Tag: SANI ABACHA
About $1bn looted under Abacha —Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says about $1 billion was “stolen under a previous, undemocratic junta in the 1990s.”
In an article published in US-based magazine, Newsweek,...
Abacha forced Dele Momodu and I into exile – Tinubu
National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has said that the former military dictator, Sani Abacha, forced him and publisher, Dele...
FG receives $311m Abacha loot from US, Jersey
Nigeria has received $311,797,866.11 million of the repatriated looted assets by late military ruler, Sani Abacha, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,...
El-Rufai agrees to settle out of court over Abacha’s hotel
Kaduna State Government has agreed with the management
of Durbar Hotel to settle out of court.
The hotel said to belong to the family of the...
US opposes Nigeria’s plan to hand Abacha loot to Bagudu
The US authorities have opposed plans by Nigeria’s government to hand about $100 million looted by former military dictator, Sani Abacha, to Kebbi State...
Supreme Court strikes out appeal to unfreeze Abacha’s foreign accounts
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by the family of the late military ruler, Sani Abacha, who had prayed for an...
El-Rufai revokes occupancy certificate of Abacha’s hotel
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has revoked the
Certificate of Occupancy of the Durbar Hotel said to belong to the family of
the late military dictator,...
Abacha loot: Nigeria signs tripartite agreement to recover $318m, others
The Federal Government has signed an agreement with the
United States and the Island of Jersey to repatriate the sum of $318,460,329
looted by former military...
Court adjourns suit stopping El-Rufai from demolishing Abacha’s hotel till Feb...
A High Court in Kaduna on Monday adjourned until
February 11 hearing in the suit stopping the demolition and takeover of the
Durbar Hotel Plc by...
Abacha loot: Malami heads to US to sign pact on stolen...
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of
Justice, Abubakar Malami, has left Nigeria to attend a three-day meeting of the
United States-Nigeria Bi-national Commission in Washington...