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Nigeria

General Sani Abacha

Date of Birth: 20 July 1943
Place of Birth: Kano
Died: 8 June 1998


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Going for Glencore

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...


Running on empty

stolen by Sani Abacha the former dictator have not turned up...


Banker versus banker

Obasanjo's government berates Western governments for not handing back state funds stolen by former military leader General Sani Abacha and laundered through Western banks such as Citicorp (AC Vol 43 No 9)...


Some winners and losers

• United Bank for Africa: Chairman Hakeem Bello-Osagie assistant to former petroleum advisor Yahaya Dikko and corporate Wunderkind won control in the mid-1990s by coordinating blocks of shares allocated to Nigeria's states during a government sell-off ­ and clashing with General Sani Abacha's regime...


Bank accountability

Difficulties and delays in the courts prompted Nigeria to allow the family of the late military leader General Sani Abacha to keep US$120 million of stolen funds in exchange for returning $1 billion...


Khaki blues, business suits

Sani Abacha's rule became polarised along political and ethnic lines as his security apparatus targeted Yoruba officers from the south-west...


African energy

Anglo-Dutch Shell fought a propaganda campaign to defend its cooperation in Nigeria with the late General Sani Abacha's military regime and lost the fight when Abacha executed the campaigning writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others...


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