Abacha was a criminal in Government house just like his predecessor, IBB, Buhari.
No matter how you want to paint it, you can never ever f00l me.
Take your sh1tty thread and stuff it where you always wanted your d1ctators to reign.
Goat!

and where did Abacha family members get all that money they get to spray around?
don't tell me , it's all from his hard earned saved salaries and military pensions.]\
goat!

GenBuhari: [size=18pt]Daily Trust (Abuja)OPINION12 November 2008
[s]Obasanjo who falsely accused Abacha of corruption has proven much worst[/size]

While the railway transportation system is undergoing rapid modernisation in Europe and Asia, Nigerian leaders are taking many steps backward to kill the railway rehabilitation projects initiated by the late General Sani Abacha administration.

These evil and short-sighted efforts started with the former Obasanjo administration which was determined to destroy anything good initiated by the Abacha regime. Blinded and consumed by the passion for vengeance against the late Abacha, former President Olusegun Obasanjo didn't mind throwing away the baby with the bath water. One of the major projects embarked upon by the Abacha regime was the rehabilitation of Nigeria's moribund and outmoded railway system. The late military ruler invited the Chinese Civil Engineering Company to undertake the projects because of its proven expertise in that field.

In a matter of months, the Nigerian railway system was coming back to life at a time almost all Nigerians had concluded that this mode of transportation was dead. The projects got off to a flying start until the election of Obasanjo in 1999 who decided to suspend the railway rehabilitation initiated by the late Abacha. His private grudges became the basis of official policy and that was how he halted the railway rehabilitation projects started by the Abacha regime.

Typical of Obasanjo, he saw nothing good in whatever the late Abacha ever did for Nigeria and did not disguise his intention to stop the railway projects out of irrational personal malice. It didn't matter to Obasanjo that Nigeria stood to lose by stopping the railway projects, a mode of transportation which is cheaper and affordable by most ordinary Nigerians. Former President Obasanjo was always convinced that corruption attended any contract initiated by the late Abacha. Using this pretext, therefore, he halted the projects at the expense of the nation.

With time, however, Obasanjo's hypocrisy and evil motives were revealed when he re-awarded the railway rehabilitation projects at a much higher staggering cost than commonsense can accept. The late General Sani Abacha regime awarded the railway contracts at less than $600 million. But towards the end of his tenure, in his desperation to leave a legacy behind, former President Obasanjo re-awarded the same contract at $8 billion (N960 billion).

Despite the breathtaking cost of the re-awarded contracts, the railway projects got nowhere under Obasanjo. President Umaru Musa Yar'adua inherited the projects but became suspicious about the new cost of the contract. He set up a committee to re-evaluate the project and its report indicted the former Obasanjo administration for inflating the contracts to outrageous levels. Consequently, the Yar'adua administration has finally suspended the N960 billion railway contracts.

No one should blame President Yar'adua for the fate that ultimately befell the railway contracts. Former President Obasanjo should be held solely responsible for the apparent death of the projects. He sacrificed the larger public interest to satisfy private motives. With General Abacha, Nigerians witnessed the promising progress that the railway projects were making until Obasanjo came and killed them for selfish reasons.

General Abacha awarded the projects at just $600 million and the railway system in Nigeria had started to take a new shape across the country. But even as he re-awarded the contracts at N960 billion, former President Obasanjo didn't show any progress in the execution of the projects. This figure is staggering by any stretch of the imagination and Nigerians cannot understand why despite this inflation of contract, the Obasanjo administration failed to carry the railway projects forward.

Does former President Obasanjo have any reason to accuse the late General Abacha administration of greed and corruption? Didn't his administration commit billions of public funds into projects that were never executed? The 16-billion-dollar power contracts scandal will remain a stubborn stigma on the Obasanjo administration and children yet unborn will never forgive such level of greed against the nation. How can any administration commit N960 billion in the name of railway rehabilitation and fail to produce results at the end of the day?

Former President Obasanjo had systematically killed many good projects started by the late General Abacha such as the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), the dredging of the River Niger and the railway rehabilitation projects. Ironically, while he was busy killing good projects initiated by Abacha out of malicious motives, Obasanjo had failed to deliver on many projects which he himself introduced.

Despite investing 16 billion dollars into improving electric power generation in the country, the expenditure went down the drain and eight years after he reluctantly left office, power supply got worse than it was in 1999 when he took over power. In fact, every evil that Obasanjo ever preached against became worse under his administration. Corruption grew like weed during his tenure and Nigeria won the unenviable distinction of ranking among the most corrupt nations of the world.

