…the elder brother of Isma’il Ishaq, a 24-year-old final-year student of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State, who was killed by a stray bullet from military personnel during a land dispute, speaks with AYOOLA OLASUPO about the death of his younger brother, how it has left a painful void in the fami…

…recognising those who shaped the state's history.Abacha’s family releases statement over Babangida’s claim Meanwhile, Legit.ng also eported that the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, issued an official statement over the claim that their father was responsible for the annulment of the June 12 elect…

…Congress (NDC), Ibrahim Usman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Suleiman Munir Babangida of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and Salisu Suleiman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In Kaduna South, incumbent Senator Sunday Marshal Katung of the APC is facing challengers including Godfrey Ali Gaiya of the ADC,…

…intervention by the Niger State Government to end the ongoing strike at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, which he said had entered its second week and left thousands of students at home. He warned that failure to resolve the dispute could force the association to mobilise students across the North-Central…

…sustained gunshot wounds. On 26 August 2026, troops rescued two female captives at Hayin Babangida in Igabi LGA of Kaduna State. However, a male farmer abducted in the same incident was tragically found dead from gunshot wounds before he could be rescued. In related operations, troops disrupted arms trafficking and kid…

…election was deemed an aberration. In his memoir A Journey in Service, General Ibrahim Babangida wrote, “Abiola, a southern Muslim, defied conventional wisdom by picking another Muslim as his running mate for the June 12 presidential election.” Babangida’s comment confirms there was, indeed, such conventional wisdom. S…

…when the escalator reversed itself and started moving downwards. By the time Buhari and Babangida came to power, the price of crude had dived below $10 per barrel. But, the nation meanwhile had developed an appetite that only $18 to $20 crude could satisfy. By 1986, we were a debtor nation. Today, we are again living w…

…Chief Moshood Abiola after its annulment by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida. Momodu was also active in the pro-democracy struggle at the time, having worked for Abiola’s presidential campaign before the annulment. He was later detained over his support for the June 12 cause. When the late General S…

…candidate, Donald Duke, has recounted how former military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, allegedly warned former President Olusegun Obasanjo against trusting his then deputy, Atiku Abubakar, during political tensions ahead of the 2003 presidential election. Duke’s account is contained in a new book by Seun Oloketuyi…

…Uturu, Abia State 52. Hensard University, Toru-Orua, Bayelsa State 53. Ibrahim Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State 54. Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State 55. Imo State University, Owerri, Imo State 56. Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State 57. Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe University, Ogboko, Im…

…capital market operators Photo: SECWas Named in the SEC DirectiveThe six individuals are Babangida Muhammed Adamu Hammajam, Abdullahi Umar Usman, Ibrahim Abubakar, Adamu Chiroma, Muktar Muhammad Adamu and Yakubu Ogirima Ibrahim. The three entities are Nine to Nine BDC Ltd, Generation Currency BDC Ltd and Abbal Bako & S…

…the prolonged power outage," he said. Also speaking on behalf of the residents, Alhaji Babangida Aliyu Mika Mika, a community representative and former Special Adviser to the Executive Chairman of Yorro Local Government Area, described the situation as increasingly unbearable. Mika said the faulty transformer was parti…

…It described the inclusion of its presidential candidate, Sandy Onor, and running mate, Babangida Umar, on INEC’s published list as a significant step in its preparations for the 2027 polls. Read more here: https://punchng.com/2027-inec-listing-silences-doubters-wike-pdp-insists/ Canada tightens work permit rules for f…

…as Minister of Finance under the administration of former military President Ibrahim Babangida. Before joining the Federal Executive Council, he had built an outstanding career in the federal civil service, rising to the rank of Permanent Secretary and serving in strategic ministries, including Finance, Trade and Natio…

…public life, expressing gratitude to former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, for appointing him Military Governor of Benue and Gongola states, saying the opportunity shaped his career in public service. He also thanked former President Olusegun Obasanjo for supporting the actualisation of the man…

…a former Senate president, filed the action alongside former Niger State Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, ex-Information Minister Jerry Gana, former PDP Deputy National Chairman Olabode George, ex-Women Affairs Ministers Maryam Ciroma and Zainab Maina, BoT member Dame Esther Uduehi, and the PDP itself as the eighth plai…

…conference was convened to interrogate what SAP, introduced in July 1986 by the Ibrahim Babangida military administration, had actually achieved. Igbuzor said 40 years after its introduction, “SAP has not achieved its objectives. The major thing it has done is that it has increased market economy in Nigeria.” He argued…

…achieved," he said. Earlier, in his welcome address, the Director-General of KASEDA, Dr. Babangida Kabir Ruma, pledged to build an institution that delivers measurable results. "The responsibility entrusted to us goes beyond programme implementation. It is a responsibility to build an institution that inspires confiden…

…dead. He died on the way to hospital. "I was at my place of work when a friend of mine, Babangida, called me on phone and asked me to come to the hospital because my younger brother was dead. On arrival, I checked his body and saw where he was stabbed in the stomach. "Malam was someone who never quarreled with others.…

Muktar Muhammad Adamu Babangida Muhammed Adamu Hammajam Abdullahi Umar Usman Ibrahim Abubakar Adamu Chiroma Yakubu Ogirima Ibrahim The four Nigeria-based money service businesses and BDCs designated as owned or controlled by the listed individuals are: Generation Currency Bureau De Change Limited Manhattan Bureau De Ch…

…Commander of the Federal Republic GCFR. It is instructive that former President Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) whose government could not conclude the June 12 election agreed some 3 decades later that the election was won by Chief Abiola. At a book launch in 2025, Babangida reversed the previous position of his government whi…

…What constitutes national security? This question gained currency during the Ibrahim Babangida regime. Defense experts and intellectuals have long submitted that national security is not the security of the president; it is the security of Nigerians. It is not measured by the armaments a government defence procures, bu…

…Tinubu what Obasanjo told the then self-styled evil genius and Maradona, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, that reforms must have a human face! Tinubu's faux pas on stable power supply I will now address an issue that must have embarrassed the President to no end: The statement he made when campaigning to occupy his present offi…

…President Adolphus Wabara; BoT Secretary and former Governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu; former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana; and PDP chieftain, Olabode George, as 1st to 4th plaintiffs. Others include former Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Maryam Ciroma; another former Minister of Women Affai…