Tag: Ibrahim Babangida
IBB @ 82: Gov. Bago describes IBB as a true nationalist
MINNA- Gov. Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger has described the former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida as a patriot and nationalist as he turns...
IBB’s family excited over renaming of NCWD centre after late matriarch
ABUJA- Former military president Ibrahim Babangida’s family has thanked the Federal Government’s decision to rename the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Abuja, after...
A half century of banditry in Nigeria, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Since well before Nigeria’s return to elective governance in 1999, the country has been overtaken by a progressive escalation of what Hannah Arendt in...
The fiction of an interim government, By Festus Adedayo
Some huge, evil men surround a big, black pot. It is apparent that a food is being cooked. The men strung round their waists...
Judicial coups: Lessons from IBB, By Calixthus Okoruwa
The years of military coups are now best forgotten by Nigerians. But they were years in which military adventurers turned Nigeria into one huge...
Atiku, Obi split ‘Owners of Nigeria’, By Farooq Kperogi
Ovation publisher Chief Dele Momodu popularised the expression “owners of Nigeria” to denote a coterie of power brokers and traffickers of influence who habitually...
The letter, the spirit, and The Letterman; By Azu Ishiekwene
If there was a prize for Nigeria’s number one letter writer, journalist-turned-lawyer and one-time minister, Tony Momoh, would appear to be the undisputed champion.
The...
“I have delivered more than 150 roads in Abia” – Gov....
By IHECHINYERE CHIGEMERI-UWOM
UMUAHIA- Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia says his administration has delivered more than 150 roads to the state in the past seven...
Abia @ 31: State Advisory Council hails govt’s long term dev’t...
By IHECHINYERE CHIGEMERI-UWOM
UMUAHIA- The Abia Advisory Council has commended the State Government for producing a Long Term Development Plan (2020 – 2050) for the...
IBB, an embodiment of patriotism -says Northern Govs Forum
By MARTHA AGAS
JOS- The Northern Governors Forum has described Nigeria’s former Military President, Rtd. Gen. Ibrahim Babangida as an embodiment of patriotism.
The chairman of...
Ogun governor mourns ex- IBB’s spokesperson Onabule
By YETUNDE FATUNGASE
ABEOKUTA- Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has expressed grief over the demise of Chief Duro Onabule, a veteran journalist and former Chief...
Babangida rumoured dead while receiving visitors
By GARBA MUHAMMAD, Kaduna
The rumour going the round in the country about the purported death of former Military President, Rtd General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida...
Politics, policies and governance in Nigeria, By Abiodun Komolafe
Of a truth, Nigeria’s major predicament is that those who occupy the driver’s seat in her public administration have masked their interest to appear...
Nigeria’s Former Finance Minister, Okongwu, Dies At 87
Dr. Chu SP Okongwu, Nigeria's former Finance Minister, has passed on.
According to reports, Okongwu died on Wednesday morning in Enugu.
He was aged 87.
He served...
Former Nigerian leader Ernest Shonekan dies at 85
Chief Ernest Shonekan, the former head of the Interim National Government that succeeded the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida, is dead.
Shonekan, a boardroom...
2023: Babangida makes case for Osinbajo
Former military president, retired Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is the best person to lead Nigeria in 2023.
Babangida expressed the view...
2023: Shelve Your Presidential Bid To Preserve Nigeria’s Corporate Existence –...
Tne National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu has been urged to set aside his presidential ambition in order to allow an...
Direct primary and controversial Electoral Act
It is curious that in their squabble over direct or other types of primaries, governors and National Assembly members have bickered only from the...
Why direct primary law would retard democracy
Imagine what happens when you chaperon a toddler arriving in the city (after a long spell growing up in the countryside), into a sweetshop,...
2023: Kano political, religious leaders assure Yahaya Bello of support
Some political and religious leaders from Kano State have assured Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi of their support in the upcoming 2023 general elections.
The...