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The South West Coordinating office of Stand Up for Nigeria (SUN), a socio-political group, has held a solidarity rally across major parts of Lagos, reaffirming the Unity of Nigeria and the confidence of the Nigerian masses in President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari The members of SUN, which marched out in their thousands, distributed pamphlets across Ikeja, Opebi, Allen Avenue, Lagos State House of Assembly and the Lagos House, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s official residence to enlighten Nigerians on the need for the country’s unity. Speaking during the rally, South West Coordinator for SUN, Patriot Abiona Desmond insisted that the unity and continued existence of Nigeria is not negotiable contrary to those that have been dismissing our oneness with their bogus claims of a negotiable unity. Desmond described the tumultuous and massive crowd that turned up for the rally as a proof that the entire country remain united as one and behind President Buhari. The group also passed a vote of confidence on the President Buhari’s administration, saying his commitment to rid the country of corruption and ensure security of lives and properties are already yielding results. Desmond said the calls for restructuring of Nigeria have reached a strident point where just any person capable of expression has joined the clamour for restructuring. He said, “This is why we are today holding this march to not just add our voice to the discourse but to demonstrate our preparedness to back our position with action when the need arises. “For us, the demand for restructuring is a coded way of calling for the disintegration of Nigeria, which is why we rightly concluded that it is not the way to go. We have seen several groups and eminent persons hyping restructuring as if it is a cure all for all the things that are wrong with the country, whereas the main issues are not being addressed.” According to him, if the several ethnic nationals that make up Nigeria feel unfulfilled, it is because their leaders were corrupt, act with impunity and promote violence against their own ethnic stocks. He said, “Fortunately, these are the shortcomings that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been tackling head on. We have seen how endemic corruption became under the previous regimes. It was this satanic level of corruption that sustained the era of impunity. The attempt to either cover up the corruption or justify corrupt expenses was the driver for the rise and spread of insurgency. No wonder the crisis entrepreneurs have found a new pastime in calling for restructuring. “We are therefore urging Nigerians to look beyond the clamour for restructuring. We should, for a start, assess where we have been, where we are and where we want to be at any material time. This assessment is best done under a purposeful leadership which we are lucky to have under President Buhari who has strengthened our belief in the unity of this country in which our faith is unwavering. “There is no better response from us as conscientious Nigerians that to pass a vote of confidence in President Buhari. The vote of confidence should translate into more citizens’ support that will spur him on to do even more. When this happens, Mr President would be able to leave this country even more united than he met it.” Desmond said the group decided to pass a vote of confidence on the President because of his performance in office in the last one year which has seen Nigeria regaining its deserved respect in the comity of nations. According to him, “the President is doing well and would do more if we reduce the distraction, team up with him and believe in the greatness of Nigeria despite its current challenges.” Adding that “this is a task that must not be taken lightly because Mr President would only have to focus to perform better if these separatists and their sponsors stop distracting the nation with their childish demands.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/nigerias-unity-not-negotiable-group-backs-buhari/

very soon a cow will have more voting and social security rights than some tribes in Nigeria , all hail the giant of africa

satelliteDISH:
My brother, na so we all they see am ooh. Nah look we just dey look dey wait 2019. Bubu betrayed us.

How on earth will people vote the patron of fulani hersmen assoication (MACAB) and expect any thing different

ba7man:
Either way, Biafra was bound to starve......... either by rejection of food supplies or by stoppage of food supplies.

Why blame Nigeria for the inevitable??

I think the food part is a bit diversion from the original purpose of the thread which is to evaluate the consquences or the likely outcome of the war if Biafra had the weapons Nigeria had and Nigeria had the weapons biafra had., The use of starvation to end the war abruptly was from some people's point of view a confirmation of the military superiority of the Biafran Army over the Nigerian army which sustained more casualties from the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_Williams

Noted for his bravery under fire he served two tours of duty with the Biafran Army, rising to the rank of Major and was the last white mercenary to leave the country as secession ended.[1]

Williams found his Biafran troops to be completely different from those whom he commanded in Katanga. "I've seen a lot of Africans at war" he was quoted as saying But there's nobody to touch these people. Give me 10,000 Biafrans for six months, and we'll build an army that would be invincible on this continent
I've seen men die in this war who would have won the Victoria Cross in another context


Williams was assigned one hundred Biafran fighters in early 1968, and managed to keep two battalions of Chadian mercenaries serving with the Nigerian Federal Army at bay for twelve weeks with only antiquated weapons After Williams redeployed his forces in early April, the Chadians forded the Cross River at two locations, and captured Afikpo, a main town on the western side.[3]

Completing his first contract and following a brief stay in the UK, Williams returned to Biafra on 7 July 1968. He was assigned to the 4th Commando Brigade led by Lt. Col Rolf Steiner. Steiner had command of 3000 men, and was assigned to the area around the Enugu - Onitsha road. Williams, who liked to joke that he was "half-mad", would personally lead his troops into battle, sometimes standing in a hail of Federal gunfire, just to prove to his troops that he was indeed "bullet-proof". His resolve under fire would often unnerve the more superstitious of Nigerian soldiers and serve to rally his own.[4]

