The Abacha administration became the first to record unprecedented economic achievements: ....
...He oversaw an increase in the country’s foreign exchange reserves from $494 million in 1993 to $9.6 billion by the middle of 1997, reduced the external debt of Nigeria from $36 billion in 1993 to $27 billion by 1997, brought all the controversial privatization programs of the Babangida administration to halt, reduced an inflation rate of 54% inherited from Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida to 8.5% between 1993 and 1998, all while the nation’s primary commodity, oil was at an average of $15 per barrel.
On June 8, 1998, General Sani Abacha, the then Head of State took ill and died.
Compared to what is going on now,,abacha was a saint and needs to learn work!
ReplyDeleteTODAY IN HISTORY, General Sani Abacha died, age 54. Born on 20 September 1943. He was a Nigerian soldier and politician who served as the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.
Abacha's regime is one of the most controversial in Nigeria's history. Although it saw dramatic economic growth, it also witnessed widespread human rights abuses.
A Kanuri from Borno by tribe, Abacha was born and brought up in Kano, Nigeria. He attended the Nigerian Military Training College and Mons Officer Cadet School before being commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in 1963.
Early in 1998, Abacha announced that elections would be held that August, with a view toward handing power to a civilian government on 1 October. It soon became apparent, though, that Abacha had no intention of permitting an honest election; by April he had strong-armed the country's five parties into endorsing him as the sole presidential candidate.
Abacha died in June 1998 while at the presidential villa in Abuja. He was buried on the same day, according to Muslim tradition, without an autopsy. This fueled speculation that he may have been executed extrajudicially by way of being poisoned by political rivals via prostitutes.
On the contrary, the government cited his cause of death as a sudden heart attack. It is reported that he was in the company of two Indian prostitutes, imported from Dubai. It is thought that these prostitutes laced his drink with a poisonous substance, making Abacha feel unwell around 4:30am.
General Abacha is credited with restoring Nigeria's standing as an African Power when he twice ordered the Nigerian Military to Intervene and restore the civilian and Democratic governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia after a series of Military Coups in both countries.
On this day, what were you doing when you learnt about his death?
Brief illness ke
DeletePls let's say it as it is
Na Indian apple o
It wAs my bday
DeletePeople jubiliated in Lagos state that day as if super eagles won world cup
DeleteI remember seeing everyone happy, and was wondering why. They tried explaining but i just knew a wicked man died.
DeleteMe sha joined my classmates to jump and make noise like we understood anything. Lol
Hummmm SDK Trying to rewrite history. Abacha was a heartless dictator
DeleteTaa... Tufiaa
ReplyDeleteThief family...That man was a thief and terrorist...Rest in peace sha
I don't even know about him apart from what I was told and what I read.
DeleteCan still remember how people were jubilating when they heard about the news. Abeg how true is this buhari cancer news am hearing?
ReplyDeleteAfter a brief illness ko after an elongated illness in.I was pretty young then and we lived in the north ..Died in the hands of sexy beautiful indianic looking babes..whether it was apple o abi Viagra or he just keeled over o only his creator knows.All Mustapha cried like a bay and someone popsy knows was smugled outta the villa in a car booth...Enough said ...they say don't speak ill of the dead abi
ReplyDeleteI was very little when he died too so I know nothing about the kind of man he was.
DeleteBut according to stories and all,dude was a pharaoh.
Amebo! Na you arrange the Indian looking babes abi you're one of them? Where you there when he died? This spirit of "I must comment" and feeling like you know privileged information that Nigerians are craving is just SAD! Who gives a rats pussy if it was your father that was smuggled in the back of a tipper?
DeleteReally Stella, all you had to say about him was the good stuff. If he's good, why do I remember people dancing and rejoicing the day he died. I was young then o and I thought he was a bad person. Let's not change history o. Historians please lecture me o, was abacha good or bad cos I no dey understand again o
ReplyDeleteStella wan cover every angle. Get a professional historian like moi *side eyes*. @Addy, Abacha was good and bad. His economic policies favoured the country, but he had major faults. He didn't carry people along, and that cost him his life.
Delete@shanz empire...my single n mingle wasn't d latest one.I didn't even know dia was a recent one.
ReplyDeleteD anon dat said almost 40, childish n broke...I'm still like 4 n a half years from 40.broke?not a chance,ask d bvs on my contact.childish? Yea,childish is fun.wen u r from a very lovin family n u r close to all ur family n friends u av d tendency to be childish..I'l still be childish even "when I'm 64" *in d voices of d Beattles. No sorrow,no worries
This is Abacha post na.
