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Sani Abacha became Nigeria's head of state in a military coup in 1993 When Nigeria's then-head of state Sani Abacha stole billions of dollars and died before spending his loot, it prompted an ...
 Abacha didn’t kill people for planning coup but we know Obasanjo ordered people to be killed for coup plotting during his reign as Head of State; he killed. Abacha had all the ...
Former minister Adams Maina Waziri has revealed that Nigerians voted for MKO Abiola in the 1993 presidential election out of ...
Mrs Waziri served in the legal team that worked with the special investigative panel (SIP) set up by Mr Abacha on the alleged coup. She said in her newly released memoir, Farida Waziri ...
Two security agents were killed in the blast and one week later Diya was arrested, accused of plotting a coup against his senior. He was sentenced to death but released after Abacha died in still ...
Babangida notes: “Surprisingly, with the possible exception of the Abacha coup of November 1993, each of these military takeovers was welcomed with jubilation and relish and subsequently ...
In Being True To Myself, Sule Lamido, ex-Jigawa governor, detailed his transition from a close ally of ex-Head of State Sani ...
The duo, alongside over 200 individuals, were arrested in 1997 for plotting a coup against Abacha. He narrated how Diya and his co-conspirators planned to abduct Abacha and force him to resign in ...
A week after Gen. Sani Abacha became the only candidate for Nigeria’s presidency, his military junta Tuesday sentenced Abacha’s former right-hand man and five others to death for plotting ...
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to ex-Military Head of State, late General Sani Abacha, has described ... he advised coup agitators to channel their energies into investing ...