Abacha is to broadcast to the nation marking among other things four years since he seized power from the ailing interim government led by Ernest Shonekan...
Last year Abacha established a committee called Vision 2010 under eminent businessman Ernest Shonekan...
Last year Abacha had long discussions on economic policy with Ani and reformers such as Ernest Shonekan who chairs the Malaysian-inspired Vision 2010 committee...
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Abacha also appears to be impressed with Mahathir's Wawasan (Vision) 20:20 long-term economic strategy and after discussions with Malaysian economists in Abuja the Nigerians announced their own Vision 20:20 under former head of state Ernest Shonekan...
The former spymaster is still popular in the army and among members of the business establishment such as former Interim Government head Ernest Shonekan (himself tipped to be Nigeria's next High Commissioner in London)...
Most important among the private sector's deregulators is Ernest Shonekan ex-Chairman of a Unilever subsidiary the United African Company and interim head of state for less than two months in 1993...
