General Sani Abacha

This faction includes veteran politician Umaru Dikko; former Minister of Justice Abdullahi Ibrahim (under Sani Abacha); and Awwalu Yadudu Abacha's legal advisor (the latter two were in power when Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged)...

Moskovitch heads Media Africa Group in clandestine partnership with a former Nigerian army officer who prospered under General Sani Abacha's regime...

Trafigura headquartered in the Netherlands was active in oil trading in Nigeria under the late military leader General Sani Abacha and more recently for Sudan...

Almost ten years ago Ogoni activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others were executed by General Sani Abacha's military regime (AC Vol 36 No 23) partly to crush growing political opposition and partly out of spite...

Mosop was founded by Ken Saro-Wiwa who was executed with eight others on the orders of the late General Sani Abacha in 1995...

More than 20 people are to be summoned to the Nigerian probe including: Lesar; Gilbert Chagouri a leading Lebanese businessman under the Sani Abacha regime; Ely Calil a London-based Lebanese businessman embroiled in a legal battle with Equatorial Guinea's government over allegations of his involvement in a coup attempt in March; former Chair of the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) company Mohammadu Dikko Yusufu; two former Oil Ministers Don Etiebet and Dan Etete; and Tesler who has admitted receiving $140 mn...

Just over a year later that human rights imperative met a major challenge when General Sani Abacha's regime in Nigeria executed the writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa...

Etiebet was sacked five months later by the military Head of State Sani Abacha who he claimed then targeted him 'for elimination'...

Sani Abacha Head of State November 1993 to June 1998...

He is close to President Olusegun Obasanjo and was a confidant of his military predecessor General Sani Abacha for whom he lobbied against sanctions at the Commonwealth Summit in Edinburgh Scotland in 1997...