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 ...

Discover Nigeria’s top 10 wealthiest politicians in 2025, exploring their net worth, business interests, and influence in ...

Chapter Eight reminds Nigerians about the era of the Evil Genius, Military President Ibrahim Babangida, who midwifed an elongated transition programme that was deliberately designed to fail.

Unable to reach Abacha, he got his son, Ibrahim, who later went ... that IBB had his “boys” also, in the Army. As an armoured corps officer, Babangida was reputed for his gallantry during ...

Apart from the picture of the author, not in uniform, such as we find in Dan Agbese’s biography of Babangida – Ibrahim Babangida: The Military, Politics and Power in Nigeria, (2014 ...

Ibrahim Badamosi ... Gen. Babangida in a 440-page memoir, “A Journey in Service,” unveiled last month had alleged that Gen. Abacha and his “force” in the military were responsible for ...

The family of late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, has dismissed former military President Gen. Ibrahim Babangida’s claim that their patriarch was responsible for the annulment of the June 12 ...

“Ibrahim Babangida – the Military, Politics and Power in Nigeria”. In the book, I saw a brilliant and ambitious young man on a personal odyssey manipulating people and religion as cat paw ...

On February 20, General Ibrahim Babangida set out ... As I wrote in May 2016—reproduced last week—Babangida is no different from his ruthless military hero, Shaka Zulu. Of the June 12 election ...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, speaks with ISMAEEL UTHMAN on why former military ruler, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), should be prosecuted for the human rights violations and political ...

General Ishola Williams, rtd, has revealed that it was Gen Ibrahim ... the Nigerian Army during the military years, contradicts the disclosure the former military head of state, Babangida made ...