Northerners recall the Maitatsine riots in Kano in the early 1980s when naïve politicians and business people promoted Mohammed Marwa a charlatan from Cameroon whose bloody uprising was put down at the cost of more than 5 000 lives by troops commanded by Major Halilu Akilu later President Ibrahim Babangida's security chief...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Former President Ibrahim Babangida will continue to fascinate Nigerians and be blamed for sponsoring unrest if it seems that his own interests are threatened...
Ibrahim Babangida who was a major backer of Obasanjo's election campaign but who has since been given cause to fear the ongoing probes...
Ibrahim Babangida still reviled for annulling the 1993 elections looked less comfortable as well-wishers heaped accolades on Gen...
As his businesses flourished while Nigeria's political problems grew Danjuma became an increasingly acerbic critic of military rule telling a nervous Samuel Doe in Monrovia in 1990 not to overstay his welcome and excoriating President Ibrahim Babangida for failing to hand over to the civilians in 1992 as promised...
Vol 40 No 10 |
- WEST AFRICA
Ibrahim Babangida and a kingpin in Gen...
Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha...
Ibrahim Babangida and Gen...
Ibrahim Babangida’s regime) and the Chief of General Staff Vice-Admiral Mike Akhigbe...
Headquartered in Lagos then Abuja Ecowas was always seen by Francophone states as a Nigerian show despite the Francophile diplomacy of President Shehu Shagari General Ibrahim Babangida and latterly Gen...