Alhaji Lekan Abiola, one of the sons of the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola —winner of the annulled 12 June 1993 presidential election — on Thursday revealed that former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), has apologised to the family for invalidating the election. During the MKO Abiola Memorial Symposium and the unveiling of the forthcoming book, MKO Abiola: …

Maryam Abacha, widow of Nigeria’s former military ruler, General Sani Abacha, who died in office on 8 June 1998, has challenged the assertions in a recent autobiography by her husband’s immediate predecessor, General Ibrahim Babangida that the late Head of State orchestrated the 12 June 1993 election annulment, which was won by Chief Moshood Abiola Also read: 12 June: How Abacha planned …

Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) continues to face criticism following the launch of his autobiography, A Journey in Service, particularly over his role in annulling the historic 12 June 1993 presidential election. During a radio programme, Public Conscience, produced by the Progressive Impact Organisation for Community Development (PRIMORG), on Wednesday in Abuja, the Executive Director, Mr. Okhiria Agbonsuremi …

Since Thursday when his autobiography, A Journey In Service, was launched, former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has taken center-stage of national attention. The autobiography reminds me of James Hadley Chase’s Make the Corpse Walk. It is the story of eccentric millionaire, Kester Weidmann, who in his weirdest best, believed money could buy everything, life and death inclusive. So, one …

It’s been Babangida this, Babangida that, since last Thursday, 20 February Abuja, when the Evil Genius himself ‘spilled’ almost what many people had known or suspected about several happenstances during his tenure as self-proclaimed military President. Self-proclaimed president because his military colleagues before him were content to be called military Head of State since they were not elected by the …

You cannot quarrel about how a man tells his story. It is his business. However, the pseudo-autobiography of the former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, is more than the retired general telling a story of his own life. A Journey in Service is a long, tortuous journey to penitence, which arrives at its destination, if it does at all, leaving its …

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has called on President Bola Tinubu to prosecute former military head of state Ibrahim Babangida after he admitted truncating the 12 June 1993 election victory of Moshood Abiola. In a statement on Friday, the CDHR president, Debo Adeniran, said Mr Babangida’s annulment of the election led to the loss of lives …

Recent revelations from Aliko Dangote at General Ibrahim Babangida’s book launch, along with Prince Arthur Eze’s own testimony have once again exposed the deep-seated inequalities that have long defined Nigeria’s economic and political landscape. Dangote openly admitted: ‘He (Babangida) called us into a room and gave us banking licences… He asked us to pay one million (Naira) each for oil …

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday in Abuja, said that former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) showed unusual courage and patriotism by admitting that Chief Moshood Abiola won the 12 June 1993 presidential election. President Tinubu, who was the Special Guest of Honour at the launch of Babangida’s autobiography, A Journey in Service, and the fundraising for the IBB Presidential …

Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida has blamed the annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election on his Chief of Defence Staff, General Sani Abacha, who was to die in office as Head of State on 8 June 1998. In his memoir, A Journey in Service, launched in Abuja on Thursday, Babangida said that he was in Katsina when …