somito121:
Apart from the looting, Nigeria was OK and powerful during abacha's reign..

Jokerman:


Tribalist vedaxcool.... continue... goal post shifter...

Ndonu101:
The man was not popular with the EU, UK or US due to his brutality

Nigeria was also facing sanctions from these countries

So it would not have been possible to host such a dictator

Don’t spin this reality into some pan African foreign policy. Abacha did not have a foreign policy and only cared about remaining in office forever

madridsta007:


Go and read Max Siollun books especially, Soldiers of Fortune. Nigeria was under severe sanctions and in effect a pariah state. The only thing that wasn’t under sanction was the oil sales. The West needed the oil flowing. What you’ve written here is simply revisionism.

VictorRomanov:


10 years from now someone would say the same thing about the current administration - that it was the best Nigeria ever had.

somito121:
Apart from the looting, Nigeria was OK and powerful during abacha's reign..

ItsMeAboki:


The alleged looting was a fallacy; those who took over immediately after him happened to be his arch enemies ( Abdulsalam Abubakar, who was about to be sacked by Abacha and OBJ who was jailed by him) they simply set out to frame him, and of course as a dead person he couldn't come back and defend himself.

However, those in the supreme military council e.g. Jeremaih Useini, General Bameyi (incidentally jailed by Abacha) etc. had come out and clarified that it was a collective decision taken by them, (in the SMC) to stash away the money (as part of our foreign reserves) in secret accounts from the risk of being frozen by hostile international sanctions against the then military regime - as it happened to Libya under Gaddafi.

Juliusmalema:


you now insulting me....

but I won't belittle my intgrity....to take ur reply as been rude.

PrecisionFx:



America n Britain forced her allies to stop buying our crude oil, That was why for many months Abacha was not able to salaries for many months.

Abacha was a true leader, Only lack of information can make anyone argue otherwise.

PeterUdeme:


You abokiis will always defend your own. That's the problem of Nigeria. Northerners ruined this country wit their looting and incompetence just as it is going on under buhari, yet you guys are still supporting him.

selemempe:
Abacha's regim was many things to many people.
To some people it was a time of strenght and internal order..while to someother people it was nigeria's worst era...

Well some facts are here..
1. Under Abacha the city of Abuja started taking shape
2. Under Abacha Nigeria for the 1st time became Africa's largest economy in 1995
3. Under Abacha, top govt officials used simple peugeot cars
4. Under Abacha PTF was everywhere
5. Under Abacha nigeria led ECOMOG in liberia and sierra leone
6. Under Abacha nigeria airways died.
7 under abacha there was stability in the niger delta
8. Under abacha there was massive poverty in nigeria and almost no middle class
9. Under abacha there was brutal dictatorship

Joemetry:

Ooo...
I'm very sorry. Apologies for sounding offensive brother... No be intentional abeg. Sorry...

ItsMeAboki:


Too much dog meat affects the brain and can render some ppl incapable of rational thought.

I don't suppose you expect me to respond to that baseless emotional rubbish you just posted.

Juliusmalema:


Uwc what are friends for in time of peace like this....

uwc

Ndonu101:
The man was not popular with the EU, UK or US due to his brutality

Nigeria was also facing sanctions from these countries

So it would not have been possible to host such a dictator

Don’t spin this reality into some pan African foreign policy. Abacha did not have a foreign policy and only cared about remaining in office forever

PeterUdeme:


Too much DOG mating leaves the brain dull. I know you have no brain to counter my argument.

Ndonu101:
The man was not popular with the EU, UK or US due to his brutality

Nigeria was also facing sanctions from these countries

So it would not have been possible to host such a dictator

Don’t spin this reality into some pan African foreign policy. Abacha did not have a foreign policy and only cared about remaining in office forever

Ndonu101:
The man was not popular with the EU, UK or US due to his brutality

Nigeria was also facing sanctions from these countries

So it would not have been possible to host such a dictator

Don’t spin this reality into some pan African foreign policy. Abacha did not have a foreign policy and only cared about remaining in office forever

