The mercurial Murtala Muhammed practically got bumped off, even before he started ruling. Even IBB, if ever so coyly, admitted that Murtala’s impatient reforms, marked by giddy purges “with immediate ...

While he reigned as military president, IBB was called Maradona, after the famous Argentine footballer, Diego Maradona, a gifted dribbler, who used his hand (he called it the hand of god) to score a ...