Sani Abacha

Flashback/Abiola’s Last Interview With TheNEWS: “Why IBB Left Abacha Behind”

By the time the late Chief MKO Abiola was fighting to retrieve his electoral mandate,…

June 12, 1993 Elections Cancellation: Was Abacha Culpable?

General Ibrahim Babangida’s 440-page autobiography, A Journey in Service, launched in Abuja on February 20,…

Kunle Ajibade: The legend of conscience Abacha could not kill

Even in the darkest of days and nights in Nigeria, there are adorable persons to…

August 27 and a daughter’s celebration of Abacha

Last week, August 27, 2024, was the 39th anniversary of the coup that toppled Gen Muhammadu…

El-Rufai, June 12 and Abacha woken from the dead

Festus Adedayo writes that many people have falsely looked at the spats in post-succession governors’…

Jakande’s son wants LASU named after his father, explains how he joined Abacha’s government

When the Nigerian Guild of Editors organised a memorial lecture at Lagos Sheraton on Monday…

Throwback/My Coup Story: How Diya, Who Just Died at 79, Spoke from Jail

The story you are about to read is to salute Nigerian journalists for the risks…

Major Al-Mustapha 2023: Revisiting the Abacha years of the locusts

Like a Roman Centurion, he was a man set under furious authority. He could say…

Akudaaya: Tinubu, Abacha and Shettima’s theory of ruthless leadership

In what seems to affirm that he wears controversies like apparel, Vice Presidential candidate of…

June 12/Abacha’s overthrow of Shonekan: How Abiola predicted it to TheNEWS

After Ibrahim Babangida annulled the June 12,1993 presidential election, an Interim Government was set up,…