Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian Army general and politician who served as the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998. Abacha's regime is controversial; although it brought dramatic economic growth to Nigeria, there were also alleged widespread human-rights abuses.
Abacha's military career is distinguished by a string of successful coups. He is by some records the most successful coup plotter in the history of Nigeria's military. Abacha, then a 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion in Kaduna, took part in the July 1966 Nigerian counter-coup from the conceptual stage. He may have been a participant in the Lagos or Abeokuta phases of the coup the previous January as well.
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Nigeria - General Sani Abacha Speech Broadcast
(18 Aug 1994) Nigeria's military government ended speculation about whether it
would drop treason charges against presidential claimant Moshood
Abiola by saying it had no plans to intervene in his trial.
Military ruler General Sani Abacha also announced that he was
dissolving the leaderships of two striking oil workers' unions and
the trades union federation. His nationwide broadcast on Wednesday
(17/8) left Nigerians in no doubt that his administration was
ready to take tough action to try to end the country's worst
political crisis since a civil war in 1970.
SHOWS:
LAGOS, NIGERIA, 17/8
extracts from televised speech by general abacha, english sot saying
supporters of (jailed opposition politician) abiola broke the law,
and abiola's recent move in declaring himself president ...
published: 30 Jul 2015
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JERUSALEM/UK: NIGERIAN EXILES REACT TO DEATH OF SANI ABACHA
(9 Jun 1998) English/Nat
Nigerian exiles and humanitarian organisations have expressed hope for the country following the death of strongman and former military leader Sani Abacha.
Abacha, who came to power in a 1993 coup, faced worldwide condemnation for his hard- line regime.
Wole Soyinka, the winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature, was charged in absentia from Nigeria with treason and has spoken of a civilian rebellion in the making.
He says that Abacha got off lightly if he did die of natural causes.
Others are hopeful Nigeria's human rights record may improve under any new leadership.
Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature - slipped out of Nigeria in November 1994, saying the country was "retreating into the Dark Ages."
Abacha ch...
published: 21 Jul 2015
Was Sani Abacha Nigeria's Most Brutal Head of State?
A man of fire, iron, and steel. General Sani Abacha lorded absolute power and unbridled authority over some 120 million Nigerians as Head of State for nearly five years. Not even Generals dared cross his path. Those who did, knelt and wept before him while he offered them handkerchiefs to wipe their salty tears. No one messed with Abacha. He was gentle. Listening. Cunning. Daring. Attentive. Dangerous, as well as Brave.
However, the Abacha military regime is remembered as one of the most gruesome in Nigerian history. To his opponents, he was brutal; an evil man. To his loved ones, he was a loving father, a doting husband, and a hero… #HistoryVille #Abacha #Nigeria
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Abacha Was Not a Criminal, His Death Was Shocking, Says Right-hand Man General Jeremiah Useni
We step into the archives to take a look back at the five-year rule of #GeneralSaniAbacha, through the eyes of the second most senior officer in the Nigerian army at the time, Lt. #GeneralJeremiahUseni, said to be the most powerful man in the land after General Abacha himself. But then #GeneralAbacha died suddenly in 1998, and #JeremiahUseni fell dramatically from the opulence of power and influence. It was a bitter end for the man who waxed stronger and lasted longer than most Nigerian army officers - and who was often described as #Abacha's alter ego, his most intimate and trusted friend with whom he ruled Nigeria with an iron grip...So how has he evolved since the end of the heady days of the Abacha regime?
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(18 Aug 1994) Nigeria's military government ended speculation about whether it
would drop treason charges against presidential claimant Moshood
Abiola by sayi...
(18 Aug 1994) Nigeria's military government ended speculation about whether it
would drop treason charges against presidential claimant Moshood
Abiola by saying it had no plans to intervene in his trial.
Military ruler General Sani Abacha also announced that he was
dissolving the leaderships of two striking oil workers' unions and
the trades union federation. His nationwide broadcast on Wednesday
(17/8) left Nigerians in no doubt that his administration was
ready to take tough action to try to end the country's worst
political crisis since a civil war in 1970.
