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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), National Politics, Presidency
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has written to congratulate former President Ibrahim Babangida on the occasion of his 70th birthday which comes up tomorrow, August 17, 2011. In a letter to General Babangida, President Jonathan prayed that God Almighty will bless him with “many more years of robust health, prosperity and continued distinguished service to our nation”. […]
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Armed Forces, General Politics, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), National Politics, Presidency
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Until Saturday, July 9, 2011, when Tavershima Olayinka, Orkar, an architect, and second son of the late Major Gideon Gwadza Orkar, got married in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, not much had been heard of the family of the man who led one of the bloodiest revolts in Nigeria’s political history: the putsch against the General Ibrahim […]
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General Politics, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Presidency
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has condemned the idea of a constitution amendment that would guarantee a six-year single tenure for a president and governors. He said the idea was brought up in bad faith to “heat up the polity for no reason other than somebody is trying to be clever by half.” He […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency
Monday, July 4th, 2011
FORMER military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has admonished President Goodluck Jonathan not to derail from the promise of transformative leadership which he made during his presidential campaign, just as he condemned the arrest of former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el’Rufai, by security operatives. Babangida, in a statement made available to the Nigerian […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
ABUJA—FORMER Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, weekend, urged President Goodluck Jonathan to shed sentiments and imbibe statesmanlike traits in his handling of the increasing challenges against his government. Babangida said in a statement that the caution became necessary in the face of unnecessary distractions which aides and those he termed sycophants were causing for the […]
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House, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Legislature, Presidency
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Former Military President Ibrahim Babangida has commended the House of Representatives for jettisoning the zoning formula as dictated by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying the election of Speaker Tambuwal would check the culture of impunity and interference in legislative affairs by the Presidency. This came as the newly elected Speaker of the House, Rep […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Presidency
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Chief Tokunbo Ajasin, son of the former executive governor of the old Ondo State, Chief Michael Ajasin, has slammed the former military president, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (retd) for saying that power must return to the North in 2015. The chairman of Atayese, a Yoruba socio-cultural organisation and chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Former military president and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, General Ibrahim Babangida has expressed concern over the agitation for zoning of elective offices in the country, few weeks after the April polls. The former aspirant was one of those who insisted that the zoning of party and elective offices as entrenched in the PDP […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
HE Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said Tuesday that it has no plans to sanction former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, ex- minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma for anti-party activities. In a statement signed Tuesday by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali, the party was also not anticipating same for […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency, Top Stories
Friday, February 25th, 2011
There are very strong and reliable indications that the last may not have been heard of the presidential ambition of ex-military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, Saturday Sun can reveal. The adoption of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) may after all not have ended […]
