NIGERIA’S SECRET DEAD?

A NIGERIAN newspaper says the bodies of 25 soldiers serving with the West African intervention force Ecomog that were killed in Sierra Leone were returned to Nigeria in secret and buried. The newspaper said the bodies were flown into the country on Monday night and buried at the army cemetery inside Ojo military barracks in Lagos. It said that 35 Nigerian soldiers injured in recent clashes in Sierra Leone were also returned on Monday and were being treated at the Yaba military hospital in Lagos. Nigerian officials have declined to give casualty figures or the financial cost for the Sierra Leonean operation.