SHOWS:
LAGOS, NIGERIA, 17/8
extracts from televised speech by general abacha, english sot saying
supporters of (jailed opposition politician) abiola broke the law,
and abiola's recent move in declaring himself president prompted
his arrest, and the government should not interfere in legal
process: he is committed to early return to civilian rule, he came
into office at time of crisis, and during past 9 months has had to
cope with unnecessary turmoil preventing return to civilian rule:
the government will deal strongly with anyone who threatens our
economic interests...
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(18 Aug 1994) Nigeria's military government ended speculation about whether it
would drop treason charges against presidential claimant Moshood
Abiola by saying it had no plans to intervene in his trial.
Military ruler General Sani Abacha also announced that he was
dissolving the leaderships of two striking oil workers' unions and
the trades union federation. His nationwide broadcast on Wednesday
(17/8) left Nigerians in no doubt that his administration was
ready to take tough action to try to end the country's worst
political crisis since a civil war in 1970.
SHOWS:
LAGOS, NIGERIA, 17/8
extracts from televised speech by general abacha, english sot saying
supporters of (jailed opposition politician) abiola broke the law,
and abiola's recent move in declaring himself president prompted
his arrest, and the government should not interfere in legal
process: he is committed to early return to civilian rule, he came
into office at time of crisis, and during past 9 months has had to
cope with unnecessary turmoil preventing return to civilian rule:
the government will deal strongly with anyone who threatens our
economic interests...
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(9 Jun 1998) English/Nat
Nigerian exiles and humanitarian organisations have expressed hope for the country following the death of strongman and former mili...
(9 Jun 1998) English/Nat
Nigerian exiles and humanitarian organisations have expressed hope for the country following the death of strongman and former military leader Sani Abacha.
Abacha, who came to power in a 1993 coup, faced worldwide condemnation for his hard- line regime.
Wole Soyinka, the winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature, was charged in absentia from Nigeria with treason and has spoken of a civilian rebellion in the making.
He says that Abacha got off lightly if he did die of natural causes.
Others are hopeful Nigeria's human rights record may improve under any new leadership.
Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature - slipped out of Nigeria in November 1994, saying the country was "retreating into the Dark Ages."
Abacha charged him in absentia with treason, a crime punishable by death.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Q: What is your reaction to the death of General Sani Abacha?
A: My reaction is very simple - it is an opportunity for the Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military and also for the international community.
Q: To do what?
A: Right. To put pressure on the military to say to the military enough of this nonsense. Enough of this spurious transition programmes. Don't come and start and don't have a power struggle among themselves, you know, to see who is going to put on the mantle of battle - that period is very definitely over. As I was just saying Abacha never governed the country he terrorised the country - he bullied the country. He had power he had no authority he was able to kill, he could take hostages but he never governed the country because the people were not willing to be governed by a brute. They were sick of military dictatorship. So it is up to the military to recognise this and up to the international community to see that we are sick and tired of the degeneration of a potentially great society."
SUPER CAPTION: Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for Literature
Soyinka's lives in Atlanta but is in the middle of a five-day visit to speak at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The son of the playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed by Abacha for his human rights protests, gave his reaction to the dictator's death.
No act drew such public condemnation as the hanging of Saro-Wiwa and eight other political activists.
Wiwa said Abacha had the worst human rights record of a long line of dictators.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Abacha has been the worst in a long line of human rights abusers in Nigeria, the thinking has always been that every successive dictator is worse than the previous one, so one hopes that we don't get another dictator because he will have quite a record to better Abacha's appalling record."
SUPER CAPTION: Ken Wiwa, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa
Human rights groups, who have long condemned Nigeria's human rights record, spoke of a window of hope for the country.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"This is a government, a military government which has seen enormous human rights violations in the last few years and Amnesty International hopes that a new government will end those human rights violations and will release the scores of political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, who've been in prison just for their non-violent political beliefs and have been held in appalling conditions throughout the country, even up to the day we're speaking there have been new arrests, so we hope that will all change."
SUPERCAPTION: Sarah Pennington, Amnesty International spokesperson
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(9 Jun 1998) English/Nat
Nigerian exiles and humanitarian organisations have expressed hope for the country following the death of strongman and former military leader Sani Abacha.
