General Sani Abacha

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

He has retained close ties to the family of Sani Abacha the legendarily corrupt military leader (AC Vol 59 No 15 Uncivil action)...

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...

In Plateau where the incumbent APC is in the lead with a slight margin the PDP is relying on General Jeremiah Useni a close ally of the late military leader General Sani Abacha (AC Vol 39 No 15 An exit for the militicians)...

US asset forfeiture filings detail how he helped dictator Sani Abacha embezzle billions of dollars in the mid-to-late 1990s yet Bagudu remains close to both President Buhari and the First Lady...

MOSOP was led in the 1990s by the author Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine MOSOP leaders including Saro-Wiwa were executed by the military dictatorship of the late Sani Abacha in 1995...