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Military Presidentship of Nigeria from 1985 to 1993

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February 20, 2025

Ibrahim Babangida’s Autobiography: “A Journey In Service”

SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, IMMEDIATE PAST VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND BOOK REVIEWER OF FORMER PRESIDENT IBRAHIM BABANGIDA’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: “A JOURNEY IN SERVICE” AT TRANSCORP HILTON ABUJA ON THE 20TH OF FEBRUARY, 2025

 

 

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Babangida: A Journey in Service is an important book in many respects. First, it is not just the story of the remarkable journey of former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida from childhood to the highest levels of public service, it is the story or stories of a journey of a nation, our nation Nigeria, the Nigerian story, complex, sometimes unpredictable, sometimes stranger than fiction, but always fascinating.

 

Many of the key figures in this book and who shaped the history of our country are here with us today, and that tells another story, something truly unique about Nigeria: our ability to move beyond the past, no matter how bitter and adversarial our past relationships may be and come together.

 

Seated among us is General Yakubu Gowon, who became Nigeria’s Head of State at just 32 and led the country for nine years. His government was overthrown in 1975 by a

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Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim trained in the London School of Journalism and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). He worked in the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). Indeed, he was the director-general of both major media institutions, between 1989-1996. He also served as chairman of both the Triumph Publishing Company in Kano and the New Nigerian Newspaper, Kaduna. Now retired, he is the district head of Kanya Babba in Jigawa state, with the traditional title, Makaman Ringim.

 

You were born in Kanya Babba, can you take us back to that period?

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I was born in September 1941.There was no primary or elementary school at that time in Kanya Babba, so when I reached school age, I had to go to Babura, which was the headquarters of our district and is still the headquarters of our local government. That’s where I started my elementary school in 1948.

We finished in 1951 and took the common entrance examination to Kano Middle School, which is now Rumfa College. Out of seven of us, two were selected and we started the training.

It was a five-year programme, but when we got to class four, there was a change of educational system.

We took a common entrance examination to secondary schools and some of us went