Governor Fashola said he decided to use the facility available at the hospital to check on the sports injury he picked up a few weeks back because, having commissioned it a few months ago, he was confident that he would get the best treatment.

The kleptomaniac Abacha, despite the massive corruption that characterised his regime but thanks to his chronic sickness and the international sanction imposed on his regime, has the National Hospital, Abuja as a remarkable legacy of the Abacha era.

Seun:

And his sickness killed him.

mikeansy:

But Yar'adua was Governor for 8 years and built nothing in Katsina to take care of him

I am with Fashola on this one.

Afam:

And where on earth did you get this information from?

Seun:

What killed Abacha?

Afam:

You tell me. This is the first time I am reading from someone that he died of sickness so I need you to educate me on this.

Seun:

You're the one correcting me. What do you believe killed him?

mikeansy:

no one is sure yet of what killed Abacha except members of his inner circles

He looked sick and pale in his last days but his death was not as a direct result of his illness

Some claim he died on top of a woman and used excessive steroids, others claim he was poisoned by the Bamayi's of this world after the league of generals got tired of his leadership style.

I think the truth about his death will be a subject for History students to study in 50years time.

Detailed information has been made available on his death, yes it had to do with a woman (his former girlfriend) who was given spiked viagra by a general who didn't know of the plot to kill him and not the Indian women story that the media fed Nigerians.

Seun:

Can you point me to the source of this "detailed information"?  It's not on wikipedia.

Afam:

On Abacha

Detailed information has been made available on his death, yes it had to do with a woman (his former girlfriend) who was given spiked viagra by a general who didn't know of the plot to kill him and not the Indian women story that the media fed Nigerians.

There was never any talk about Abacha dying of any sickness and that is my point in raising the question on this thread.

pcicero:

I don't know how old some folks were at that time. I wasn't much old then but i was always reading TELL then.
There was an OAU conference in 1997 and they had this picture of Sani Abacha there as pale as death. Then the news broke out that he had liver cirrhosis

pcicero:
I don't know how old some folks were at that time. I wasn't much old then but i was always reading TELL then.
There was an OAU conference in 1997 and they had this picture of Sani Abacha there as pale as death. Then the news broke out that he had liver cirrhosis

I thought the issue was whether he died of sickness or not. I am missing something?

Seun:

Generally, when a person who is seriously sick (liver/heart/kidney disease) dies,
it makes sense to assume he/she died of the serious sickness unless otherwise proven.

Epiphany:

I remember the time Atiku had a sprain on his ankle or something and had to leave the country to get it checked. For God's sake, we are talking of an ankle sprain here and not some complicated brain surgery or something. Are they trying to tell us that our doctors - even the very recent graduate doctors do not know how to treat a sprained ankle?

Kobojunkie:

First, those Nigerian facilities need to be improved. I had a cousin die at the same LASUTH  only a year ago. He only came in complaining of a fever.