Nearly 20 years ago, while stumping for his party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, out-going president, Olusegun Obasanjo, decided to confront head-on morbid rumours about the health of his hand-picked successor. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, then governor of Katsina State and the president’s man for the job, was said to be...
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida
Nigeria’s democracy and its federalist architecture face two critical challenges. First is how to elect governors that are sufficiently literate and enlightened to understand the rudiments and responsibilities of governance. The second and perhaps more important challenge is how to get state governors to understand that democracy is only...
When in February 2025 Babangida released his long awaited memoir, A Journey in Service, the book launch at the Congress Hall, Abuja Hilton Hotel, was filled beyond capacity. A combined team of the military and secret police had a hard time for several hours managing access and controlling the...
Niger State Governor, farmer Mohammed Umaru Bago has showered encomium on Nigeria’s former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), on his 85th birthday. The Farmer Governor in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Bologi Ibrahim, described the celebrant as an elder statesman, visionary, patriotic, dogged, and...
Who will restore Warri back to its glorious days? A city that was once the pride of all Wafarians, is now a shadow of itself, rusty and reeking with aroma of poverty occasioned by systemic decline with people cocooned in deprivation and squalor. Warri is allusively known as Wafi,...
A former campaigner for Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) Presidency, Lady Jemila Dorcas Sule, announced on Sunday the formation of an all-women group called ‘Coalition of Women for Tinubu Presidency’ , with her as Convener, to galvanize the support of women and women groups for the present administration of President...