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General Sani Abacha died on 8 June 1998, following his death al-Mustapha assembled the military hierarchy in order to avoid a succession crisis. General Abdulsalam Abubakar emerged as head of state on 9 June 1998 and al-Mustapha was removed from office and subsequently arrested.
Sani Abacha GCFR ((listen ⓘ); (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military dictator and statesman who ruled Nigeria with an iron-fist as military head of state from 1993 following a palace coup d'état until his death in 1998. [1] [2] Abacha's seizure of power was the last successful coup d'état in Nigerian military history.
Abacha, who was himself appointed head of state a decade later, was said to have played "a key role" in the coup. [17] The sole reported casualty occurred when Brigadier Ibrahim Bako was killed in a fire fight during Shagari's arrest in Abuja. [18] Major General Muhammed Buhari was installed as head of state. [19] [20]
Abacha ruled Africa's most populous nation and top oil exporter from 1993 until his death in 1998, during which time Transparency International estimated that he took up to $5 billion of public money.
Mohammed Chris Alli (25 December 1944 – 19 November 2023) was a Nigerian Army major general who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1993 to 1994 under General Sani Abacha's regime and was military governor of Plateau State Nigeria from August 1985 to 1986 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
Tiba al-Ali was born in Iraq in 2000 and moved to Turkey in 2017. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She and her fiancé frequently made videos on YouTube about life in Istanbul . [ 3 ] She visited her family in the central Iraqi city of Al Diwaniyah , Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate , in 2023, where on 31 January she was strangled at night while sleeping. [ 3 ]
Umaru bin Ali: c. 1824 Sokoto – 1891 Kaura Namoda (aged ~67) 3 October 1881 25 March 1891 Son of Ali Babba bin Bello House of Bello 10 Abd al-Rahman bin Atiku: c. 1828 Unknown – 1902 Unknown (aged ~74) 25 March 1891 10 October 1902 Son of Abu Bakr I Atiku House of Atiku 11 Muhammadu Attahiru I: Unknown – 1903 Mbormi. 13 October 1902 15 ...
Subsequently, they got married. Lariya had a son, Ali, from a previous marriage and had two children with Yaro, Mamman Shata and his sister Yalwa. [7] Ibrahim Yaro was also of the Fulani ethnic group. His own ancestors came from Sanyinna in the Sokoto state. They had migrated to the Katsina state and settled in the forests around the present ...