Perhaps the main difference today is that the appalling record of the last military regime under the late General Sani Abacha (who was poisoned in 1998) seems to have diminished public support for such intervention...
Tinubu's business interests include links to Lebanese multimillionaires Gilbert and George Chagoury who have worked with most of the political and military class in Nigeria including former Police Inspector General Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu and Sani Abacha...
Sani Abacha who put Shehu Yar'Adua in gaol where he died of poisoning...
Foreign Minister Ojo Madueke a political chameleon who has worked with General Sani Abacha and Obasanjo has no enemies within or outside the government but has yet to deal with any serious diplomatic crises...
He served as Nigeria's UN envoy in the 1990s and was an apologist for the military regimes of General Sani Abacha and Major General Abdulsalami Abubakar...
Although Shell was excoriated by activist groups as a great defender of General Sani Abacha it seems the respect was not reciprocated...
A decade after he won international sympathy during his imprisonment by the then military leader General Sani Abacha Obasanjo’s reputation is sadly diminished...
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agreement for the highly prospective OML130 from South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) linked to former Defence Minister Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma and Lebanese trader Gilbert Chagouri a close business associate of the late military ruler General Sani Abacha...
Ojo Maduekwe former PDP Secretary ex-Transport Minister and one-time supporter of military dictator General Sani Abacha appears an improbable choice as Foreign Minister more so because of the President's lack of experience and observable interest in foreign policy...
He was running-mate to Moshood Abiola who won the 1993 elections then served as Foreign and Internal Affairs Minister under the ensuing military regime of General Sani Abacha which gaoled Abiola as well as Gen...
the oil billions hidden overseas by the late Sani Abacha of Nigeria); and commercial money (e...