General Sani Abacha

Adamu also faces investigation by the ICPC as well as the problem of the deep pockets of Abubakar: he was Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation's pipeline company (NNPC) under Sani Abacha...

Trickiest for Buhari to reconcile with his purported anti-corruption credentials will be his association with the Abacha family whose late head Sani Abacha was thought to have stolen mover US$2 bn...

An odd newcomer with the Block O exploration licence is Glencore best known for crude trading in Nigeria under the notoriously corrupt Sani Abacha regime and in Angola whose debt deals linked to oil trades worry the IMF...

An even more unusual contract is with Chrome Energy Corporation of Nigeria owned by Emeka Offor a prominent Igbo businessman-politician who was close to the dictator Sani Abacha and is now close to Obasanjo...

He may win financial backing from the family of late President Sani Abacha another northerner...

Besides helping develop this pre-financed oil trade Destribas is known in West Africa as the trader who supplied refined product cargoes to General Sani Abacha under terms highly beneficial to the late Nigerian dictator...

stolen by Sani Abacha the former dictator have not turned up...

Obasanjo's government berates Western governments for not handing back state funds stolen by former military leader General Sani Abacha and laundered through Western banks such as Citicorp (AC Vol 43 No 9)...

• United Bank for Africa: Chairman Hakeem Bello-Osagie assistant to former petroleum advisor Yahaya Dikko and corporate Wunderkind won control in the mid-1990s by coordinating blocks of shares allocated to Nigeria's states during a government sell-off ­ and clashing with General Sani Abacha's regime...

Difficulties and delays in the courts prompted Nigeria to allow the family of the late military leader General Sani Abacha to keep US$120 million of stolen funds in exchange for returning $1 billion...