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Nigeria

General Sani Abacha

Date of Birth: 20 July 1943
Place of Birth: Kano
Died: 8 June 1998


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Africa's loss

The most ludicrous charges - faxing defendants' statement to persons unknown and 'trying to manage an unmanageable society' - earned him a double life sentence in 1995 under the late military leader General Sani Abacha...


The Sino-Shango pact

(Sinopec) has pulled off in Africa is premised on its partnership with an obscure Nigerian firm South Atlantic Petroleum Limited (SAPetro) which was awarded rights to the highly prospective block Oil Mining Licence 130 (originally Oil Prospecting Licence 246) by the late General Sani Abacha's military regime...


Teflon Jammeh

Accusations of gross humans rights abuses and corrupt deals with the late Nigerian military leader General Sani Abacha barely worry President Yahya Jammeh...


Abacha's verdict

' Two months earlier the then military ruler Sani Abacha had shown some leniency to a group of alleged coup plotters including the current head of state Olusegun Obasanjo...


No truce yet

According to a retired officer who served under Gens Babangida and Sani Abacha the scale of corruption in Nigeria has prompted many officers to revise their views about civilian rule...


Power show

At times Abubakar descended into petty abuse claiming that when in gaol Obasanjo had started weeping when the then military leader General Sani Abacha despatched a military doctor to inject him with poison...


Opening the gates

Among those awards of blocks to relatives of the late head of state General Sani Abacha his Oil Minister Dan Etete and others were cancelled...


The net widens

Most of the biggest Nostro account transfers through Transnational were done in 1993-98 which coincides with General Sani Abacha's time as head of state and the launching of the gas project...


Notes on a scandal

of payments: the late General Sani Abacha was to receive $40 mn...


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