General Sani Abacha

It was the presidency that handled 'a gift' of 20 000 barrels of oil a day from Nigeria's then military leader General Sani Abacha between August 1996 and June 1998...

Sources close to the inquiry say he may sub poena testimony from British-based lawyer Jeffrey Tesler who works regularly for Halliburton and was close to officials under the late General Sani Abacha in power when the LNG project began...

Since returning to power as civilian President in 1999 Obasanjo has overhauled the military dismissing any officers who had held political postings in the military regimes led by Generals Sani Abacha Ibrahim Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari...

Then in the mid-1990s when Nigeria was under General Sani Abacha and Obasanjo had been gaoled for coup plotting it was Zimbabwe's Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge who chaired the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group which suspended the Abacha regime and pressured it not to hang Obasanjo...

Most secretaries general face accusations of bias: the last incumbent a Nigerian Emeka Anyaoku was accused of being anti-Nigerian by the late General Sani Abacha's regime...

Sani Abacha's regime Uche Okeke returns to his career path as Director of the National Intelligence Agency dealing with domestic surveillance...

Sani Abacha's regime and has made no condemnation of it nor expressed sympathy for its victims (unlike many other politicians such as the PDP's Tony Annenih who have backpedalled furiously from their Abacha associations)...

Human rights activists in the Delta say the reign of terror imposed by the governors' security units and armed PDP supporters is barely distinguishable from the military occupation of the Delta during the last years of General Sani Abacha's regime...

Sani Abacha in June 1998 is more circumspect on politics...

Sani Abacha had been the prime mover in the impeachment and staked his career on its success...

Sani Abacha and partly because international opinion has turned against military regimes and in&nbsp1999 the Organisation of African Unity resolved to exclude them...