Hedonisco:

Will you shut up. Buhari did what? Bloody Buhari/APC apologist without common sense.

wisdom is too high for a fools,they must not open their mouth in the city gate[public gathering]
says the good book.

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.

Leave ''the whites'' out of it. It is YOU that does not ''recognize and respect Nigeria''.

Afterall Nigeria - now Africa's biggest economy - is far more developed and buoyant today than it was under Babangida or Shagari or Gowon that was Britain's houseboy during the war. When those guys were in power, cities like Awka, Osogbo, Uyo, Owerri, Abakaliki and even Abuja were glorified villages. Today they are booming cities filled with flyovers, expressways, stadia, airports, shiny hotels, and shopping malls.

deebrain:
Whenever I see and reminiscence the past honors Nigeria used to have, I fight back tears.

Interestingly, we had much honor in the military years than in democracy.

It has been steady decline since 1999. This present government seems to be the lowest. Like seriously. Nobody thought it could be worse that it was during the military years.

Under Army rule, things were worse than they are now.

Plus IBB being wined and dined by the West in 1989...had a lot to do with not letting the Soviets gain a foothold in Nigeria. If IBB had remained in power after 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed...the West would have called him names.

PoliticalWitch:




Under Army rule, things were worse than they are now.

Plus IBB being wined and dined by the West in 1989...had a lot to do with not letting the Soviets gain a foothold in Nigeria. If IBB had remained in power after 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed...the West would have called him names.

Don't mind these small kids who don't know what they are enjoying today.

When these guys were in power only a tiny minority had telephones. In fact one minister back then said openly that phones were ''not for the poor''. Back then you would travel from Benin or even Kaduna to Lagos to visit your brother, only to be told he has traveled overseas.

Today you can easily call first to make sure he's in Lagos before travelling all that way.

Nigeria has losted her self respect and dignity. No one respects us anymore and our leaders are not even ashamed of themselves.

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.

Where are they today? Life is vanity upon vanity.some of them are still alive but who cares.

Noel1:
I can see queen Elizabeth had a crush on Babangida

Every woman crushes on a Maradona

Tadwears2050:
God restore our lost Glory.

The glory that IBB destroyed himself.
Woe betide that bastard evil genius.

Rosskiki:


Don't mind these small kids who don't know what they are enjoying today.

When these guys were in power only a tiny minority had telephones. In fact one minister back then said openly that phones were ''not for the poor''. Back then you would travel from Benin or even Kaduna to Lagos to visit your brother, only to be told he has traveled overseas.

Today you can easily call first to make sure he's in Lagos before travelling all that way.

We all know that minister, senator David Mark, why you dey hide the name na?

All your points are valid but kids of today won't understand because they never witnessed it.

Hmmmmm...

Lost for words... even in all can we have this kind of respect from the west?? Or else where??

Wao wao wao!!!

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kjhova:


Please accept my guidance in good faith.

"the whites" as used rather so often in these parts is considered racist in more conscious societies. "The West" is a more appropriate term which best represent the idea you intended to pass.

Also, some of us who actually lived through the period highlighted in this article know that the West had no added respect for Nigeria in the 80's than they do now. All you see above is how the cold war era politics was played by all. I will recommend that you google about special hosting like this granted by the super powers to more despotic African rulers in that era.

Hehehe. They don't know. They taught it was done outta respect.

Wow, nice one, if the old men sees this, they will just smile, what a privilege they had during their tenure.

[s]quote author=naptu2 post=82708045]The sale of the tanks became controversial. Sometime around 1993, I listened to a question posed by a Labour member of Parliament to the British Prime Minister, John Major about those tanks. He asked how a Conservative government could have sold tanks to a military dictatorship in Nigeria and whether the prime minister was aware that those tanks were used to subvert democracy in a coup (I assume that he was referring to the 1992 SAP riots and the 1993 June 12 riots).[/quote][/s]

A dead country with a dead president voted by dead people. Anyone who believes that Nigeria would rise again is as dead as ever can be. For spilling the blood of the innocent,Nigeria will Never know peace.

....@ OP thanks for the pictorial history...

YolobaMuslim:
Boohary's visit in 2015

Aboki na aboki

Babangida has seen life and enjoyed life and the respect they have showed him in U.K is equally applicable to Nigerians,then not now,buhari is at the No10 waiting for them to open the door to him,the difference is clear...capish...all Generals can't control the same Order

iheartellah:
Look at how agile queen Elizabeth was.

.....
She is still agile. Walks by herself. Visit Queen Mother Victoria's grave, twice weekly, by herself, with her two spaniel dogs. She's 94yrs.
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Buhari barely even remembers anything, at 74yrs.

even the world is not what it used to be today. lucky dube said it once upon a time

PoliticalWitch:


Rumors, dear boy, rumors...

In fairness to IBB, he did set up NDLEA...which cleaned up things...and eventually made the US take us serious again....now we are no longer a transit hub for drugs. Instead it is now Guinea Bissau!

See as you made it sound like Maradona got into power and set up NDLEA - Buhari/Idiagbon already sent a strong message to the drug dealers in 1984 with death penalty which some of the victims' family & associates are yet to forgive him for.
IBB in his Maradonic way set up NDLEA in 1989 after four good years in power. He obviously had much bigger fish to fry at that point .