To borrow a hackneyed phrase, Nigeria has had a chequered political
history before and since independence from British colonial rule on
October 1, 1960. Two sets of actors - the civilian politicians and
the military politicians - have been on the national political
stage since January 15, 1966. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida
was one of them. In his eight years in power as president, or
perhaps more correctly as military president, he affected the
course of Nigeria's events, for better or for worse, in a way that
few, if any, before him did. It is not possible to tell Nigeria's
story without Babangida's part in it. The book is the story of IBB,
the little orphan from Minna, Niger State and his meticulous rise
to the top of his profession and the leadership of his country.
Perhaps, more importantly, it is the story of Nigeria, its
post-independence politics and power, told from the perspective of
the actions and decisions of one of the main actors on the
country's political stage. The events that shaped the Babangida era
did not begin on August 27, 1985, the day he staged a palace coup
against General Muhammadu Buhari. They began long before that. This
book is the definitive story of the military, politics and power in
Nigeria. ______________________________ Dan Agbese holds degrees in
mass communications and journalism from the University of Lagos and
Columbia University, New York, respectively. He is a former editor
of The Nigeria Standard, the New Nigerian as well as former general
manager of Radio Benue. Agbese was one of the founders of the
trail-blazing weekly newsmagazine in Nigeria, Newswatch. He was
until April 2010 the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine. He is the
author of several acclaimed books, including Nigeria their Nigeria,
Fellow Nigerians, The Reporter's Companion, Style: A Guide to Good
Writing and The Columnist's Companion: The Art and Craft of Column
Writing. Agbese is also a highly-regarded newspaper columnist.
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