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The history of Nigeria under General Sani Abacha
(November
1993 - June 1998)
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The contemporary political history in
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- Transparency International Press Release
Concerning Olusegun Obasanjo
- Former Nigerian President Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo
arrested on 13 March, 1995, for conspiring abroad against
the current government.
- Nigeria and Transafrica
- By Ganiyu Jaiyeola, 22 March 1995. Again, objection to
pro-democracy intervention by African Americans.
- Western investors seek control of Nigerian
Politics
- By William Pomeroy, People's Weekly
World. 22 July 1995. Structural adjustment and
relation between democratization and capitalist penetration.
- Nigerian Democracy support group statement
on the situation in Nigeria
- ANC Nigerian Democracy Support Group, 14 November, 1995,
calls on Abacha to restore democracy.
- Nigerians berate Mandela at pro-government
rally
- Reuter, 21 November 1995. Abuja rally the culmination of
mass rallies in support of General Abacha following
Mandela's condemnation of the Saro-Wiwe execution.
- Oil Rules Nigeria
- By David Bacon, 22 November 1995.
- Nigerian minister faces protest over
hanging
- Reuter, 30 November 1995. University of Ilfe lecturers
protest hanging of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight members
of his Movement for the Survival of Ogoni Peoples
(MOSOP).
- US, Britain, EU refuse sanctions
- By Norm Dixon, Green Left
Weekly, 6 December 1995. Cosy relation with the
Abacha regime and oil profits override action on human
rights violations.
- Nigerian Democratic Movt. Report
- PANA, 23 March 1996. Nigerians return to the polls
Saturday to elect councillors for the country's 593
councils under a new government decree which stiputates
that court proceedings cannot undermine the electoral
process. Scores of candidates disqualified from the first
round of balloting March 16 have taken their petitions to
different civil courts across the country.
- Towards a sustainable vision of
Nigeria
- By Wole Soyinka, 17 April 1996. No force has yet
attempted to, or succeeded in conquering the sense of
Nigerian national identity. And yet Nigeria's 100 million
people are subject. The amalgam of Nigeria was an
expression of administrative needs, but should emerge from
the popular will, not imposed by Nigeria's political
class.
- Repression Intensifies
- Statement by the British Committee of the International
Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR), 15 May 1996. The
government has arrested labor leaders and is restructuring
the trade unions and introducing laws which exclude the
general secretaries of industrial unions from taking any
positions in the leadership of the Nigerian Labour
Congress.
- Nandotime update on Mrs. Abiola's
death
- Reuter, 4 June 1996. Unknown gunmen shot and killed the
outspoken senior wife of detained Nigerian presidential
claimant Moshood Abiola, Mrs. Kudirat Abiola. Mrs Abiola,
the 44-year-old businesswoman has been campaigning for
the release of her husband from prison.
- Nigerian Government Persecutes Dismissed
ASUU Leaders
- Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA), Newsletter, Spring 1997. Mounting
university crisis.
- Minister Alleges Foreign Involvement In
Reported Coup
- By Paul Ejime, PANA, 6 January 1998. Insight into the
alleged December coup plot, hinting of possible
collaboration of a foreign country. The alleged
conspirators, he said, had planned to assassinate
Gen. Sani Abacha, the Nigerian head of state, along with
other senior military officers and prominent
civilians. Opposition groups are unconvinced, dismissing
the event as diversionary.
- Police arrest 50 Lagos protesters, one
person killed
- A-Infos News Service, 4 March 1998. Armed policemen in
Lagos, yesterday failed to halt anti-Abacha protestors
despite threats of a vicious clampdown, while in Abuja an
estimated 150,000 people made up of civil servants and
local council employees rallied to support the 54 year old
general who has not said he will contest elections but is
expected to do so.
- Environmental action group says military on
Shell's payroll
- Nigeria News du Jour, 23
April 1998. For example, Shell paid money to Major Paul
Okutimo formerly of the dreaded Rivers State Internal
Security Task Force for the purpose of invading Korokoro
village in Ogoni. Shell was expected to help pay for the
wasting operations
.
- Political Parties Out in the Cold
- By Remi Oyo, IPS, 12 June 1998. Nigeria's five
political parties are out in the cold following Abacha's
sudden death from cardiac arrest, and are seeking new
presidential candidates for the coming elections. Abacha
had been endorsed by all the parties for president,
which raised eyebrows among pro-democracy activists about
the military's intentions to return the country to
civilian rule.
- Why I framed Obasanjo,
Yar'Adua-Fadile
- By Rotimi Ajayi and Chioma Ugwunebo, Vanguard Daily, 3 November 2000. The
man who implicated President Olusegun Obasanjo, the late
Maj.-Gen. Shehu Yar'Adua and others in the 1995
phantom coup said he framed them to save his own life.
