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  • IBB recounts near-death war experience with ‘ogbunigwe’ in eastern Nigeria

    Former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has recounted a civil war experience that nearly took his life after his command, 82 Battalion, came under heavy bombardment from Biafran forces on March 27, 1969. IBB stated that the Biafran artillery began an uninterrupted bombardment of their positions, noting that not even Nigerian troops’ aggressive…

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  • Why IBB executed childhood friend Mamman Vatsa, 9 other coup plotters

    Former military president Ibrahim Babangida has justified why his boyhood friend and classmate, Mamman Jiya Vatsa, and nine other top military officers, who were accused of plotting to overthrow him, were summarily executed in March 1986. General Babangida’s version of the killing of Vatsa and nine other coup plotters is contained in his autobiography entitled…

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  • Nigerians should reject IBB’s effort to rewrite Nigeria’s political history

    Nigerians should reject IBB’s effort to rewrite Nigeria’s political history

    Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida’s attempt to rewrite history regarding the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election has sparked widespread reactions, with Dr. Joe Odumakin, President of the Centre for Change, strongly condemning the move. Speaking in response to Babangida’s remarks at the launch of his autobiography, Odumakin accused the former leader…

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