The following dramatis personae have key roles in events scrutinised by the Oputa Panel: General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Niger State) Nicknamed 'Maradona' for his political survival skills Babangida was Head of State from August 1995 to August 1993...
London's underlying fear is that former military leader Ibrahim Babangida's bid for the presidency could divert President Olusegun Obasanjo's government from much-needed political and economic reforms...
That doesn't mean a coup is imminent though - still less that the long arm of former President Ibrahim Babangida had been pushing Malu to challenge Obasanjo as some of the country's livelier newspapers suggest...
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- WEST AFRICA
Ibrahim Babangida take up energetically the cause of his fellow northerners in pursuit of his own ambitions for a political comeback...
) Salihu Ibrahim (from Kogi) respected army chief under President Ibrahim Babangida is tipped to succeed him...
A more worrying explanation is that the CBN bought back the notes probably during the military regimes of Generals Ibrahim Babangida or Sani Abacha and then gave or on-sold them to favoured allies of the regime who would still be drawing interest on the notes...
Ibrahim Babangida's military regime and so was not subjected to parliamentary scrutiny...
The scheme was run from the Central Bank of Nigeria between 1988 and 1993 while General Ibrahim Babangida was President...
Last December Museveni and Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed a peace agreement in Nairobi under the auspices of ex-United States President Jimmy Carter (and behind-the-scenes pressure from Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's envoy ex-President Ibrahim Babangida)...
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...
