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Nigeria

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB)

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


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The Pinochet factor

Ibrahim Babangida Presidents Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Jerry Rawlings whom they hold responsible for a range of human rights abuses over the past two decades...


Parties at work

Ibrahim Babangida's annulment of Yoruba (southwest) chieftain Moshood Abiola's June 1993 election victory (as it had privately promised) but in the eyes of the south-west it embarked upon a systematic project to marginalise the Yoruba from Nigeria's administration business and armed forces...


An exit for the militicians

Ibrahim Babangida which would have kept the military at political centre-stage as in ex-President Suharto's Indonesia (AC Vol 39 No 8 Living dangerously)...


A cardiac coup

Ibrahim Babangida (who at his funeral praised his old rival as ‘great leader') shows a closing of ranks at the top...


Living dangerously

Ibrahim Babangida got interested in the economic successes of Indonesia and other south Asian countries...


Troubling the waters

Y etObiangwasmuchclosertoGeneralSaniAbacha' s predecessor Ibrahim Babangida who visited Malabo in 1991 and according to insiders may still be pursuing oil interests in the country...


After Yar'Adua

Similarly Major Gideon Orkar's coup against Ibrahim Babangida's regime in 1990 won applause in the north until his clumsy broadcast proposing to excise Borno Kano and Sokoto states from the Federation...


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