The annulment of Nigeria's June 12, 1993, presidential election remains one of the most controversial events in the nation's ...

Former Foreign Affairs Minister and chieftain of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), Alhaji Sule Lamido, has offered a gripping insider account of the final days of General Ibrahim Babangida’s ...

AS a young reporter in the early 90s, I grew up in the newsroom hearing the phrase ‘IBB Boys’. These were young soldiers loyal to the former Military President, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who ruled ...

Shehu Sani (born October 29, 1967) is a prominent Nigerian politician, human rights activist, author, playwright, and poet ...

Every medieval society had a hierarchy and Irish society before the Anglo-Norman invasion was no different. A tantalising glimpse of that society is contained in the Book of Leinster, which is to ...

Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has revealed that he directly asked former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd), to step down after the annulment of the 1993 presidential ...

Malcolm X—who would be very proud of Ibrahim Traore, the Pan-African president of Burkina Faso—would have been 100 years yesterday. Toward the end of his life, Malcolm, a great Pan-African, had also ...

“My Father’s Shadow” is set on a pivotal day for Nigeria, when Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, who took power in a coup, refuses to accept the results of a democratic election. On this ...

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Yet the festive spirit tips over into violence when the election is annulled by military dictator Ibrahim Babangida. The chaos and heightened tensions take on a disorientating quality for the ...

You know that we made a turn in 1986, when General Ibrahim Babangida introduced Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). The escapism that was inherent in SAP was that you could move away from ...