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Nigeria

General Sani Abacha

Date of Birth: 20 July 1943
Place of Birth: Kano
Died: 8 June 1998


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Building back bigger

But work has stalled on the Second Niger Bridge part-financed by a $311m tranche of the loot stashed in Europe by late military leader Sani Abacha which has been returned...


Fight in the last chance saloon

At the same time Magu's supporters and others have come up with allegations against Malami formerly a lawyer to the family of military leader General Sani Abacha...


Back to the scene of the crime

It will be 25 years in November since Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others were hanged by General Sani Abacha's military regime and for a few weeks the Niger Delta region was in the international headlines...

Then governments activists and lobby groups announced boycotts and protests against General Sani Abacha's regime for what the then British Prime Minister John Major described as the 'judicial murder' of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others...

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Oil behaving badly

Somewhere between rival bureaucrats layers of oversight and blockages on finance the grand scheme to clean up Ogoniland is stalling again a quarter of a century after General Sani Abacha's regime hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other pioneering activists...


Generals on the run

As military governor of Sokoto State under Ibrahim Babangida's regime Magashi also belonged to the 'kitchen cabinet' of the dictator Sani Abacha commanding the Brigade of Guards Abacha's personal protection unit...


King for a year

Some $350 million stolen by General Sani Abacha's regime in the 1990s which presided over a procurement scam with Halliburton and other construction companies was only returned to Nigeria at the end of January...


Executive exerts its privilege

The other executive insider will be the new Defence Minister Major-General Bashir Salihi Magashi a lawyer and former commander of the Brigade of Guards who held senior posts in the military juntas of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha (AC Vol 60 No 15 The Gang of 43 breaks cover)...


Troubles mount for Buhari

In the past Buhari has spoken in favour of the man he served as Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund General Sani Abacha who seized power in the aftermath of the annulled elections and whose regime jailed and tortured democracy activists and is still regarded as one of the most blatantly corrupt in the country's history...


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