Tag: Abacha
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For the records:Abacha was a thief; Buhari gave wrong evidence, Al-Mustapha a liar (2)- Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu Last week, in this column, facts of how General Sani Abacha, a former Military Head of State, looted massively from the Nigerian treasury were presented. And first evidences produced [last week] were that of President Muhammadu Buhari, the current president of the Federal Republic. His evidences, which translated into false, inaccurate or…
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For the records: Abacha was a thief, Buhari gave wrong evidence, Al-Mustapha is a liar (Pt. 1) – Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu THIS THING IS GOOD My dutiful responsibility in this exercise is very simple. It is to keep the records straight so that we can be often reminded of what actually happened in Nigeria at a particular time and the role-play of individual personae dramatis associated with events of such times. Today, we…
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Supreme Court rejects appeals to unfreeze Abacha’s accounts in Switzerland, UK, others
The family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, lost, on Friday, its bid to regain access to the many accounts held by its members in banks in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechenstein and Luxembourg blocked upon a directive by the Nigerian government in 1999. A five-man panel of the Supreme Court…
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‘Repatriated cash looted by successors, not Abacha’
The $318,460,329 due to be repatriated from the United States (U.S.) and Jersey was not stolen by former Head of State, the late Gen. Sani Abacha, his ex-Chief Security Officer, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has said. According to him, the loot was taken from the public till and hidden abroad in the late Abacha’s name by…
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‘Another Abacha era is here’, Obasanjo attacks Buhari again
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of returning the country to the era when state institutions were used to fight perceived enemies of the government. He made the allegation on Sunday while briefing reporters at his residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Obasanjo alleged that the President was putting into practice,…
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Abacha’s repatriated loot: Matters Arising, By Henry Boyo
By Henry Boyo The actual amount stolen from Nigeria’s Treasury between 1993-8, by former Military Dictator, Sanni Abacha, may never be known. Nonetheless, Amnesty International, for example, has suggested, that over $5bn of Abacha loot had been identified, even when speculations still persist that the audacious ‘shop lift’, by Abacha, and his associates, is probably…
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Buhari under fire for praising thieving dictator, Sani Abacha
President Muhammadu Buhari is under fire for praising a former Nigerian military dictator, Sani Abacha who stole hundreds of millions of dollars from Nigeria. Buhari, who served under the late Mr Abacha as head of the Petroleum Trust Fund, (PTF), said the late dictator contributed to the infrastructural development of the nation. Recall that Hundreds…
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Buhari reveals what he will do with $320m Abacha loot
The Federal Government on Monday in Abuja announced that $320m stolen funds by former late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, would be spent on the Conditional Cash Transfer scheme of the administration to support the poor. Declaring open the Eighth Commonwealth Conference of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa, Buhari, represented by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, said…
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Why I rejected my friends “commando style” plans to forcefully get me out of Abacha’s gulag – Obasanjo
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has explained why he rejected plans by his international friends to forcefully get him out of the Yola Prisons in 1995 using the ‘commando-style,” after the death of his erstwhile deputy, General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua in Abakaliki prison. The former Nigerian leader spoke on Friday at an event in…
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$300m Abacha, Alamieyeseigha’s loot: Nigeria, US sign MoU on repatriation of funds
As part of bids to repatriate stolen funds starched in foreign countries, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, has signed an agreement with the United States of America spelling out the roadmap for the return to Nigeria over $300m looted by Nigeria’s former Head of State, the late Gen.…