As against the adulatory descriptions of IBB such as “evil genius” and “Maradona”, Babangida in his book “A Journey in Service” portrayed himself as a faint-hearted soldier who could not go against the wishes of his lieutenants to avoid a bloody coup.
This is the same soldier who quelled the Dimka coup in 1976, engineered the overthrow of Shagari administration in 1983, enthroned Buhari as head of state and in 1985 staged a coup against the same Buhari.
I think IBB initially had no interest in writing a memoir. He was clearly inspired by the fact that he had outlived most of the actors who helped his regime annull the June 12 presidential election.
From Abacha (who led the anti-June 12 forces), Augustus Aikhomu (who directed his press secretary Nduka Irabor to announce June 12 annulment without IBB’s knowledge), Arthur Nzeribe (whose unregistered Association from Better Nigeria secured a court order to stop the election), Justice Dahiru Saleh (who annulled the election) to Attorney-General of the Federation Clement Akpambo (who insisted that the illegal order must be respected), are all dead.
I wonder why a military dictator who executed his close friend and best man at his wedding, Mamman Vatsa, for allegedly planning a coup, executed Gideon Okar after a failed coup, locked up 13 political godfathers, including his boss Maj-General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, for hijacking NRC and SDP primaries, failed to act when anti-June 12 forces truncated the transition.
BREAKING: Mordechai Brafman, 28, a pro-Israel fanatic, fired 17 shots at a father and son in Miami Beach, injuring both. Believing he had killed them, he smiled and told police, “I killed two Palestinians.”
Where was he radicalized? And where are the congressional hearings to address this rising hate against Palestinians and Arabs?
Let me put figure to this VAT proposed formular and see how it is.
Take, for example, the following states
generates the below as VAT for a particular month.
Kano = N30b
Lagos = N100b
Rivers = N80b
Total = N210b
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Today marks a historic occasion. By seizing control of Hamilton Hall, students at Columbia University have anchored in historical memory the nexus between the horrors inflicted in Vietnam that was the hallmark of my generation with the horrors inflicted in Gaza that is the hallmark of the new generation. It is testament to the majesty of these young people that they have risked their futures for the sake of a poor, powerless people halfway around the world in order to uphold that sacred principle that every life is worthy and the murder of none shall pass in silence. As Abraham Lincoln famously quoted, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." The right of the people of Gaza to live is an eternal truth. May the young soldiers in Hamilton Hall be honored and blessed for not countenancing, come what may, its extinguishment.