The late ruler is suspected to have embezzled about $2.2bn from Nigeria's central bank Money looted by Nigeria's former military ruler Sani Abacha is to be distributed to poor families ...

describing him as a “humanist par excellence” and the only non-African leader who personally intervened with the late General Sani Abacha to secure his release from prison. Obasanjo was ...

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)reports that Obasanjo was arrested in 1995 by Gen. Sani Abacha and convicted of being part of a planned coup to overthrow his government.

Sani Abacha. Anyanwu was imprisoned from 1995 to 1998 for treason after reporting on a purported failed coup d’état against Abacha’s government. Following the death of Abacha in June 1998 ...

General Sani Abacha in 1995. He made this known during an interactive session with 15 young male and female future African leaders drawn from different parts of the continent at his Olusegun ...

Obasanjo revealed that his imprisonment by Abacha’s military regime in 1995 stemmed from his vocal opposition to the dictatorship’s excesses. Reflecting on Carter’s pivotal role, he stated ...

The money was laundered through the US under the presidency of Sani Abacha in the 1990s, before being transferred to the Channel Island, according to Jersey's Civil Asset Recovery Fund.