Abacha in a sentence

Buhari headed the Petroleum (Special) Task Force, PTF, under Abacha; and some prominent players in the polity, today, like Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe and Chief Tom Ikimi also worked for Abacha as Ministers.

Swiss Banks to return Abacha Funds The Swiss foreign ministry says it has done all it can to ensure that funds stolen by the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha were used properly in his homeland.

A court has ordered the Tinubu administration to hold to account the governments of Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan, and Buhari for their spending of about $5bn Abacha loot.

But retired Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former aide to late General Sani Abacha, also won the presidential primary election conducted by the Udeze-led faction on June 9 in Abuja.

In September 1994, although he had pledged to restore democracy, Abacha issued a decree that placed his government above the jurisdiction of the courts, effectively giving him absolute power.

Pressures on Abiola to renounce his claim to being president-elect in exchange for his freedom intensified after Abacha died suddenly.

Prior to that, both men were hounded, faced death threats and their media outfits were repeatedly targeted by the military junta for their fiery columns critical of both Babangida and Abacha regimes.

Reacting to Tinubu's comment, Dr Abubakar Sani, a public affairs analyst, said he doubts if the masses would benefit from the latest recovery made from Abacha's loot.

Seizing the June 12 crisis, General Abacha took over but died in office before realizing his transmutation agenda in 1998.

The Federal Government intends to probe the family members over their alleged complicity in looting the nation’s treasury during Abacha’s administration.

There were hues and cries about how low the Nigerian judiciary had sunk and the cries compelled General Abacha to constitute a Judicial Panel saddled with the task of reform/reorganization of the judiciary.

The SDP flag bearer was to later die in prison under mysterious circumstances during the military administration of late Gen. Sani Abacha.

Alex Ibru, owner and publisher of The Guardian escaped an assassination attempt perpetrated by the regime of Abacha on February 2, 1996.

A notorious Boko Haram terrorist, Bochu Abacha, has surrendered to troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force deployed in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State.

Further in the letter, the concerned officers recalled a similar appointment, saying: “The Abacha military government appointed a serving Brigadier General, SOG Ango, to head the Customs Service as a Sole Administrator.

Her convoy left the Emir’s Palace to Maryam Abacha University of Nigeria, Hotoro, Kano, where she commissioned the edifice at the Faculty of Law named after her.

He said three major hospitals in Maiduguri, the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, State Specialist Hospital and Mariam Abacha Memorial Hospital among others were submerged by the flood, thereby threatening public health.

If General Sani Abacha was the reference point for the bombardment of the national treasury under the jackboots of the military, who among the plethora of smart thieves in the political circles lead the turf?

It said: “We would like to inform the public that the Nigerian Army has detained some innocent people that include passersby, hawkers and vendors in Abacha Barracks, Abuja.

Obansanjo took over from Abacha, who, sadly, even though the five political parties had said he would rule forever, nature took him.