General Obasanjo is the most self-righteous dictator that Nigerians have ever known. But hypocrisy has shorts legs; it cannot ran fast and far without falling by the wayside. Despite the wicked attempts to vilify and demonise his memory, General Sani Abacha's record of performance was by far more credible and unassailable than Obasanjo's. Though he received the biggest oil revenue than any previous administrations, former President Obasanjo's performance was below average.[/s]

rubbish

[size=30pt]WHEN WILL YOU STOP THIS SH1T? FIRST YOU GO BY THE NAME OF AN EX MILITARY HEAD OF STATE. NOW YOU OPEN THIS FULL FLEDGED EFFRONTERY OF PURE BIASED LUST FOR ABACHA.
DO YOU THINK WE ARE ALL F00LS?
THIS IS HOW YOUR ABOKIS GO ABOUT DISTORTING FACTS TO MEET YOUR DAMNED FRUSTRATED POLITICAL AMBITIONS.
GET THE DEAD DICTATORS D1CK OUTTA UR MOUTH FOR GOD'S SAKE.
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homer

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this thread needs...

Richard A. Lovett in Timberline Lodge, Oregon
for National Geographic News
Published May 11, 2012

An as yet undiscovered planet might be orbiting at the dark fringes of the solar system, according to new research.

Too far out to be easily spotted by telescopes, the potential unseen planet appears to be making its presence felt by disturbing the orbits of so-called Kuiper belt objects, said Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

Kuiper belt objects are small icy bodies—including some dwarf planets—that lie beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Once considered the ninth planet in our system, the dwarf planet Pluto, for example, is one of the largest Kuiper belt objects, at about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) wide. Dozens of the other objects are hundreds of miles across, and more are being discovered every year.

(See "Three New 'Plutos'? Possible Dwarf Planets Found."

What's intriguing, Gomes said, is that, according to his new calculations, about a half dozen Kuiper belt objects—including the remote body known as Sedna—are in strange orbits compared to where they should be, based on existing solar system models. (Related: "Pluto Neighbor Gets Downsized."

The objects' unexpected orbits have a few possible explanations, said Gomes, who presented his findings Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Oregon.

"But I think the easiest one is a planetary-mass solar companion"—a planet that orbits very far out from the sun but that's massive enough to be having gravitational effects on Kuiper belt objects.

Mystery Planet a Captured Rogue?

For the new work, Gomes analyzed the orbits of 92 Kuiper belt objects, then compared his results to computer models of how the bodies should be distributed, with and without an additional planet.

If there's no distant world, Gomes concludes, the models don't produce the highly elongated orbits we see for six of the objects.

How big exactly the planetary body might be isn't clear, but there are a lot of possibilities, Gomes added.

Based on his calculations, Gomes thinks a Neptune-size world, about four times bigger than Earth, orbiting 140 billion miles (225 billion kilometers) away from the sun—about 1,500 times farther than Earth—would do the trick.

But so would a Mars-size object—roughly half Earth's size—in a highly elongated orbit that would occasionally bring the body sweeping to within 5 billion miles (8 billion kilometers) of the sun.

Gomes speculates that the mystery object could be a rogue planet that was kicked out of its own star system and later captured by the sun's gravity. (See "'Nomad' Planets More Common Than Thought, May Orbit Black Holes."

Or the putative planet could have formed closer to our sun, only to be cast outward by gravitational encounters with other planets.

However, actually finding such a world would be a challenge.

To begin with, the planet might be pretty dim. Also, Gomes's simulations don't give astronomers any clue as to where to point their telescopes—"it can be anywhere," he said.

No Smoking Gun

Other astronomers are intrigued but say they'll want a lot more proof before they're willing to agree that the solar system—again—has nine planets. (Also see "Record Nine-Planet Star System Discovered?"

"Obviously, finding another planet in the solar system is a big deal," said Rory Barnes, an astronomer at the University of Washington. But, he added, "I don't think he really has any evidence that suggests it is out there."

Instead, he added, Gomes "has laid out a way to determine how such a planet could sculpt parts of our solar system. So while, yes, the evidence doesn't exist yet, I thought the bigger point was that he showed us that there are ways to find that evidence."

Douglas Hamilton, an astronomer from the University of Maryland, agrees that the new findings are far from definitive.

"What he showed in his probability arguments is that it's slightly more likely. He doesn't have a smoking gun yet."

And Hal Levison, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, says he isn't sure what to make of Gomes's finding.

"It seems surprising to me that a [solar] companion as small as Neptune could have the effect he sees," Levison said.

But "I know Rodney, and I'm sure he did the calculations right."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120511-new-planet-solar-system-kuiper-belt-space-science/

[size=20pt]Today's Nigerians are getting more fooolish by the day. When these guys under the name M.A.D. (movement for advancement for democracy) purportedly hijacked an aircraft almost everyone back then knew they were working for Abacha in order to mud sling the main opposition party to his rule.

Why are we even discussing this 20yr old troll fail? [/size]

[size=40pt]RUBISH! These dudes were paid by Abacha regime to taint the democratic struggle so that the west will distant themselves from the opposition.[/size]