Talk:Ibrahim Babangida

Bias? WP:NPOV?
"His administration embezzled over $12.5 billion during the gulf war from the oil 'windfall' money."

"His cunningly pleasing manners and rhetoric which won the hearts of many at first, was later unmasked."

I think the author's bias is too overtly shown —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.205.8.2 (talk • contribs) 10:30, 19 May 2006.


 * I concur. The author also contradicts. The author calmed that over $12.5 billion was embezzled then admits that there is lack of evidence to support this. Why say it in the first place if there is no evidence? It is a biased to say Babangida was disgraced out of power. That shows subjective rather then objective writing. I am aware that in Nigeria allegations/rumors considerable number of time have truth to it (I lived there for a decade), however this is not a place for personal feelings or rumors or allegations, readers want high quality literary work and writers should stick to that rule. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zoldello (talk • contribs) 22:48, 20 May 2006.

"On the political front, Babangida proved far more adept at accommodating and manipulating public opinion than Buhari or any other Nigerian military ruler before or since. Wherever possible he preferred to buy off opposition, only resorting to outright force on the rare occasions when opposition could neither be bought off nor ignored." I tried to edit it but in reality I am not really interested. The article seems to focus on IBB as a president which is central but I would also have liked more focus on his rise also. He was involved in the civil war and a powerful member of two major ruling coucils. Reasons I included controversy: I felt it was not complete a little bit narrow even though i do agree on most of the assertions, also words like "eliminating the middle class" did not help.

Confusing statement
The article says that
 * "On July 6, 1993, the NDSC issued an ultimatum to the NDSC to join an interim government..."

What is intended here? Molinari 21:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite
This biography needs to rewritten from scratch. It's an absolute mess since the anonymous IPs started edit-warring over it. I'm an Australian so I have no preconceived biases at all and I'm looking for another neutral person who has a basic grasp of Nigerian history to help me. --  Netsnipe  (Talk)  23:59, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Section on Coup | Political Assassinations
In "Eventually, he perpetuated one of the worst human right abuses and lots of unresolved political assassinations."

I have deleted this "and lots of unresolved political assassinations". Looking through a list of "some cases of unresolved political assassinations in Nigeria (1986-1999), most happened after Babangida had left power with one major case during his regime - Dele Giwa. Mesh22 (talk) 04:46, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Interesting link

 * http://www.nairaland.com/863111/confession-boko-haram-member-turned

"The following year, March 5, 1987 to be very precise, the “Evil Genius” General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida secretly armed us through one of his close aids by the name of Captain Hassan Abubakar (now a Pastor with a fast growing church in Lagos). We went to go and kill some targeted Christians including Rev. Nuhu Kure (Throne room founder) after the destruction we committed at the College of Education in Kafanchan, Kaduna State (North Central Nigeria). And of recent, I was the leader of the team of soldiers of Allah that destroyed Church buildings and properties in Bornu State (northern Nigeria)."

"Who will arrest him? Is it Goodluck or who? Even when we provided the proofs to them that IBB killed Dele Giwa and that he sponsored the burning and looting of the Jos main market (Terminus) and also planted the seed of the present crises in Plateau State in 1991, they refused to arrest him because he is very cunning in his evil ways. He leaves no trace of his evil deeds, but nemesis will soon catch up with him because the sardonic spirit in him will soon expire."

Rollback.

I don't see any evidence that http://www.nairaland.com is biased or fake. Please provide your evidence Mesh22. I would be very interested to know. Thankyou Thepigdog (talk) 02:34, 27 April 2015 (UTC)


 * An online forum does not count as a reliable source. I followed the nairland link and tried to find the referenced source material, "the book Unveiling Islam/Boko Haram by Blessed Usman, JP" and nowhere can I find this book. The origin seems to be a Facebook post and that is also not a reliable source. Thanks Mesh22 (talk) 08:11, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 18:43, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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