Opposition leaders along with union representatives and civil society leaders held talks with the ECOWAS appointed mediator Abdulsalami Abubakar on Thursday and Friday.

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General Abdulsalami Abubakar, successor by inheritance to the late and little lamented General Sani Abacha, is offering the country he now heads its best chance in decades of genuinely democratic rule.

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