General Sani Abacha

Sani Abacha's regime and has made no condemnation of it nor expressed sympathy for its victims (unlike many other politicians such as the PDP's Tony Annenih who have backpedalled furiously from their Abacha associations)...

Human rights activists in the Delta say the reign of terror imposed by the governors' security units and armed PDP supporters is barely distinguishable from the military occupation of the Delta during the last years of General Sani Abacha's regime...

Sani Abacha in June 1998 is more circumspect on politics...

Sani Abacha had been the prime mover in the impeachment and staked his career on its success...

Sani Abacha and partly because international opinion has turned against military regimes and in&nbsp1999 the Organisation of African Unity resolved to exclude them...

Adamu also faces investigation by the ICPC as well as the problem of the deep pockets of Abubakar: he was Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation's pipeline company (NNPC) under Sani Abacha...

Trickiest for Buhari to reconcile with his purported anti-corruption credentials will be his association with the Abacha family whose late head Sani Abacha was thought to have stolen mover US$2 bn...

An odd newcomer with the Block O exploration licence is Glencore best known for crude trading in Nigeria under the notoriously corrupt Sani Abacha regime and in Angola whose debt deals linked to oil trades worry the IMF...

An even more unusual contract is with Chrome Energy Corporation of Nigeria owned by Emeka Offor a prominent Igbo businessman-politician who was close to the dictator Sani Abacha and is now close to Obasanjo...

He may win financial backing from the family of late President Sani Abacha another northerner...

Besides helping develop this pre-financed oil trade Destribas is known in West Africa as the trader who supplied refined product cargoes to General Sani Abacha under terms highly beneficial to the late Nigerian dictator...