General Sani Abacha

settlement with the relatives of the late Ogoni leader and his eight co-defendants who were hanged by the government of the late military dictator General Sani Abacha in 1995 (AC Vol 46 No 23 Abacha's verdict)...

Sani Abacha's brutal regime the coherence of the military was stretched to the limit as it tried to control the Delta...

This is a shell company controlled by Chief Dan Etete aka Dauzia Loya Etete the Oil Minister under General Sani Abacha who ruled in 1993-98...

General Sani Abacha's son now seeking political office with the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) is building a coalition to obtain his part of the plunder...

Dan Etete aka Chief Dauzia Loya Etete an Oil Minister in the notoriously corrupt regime of the late General Sani Abacha had in 1998 awarded a shell company he controlled Malabu Oil and Gas the rights to one of the richest oil deposits in Nigerian waters (AC Vol 40 No 7 Muddy waters)...

Etete also cut out Mohammed Sani Abacha from the profits...

Abba Sani Abacha was convicted of being a member of a criminal organisation in Switzerland and failed in his efforts to prevent the Geneva court from seizing $350 mn...

He added ‘the ghost of Sani Abacha's reputation seemed likely to kill the deal...

The children of the late dictator General Sani Abacha are making headlines...

The oldest Mohammed Sani Abacha operates a political network based in Kano where his father was brought up...

Abacha's daughter Gumsu Sani Abacha responded to Soyinka: ‘I reject his stupid foolish insignificant statement'...

Her brother Sadiq Sani Abacha wrote an incoherent 1 800-word ‘open letter' insulting Soyinka calling him a coward casting aspersions on his honesty and defending his father's record including bringing down inflation and increasing foreign currency reserves...

Sani Abacha's regime by business people such as Gilbert Chagouri...

' He then goes on to refer to the government's claimed role in securing the acquittal of Major Hamza al Mustapha the Chief Security Officer to military leader General Sani Abacha who was on trial on charges that he organised the assassination of Kudirat Abiola wife of the winner of the 1993 elections Chief Moshood Abiola (AC Vol 53 No 6 Abacha's ghost and Boko Haram)...

Bodo was also the base for Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa who was hanged along with eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People by General Sani Abacha's military regime in 1995 (AC Vol 36 No 25)...

Then a military regime led by General Sani Abacha from the north-east tried to use the army to crush a militant insurgency in the Niger Delta...

Yet the 2009 US$15 million settlement with the family of executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and other victims of General Sani Abacha’s regime could never have been reached if this ruling had been in place (AC Vol 54 No 5)...