5m in 2009 compensating the families of the Ogoni 9 killed by Sani Abacha's military dictatorship in 1995...

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...

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...

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)...