Politics

The June 12 before June 12: A trajectory of the Nigerian struggle, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf

On 23 June, 1994, business mogul and politician, Chief Moshood Abiola was illegally arrested. He was held in solitary confinement without trial for the next four years by the brutish, blood-thirsty, murderous and kleptomaniac administration of General Sani Abacha. This generated popular sentiments and struggles against military rule.