Abacha, who came to power in a 1993 coup, faced worldwide condemnation for his hard- line regime.
Wole Soyinka, the winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature, was charged in absentia from Nigeria with treason and has spoken of a civilian rebellion in the making.
He says that Abacha got off lightly if he did die of natural causes.
Others are hopeful Nigeria's human rights record may improve under any new leadership.
Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature - slipped out of Nigeria in November 1994, saying the country was "retreating into the Dark Ages."
Abacha charged him in absentia with treason, a crime punishable by death.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Q: What is your reaction to the death of General Sani Abacha?
A: My reaction is very simple - it is an opportunity for the Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military and also for the international community.
Q: To do what?
A: Right. To put pressure on the military to say to the military enough of this nonsense. Enough of this spurious transition programmes. Don't come and start and don't have a power struggle among themselves, you know, to see who is going to put on the mantle of battle - that period is very definitely over. As I was just saying Abacha never governed the country he terrorised the country - he bullied the country. He had power he had no authority he was able to kill, he could take hostages but he never governed the country because the people were not willing to be governed by a brute. They were sick of military dictatorship. So it is up to the military to recognise this and up to the international community to see that we are sick and tired of the degeneration of a potentially great society."
SUPER CAPTION: Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for Literature
Soyinka's lives in Atlanta but is in the middle of a five-day visit to speak at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The son of the playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed by Abacha for his human rights protests, gave his reaction to the dictator's death.
No act drew such public condemnation as the hanging of Saro-Wiwa and eight other political activists.
Wiwa said Abacha had the worst human rights record of a long line of dictators.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Abacha has been the worst in a long line of human rights abusers in Nigeria, the thinking has always been that every successive dictator is worse than the previous one, so one hopes that we don't get another dictator because he will have quite a record to better Abacha's appalling record."
SUPER CAPTION: Ken Wiwa, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa
Human rights groups, who have long condemned Nigeria's human rights record, spoke of a window of hope for the country.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"This is a government, a military government which has seen enormous human rights violations in the last few years and Amnesty International hopes that a new government will end those human rights violations and will release the scores of political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, who've been in prison just for their non-violent political beliefs and have been held in appalling conditions throughout the country, even up to the day we're speaking there have been new arrests, so we hope that will all change."
SUPERCAPTION: Sarah Pennington, Amnesty International spokesperson
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A man of fire, iron, and steel. General Sani Abacha lorded absolute power and unbridled authority over some 120 million Nigerians as Head of State for nearly fi...
A man of fire, iron, and steel. General Sani Abacha lorded absolute power and unbridled authority over some 120 million Nigerians as Head of State for nearly five years. Not even Generals dared cross his path. Those who did, knelt and wept before him while he offered them handkerchiefs to wipe their salty tears. No one messed with Abacha. He was gentle. Listening. Cunning. Daring. Attentive. Dangerous, as well as Brave.
However, the Abacha military regime is remembered as one of the most gruesome in Nigerian history. To his opponents, he was brutal; an evil man. To his loved ones, he was a loving father, a doting husband, and a hero… #HistoryVille #Abacha #Nigeria
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A man of fire, iron, and steel. General Sani Abacha lorded absolute power and unbridled authority over some 120 million Nigerians as Head of State for nearly five years. Not even Generals dared cross his path. Those who did, knelt and wept before him while he offered them handkerchiefs to wipe their salty tears. No one messed with Abacha. He was gentle. Listening. Cunning. Daring. Attentive. Dangerous, as well as Brave.
However, the Abacha military regime is remembered as one of the most gruesome in Nigerian history. To his opponents, he was brutal; an evil man. To his loved ones, he was a loving father, a doting husband, and a hero… #HistoryVille #Abacha #Nigeria
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We step into the archives to take a look back at the five-year rule of #GeneralSaniAbacha, through the eyes of the second most senior officer in the Nigerian ar...
