General Sani Abacha

The People's Army clashed with Nigerian troops holding Lungi airport on 9 July just as General Sani Abacha and his Provisional Ruling Council were discussing Sierra Leone...

All the ingredients are there: political uncertainty (about General Sani Abacha's candidacy in next year's elections) economic collapse (fuel shortages and worse poverty than 25 years ago) armed political rivalries (Niger Delta war) and regional crisis (Sierra Leonean coup-makers who have humiliated Abacha AC Vol 38 No 12)...

First look at the figures which General Sani Abacha prefers...

Meanwhile Nigeria's General Sani Abacha has won a paradoxical bonus as defender of democracy...

French officials have indicated to their EU counterparts that sanctions against General Sani Abacha's regime are misconceived and that hard-line sanctions' advocates - such as the Nordics and the Dutch - have misunderstood Nigeria's transition...

Not far behind is General Sani Abacha's regime...

Cook has called for tougher economic sanctions against General Sani Abacha's regime in Nigeria following the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa in November 1995 as has Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Tony Lloyd (47) who described the treason charges against Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and 11 others in March as 'a mark of this regime's arrogance and stupidity' adding that 'Britain and the international community must put pressure on Abacha to release all political prisoners immediately...

Confusion abounds about General Sani Abacha's political intentions...

Among the regional powers Nigeria's General Sani Abacha now seems comfortable with Taylor although military predecessor Gen...

Speculation about General Sani Abacha's political ambitions dominates the calculations of aspiring presidential candidates who had wanted to throw their hats in the ring before the 15 March local government elections...