Madibah:



A confirm dictator

Leave them..the country wasn't eazy den ,but the country was just respected

HaryoBamex:
When the going was good for us as a nation...

This was when the whites recognized and respected Nigeria, not now...

NIGERIA, which way na.

I weep for Nigeria o.

AmazingELixir:


Good old days when Nigerian's reputation abroad was almost pristine and unblotted by herdsmen, boko haram, yahoo Yahoo, kidnapping and the ilks.

Meanwhile this picture of Prince Charles and Diana speaks volume of the silent feud in their marriage, Diana particularly might be eying her Arabian born billionaire boyfriend while prince Charles resigned himself to fate with his forlorn appearance.

If my memory serves me right the last time a Nigerian president visited that country was when a certain herdsman developed hearing problems and the Queen was like I can't coman waste my time on someone that can't hear very well from a fantastically corrupt country

naptu2:
President Ibrahim Babangida’s State Visit To Britain In 1989 (Photos, Video and Memories)

There have been 3 state visits by Nigerian heads of state to the United Kingdom. The first state visit occurred in June 1973, when General Yakubu Gowon paid a state visit, the second was in March 1981 when President Shagari visited and the last state visit was in May 1989, when General Ibrahim Babangida paid a 4-day state visit to Great Britain. The third visit is the subject of this thread.

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Relations between Nigeria and the United Kingdom had been poor during the administration of General Muhammadu Buhari. The Nigerian Government attempted to kidnap the former Nigerian minister of transport, Alhaji Umaru Dikko, who had been accused of corruption and whom Britain refused to extradite to Nigeria, in 1984. Britain subsequently detained a Nigerian Airways plane at Stanstead Airport and Nigeria detained a British Caledonian Airways plane at the Murtala Muhammad Airport in Lagos. The standoff lasted for 2 days. These incidents greatly damaged relations between the British Government and the administration of Major General Muhammadu Buhari.

Relations greatly improved when General Ibrahim Babangida took over. The British company, Vickers-Armstrong, developed a main battle tank that they hoped to sell to the British Army. The tank was called the Vickers MK3. However, the British Army chose to go with the Challenger Tank Project and the British Government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was assisting Vickers to search for buyers. Nigeria was one of the biggest buyers of the tank. Over 136 Vickers MK Eagle tanks were delivered to Nigeria between 1985 and 1995, in a deal that was struck between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ibrahim Babangida.

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Mrs Thatcher visited Nigeria in January 1988. Students of the University of Ife and members of the Nigerian Labour Congress protested during her visit because Mrs Thatcher had called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, because she was close to Pieter Botha (the hated prime minister of South Africa) and also because of her support for IMF policies in Nigeria.

President Ibrahim Babangida paid a state visit to Britain in 1989 and Mrs Thatcher paid a stopover visit to Lagos in March of that same year. Prince Philip also visited Nigeria that year and he laid the foundation stone of the Muson Centre in Onikan during the visit.

Finally, Prince Charles and Princess Diana visited Nigeria in 1990 (you can see my thread about the Prince and Princess’ visit here https://www.nairaland.com/2424327/prince-charles-princess-diana-nigeria ).

The pictures on this thread are from Gregnwoko.com (http://www.gregnwoko.com/1989-05-09-diana-greets-president-ibrahim-babangida-of-nigeria-at-victoria-station-while-the-queen-looks-on/), Alamy pictures (https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-politics-state-visit-to-britain-president-babangida-buckingham-palace-107845465.html), Getty Images and Shutterstock.

Tina26:
we have lost that respect

HaryoBamex:
When the going was good for us as a nation...

This was when the whites recognized and respected Nigeria, not now...

NIGERIA, which way na.

I weep for Nigeria o.

YolobaMuslim:
Boohary's visit in 2015

HaryoBamex:
When the going was good for us as a nation...

This was when the whites recognized and respected Nigeria, not now...

NIGERIA, which way na.

I weep for Nigeria o.

Tonnyray:
Why won't they welcome and be smiling with him?
This was one of the major points when they completely sold and compromised NIGERIA and NIGERIA's future.
IBB was the poster boy for the West to implement deplorable economic policies to totally devalue our naira in favour of their currencies,
destroy every fragment of manufacturing and enterprise to facilitate the invasion of NIGERIA with their manufactured goods.. all in exchange for perpetuation of IBB's dictatorial vice-like grip on the reigns of power. Mobutu Sese Seko was another one.. single handedly destroyed Congo (Zaire then).
Those imperialists are cursed. Any African leader you see smiling with them has sold you. The ones that reolutely and uncompromisingly stand for their own are blacklisted on CNN, BBC and all their other organs of propaganda and taken out using sponsored uprisings or coups or assassinations. Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Murtala Muhammed etc readily come to mind.

osuofia2:

SO WHO MADE BUBU TO MAKE OUR NAIRA 360 TO A DOLLAR?

YolobaMuslim:
Boohary's visit in 2015