Throwback to when Nigeria's Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha arrested his deputy, Gen. Oladipo Diya and others for an alleged 1997 coup and convicted them for treason and sentenced to death in April 1998. By June 8th 1998, Abacha died under mysterious circumstances. NTA News.

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