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Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida

August 16, 2025

Governor Bago salutes ex-military dictator IBB at 84

Governor Mohammed Umaru-Bago has saluted former military dictator Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, as he turns 84 on Sunday.

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida
April 5, 2024

OBITUARY: IBB associate Abimbola Davis who instigated June 12 election annulment is dead

A strategist and military apologist, Mr Davis had revealed in several media interviews how Mr Babangida set the stage for the annulment of the 1993 election.

Abimbola Davis
October 19, 2021

Before Boko Haram, Babangida’s regime started state-sponsored bombings: Falana

Mr Falana said Dele Giwa’s brutal assassination marked the beginning of bombing in Nigeria by the government.

August 16, 2021

IBB justifies June 12 annulment, says “I did the right thing”

Mr Babangida said the late dictator, Sani Abacha, hijacked power because the political elites said they were tired of elections.

IBB and MKO
August 6, 2021

Adebanjo to IBB: Stop dribbling, tell Buhari to convene national dialogue

“We call him Maradona. Let him come out straight. I can’t be dribbled. He is a dribbler. I know Babangida,” Mr Adebanjo said of the infamous ex-dictator.

Ayo Adebanjo, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, and President Muhammadu Buhari
August 6, 2021

I believe in Nigeria, but other Nigerians are unpatriotic: IBB

Notorious ex-military dictator Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has lambasted other Nigerians as unpatriotic, claiming he believes in Nigeria’s future.