DeleteBut if you want to hear the truth,even after you marry that your woman you would still be sleeping around.
It's inbuilt.
Na was e be like the comments touch you wells for you to bring it here.Ogbeni we so not want too much details again..na babes wey dey give una Congo to shine anyhow I blame.whatever abeg
DeleteHehehehe! childish is fun, I like🙌, not the writer😞,The phrase😍
DeleteBitchplis, shut up shameless old man. You took part in the latest SnM. U want to change mouth cox of the overwhelming bashing you got from bvs. Have you forgotten you wrote that your "fiancee" insisted on celibacy as your reason? and you even ask what shall the righteous do. SMH
DeleteYes u are broke! Idiotic rapist!
DeleteI remember how you jubilated when you got 100k from stells give away 2 years ago.
Brooooke ass!
Bitchy is the bump.Let's see na
DeleteFrustrated ladies. You guys need a doke badly
DeleteHahahaha see comments......bitchpls don't mind them jor!
DeleteBut i'm with chi exotic on this,you will still cheat.
ShanzEmpire
Don't speak ill of the dead.. No comment!
ReplyDeleteBrief Illness?? It was Apple na.
DeleteNo be only brief illness na conference illness
ReplyDeleteOnly God knows!
ReplyDeleteI recall the jubilation and celebration that erupted in Lagos the day this man died.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbour bought suya for everybody
RIP Sani Abacha
End time Apple
ReplyDeleteLol..weyrey
DeleteWhat do I care about abacha?
ReplyDeleteLet the living praise the Lord
ReplyDeleteI was small then oh, but I remember Abiola.
ReplyDeleteWas Abacha not the one that arrested Abiola when he won the election?
Am sure alot of people will look back and prefer this era reason being that people keep dying daily, theres alot of dangers etc that never existed then.
ReplyDeleteHe even ensured democratic govts remained in those countries...hmmmm
Apple
ReplyDeleteI remember I was in d boarding house then when d news broke. I was too young to assess his govt and the impact on d citizenry but frm what I saw then,a lot of people jubilated at his death. And the reaction of people on Twitter today,on the anniversary of his death today shows d man is a bad guy jare. Not even I good comment.
ReplyDeleteNo comment!
ReplyDeleteRemorseless looter
ReplyDeleteLet him die and die again.
ReplyDeleteI remember vividly. I was in secondary school and my mum rushed to pick me up because she was scared riots could erupt. The race back home na die. Lool. then I remember seeing a group of soldiers dancing. Yes, singing and dancing.
ReplyDeleteThen we got home and everyone in the neighbourhood was so so happy. Lots of high fives, cheering, pats on the backs. I was happy too but I remember feeling a bit guilty for being happy at someone's passing. Sigh. We really thought his death was the end of all the 'suffering'. Little did we know.
Abacha ROT in hell.
ReplyDeleteStory Nigeria was filled with joy, laughter and dancing the day his death was announced..
ReplyDeleteI was a little girl then still in primary school but I remember the jubilation every where.
Leave the dead alone in peace Stella!!!
ReplyDeleteI slept with this man before he travelled too the other side.Serious pay master.
ReplyDeleteSo e don tey when you begin hustle, get a legit gig biko
DeleteLook funny bvs
DeleteAnon 07:06 lol no b small thing. I think say dis runs work started recently. I no knw say e don tey like dis. Hian!!!!
DeleteBrief illness ke. They killed him with prostitutes.
ReplyDeleteAbacha was a good man compare to #GEJ
ReplyDeleteWhy bring Gej into this gist
DeleteChaiiiiiii
Who hating epp?
Abacha was a good man compare to #GEJ
ReplyDeleteYou sef just wan find trouble dis morning... wear ur bullet proof vest oo. Cos bullets wet u go see today no go finish.
DeleteAboki Wetin be ur own naw?
DeleteAbacha was a very bad man.
ReplyDelete#sergeantroger.Nuff said
ReplyDeleteA heartless dictator.
ReplyDeleteTo be frank 60percnt women out der re the man in thier homes. While 40per do thier responsibility. (his 60per re expected to buy foodstuffs,cook, do laundry,take care of th children and @ night do thier responsibility on the bed. Th man mostly gets back home sayin he's tired. Eats, bt neva tired to av sex.wake up in the mornin the wife wld ask hubby we need som stuffsin th hous and he wld b like borrw me n write in dwn my dear once u stop doing that responsibility he sees u as a lazy woman
ReplyDeleteDo us a favor, quit SDK, receive sense and get an English teacher
DeleteStella you are a DISGRACE. ..
ReplyDeletePraising Abacha.
Have several seats