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- Babangida, Ibrahim 1941- . Nigerian
- politician and soldier, president from 1985.
- He became head of the Nigerian army in 1983
- and in 1985 led a coup against President
- Buhari, assuming the presidency himself.
- Babangida was born in Minna, Niger state; he
- trained at military schools in Nigeria and
- the UK. He became an instructor in the
- Nigerian Defence Academy and by 1983 had
- reached the rank of major general. In 1983,
- after taking part in the overthrow of
- President Shehu Shagari, he was made army
- commander-in-chief.
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