ItsMeAboki:


https://www.nairaland.com/1856252/19-year-old-boy-caught-sleeping-dog

Iamgrey5:
Abacha had nothing to do with the end of Apartheid in South Africa. So I wonder why op mischievously listed it like an achievement for him


The pope visited Nigeria because of the multiple killings and human rights abuses in Nigeria at the time


Why don't you compare Abacha to other military regime that had absolute power to influence their own policy, rather than mischievously compare to the current civilian dispensation

Obj and Buhari built a refinery

Buhari truly fought corruption when he first came to office

Obj encouraged a lot of businesses in Nigerian and truly sanctioned businesses that had anything to do with South Africa after the killing of Dr Steve Biko by the Apartheid government

I believe Babaginda built the third main land bridge which was the longest bridge in Africa until 96


Don't spin history for us op

mmb:
During the Abacha regime, Nigeria was in words and actions the true African leader. Throughout his time as head of state, Abacha never travelled outside Africa, perhaps to give effect to Nigeria’s Africa-centred foreign policy. The World Council of Mayors was hosted here in Abuja for the first and only time. Pope John Paul II was here on state visit. Nigeria was president of the UN Security Council during Abacha when the obnoxious apartheid policy of the minority white regime in South Africa was dismantled. For the first time in the history of Africa also, Abacha reversed a coup d’état and re-installed the overthrown democratically elected President Tejan Kabbah in Sierra Leone, when Nigeria’s General Maxwell Khobe successfully flushed out the Paul Koroma junta there. Nobody joked with Nigeria. Nigeria was well respected by all.

http://www.eyeway.ng/2017/11/16/remembering-the-abacha-regime/

PrecisionFx:



""The man was not popular with the EU, UK or US due to his brutality""

BLATANT LIES.

PrecisionFx:



America n Britain forced her allies to stop buying our crude oil, That was why for many months Abacha was not able to salaries for many months.

Abacha was a true leader, Only lack of information can make anyone argue otherwise.

jpphilips:


I wonder what embolden people like you to come on the WWW to talk rubbish with confidence.
Is it that you didn't have historical education or your parents couldn't afford the print and news media or you were outright dumb not to understand what was going on at the time?

ItsMeAboki:


The alleged looting was a fallacy; those who took over immediately after him happened to be his arch enemies ( Abdulsalam Abubakar, who was about to be sacked by Abacha and OBJ who was jailed by him) they simply set out to frame him, and of course as a dead person he couldn't come back and defend himself.

However, those in the supreme military council e.g. Jeremaih Useini, General Bameyi (incidentally jailed by Abacha) etc. had come out and clarified that it was a collective decision taken by them, (in the SMC) to stash away the money (as part of our foreign reserves) in secret accounts from the risk of being frozen by hostile international sanctions against the then military regime - as it happened to Libya under Gaddafi.

abumeinben:


Islamization attempt, beta life (N50) notes that gave room for massive looting, fuel price hike (N26, from N18 or so), imprisonment spree...

FarahAideed:


Record high unemployment? I am confused , never before has poverty and unemployment exceeded the record of the current govt with over 79 million extremely poor people ( highest ever in human history anywhere) and over 15 million jobs totally lost yet you are part of the people still canvassing for the second for such poor performance.. Deji don't you think you are a hypocrite at this stage ...

Nigeria under Abacha was a million times more secure than it is today with over 20 thousands lives lost in just 3 years to insecurity under Buhari as compared to less than 700 under Abacha ( yet you still support Buhari)..

Its on record that Abacha built more hospital than the current Buhari govt and fixed more road , then our roads were safe you could travel at night without fear of being robbed by herdsmen .. Apart from rampart fuel shortage under Abacha there is no basis of comparison between Abacha and the failed Buhari you currently support.

Realdeals:


Okay indeed with the invention of Abacha stove, what I however feel, is that Abacha would have succeeded to a large extent cleansed our political system of all the useless old elders that are still dictating the polity now, the likes of OBJ, Tinubu would have been history by now.
Though the cleansing might appear to be targeting people from the south, his audacity to have arrested a powerful northern figure like Shehu Yar,ádua is a pointer that he does not care about your location if you are disturbing the polity, Sgt. Roger will go after you.