He spent much of the 1990s in exile during General Sani Abacha's regime but Mark returned to work when his old friend General Olusegun Obasanjo emerged as President in 1999...
The conviction in a Swiss Court on 19 November of Abba Abacha son of former military leader General Sani Abacha for participating in a criminal organisation together with the confiscation of US$350 million in assets stolen from Nigeria provide important clues to the corruption linked to the $6 billion Bonny Island gas scheme according to legal experts in Geneva...
Vol 50 No 24 |
- COMMONWEALTH
It was in Anyaoku's own country that the Declaration was first seriously tested in 1997 when General Sani Abacha's regime executed Niger Delta activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others...
Others are Fayemi; Rauf Aregbesola Osun State AC governorship candidate; Auwalu Yadudu former Special Advisor to the late President Sani Abacha; and Garba Mohammed Deputy Governor of Bauchi State...
Fifteen years later he was a local councillor and member of the National Constitutional Conference convened by military dictator Sani Abacha in 1994...
Then the government named Ibrahim Gambari who has been both Foreign Minister under General Sani Abacha's military regime and a United Nations political advisor to head a Niger Delta initiative...
Perhaps the main difference today is that the appalling record of the last military regime under the late General Sani Abacha (who was poisoned in 1998) seems to have diminished public support for such intervention...
Tinubu's business interests include links to Lebanese multimillionaires Gilbert and George Chagoury who have worked with most of the political and military class in Nigeria including former Police Inspector General Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu and Sani Abacha...
Sani Abacha who put Shehu Yar'Adua in gaol where he died of poisoning...
Foreign Minister Ojo Madueke a political chameleon who has worked with General Sani Abacha and Obasanjo has no enemies within or outside the government but has yet to deal with any serious diplomatic crises...