We step into the archives to take a look back at the five-year rule of #GeneralSaniAbacha, through the eyes of the second most senior officer in the Nigerian army at the time, Lt. #GeneralJeremiahUseni, said to be the most powerful man in the land after General Abacha himself. But then #GeneralAbacha died suddenly in 1998, and #JeremiahUseni fell dramatically from the opulence of power and influence. It was a bitter end for the man who waxed stronger and lasted longer than most Nigerian army officers - and who was often described as #Abacha's alter ego, his most intimate and trusted friend with whom he ruled Nigeria with an iron grip...So how has he evolved since the end of the heady days of the Abacha regime?
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We step into the archives to take a look back at the five-year rule of #GeneralSaniAbacha, through the eyes of the second most senior officer in the Nigerian army at the time, Lt. #GeneralJeremiahUseni, said to be the most powerful man in the land after General Abacha himself. But then #GeneralAbacha died suddenly in 1998, and #JeremiahUseni fell dramatically from the opulence of power and influence. It was a bitter end for the man who waxed stronger and lasted longer than most Nigerian army officers - and who was often described as #Abacha's alter ego, his most intimate and trusted friend with whom he ruled Nigeria with an iron grip...So how has he evolved since the end of the heady days of the Abacha regime?
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(18 Aug 1994) Nigeria's military government ended speculation about whether it
would drop treason charges against presidential claimant Moshood
Abiola by saying it had no plans to intervene in his trial.
Military ruler General Sani Abacha also announced that he was
dissolving the leaderships of two striking oil workers' unions and
the trades union federation. His nationwide broadcast on Wednesday
(17/8) left Nigerians in no doubt that his administration was
ready to take tough action to try to end the country's worst
political crisis since a civil war in 1970.
SHOWS:
LAGOS, NIGERIA, 17/8
extracts from televised speech by general abacha, english sot saying
supporters of (jailed opposition politician) abiola broke the law,
and abiola's recent move in declaring himself president prompted
his arrest, and the government should not interfere in legal
process: he is committed to early return to civilian rule, he came
into office at time of crisis, and during past 9 months has had to
cope with unnecessary turmoil preventing return to civilian rule:
the government will deal strongly with anyone who threatens our
economic interests...
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(9 Jun 1998) English/Nat
Nigerian exiles and humanitarian organisations have expressed hope for the country following the death of strongman and former military leader Sani Abacha.
Abacha, who came to power in a 1993 coup, faced worldwide condemnation for his hard- line regime.
Wole Soyinka, the winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature, was charged in absentia from Nigeria with treason and has spoken of a civilian rebellion in the making.
He says that Abacha got off lightly if he did die of natural causes.
Others are hopeful Nigeria's human rights record may improve under any new leadership.
Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for literature - slipped out of Nigeria in November 1994, saying the country was "retreating into the Dark Ages."
Abacha charged him in absentia with treason, a crime punishable by death.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Q: What is your reaction to the death of General Sani Abacha?
A: My reaction is very simple - it is an opportunity for the Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military and also for the international community.
Q: To do what?
A: Right. To put pressure on the military to say to the military enough of this nonsense. Enough of this spurious transition programmes. Don't come and start and don't have a power struggle among themselves, you know, to see who is going to put on the mantle of battle - that period is very definitely over. As I was just saying Abacha never governed the country he terrorised the country - he bullied the country. He had power he had no authority he was able to kill, he could take hostages but he never governed the country because the people were not willing to be governed by a brute. They were sick of military dictatorship. So it is up to the military to recognise this and up to the international community to see that we are sick and tired of the degeneration of a potentially great society."
SUPER CAPTION: Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel prize for Literature
Soyinka's lives in Atlanta but is in the middle of a five-day visit to speak at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The son of the playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed by Abacha for his human rights protests, gave his reaction to the dictator's death.
No act drew such public condemnation as the hanging of Saro-Wiwa and eight other political activists.
Wiwa said Abacha had the worst human rights record of a long line of dictators.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Abacha has been the worst in a long line of human rights abusers in Nigeria, the thinking has always been that every successive dictator is worse than the previous one, so one hopes that we don't get another dictator because he will have quite a record to better Abacha's appalling record."
