week after Nigerian soldiers bombarded positions of the mutineers.

33.   The faction leader, Roosevelt Johnson, has blamed Nigerian soldiers serving with the African peacekeeping force deployed in Liberia.

34.   The evacuation came as several hundred Nigerian soldiers arrived in Freetown to support the ousted government in its battle to regain control from mutinous soldiers.

35.   The Mammy Yoko became the center of fighting Monday after Nigerian soldiers deployed to try to reverse the coup set up their command post there.

36.   The Nigerian soldier was alive in the hands of Bosnian Serb soldiers, the statement said.

37.   The Nigerian soldier was still alive in the hands of Bosnian Serb soldiers, Kullberg said.

38.   The three injuries were being treated at a local hospital while the bodies of the dead Nigerian soldiers were being flown back to Nigeria, Khobe said.

39.   There was a confrontation at the airport between government troops and Nigerian soldiers which was a bit scary.

40.   Harrassment was continuing despite the deployment of Nigerian soldiers to the area, he said, urging the government to step up security.