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Nigeria

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB)

Date of Birth: 17 August 1941
Place of Birth: Minna, Niger State


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Murder, pillage, scandal

The big political question is whether two of his predecessors - General Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993) and Gen...


Who's who in the military plots

The following dramatis personae have key roles in events scrutinised by the Oputa Panel: General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Niger State) Nicknamed 'Maradona' for his political survival skills Babangida was Head of State from August 1995 to August 1993...


The Blair mission

London's underlying fear is that former military leader Ibrahim Babangida's bid for the presidency could divert President Olusegun Obasanjo's government from much-needed political and economic reforms...


Exit top brass

That doesn't mean a coup is imminent though - still less that the long arm of former President Ibrahim Babangida had been pushing Malu to challenge Obasanjo as some of the country's livelier newspapers suggest...


The centre isn't holding

Ibrahim Babangida take up energetically the cause of his fellow northerners in pursuit of his own ambitions for a political comeback...


The new securocrats

) Salihu Ibrahim (from Kogi) respected army chief under President Ibrahim Babangida is tipped to succeed him...


Promises, promises

A more worrying explanation is that the CBN bought back the notes probably during the military regimes of Generals Ibrahim Babangida or Sani Abacha and then gave or on-sold them to favoured allies of the regime who would still be drawing interest on the notes...


King Oil, again

Ibrahim Babangida's military regime and so was not subjected to parliamentary scrutiny...


Offshore, offside

The scheme was run from the Central Bank of Nigeria between 1988 and 1993 while General Ibrahim Babangida was President...


Other infernos

Last December Museveni and Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed a peace agreement in Nairobi under the auspices of ex-United States President Jimmy Carter (and behind-the-scenes pressure from Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's envoy ex-President Ibrahim Babangida)...


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