General Sani Abacha

What can account for General Sani Abacha's continuing absences from public functions...

These are busy days for General Sani Abacha...

Sani Abacha was irritated that Soglo gave a passport to the fugitive Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in 1994 and is said to have viewed an ex-military man such as Kérékou with a more sympathetic eye...

After the talks Kabba flew straight to Abuja to talk to General Sani Abacha who has two battalions in Freetown...

General Sani Abacha's sacking of his Chief of Army Staff Major General Alwali Kazir and Chief of Air Staff Air Vice-Marshall Femi John Femi was a punishment we hear for their softness towards the alleged coup plotters rounded up early last year by Maj...

Sani Abacha (who does not want to encourage democratic experiments) had tried to persuade Bio to go back on his promise to allow elections; the British High Commissioner and the United States' Ambassador both angrily accused Bio of trying to abort the vote...

Algiers has been pushing for Maïnassara to stand for election as has General Sani Abacha; a view that could win more support...

In a bizarre way business is learning to live with if not to love General Sani Abacha...

No one could describe General Sani Abacha as a convert to market economics yet the policy of 'guided deregulation' begun last year is certainly his own...

General Sani Abacha's officials have already voiced their unhappiness at the way that Nigerian dissidents use bush paths across the Benin border as a means of escaping being apprehended by Nigerian security...