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Abacha murder trial adjourned to 10 December

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    A Lagos court adjourned the murder trial of Mohammed Abacha, son of Nigeria’s late military ruler General Sani Abacha, to 10 December and remanded him and four co-defendants to a maximum security prison, according to news reports on Wednesday.

    The five were charged on 14 October with conspiracy and murder for the June 1996 killing of Kudiratu Abiola. She was the wife of Moshood Abiola, who was widely considered to have won a presidential poll held under army rule on 12 June, 1993, but then annulled by the military.

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