Ailing General Babangida Returns From Medical Treatment In Germany

Former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida has returned to the country after eight weeks medical treatment in a German hospital .

Sources tell NewsWireNGR that the general arrived Minna airport in Niger State at about 2.50 pm on Saturday in a chartered flight.

Babangida has been hospitalized in a German hospital for two months now after he was rushed to Germany from his hilltop mansion in Minna, Niger State.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who departed Nigeria for the annual United Nations General Assembly, paid a visit to the ailing general in Germany while he was away.

Babangida’s ailment relates to a chronic back ailment for which he earlier had surgery in Germany. Our source disclosed that Babangida is severely ill.

A friend of the former dictator downplayed the severity of the ailment saying he is “getting better.”