Radio Kudirat: How fearless activists ran secret radio to torment Abacha’s oppressive regime

The annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP, Moshood Abiola, unleashed a chain of events that did affect every Nigerian. The events turned worse when military head of state, Gen Sani Abacha arrested and jailed Abiola in 1994 on charges of treason for declaring himself winner of the election.

While Abiola was in jail, several activists and journalists who refused to do the bidding of the government launched sustain...