 Domestic goats are known to be stubborn animals. In a traditional African market, traders wield long sticks as a deterrent to market goats, which roam with the intention of stealing from unsuspecting sellers. No matter how hard the trader tries, the market goat keeps coming at its target. It is sleek, calculating and seemingly gentle, but is irredeemably destructive. It never stops to roam until it can carry out a stealth raid on its victim. Wise traders are never deceived by the meekness of this familiar animal that is capable of turning the day's gain into significant loss. The success of the goat in every market is simply remarkable, and it thrives on three elements of success.
 President Goodluck Jonathan, in denying that he had appealed to former dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, to withdraw from the 2011 presidential race, indicated that his horse whip for the Evil Genius would be to remind him of the callous annulment of June 12 elections 17 years ago with the popular theme: "Never Again, Babangida."
President Jonathan rebuked Babangida: “Since June 12, 1993, Nigerians have in successive elections become wiser. The next presidential elections, no matter who the candidates are, would sound a resonant Never Again!
“Never again shall the will of the Nigerian people be quashed underfoot by the vaunting ambitions of a few. This is what the President has promised Nigerians, and he is fully committed to delivering on this pledge.
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 In a bizarre and rambling text message, CEO of Africa Independent Television (AIT) Raymond Dokpesi, announced that he had accepted an offer to be the executive director of the sagging Ibrahim Babangida presidential campaign.
Dokpesi rambled on in his text message to close associates why his new assignment was necessary and why his new boss should be forgiven and given another chance to rule Nigeria.
He then signed off by apologizing to those the former military dictator might have offended, claiming that those decisions were collectively taken by the military.
T hough many Nigerians see his renewed bid for the country’s presidency as no more than a joke, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is serious and in fact desperate to rule Nigeria one more time.
For the journalists who honoured General Ibrahim Babangida’s invitation to attend an interactive session held in his famous hilltop residence in Minna, the Niger State capital, the overriding opinion was that Babangida had not been seen in such mood before in about 27 years of studying and reporting the toothy General’s complex personae.
 The News - Retired Colonel Gabriel Ajayi, a lawyer, who was tried, jailed (but later pardoned) for a phantom coup by the late General Sani Abacha regime, says General Ibrahim Babangida, having ruled the country as military president for eight years, is disqualified from contesting.
“During the military regime, there was constitution. The military did not operate martial law in Nigeria. If you go back to the speech of General Ironsi on 16 January, 1966, he said ‘suspension of certain parts of the constitution’. He also talked about the suspension of the provision of the constitution of the federation of Nigeria, relating to the office of the President [and] the establishment of the office of the Prime Minister. And subsequent military heads-of-state always re-echoed the suspension of the constitution and modification, not abolition of the constitution.
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 Those who thought the outrage over the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election had been doused may be far from the reality, as Nigerians were admonished to vehemently resist Ibrahim Babangida, the dictator responsible for the scuttling of the polls described as the freest and fairest in the history of the country.
At the public presentation of a book, Diary of a Debacle: Tracking Nigeria’s Failed Democratic Transition (1989-1994) in Lagos yesterday, former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and erstwhile governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu were among those who called on every Nigerian and lovers of Nigeria to keep up the spirit of the June 12, 1993 election alive.
THE leadership of the Southern Forum has given some conditions which former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, must fulfil to get the support of the West in the 2011 elections. The forum asked the dictator to produce in real life, the late Chief MKO Abiola and the late Mr. Dele Giwa whenever he was coming to the South West to launch his presidential campaign.
In an apparent fallout from the kickback-induced press coverage given to the dicator, Ibrahim Babangida, recently, some of the journalists involved have started recounting, rationalizing and attacking. One ridiculous attempt by Eze Anaba of Vanguard Newspapers is filled with many holes as he tried to explain each of media executives did not receive N10 million - while still failing to confess how much money he had collected from Babangida.
Eze Anaba - Vanguard, August 21, 2010 - I want to make this clear. This piece is not a defence neither is it an apology. At the end of the day it might turn out to be a clarification. Of course I am talking about the now famous trip to Minna by some media executives to chat with former Military President General Ibrahim Babangida. The trip has been made famous following allegations that the General gave the ‘malleable’ editors 10million Naira to support his presidential bid.
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Let's face it - we have all always suspected Ibrahim Babangida of being a drug dealer. The story of Gloria Okon, Dele Giwa's death, the burning of the Ministry of Defence and other stories are all allegedly tied to an official drug ring during IBB's regime. We researched the rumors, and this is what we found.
Nigeria's military dictatorship, led by General Ibrahim Babangida, annulled the Jun 12 presidential election and canceled plans to return the nation to civilian rule. 
Most Nigerian leaders have been corrupt, but Ibrahim Babangida added new, historic elements to corruption. One prime example is what he did with the defunct BCCI Bank. BCCI's activities in Nigeria were so profoundly, overwhelmingly corrupt as to suggest a very significant level of corruption in Nigerian officialdom generally. 
