Their annulling by General Ibrahim Babangida was followed by a palace coup led by Gen Sani Abacha who presided over the country's most brutal and corrupt military regime to date...
He styles himself as a leader in the country's fight against General Sani Abacha's dictatorship and a generous sponsor of political and business talent...
International awareness peaked with the 1995 execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others by General Sani Abacha's regime...
The first name on that list is Bola Ahmed Tinubu elected as one of Lagos's three senators in 1993 then emerging as an activist in the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) that challenged Babangida's successor Gen Sani Abacha as he stepped up repression and grand corruption...
New phaseThe Lekki episode was not the first mass extrajudicial killing by the security forces since Nigeria returned to civil rule in 1999 after a brutal military regime under General Sani Abacha...
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The executions ordered by General Sani Abacha's military regime triggered Nigeria's three-year suspension from the Commonwealth and tougher scrutiny for oil company operations in the Niger Delta...
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Oil's toxic legacy in the Delta In 1995 when Saro-Wiwa and his eight co-defendants were languishing in prison before a military tribunal handed down the death sentence on the orders of military leader General Sani Abacha western leaders were preparing a response...
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The Kebbi governor the APC's Abubakar Atiku Bagudu was accused by the US and Nigerian authorities of embezzling and laundering loot when his close associate the dictator and army general Sani Abacha ruled Nigeria...
Etete had awarded OPL 245 to a company he secretly owned Malabu Oil and Gas in 1998 when he was oil minister under dictator General Sani Abacha (AC Vol 55 No 13 The trade-off)...
5m in 2009 compensating the families of the Ogoni 9 killed by Sani Abacha's military dictatorship in 1995...