SUPER CAPTION: Ken Wiwa, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa
Human rights groups, who have long condemned Nigeria's human rights record, spoke of a window of hope for the country.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"This is a government, a military government which has seen enormous human rights violations in the last few years and Amnesty International hopes that a new government will end those human rights violations and will release the scores of political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, who've been in prison just for their non-violent political beliefs and have been held in appalling conditions throughout the country, even up to the day we're speaking there have been new arrests, so we hope that will all change."
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A man of fire, iron, and steel. General Sani Abacha lorded absolute power and unbridled authority over some 120 million Nigerians as Head of State for nearly five years. Not even Generals dared cross his path. Those who did, knelt and wept before him while he offered them handkerchiefs to wipe their salty tears. No one messed with Abacha. He was gentle. Listening. Cunning. Daring. Attentive. Dangerous, as well as Brave.
However, the Abacha military regime is remembered as one of the most gruesome in Nigerian history. To his opponents, he was brutal; an evil man. To his loved ones, he was a loving father, a doting husband, and a hero… #HistoryVille #Abacha #Nigeria
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We step into the archives to take a look back at the five-year rule of #GeneralSaniAbacha, through the eyes of the second most senior officer in the Nigerian army at the time, Lt. #GeneralJeremiahUseni, said to be the most powerful man in the land after General Abacha himself. But then #GeneralAbacha died suddenly in 1998, and #JeremiahUseni fell dramatically from the opulence of power and influence. It was a bitter end for the man who waxed stronger and lasted longer than most Nigerian army officers - and who was often described as #Abacha's alter ego, his most intimate and trusted friend with whom he ruled Nigeria with an iron grip...So how has he evolved since the end of the heady days of the Abacha regime?
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Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian Army general and politician who served as the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998. Abacha's regime is controversial; although it brought dramatic economic growth to Nigeria, there were also alleged widespread human-rights abuses.
Abacha's military career is distinguished by a string of successful coups. He is by some records the most successful coup plotter in the history of Nigeria's military. Abacha, then a 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion in Kaduna, took part in the July 1966 Nigerian counter-coup from the conceptual stage. He may have been a participant in the Lagos or Abeokuta phases of the coup the previous January as well.
The democracy and security-crushing folly of dictators such as Ibrahim Babangida, who Margaret Thatcher likened to herself for “strong and independent views”, and Sani Abacha led to economic collapse, ...
... which had a waiting list, since, as he recounts, the then Military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, moved the institution to Abuja and it obviously couldn’t cater for all the students.
Nigeria . 1 hour ago. Introduction ... Read on please. Was Agbakoba’s Case Correctly Decided?. This is the million Naira question ... See FCDA v SULEI (1994)3 NWLR Pt ... SANI ABACHA v EKE-SPIFF (2009) LPELR-3152 (SC) per Aderemi, JSC, at pg 41E-42B ... .
Nigeria . 1 hour ago ...RegionalCracks Over Vaulting VAT ... Introduction ... 1 ... 2 ... 4 ... Sani Abacha, and, is currently based on the location of the headquarters of the producers of goods and services, rather than where such goods and services are actually consumed.
But relations chilled when a newly democratised SA campaigned for the release of human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and others imprisoned by Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha in the early 1990s... • Anku is Africa practice head at Eurasia Group. .
Backpage . 30 minutes ago ... 0805 500 1961 ... ignorance and mischief ... When Gen Sani Abacha, the former military ruler, built the Gwarinpa Housing Estate in Abuja three decades ago, it was celebrated as the largest single housing estate in West Africa ... Tragic.
For one, although the political atmosphere that General Sani Abacha presided over that time was fouled and overshadowed by the aborted presidential mandate of the late ChiefMoshood Abiola, the ...
Backpage . 20 minutes ago. By Olusegun Adeniyi ... Adeniyi ... That was understandable ... Although he enacted the VAT decree before leaving office, implementation started on 1st December1993 by which time General Sani Abacha was in power ... ENDNOTE ... Not anymore ... .
A former lawmaker representing EkitiCentral Senatorial District and versatile journalist, Babafemi Ojudu, has revealed how he drank his urine to survive in prison, under the military regime of late General Sani Abacha ....
... months after worldwide outrage at the execution of the author Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine other Ogoni activists on the orders of the Nigerian president, Sani Abacha.