Biography and profile of President and General Sani Abacha. President of Nigeria 1993 to 1998.

General Sani abacha was the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998. He led a very controversial regime and was lambasted for widespread human rights abuse and an immense looting of the country's resources and treasury. He was a Nigerian army general and a politician.

• Gender: Male
• Marital status: Married
• Name of spouse Mariam Abacha
• State of origin: Borno state
• Profession: Soldier, former President and commander-in-chief of the Republic of Nigeria between 1993 and 1998

Previous appointments

• Commissioned second lieutenant, Nigerian army, 1963, promoted lieutenant 1966, captain 1967, served as the pratunam Battalion commander who was in the training department and in a second Infantry division, promoted to major in 1969 and Lieutenant Colonel in April 1972, General staff officer grade 2, second  Infantry division.
• Battery commander and Brigade commander and assistant quartermaster- General of the second division, general staff officer grade 1 one in the Nigerian army school of infantry.
• Commanding officer of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, former director of the army training units, Commander of the 9th mechanised brigade.
• Promoted to Colonel 1975 and Brigadier 1980
• General officer commanding II mechanized division 1984 to 1985
• Promoted major General 1984
• Army chief of staff and member of the Armed Forces ruling council August 1985, Lieutenant-General October 1987
• Member of the National Institute 1981

Early Schooling

City Senior Primary School in Kano State, provincial secondary school in Kano state 1957 to 1962. Nigerian military training college Kaduna 1962 to 1963, Defence Officers Cadet Training College Aldershot United Kingdom January to November 1963. School of Infantry MONS 1964. Passed Staff College 1976 

Abacha's administration oversaw ECOMOG  military successes in West Africa that promoted Nigeria's military profile. The Nigerian Federal Government revealed that Mr Abacha watched over an increase in the country's foreign exchange reserves from $494 million in the year of 1993 to over $9.6 billion by the  middle of 1997, he's administration reduce the external debt of Nigeria from $36 billion in 1993 to $27 billion in 1997.

The Federal Government archives also noted that Mr Abacha had dismantled many of the controversial privatisation efforts of the  previous administration of Babangida. Present a badger also reduced the inflation rates that was at 54% inherited from the previous babangida administration to 8.5% between 1993 and 1998, All this while the country's primary export and commodity was oil and averaged $9 per barrel.  Mr Abacha’s administration was also noted with creating one of the most well thought out and imaginative blueprint for Nigeria's development through vision 2010 committee chaired by his predecessor Ernest Shonekan.

• Born September 1943 in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria
• Died June 8th 1998
• Number of male children 7
• Number of female children 3