Tag: Ambassador Babagana Kingibe

‘Nigerias unity negotiable’ Kingibe

Aminu Imam

Nigerias envoy to Chad and the Lake Chad basin region, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, says the unity of the country is negotiable. Speaking at a newspapers award ceremony in Lagos on Saturday, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), said even the union between a husband and wife is negotiable. However, he cautioned the separatist agitators that the land they reside in would not be carved out and taken to anywhere else if the country breaks up. I was born in Nigeria; I was groomed in Nigeria. I…

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“I was fired for refusing to give Kingibe a $2m “handshake”, – Ex-NIA DG

Aminu Imam

Says successor eyeing $44m special fund   The immediate past Acting Director-General, (D-G) of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA) Ambassador Mohammed Dauda, has revealed that he was sacked for failing to pay Head of the President Buhari-appointed review panel on the NIA, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe $2 million as bribe. According to an on-line news platform, Pointblanknews, Dauda alleged that Kingibe, a former foreign affairs minister and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), had, aside several monetary demands, pointedly asked him to pay the $2 million as protection money, which he…

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