No matter what history says about that administration, the people of Bayelsa State owe it some depth of gratitude for ending our political servitude. It was on October 1, 1996 that what was hitherto considered impossible became a reality.
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Joseph, first son of the deceased, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview in Pankshin, Plateau State on Thursday
In hindsight, history showed that Nigeria in the 90’s was a land under the grip of military machinery and fear. Abacha represented the evil of that decade. He governed to steal and stole to govern. He had an uncanny gift for tyranny and wickedness.
Falana, who made this submission in his contribution to a discussion on a WhatsApp group, said even if Nigeria returns to regional government as being canvassed and there is still no economic restructuring, there can never be development.
Obasanjo, in a condolence letter to the wife of the late envoy who died last week, Arese, said Carrington went further to offer him asylum in the US
I can relate and sympathise with Adesina here. A lot of being a writer depends on how much you can cope with upsetting people. Except Adesina is a dotard, I hope he is not, he will be in a serious moral discomfort for ever vomiting such bilious words against a wanabe Fulani prince, called Ibrahim Agboola Gambari
The Presidency says the recently repatriated Sani Abacha loot will go towards three of the Federal Government’s five priority projects, excluding Mambilla Power and East-West Road projects.
Malami made the confirmation in a statement by Dr. Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, on Monday in Abuja
The Federal Government has told the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project that it has no records of the exact amount of public funds stolen by a former military Head of State, Sani Abacha, and no records of the spending of about $5 billion recovered loot between 1999 and 2015.
The source confirmed that the Buhari Administration inherited a litigation in which former President Olusegun Obasanjo Administration ceded $100 million to Bagudu, an agreement also being challenged by the US Government.
Malami, who spoke in a statement on Saturday, described the report as “unfounded and baseless”
Malami and Bagudu are both from Kebbi State
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo recovered $2 billion from the fund looted by late Head of State, General Sani Abacha.
The Supreme Court on Friday struck out an appeal filed by the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who had prayed for an order unfreezing some bank accounts of the late dictator and other members of the family held in the UK, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechenstein and Luxembourg.
The government of the United States of America has thrown its weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal commitment to the anti-corruption crusade in Nigeria.
Nigeria and the Island of Jersey will soon sign an agreement with the United States Government for the repatriation of $321 million looted by former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha.
On Tuesday, the Federal Government filed a fresh 42-count charge against Adoke and six others over alleged fraud in the $1.1 billion Malabu oil deal
Akinyele, a trained public relations specialist and administrator, after serving as the Minister of Information, later became Chairman of the Nigerian Sports Commission
To Abacha, the obdurate, thick, crabby, crackbrained and maximum leader, the tools of contest was not reason, consensus and compromise but oil, money, position and brute force. The theatre of his catfight with Wiwa was the Niger creeks, a terrain rich in the black gold but blighted by environmental degradation and malnourished in civilizational infrastructure
In a statement on Sunday, Soyinka said the arrest was “a travesty and violation of the fundamental rights of citizens to protest….”