General Sani Abacha

Amid dealing with their local coup plotters General Sani Abacha and Ikimi were infuriated to hear Koroma say in his year's-end broadcast that the 22 April handover date would not be met unless: the Revolutionary United Front leader Corporal Foday Sankoh was released from custody in Nigeria; the number of Nigerian troops in the Ecowas peacekeeping force (Ecomog) was sharply reduced; and the national Sierra Leonean army controlled the disarmament process...

General Sani Abacha is pulling out all the stops to gain maximum political advantage from the latest alleged coup plot...

In the backrooms at Aso Rock one scenario to ensure General Sani Abacha becomes President in August proposes an electoral college instead of a popular ballot Africa Confidential has learned...

Yet such strictures against interference don't deter General Sani Abacha from trying to overthrow Major Johnny Paul Koroma's regime in Sierra Leone a few hundred miles up the coast...

Abdulkarim Adisa and eight other senior officers plotted the violent overthrow of General Sani Abacha lacks credibility...

Whatever caused the death of gaoled Northern military politician Shehu Musa Yar'Adua on 9 December it has sent a powerful message that Northerners can expect no special favours from General Sani Abacha's military regime...

Urged on by General Sani Abacha's government Elf have started drilling a well on the disputed maritime border between Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea...

The personality cult around General Sani Abacha is growing rapidly ahead of his expected candidacy in next August's presidential elections...

A new biography entitled – Sani Abacha – The Man the Myth is to be published this month: it follows the establishment of the Sani Abacha Foundation for National Reconciliation and Justice on 20 November and a series of pro-Abacha marches in state capitals...

It is too say General Sani Abacha's officials in Abuja proof of the Nigerian military's constructive attitude in the region...

Enough political leaders were present to make the summit look convincing but the absentees as well as Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent Kabila and Sudan's Omar el Beshir included Paul Biya of Cameroon (busy forming a government) Ben Mkapa of Tanzania (at his party's congress) and regional kingpins Daniel arap Moi of Kenya Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Nelson Mandela of South Africa...