FORMER Nigerian military ruler Ibrahim Babangida ordered the October 1986 killing of journalist Dele Giwa, a lawyer for his family told a rights panel. Giwa, the editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine, died when a parcel bomb exploded as he opened it. Babangida seized power in a coup in 1985 and ran the country until 1993. The panel was set up last year to look into human rights abuses committed since Nigeria’s first military coup in 1966. – AFP