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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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Khaki blues, business suits

Sani Abacha's rule became polarised along political and ethnic lines as his security apparatus targeted Yoruba officers from the south-west...


African energy

Anglo-Dutch Shell fought a propaganda campaign to defend its cooperation in Nigeria with the late General Sani Abacha's military regime and lost the fight when Abacha executed the campaigning writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others...


Russian roulette

The debt was to be repaid in oil lifted by Glencore a secretive Swiss-based trader which flourished in Nigeria under the late military leader General Sani Abacha...


Murdering sleep

Ige had accused Omisore of being close to the late military leader General Sani Abacha...


Unknown soldiers

Sani Abacha's regime gaoled him in 1995 on trumped-up charges of coup plotting; he won 60 per cent of the vote in the February 1999 elections (AC Vol 42 No 5)...


Northern Lights

Sani Abacha's attempts to win a bogus electoral mandate has credibility across the country as a nationalist...


Shariacracy on trial

Sani Abacha's regime (Yakubu is now on trial with Abacha's son Mohammed and his chief security officer Hamza Al-Mustafa for the attempted murder of newspaper proprietor Alex Ibru)...


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