LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, has broken the ice on the viral speculations that he, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, former National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Gusau, and chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, are the big masqueraders behind Labour Party’s presidential…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), has endorsed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to contest for the office of president come 2023 general elections. He described Osinbajo as a personality the nation should look up to for leadership. General Babangida disclosed this yesterday when a pressure group, Osinbajo Grassroots Organisation (OGO), paid…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Momoh was appointed Minister of Information and Culture by General Ibrahim Babangida, holding this position from September 1986 until 1990. He was Chairman of the African Conference of Information Ministers from 1988 to 1990. In 1983 the editor of Newswatch, Dele Giwa, was detained for a week by police for publishing what…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Senate President, David Mark on Sunday visited former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida at his Hill Top residence in Minna shortly after online reports surfaced with rumours of his death. On the former Senate president’s entourage was a former military administrator of Kogi state, Col Tunde Ogbeha. The duo arrived the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Formermilitary president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has weighed in on the controversial Hate Speech Bill, saying nobody can Muzzle Nigerians and deny them freedom of speech. General Babangida pointed out that there was even no basis for the bill which has passed the second reading in the Senate insisting that no one…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ibrahim Babangida, former military ruler has decided to throw his weight behind Abubakar Atku after emerging as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate in the concluded party presidential election. Babangida who had earlier declared his support for Bukola Saraki, President of the 8th Senate, backed down when his preferred aspirant could not…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWRANGERS)-Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday met with former military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, famously known as IBB. The meeting between the leadership of the former ruling party and Babangida took place at the latter’s Hilltop Mansion in Minna, Niger State. In a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The media aide to former military President Ibrahim Babangida, Kassim Afegbua, says his life is now in danger, following the receipt of series of unknown phone calls from people threatening him and his family. Afegbua had been visiting offices of the Nigerian Police and the Directorate of State Department (DSS) since he…