Nigeria rights group says four academics arrested .  LAGOS 1996-08-28  A Nigerian human rights group said on Wednesday that four members of a recently banned university union had been arrested .  " The Constitutional Rights Project ( CRP ) believes that William Istafanus , Elisha Shamay , O.K. Likkason and Jerome Egurugbe were arrested because of their role in the ongoing ASUU ( Academic Staff Union of Universities ) strike , " the group said in a statement .  The CRP said the four were arrested on Monday night at the northeastern Tafawa Balewa University .  The main academic union , ASUU , along with two smaller university unions , was banned by Nigeria 's military government last week , because of a four-month strike by teachers for better working conditions .  Nigeria is under fire from many Western countries for human rights abuses and lack of democracy .  Dozens of people opposed to the government are in detention .  Commonwealth foreign ministers are to meet in London on Wednesday to discuss what action to take , after a visit to Nigeria was called off when the government imposed strict rules on whom the mission would be allowed to see . [START_ENT] Nigeria [END_ENT] was suspended from the club of Britain and its former colonies in November after the hanging of nine minority rights activists for murder in spite of international pleas for clemency .
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