After a precipitate launching of his campaign on Facebook’s social networking site on 14 September (pre-empting General Ibrahim Babangida’s more formal announcement) President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan announced he would seek the PDP presidential nomination at a rally in Abuja on 18 September...
The PDP primaries pitting Jonathan from the Niger Delta against two northern candidates General Ibrahim Babangida and Atiku Abubakar are likely to be almost as hard fought as the final election...
Two rivals from northern Nigeria – former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida and ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar – have already announced that they will contest the ticket...
His main rival in the party - General Ibrahim Babangida - has provoked strong reactions among his foes old and new and his wealthy band of supporters...
Ex-military heads of state Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari would also like to be president...
Others said Danjuma has his own constituency in the military and is independent of groups backed by General Ibrahim Babangida and former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Ibrahim Babangida's in 1985 and Gen...
A veteran militician Mark moved seamlessly to become military Governor of Niger State and then Minister of Telecommunications in the Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida regimes in the 1980s...
Ibrahim Babangida and several Middle Eastern leaders on their finances has not informed the court whether he intends to appeal...
Vol 50 No 19 |
- ISRAEL
- AFRICA
The close ties between Israel and Nigeria on trade especially oil and security scarcely change whether the incumbent leader in Nigeria is Muslim (Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida) or stridently Christian (Gen...
