If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
