enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sani Abacha - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha

    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.

  3. Moshood Abiola - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshood_Abiola

    Moshood Abiola died unexpectedly, shortly after the death of General Abacha, on the day that he was due to be released. [55] While meeting group of American diplomats including Thomas Pickering and Susan Rice at a government guesthouse in Abuja, Abiola fell ill and died. Rice had served tea to Abiola shortly before his collapse; despite ...

  4. Hamza al-Mustapha - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_al-Mustapha

    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.

  5. Nigeria court tells government to account for recovered ...

    www.aol.com/news/nigeria-court-tells-government...

    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.

  6. Military coups in Nigeria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_coups_in_Nigeria

    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]

  7. President of Nigeria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Nigeria

    General Sani Abacha seized power from Shonekan on 17 November 1993, and became head of state and chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council. [13] On 8 June 1998, General Abacha died at the presidential villa in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

  8. 1993 Nigerian coup d'état - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Nigerian_coup_d'état

    The 1993 Nigerian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in Nigeria on 17 November 1993 [1] when the Armed Forces, headed by Defence Minister General Sani Abacha, forced Interim President Chief Ernest Shonekan to resign. [2]

  9. Lawan Gwadabe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawan_Gwadabe

    Gwadabe was born in 1949 in Jos, Plateau State, where he was brought up.His father was a Muslim of Fulani origin. [5] He was involved in the coup of 27 August 1985, having just returned to 245 Recce Battalion (where he had previously been the Commanding Officer) from a course at the US Armour School, Fort Knox.