Vol 41 No 10 |
- UNITED STATES
The late General Sani Abacha's regime in Abuja worked its way through ten different Washington lobbying firms ranging from the well established Barron-Birrell to the obscure JHS group in Chicago...
A more worrying explanation is that the CBN bought back the notes probably during the military regimes of Generals Ibrahim Babangida or Sani Abacha and then gave or on-sold them to favoured allies of the regime who would still be drawing interest on the notes...
We hear reports of abuses similar to the worst under the late General Sani Abacha: the sabotage of refineries to create fuel shortages together with more sophisticated attempts to rig the trade - both imports and exports - in petroleum products...
Sani Abacha's son Mohammed and business ally Atiku Abubacar Bagudu broke down late last year over how much of the profit should be returned to the government which is now suing them in London for reneging on an out-of-court settlement...
Robinson was a deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during Ronald Reagan's reign then joined a lobby firm whose clients included the Nigerian government of General Sani Abacha Gnassingbé Eyadéma's regime in Togo and Paul Biya's in Cameroon...
Robinson was a deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during Ronald Reagan's reign then joined a lobby firm whose clients included the Nigerian government of General Sani Abacha Gnassingbé Eyadéma's regime in Togo and Paul Biya's in Cameroon...
) of Nigerian state funds to accounts linked to the son of the late military leader General Sani Abacha and his business associates according to documents uncovered in a London High Court case...
President Yahya Jammeh's office had hired Chantrils to market 20 000 barrels a day of oil given by General Sani Abacha from August 1996 until he died in June 1998...