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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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Who's who in the military plots

Sani Abacha (Kano) Took power in a bloodless coup in November 1993 and died suddenly on 7 June 1998...

Sani Abacha...

Sani Abacha is standing trial for torturing oppositionists and for plotting the assassination of Chief M...


Exit top brass

Sani Abacha's image on 'I believed in it and in loyalty to the then Commander-in-Chief Abacha...


Jumping Jammeh

Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo sees Jammeh as a jumped up lieutenant putschist and friend of Obasanjo's gaoler the late General Sani Abacha...


Not so slick

In Nigeria Trafigura built up its business under the brutal military regime of General Sani Abacha with the help of a joint venture operation called Delaney the Nigerian partner of which is Ahmed Umar the brother of Colonel Abubakar Umara Dangiwa a former Governor of Kaduna...


Africa - where's that?

Sani Abacha and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma in the 1990s before taking over the National Summit on Africa (which looked like a lobby for Clinton's Africa policy at its Washington rally this year)...


Carlos Cardoso

Compared to Latin America and Asia journalists in Africa were less frequently targeted for assassination but were more likely to be detained and tortured as in Zimbabwe under Presidenr Robert Mugabe and Nigeria under General Sani Abacha...


High street havens

Investigators pursuing some US$3 billion of funds stolen by the late General Sani Abacha's regime between 1993-98 have established that the cash was deposited in more than 30 major banks in Britain Germany Switzerland and the United States without any intervention from those countries' financial regulators...

So far two banks in Liechtenstein have been named; Liechtenstein Landesbank the home of the account of Technical Management Services a company 75 per cent owned by Sani Abacha; and Verwaltungs-und Privat Bank (VPB) the location of an account in the name of Raw Materials Development & Trading a company nominally owned by Abacha's son Abba...


Oduduwa's children

He founded the OPC in 1995 and spent 19 months in jail under General Sani Abacha...


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