Sani Abacha,  (born September 20, 1943, Kano, Nigeria—died June 8, 1998, Abuja), Nigerian military leader, who served as head of state (1993–98).

Abacha received his formal military training at Nigerian and British military training colleges. He rose through the ranks in the Nigerian military and by 1983 had achieved the rank of brigadier when he assisted Ibrahim Babangida in overthrowing Shehu Shagari, who had been elected to his second presidential term in 1983. Muhammad Buhari became Nigeria’s leader, but just two years later Babangida overthrew Buhari and installed himself as leader with Abacha second in command. Elections were held in 1993 and were won by Moshood Abiola, a candidate supposedly supported by Babangida, who, however, annulled the elections and set up a civilian interim government, which Abacha quickly overthrew.

Although Abacha promised a return to democracy, his actions were anything but democratic. He banned political activity of any kind, fired a large portion of the military, controlled the press, and assembled a personal security force of some 3,000 men. While he supported the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its military arm, ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), in sending troops to restore democracy in Liberia and Sierra Leone, he brutally suppressed dissent at home. Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military leader of Nigeria (1976–79), were jailed for treason. Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, was also charged with treason, although he had voluntarily left the country. Perhaps Abacha’s most brutal act was the imprisonment, trial, and subsequent execution for treason of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists who were concerned with the environmental exploitation of their region by multinational petroleum companies.

Abacha’s sudden death in June 1998 moved along the process of returning the country to civilian rule. His military successor, Abdusalam Abubakar, oversaw the return to an elected civilian government in 1999. After Abacha’s death, it was rumoured that he and his family had enriched themselves by some $3 billion, most of it held in European banks. In 2002 a settlement, which returned most of the money to the government in exchange for dropping criminal prosecution, was reached between the Obasanjo government and the Abacha family.

So, my fellow NL'ders, what do you remember him for?

Tyranny and very very very many embezzlement.

i remember him as a man who ate an apple given to him by an indian prostitute and died. #Careless Aristotle!.


But sha, apple don dey do great things since time immemorial;
1)Apple made Adam realize he was adamatical. who gave him the apple? (A lady,Eve)
2)Isaac Newton postulated the law of motion after apple fell on his head. who plantes the apple tree? i guess a lady also
3)the mighty man of terror fell in the year 1998, Sani Abacha. What killed him? Apple from an indian B!TCH.



shout out to all Barcelona fans in the house!

hmmm mak i no lie incase dis make fp because i never wise den , bt my dad say d man wicked die na only thing d tell me abt am b dat ooo.

I heard he was an expert in human right violation.
One of his aids(almustapha) didn't also help matters.

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he ate the forbidden fruit

serious lack of electric power supply. Nepa went to sleep during his time. We didnt even have light to hear the breakin news of his death.

ABACHA IS NOT CORRUPT...

His dark sun shades! An Enigmatic ruler I must say.

Those big dark googles!

World champion of embezzlement

Terror

Apple!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember him for the heartless despot he was and his unrivaled greed at taxpayer expense.

He's not missed at all.

Womanizer


Brother to Buhari.......(Don't ask me how)

Sai BABA

H e a r tless

Eating apple

Women are powerful, Indian women with apples are dangerous.

The Apple

Political assassinations,reckless rule and worst of all he helped to give rise to the corruption his boss babaginda started...May his soul continually ....

I will remember him for his no nonsense..... Oops and his vice Al Mustafa

malbro:
ABACHA IS NOT CORRUPT...

He is not but was.

One of those that turn Nigeria to how it is today.....Abacha bachabacha...Rest in anywhere you are, be it Hell or Paradise.

I stopped eating Apple the moment I was told what killed him but is good to know his "manhood" lives on


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He would have been another Idiamin.

His love for foreign kitten

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Fucking International Prostitutes.

nothing

A no nonsense man,u talk about him bad,na death be dat.