Tag: Abacha
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How Abacha poisoned, killed Yar’Adua, Abiola in detention – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has explained how Nigeria’s former military dictator, Late Gen. Sanni Abacha poisoned Shehu Musa Yar’Adua a former Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters in December 1997. The former president revealed that Abacha had meticulously planned to assassinate him (Obasanjo), Yar’adua and MKO Abiola on charges of planning a coup to oust the…
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Abacha’s former Chief Press Secretary, David Attah dies at 71
A former Chief Press Secretary to the late military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, David Attah, is dead. Attah, who also served as spokesperson to former military ruler, Abdulsalami Abubakar died early Tuesday. His son, Emmanuel Attah, confirmed the news. He died at a private hospital in Jos, Plateau State, where he was been…
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24 Years Anniversary: June 12 mother of May 29 – Tinubu declares
Former Lagos State governor and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said June 12 (a day which marks the President election held in 1993 and won by late Chief MKO Abiola) overrides May 29 Democracy Day in the country because of its significance. The former governor said this…
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June 12: Abiola’s murderers also responsible for Abacha’s death – Frank Kokori
…says Al-Mustapha must confess, his hands are full of innocent blood Former General Secretary, National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers Union, NUPENG, Chief Frank Kokori, has noted that those that killed General Sani Abacha also killed M.K.O Abiola. Kokori, a former chieftain of National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, also claimed that Al-Mustapha’s hands were…
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Buhari stifling freedom of expression like Abacha, Babangida, Obasanjo, others – Soyinka
In a swift reaction to the stiff resistance met by security operatives to the planned peaceful protest scheduled to hold Monday (today), Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government is trying to stifle the right to freedom of expression, like former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, General Sani…
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Nigeria may lose another $550m ‘Abacha loot’ to U.S. – Sagay
Prof. Itse Sagay, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), on Thursday said Nigeria risk losing another 550 million dollars recovered from the Abacha family to the United States. Sagay disclosed this at a media conference on asset recovery jointly organised by PACAC and the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on…