Malami legal advisor to the family of the hyper-corrupt military ruler General Sani Abacha declined to answer claims by P&ID that he had lied about his conduct to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo who was then acting as Nigeria's president while Muhammadu Buhari was recovering from a long illness...
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Among the most controversial is former Kebbi State governor Atiku Bagudu an ex-senator who was accused by the US Justice Department of being part of a group headed by former military leader General Sani Abacha that 'embezzled misappropriated and extorted billions from the government of Nigeria'...
After Abiola was detained by General Sani Abacha's regime Alake and Tinubu joined the pro-democracy campaign...
Bagudu was close to former military leader General Sani Abacha and Lalong's security policy was criticised for targeting Muslim communities...
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Businessman and co-investor in the Eko Atlantic project Gilbert Chagoury a financial advisor to military leader General Sani Abacha and his family was seated next to Tinubu's son Seyi at the inauguration...
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Shell's reputation was hugely damaged after being accused of complicity which it denies in the persecution of the leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) Ken Saro-Wiwa and the execution of Saro-Wiwa and eight others in 1995 by General Sani Abacha's regime...
1998 – June – Nigeria's military dictator Sani Abacha dies in office...
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...
