• United Bank for Africa: Chairman Hakeem Bello-Osagie assistant to former petroleum advisor Yahaya Dikko and corporate Wunderkind won control in the mid-1990s by coordinating blocks of shares allocated to Nigeria's states during a government sell-off and clashing with General Sani Abacha's regime...
Difficulties and delays in the courts prompted Nigeria to allow the family of the late military leader General Sani Abacha to keep US$120 million of stolen funds in exchange for returning $1 billion...
Sani Abacha's rule became polarised along political and ethnic lines as his security apparatus targeted Yoruba officers from the south-west...
Anglo-Dutch Shell fought a propaganda campaign to defend its cooperation in Nigeria with the late General Sani Abacha's military regime and lost the fight when Abacha executed the campaigning writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others...
Muhammadu Buhari Babangida and Sani Abacha...
Muhammadu Buhari Babangida and Sani Abacha...
The debt was to be repaid in oil lifted by Glencore a secretive Swiss-based trader which flourished in Nigeria under the late military leader General Sani Abacha...
Ige had accused Omisore of being close to the late military leader General Sani Abacha...
Sani Abacha's regime gaoled him in 1995 on trumped-up charges of coup plotting; he won 60 per cent of the vote in the February 1999 elections (AC Vol 42 No 5)...