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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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Postponing the new order

Sani Abacha whose execution of writer-activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others on the opening day of the 1995 Commonwealth summit (AC Vol 36 No 23) prompted the formation of CMAG...


Presidential accounts

The initiative was announced on 10 November as the US Senate's Special Investigations Committee heard testimony about how Citibank's private-bank department had managed tens of millions of dollars for Gabon's President Omar Bongo and the sons of Nigeria's late military ruler General Sani Abacha (AC Vol 40 No 22)...


Cleaning up oil

Sani Abacha through Abacha's Lebanese business partner Gilbert Chagouri...


Spinning a pipeline

Environmentalists are particularly concerned about the involvement of Shell repeatedly accused of damaging the Niger Delta ecology in Nigeria and of cooperating with the late General Sani Abacha's military dictatorship...


Tougher talk

That judgment is left to Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim whose ten years in the post have been marked by an unwillingness to offend military leaders - not even Jammeh or Nigeria's late General Sani Abacha...


Totally elfin

In Nigeria a former senior Elf man Jacques Halfon claimed to have settled a dispute with General Sani Abacha by paying him US$50 million...


All hail to the chief

Days later he had set up two panels of eminent people to probe all contracts awarded this year by the outgoing military regime and human rights abuses during General Sani Abacha's rule handed over a list of ministerial nominees to the Senate and started going through the country's financial ledger with his economic advisors...


Exeunt sojas

Sani Abacha's rule got mixed reviews has moved his focus to Sierra Leone and Central Africa...


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