General Sani Abacha

Ogoni has become emblematic of the Delta's plight since the killing in 1995 by the late dictator Sani Abacha of the 'Ogoni Nine': the author Ken Saro-Wiwa together with eight fellow leaders of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop)...

So too does Africa Practice whose Director Marcus Courage is a 20-year veteran of African political spin who cut his lobbying teeth representing General Sani Abacha's military government in London when opposition groups were calling for western sanctions against it...

After emails emerged showing that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant had negotiated with Dan Etete an Oil Minister under General Sani Abacha's dictatorship who was later convicted in France of laundering ill-gotten gains the company has changed its version of events...

Just as the authorities dig into a series of suspicious transactions made by the late President Sani Abacha's Oil Minister Chief Dauzia Loya 'Dan' Etete his son Edward Keniwenimo Etete 43 emerged as the shareholder in a British Virgin Islands (BVI) company incorporated on 5 August 2011...

He will also detail how much the government has retrieved from Western banks of the billions of dollars stolen under General Sani Abacha's regime and its successors and how those recovered funds will be spent for the public good...

A cash-for-immunity deal brokered in 2014 by Swiss lawyers between the then President Goodluck Jonathan's government and two sons of the late General Sani Abacha Mohammed and Abba is soon expected to pay off again (AC Vol 50 No 24 Rogues and rackets on trial & Vol 55 No 13 The trade-off)...

Saro-Wiwa was hanged along with eight others by General Sani Abacha's regime in November 1995...

1 billion that the government gave Dan Etete an Oil Minister under the late General Sani Abacha and his business associates (AC Vol 55 No 21 Follow the money)...

Lambasted by civil activists for its opaque trading deals with corrupt and oppressive regimes such as General Sani Abacha's in Nigeria and President Joseph Kabila's in Congo-K five years ago it heralded a new era of transparency with a public listing...

The two sons of the late dictator Sani Abacha promised to repatriate hundreds of millions of dollars in return for a pledge by the Nigerian government not to prosecute them or any member of their families...