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I Was Depressed To Watch Vatsa Die The Way He Did – IBB

Daily Dispatch May 31, 2025

I (Excerpt from ‘A Journey in Service’ by General Ibrahim Babangida) WHAT has come to be known as the Vatsa Coup occurred within the first few months of the administration. It began life first as a series of rumours. I heard through multiple sources that my childhood friend and long-time

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Babangida’s Long Journey to Sorry

Daily Dispatch February 27, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene 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 […]

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IBB justifies why Vasta, nine others were summarily executed

Daily Dispatch February 22, 2025

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 […]

By admitting M.K.O won June 12 election, IBB showed unusual courage and patriotism – Tinubu

Daily Dispatch February 20, 2025

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday in Abuja, said former President Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida showed unusual courage and patriotism by admitting that late M.K.O. Abiola won the June 12 election in 1993. The President, who was the Special Guest of Honour at the launch of Babangida’s autobiography, ” A Journey in Service,” and the fundraising […]

IBB reveals actual winner June 12, 1993 Presidential election

Daily Dispatch February 20, 2025

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida [IBB] has made a significant disclosure that verged on the validation of the outcome of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election. He took three opportunity of the public presentation of his autobiography to confirm that the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, who had, up until now, […]

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A Journey In Service’: IBB’s autobiography ready for launch

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2025

Former Military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) is set to launch his long-awaited autobiography. The memoir entitled: ‘A Journey In Service’, will be released on February 20, 2025, at the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, according to a report by Daily Trust. The development is coming 32 years after IBB left office. […]