BY BENJAMIN OMOIKE The United States Department of Justice said it has transferred over $20.6 million to the Federal Government of Nigeria as part of the loot traced to former Nigerian military leader General Sani Abacha and his co-conspirators. The US DoJ, in a statement on Thursday, said the
A former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, Gen Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha has dismissed the report that his former boss died of poisoning. There had been claims over the years that the former Head of State died after eating a poisoned apple from his concubines. Al-Mustapha while speaking with ThisDay said […]
A top diplomat claims Gen Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s universally loathed dictator, was assassinated, despite contradicting accounts about his demise on the 8th of June 1998. A diplomat with intimate ties to the Nigerian military told The Irish Times, “I know for a fact he was poisoned.” “This has been confirmed by my army sources. The […]