All Eyes On Me

In All Eyes On Me, Haldu Hananiya, a retired Major General, renders an account of what transpired in the failed attempt to abduct the late Alhaji Umaru Dikko from London in 1984, when he (Hananiya) was the Nigerian High Commissioner in the
United Kingdom. Hananiya also confirms that The Guardian story (about him which led to the imprisonment of Messrs Nduka Irabor and Tunde Thompson by the Buhari-Idiagbon regime was indeed accurate and that the journalists were punished not for any professional infraction but rather for the embarrassment the information leakage caused the federal military government at the time.

As Commander and Inspector of Army Engineers during the Cement Armada scandal in the seventies, the author gives us first-hand insights about how his acrimonious relationship with then Brigadier General Olusegun Obasanjo led him into trouble. Apart from detailing his glamorous career in the Nigerian army, Hananiya’s book also highlights the critical role that military engineers played during the civil war when they led in opening new routes, dismantling mines, and constructing bridges so that the fighting troops could move without hindrance. In All Eyes on Me, readers can glimpse fragments of Nigerian history.