Nigeria, Feb. 24 -- It was a gathering of Nigeria's creme de la creme in Abuja last week, on Thursday, 20th of February, when the country's former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd.), launched his autobiography, A Journey in Service, and also the fundraising for his presidential library. That event has since provoked public interest in the Babangida epoch, which spanned eight years, from 27 August 1985 to 26 August 1993.

The 420-page memoir chronicles, among other issues, his account of the controversial annulment of the 12 June, 1993 presidential election (popularly referred to as June 12), won by Chief MKO Abiola, and the assassination of the Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch Magazine, Mr Dele Giwa. The latter was ...