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)...
Sani Abacha through Abacha's Lebanese business partner Gilbert Chagouri...
Vol 40 No 20 |
- CAMEROON
- CHAD
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sani Abacha's rule got mixed reviews has moved his focus to Sierra Leone and Central Africa...
Vol 40 No 10 |
- WEST AFRICA
Sani Abacha's rule the paper was left slowly twisting in the wind...