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.

Major Seun Fadipe, (retd), a former Chief Security Officer to the late Lt-Gen Oladipo Diya, has disclosed how ex-Military Head of State, Sani Abacha escaped a planned abduction in 1997.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Diya was the Chief of General Staff, the then de facto vice president of Nigeria under the military administration of Abacha, and Fadipe served as his CSO. The duo, alongside over 200 individuals ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed how former US President Jimmy Carter and CNN founder Ted Turner intervened to try to secure his release from prison during General Sani Abacha's ...