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General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB)

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


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Kanu's lobbyists for Biafra step up campaign

After the civil war ended in 1970 Israel reinforced military and diplomatic cooperation with the victorious federal government in Nigeria providing security and intelligence assistance to successive northern Muslim leaders including Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida...


Grand corruption wrecks Niger delta clean-up

1990 – August – The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) submits the Ogoni Bill of Rights to General Ibrahim Babangida's military government demanding regional autonomy...


Consensus candidate plan upsets the frontrunners

PDP leaders backed by northern stalwarts such as Sadiq Ango Abdullahi and former military leader Gen Ibrahim Babangida voted for former President of the Senate Bukola Saraki and governor of Bauchi State Bala Mohammed as two 'consensus candidates' for the party's presidential ticket...


In search of flagbearers

Instead the contenders will mainly be drawn from those who came to national prominence after General Ibrahim Babangida's annulling of the presidential elections in 1993...


Rage at the gates

1992: The military regime under General Ibrahim Babangida sets up the first SARS unit with that name under the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department in the NPF...

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Generals on the run

As military governor of Sokoto State under Ibrahim Babangida's regime Magashi also belonged to the 'kitchen cabinet' of the dictator Sani Abacha commanding the Brigade of Guards Abacha's personal protection unit...


Executive exerts its privilege

The other executive insider will be the new Defence Minister Major-General Bashir Salihi Magashi a lawyer and former commander of the Brigade of Guards who held senior posts in the military juntas of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha (AC Vol 60 No 15 The Gang of 43 breaks cover)...


The Gang of 43 breaks cover

These include retired general Bashir Salihi Magashi (Kano 70) whose last stint in government was thirty years ago as military governor of Sokoto State during General Ibrahim Babangida's regime...

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