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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 ...
The recent reported crisis between the deputy governor of Niger State, Comrade Yakubu Garba and his boss, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has again brought to the fore the skirmishes that happen between sitting ...
A fortnight ago, the deity and oracle of Minna, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida came down from his sanctum on the Hill Top Mansion and sauntered into Abuja, the federal capital territory.
Despite his long absence from the epicentre of power, General Ibrahim Babangida remains a subject ... destroyed the house he had built with so much meticulous husbandry. He tried to ramble about ...
On February 20, General Ibrahim Babangida set out to prove an important ... If even a kindergarten library for pre-schoolers in Minna meant anything to him, he could have built one as far back ...
On February 20, General Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), set out to prove an ... If even a kindergarten library for pre-schoolers in Minna meant anything to him, he could have built one as far back ...
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, a master in the dark art and ... In an autobiography that has since gone viral, the Minna-born general tried to absolve himself of complicity in the greatest ...
General Ishola Williams, rtd, has revealed that it was Gen Ibrahim Babangida ... in my conversation with Gen Babangida, just before he stepped aside, one midnight in Minna, he could not answer ...
IBRAHIM Babangida ... In later years, they sustained Babangida’s warped sense of self-importance by trooping to his Minna residence to endorse their political ambitions such that the dictator ...
Ibrahim Babangida ... who addressed journalists in Minna on Tuesday, expressed outrage over Babangida’s claim that Vatsa’s killing was justified due to evidence implicating him in a coup.
Nigeria's former military ruler Ibrahim Badamasi ... talking-point of Babangida's presidency. "We were very close friends," Babangida recalls. "We had grown up together in Minna and had been ...