Abebe: Portrait of a Nigerian leader.

People power For the first time, Nigerian leaders are being held to account, and many seasoned Nigeria-watchers would never have expected it in this way.

The Nigerian musical leader was a pioneer of Afrobeat and a human rights activist, though his personal life had its ups and downs.

On the political front, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, the Nigerian leader, announced plans for a phased return to civil rule by 1998.

In 1979 General Obasanjo became the first Nigerian leader since independence in 1960 to voluntarily surrender power after democratic elections.

In one of these protests, the house of the late Nigerian leader, Nnamdi Azikiwe, was torched.

Since then, the Nigerian leader has freed a number of detainees, but the Government seemed to vacillate about Mr. Abiola, who was 60.

Bosambo was changed from a Nigerian leader to a servile lackey of British colonial rule.

About 100 American troops were already in Monrovia, securing the embassy and arranging today's landing with the Nigerian leaders of the peacekeeping force.

Precisely where in the rogue's gallery of corrupt Nigerian leaders Diepreye Alamieyeseigha will fall is a matter for history to judge.