…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…

…of 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 Genera…

…presidential 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 S…

…University, 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…

…appointment 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, Tra…

…said the 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.”…

…Grand 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 governme…

…debate: 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 proc…

…President 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 pr…