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Vanguard
April 24, 2018
The oil prospecting licence had been awarded to Malabu Oil & Gas Ltd in 1998 by the government of the late General Sani Abacha. However, the licence was withdrawn by the government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2001, who then awarded it to Shell. Meanwhile, the OPL 246 licenceÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
April 24, 2018
Nigeria has received a sum of $322 million stolen by former president Sani Abacha after signing a memorandum of understanding with Switzerland last month. The money which has been deposited in a special account in the central bank has been earmarked for the government's social programmeÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
April 24, 2018
Sani Abacha, with 1.5 million dollars interest. Amb. Pio Wennubst, Assistant Director-General and Head, Global Cooperation Department, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, told our Correspondent in New York. Wennubst said Switzerland returned about 322.5 million dollars ( N116.11 billion )Ãâà...
SaharaReporters.com
April 23, 2018
Nigerian government has announced plans to use the $322.52 million returned to the country by the Swiss government as part of the fund looted and stashed abroad by late military dictator, General Sani Abacha, to implement its national social safety net programs. Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the Minister ofÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
April 10, 2018
The Federal Government says it has received 322.51 million dollars from the Swiss Government as part of looted funds recovered from former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha. Mr Oluyinka Akintunde, the Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Minister of Finance, said this in a statementÃâà...
Vanguard
April 8, 2018
No fewer than 480 students including the youngest son of late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, Mustapha, have graduated from the Maryam Abacha American University (MAAUN), Maradi in Niger Republic. Late Sani Abacha. The President and Founder of the university, Dr Adamu Abubakar-Gwarzo,Ãâà...
Vanguard
April 7, 2018
In a rare display of bitter truth, Nigeria's ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Matthew Mbu, has revealed that he knew about the plan by the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha to remove Nigeria's Interim leader, Chief Ernest Shonekan, from office within three months.
Pulse Nigeria
April 3, 2018
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to explain the withdrawal of about $250 million from the $500 million loot recovered from the family of late Head of State, Sani Abacha. According to a report by The Nation, EFCCÃâà...
The Nation Newspaper
March 27, 2018
The Kano State Directorate for Youth and Economic Empowerment, in partnership with 7UP Bottling Company, has distributed job tools to 150 street and soft drink vendors valued at N2.5 million. The event held at Sani Abacha Vocational Training Centre in Fagge Local Government. The Director-General ofÃâà...
New Telegraph Newspaper
March 27, 2018
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Swiss government for the repatriation of illegally acquired assets. The Swiss Government has already promised to return about $321 million in public funds stolen by former Nigerian dictator, late Gen. Sani Abacha.
eNCA
March 27, 2018
Switzerland said in December that it would return to Nigeria around $321-million R3,750-million) in assets seized from the family of former military ruler Sani Abacha via a deal signed with the World Bank. Since taking office in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari has sought help from several nations toÃâà...
Vanguard
March 24, 2018
I also fought for the enthronement of democracy and got imprisoned with Abubakar Rimi by the regime of late General Sani Abacha in 1998. My aspiration is not desperation. I want to give back to Nigeria. “There is hatred, bloodshed, corruption in government and private sectors. I am very concernedÃâà...
THISDAY Newspapers
March 24, 2018
You know my advice to some of these our politicians as they run about in careless abandon is for them to go back a little bit to review the days of the great goggled one General Sani Abacha. This I believe would bring them back to reality thus making them sit up and begin to think straight. Some few daysÃâà...
Vanguard
March 20, 2018
ABUJA—Nigerian lawyers freshly engaged by the Federal Government to assist with the repatriation of $321 million stolen by Sani Abacha, former military ruler, will be paid $17 million (over N6 billion) for their services. This amount, according to online portal, TheCable, is nearly thrice what was alreadyÃâà...
Pulse Nigeria
March 19, 2018
Two Nigerian lawyers mysteriously appointed by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, are set to earn over N6 billion ($17 million) for their assistance in the repatriation of $321 million stolen by former Head of State, Sani Abacha. In an exclusive report by TheCable, AGF MalamiÃâà...
Vanguard
March 18, 2018
Rebuffing reports attributed to him that Nigeria will collapse if Buhari wins a second term, Obasanjo said after surviving the civil war and the bestial inclinations of the Sani Abacha military regime, nothing worse could happen to the country. Obasanjo, the first President of the Fourth Republic, spoke in anÃâà...
Daily Post Nigeria
March 16, 2018
Sani Abacha and fed him the poisoned apple that killed him one month earlier to the day were also CIA. “Can Pickering tell us why he and Susan Rice poisoned our President-elect? Does he still work and kill for the CIA? We will NEVER forget what they did! And we will NEVER forget our hero and leaderÃâà...
The Punch
March 6, 2018
Sani Abacha's Failed Banks Act book, and throw it all at bankers who act irresponsibly with people's money. The Act sanctions “any director, manager, officer who knowingly, recklessly, negligently, wilfully or otherwise grants, approves the grant, or is otherwise connected with the grant or approval of a loan,Ãâà...
The Nation Newspaper
March 6, 2018
Like the late General Sani Abacha said, if insurgence lasted more than a year, it means the government was involved. The unending killing by herdsmen has shown why Muhammadu Buhari insisted on running for presidency for four times. He had an agenda and his interest was not to govern Nigeria but toÃâà...
Quartz
March 6, 2018
In 1991, Nigeria had 30 states but in 1996, Nigeria's maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha, created an additional 6 states bringing the total to 36. Since the new states had been carved out of existing states, making the numbers directly comparable meant adding the 2006 numbers for the 5 new states backÃâà...
The Punch
March 6, 2018
Under the regime of Sani Abacha, more trouble came. For seeking the actualisation of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by MKO Abiola, which Babangida had annulled, Abacha dissolved its executive in 1994 and installed a sole administrator for four years. Its oil sector affiliates — NUPENG andÃâà...
Daily Maverick
March 5, 2018
A former oil minister under the dictator Sani Abacha, Etete appropriated the block in 1998, selling it to Malabu, a company he secretly owned. The licence was subsequently revoked by the government and then transferred to Shell and then again to Malabu, resulting in major litigation. After taking office inÃâà...
Vanguard
March 4, 2018
Sani Abacha. Therefore, the best description of Babangida's regime is: a monumental waste. Chief Ernest Shonekan's tenure as interim President was so brief and episodic that one can justifiably describe it as a caricature. Karl Maier correctly notes that Abacha, being head of the joint chiefs of staff andÃâà...
swissinfo.ch
March 2, 2018
The latest example is $321 million that has already been transferred from Switzerland to a Nigerian government account, part of assets stolen by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha (1993-98) and his family. With World Bank oversight, the funds will be used to finance Nigeria's National Social Safety NetÃâà...
Fcnaija
February 18, 2018
NPFL: Enyimba hold Kano Pillars at Sani Abacha Stadium - FCNaija Kano Pillars was held by Enyimba to a 1-1 draw in their Nigeria Professional Football League match-day nine clash at the Sani Abacha Stadium on Sunday. Pillars took the lead in the 36th minute courtesy of league top scorer JuniorÃâà...
Jersey Evening Post
February 16, 2018
The money – made through corruption during the military regime of General Sani Abacha – was placed in accounts held locally by a British Virgin Islands company, Doraville Properties Corporation. In 2014 the assets were frozen by the Royal Court following an application by the US authorities. Since thenÃâà...
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