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Why Babangida removed me from power in 1985 – Buhari

  President Buhari Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari said 31 years ago he was removed from office because he was planning to purge the military hierarchy of corruption. Buhari, who has not spared the military even in his ongoing anti-corruption war, said senior military leaders, led by former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida and General Aliyu Gusau, removed him in August 1985, to save themselves from his wrath. (more…)

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‘Paris is a nightmare now. I lived in a world that no longer exists’ – Fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld

82-year-old Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld said this in a recent interview with CNN. The German-born designer who moved to Paris in 1950 to take up his first job under French fashion giant Pierre Balmain and has been at the helm of Chanel since 1983, said "Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliché anymore. This is not the most glamorous moment in Paris. I must say, in my whole life I never saw Paris that gloomy. It was another world. There was no feeling of danger, and not even a boy of 16 years old could walk in the street. Things are changing. I have the f