General Sani Abacha

MOSOP was led in the 1990s by the author Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine MOSOP leaders including Saro-Wiwa were executed by the military dictatorship of the late Sani Abacha in 1995...

The only leader whose rise to power that Obasanjo didn't support was General Sani Abacha who was widely thought to have been poisoned by his fellow military officers in 1998...

Before his struggle with Obasanjo Atiku led the influential People's Democratic Movement (PDM) which was originally built by Shehu Musa Yar'Adua President Umaru Yar'Adua's elder brother who was murdered by General Sani Abacha's assassins in prison in 1997 (AC Vol 38 No 25 After Yar'Adua)...

The government highlighted HSBC's links to laundering funds for several disgraced officials including the late military ruler General Sani Abacha in the 1990s former Delta State Governor James Ibori convicted in London in 2012 for corruption and unnamed serving Senators...

The IOCs still operate licences mainly awarded under the Sani Abacha military regime (1993-98) to Nigerians with no previous experience of the industry...

Ogoni has become emblematic of the Delta's plight since the killing in 1995 by the late dictator Sani Abacha of the 'Ogoni Nine': the author Ken Saro-Wiwa together with eight fellow leaders of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop)...

So too does Africa Practice whose Director Marcus Courage is a 20-year veteran of African political spin who cut his lobbying teeth representing General Sani Abacha's military government in London when opposition groups were calling for western sanctions against it...

After emails emerged showing that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant had negotiated with Dan Etete an Oil Minister under General Sani Abacha's dictatorship who was later convicted in France of laundering ill-gotten gains the company has changed its version of events...

Just as the authorities dig into a series of suspicious transactions made by the late President Sani Abacha's Oil Minister Chief Dauzia Loya 'Dan' Etete his son Edward Keniwenimo Etete 43 emerged as the shareholder in a British Virgin Islands (BVI) company incorporated on 5 August 2011...

He will also detail how much the government has retrieved from Western banks of the billions of dollars stolen under General Sani Abacha's regime and its successors and how those recovered funds will be spent for the public good...