General Sani Abacha

The other significant comment came from Nigeria's Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi at Lagos Airport when he welcomed the Commonwealth's approach to General Sani Abacha's military government...

No one who has visited the Presidential complex at Aso Rock in recent weeks doubts that General Sani Abacha encouraged by his wife Maryam and his 'kitchen cabinet' intends to stand for the Presidency in next year's elections...

Liman Adelugba swiftly issued a clarification emphasising 'the army remains solidly loyal to the Head of State and the transition programme' and that 'the Nigerian army will stand by any person chosen by Nigerians to contest the Presidency including General Sani Abacha'...

Nobody knows whether General Sani Abacha will take off his uniform and try to win an election as his own civilian successor in August 1998...

Whatever is coming across would most likely be from private sources as General Sani Abacha's government beset by troubles at home and on its western flank has little interest in destabilising Biya...

Major Johnny Paul Koroma's junta is increasingly personalising what it calls its 'dispute' with General Sani Abacha...

The United States is not pleased that Jammeh gets help from Nigeria's General Sani Abacha and especially keeps close contact with Colonel Moammar el Gaddafi of Libya although Washington has politely ignored recent visits to Tripoli by more US-friendly regional leaders such as Mali's President Alpha Oumar Konaré...

General Sani Abacha's regime may be a pariah for Western and Commonwealth governments but it's determined to win friends in his own region...

Over a third of leaders have so far accepted Bongo's invitation including the Organisation of African Unity head Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's Pasteur Bizimungu Senegal's Abdou Diouf and either Nelson Mandela or Thabo Mbeki from South Africa...

Taylor's rapprochement with General Sani Abacha of Nigeria Ecowas' (and Ecomog's) dominant member enabled the bloodshed to end...

Chairing the Economic Community of West African States has pushed the reclusive General Sani Abacha into the limelight with Nigeria's neighbours...