On 24 August 1968 Williams was drawn into a critical battle of the conflict. At this point, he had 1000 soldiers under his command which carried out counteroffensives against two battalion-sized enemy units attempting to cross the Imo River Bridge with Soviet military advisers. When Williams returned to Aba for additional ammunition to continue the fight, he was told that there was simply none to be had. The Nigerian Air Force had become quite successful in blocking supplies into the beleaguered state. Some of Williams' men had only two rounds left for their rifles and many were forced to withdraw.[5]

Following the arrest and expulsion of Steiner and four others, Major Williams was allegedly the only European still left serving with the Biafran army. He left the state shortly before its collapse. It is thought that Williams, who encountered author Frederick Forsyth there as a war correspondent, served as the inspiration for the character of Carlo Shannon in Forsyth's The Dogs of War (novel).[6]

RockHard:
If only Ojukwu had not lied and beat his chest to his people about his preparedness for the war, at least 3-million souls could have been spared and not died in vain over a war he lost and ended up cowardly abandoning. If only... If only... Too many if onlys..

Do you think the problem was from the leadership of Ojukwu or from lack of Ammunitions , here below is an independent verdict from a british , Taffy_Williams who served in the Biafran military as a mercenary , at no point did he blame the Ojukwu Leadership and his verdict can be seen as independet because his country supported Nigeria

Williams found his Biafran troops to be completely different from those whom he commanded in Katanga. "I've seen a lot of Africans at war" he was quoted as saying. "But there's nobody to touch these people. Give me 10,000 Biafrans for six months, and we'll build an army that would be invincible on this continent. I've seen men die in this war who would have won the Victoria Cross in another context"

MirabelArode:
OP is right,Biafra scares we yoruba musleeems like kilode!

this is my biggest problems with muslims in nigeria , why must they insist on living in the same country with infidels

did anyone notice this

For Lagos State, more than 70% of the manufacturing concerns and major industries in the State are owned by the Igbos. If the Igbos were to stop paying tax in Lagos State, the IGR of Lagos State will reduce by over 60%. In contrast, Sir, go to the South East and look at the manufacturing concerns in Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. Please don't forget those were areas ravaged by civil war a mere forty something years ago. The Igbos have certainly made tremendous progress but the Yoruba nation has regressed. I wish to state that this letter is not meant to whip up primordial considerations or ethnic sentiments but just to put things in proper perspective.

did anyone see this

For Lagos State, more than 70% of the manufacturing concerns and major industries in the State are owned by the Igbos. If the Igbos were to stop paying tax in Lagos State, the IGR of Lagos State will reduce by over 60%. In contrast, Sir, go to the South East and look at the manufacturing concerns in Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. Please don't forget those were areas ravaged by civil war a mere forty something years ago. The Igbos have certainly made tremendous progress but the Yoruba nation has regressed. I wish to state that this letter is not meant to whip up primordial considerations or ethnic sentiments but just to put things in proper perspective.

Allen97:
abeg its nobody's property... its a natural resources... dere father didnt put it der...

Dont you have natural resources , must you go after the one in your neighbours back yard .

God Please deliver us from the spirit of Hypocrisy

Only a Deranged and cursed Lunatic would go to war over another person's property

Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967

GenBuhari:
May the president return today hale and hearty.

May anybody who has planned evil against him have their evil rebound back to them.

Tell that to the families of unarmed soldiers that were shot dead by lunatics

idris93:
The presidency on Monday urged Nigerians to pray fervently for President Muhammadu Buhari as the country’s leader embarked on a 10-day trip abroad during which he would seek treatment for a persistent ear infection.
see more.................
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/204782-nigerians-pray-president-buhari-presidency.html

Be specific , are you asking wailers to pray for the president or the Zombies who believe that he is not sick to pray for him , as much as i can remember there were wailing wailers and the 5 % and their were lying liers and the zombies

Goke7:
Nigeria can never divide in peace, we keep deceiving ourselves in this country. How can you suddenly wake up suddenly in a place you have been living and working all your life and then you will be asked to procure work or residential permit. Most of us saying nigeria will divide are just emotional and not objective. I advise all to read on south sudan who became a country in 2011 and have been fighting civil war since 2013 till today with millions of displaced people in a so called new independent country.

Our main problem is to have a moral code with which to conduct our affairs as a country, if you like create regions, its still the same politicians that will be in charge of the regions and they still will continue to steal all our money whether 13%, 50% or 100% derivation or what have of you.

We are morally bankrupt as a nation and until we fixed that, we are joking.

if soviet Union broke up without much fanfare , then what is Nigeria that the country can not easily be divided for prosterity sake, i think some people still have reason to think we are still in 1960 where countries are bound to remain one as long as the colonial powers want , but all thas changed so much that even the colonial powers them selves are breaking up into smaller countries , Soviet union has broken up , United kindom will follow suit

ABUJA – Presidency Thursday refuted claims in some quarters that president Mohammadu Buhari canceled his trip to Ogoniland, Rivers State for the commencement oil spillage clean up exercise in the region. It rather stated that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo represented the president at the occasion. It will be recalled that the presidential movement to the oil rich land had been widely publicized that even the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on the eve of the trip on Wednesday made a broadcast, calling for calm and support for the president. But at the eleventh hour Wednesday night after his advanced team had arrived Ogoniland, the president detailed his deputy to perform the ritual. But responding to enquiries by Vanguard on why the president failed to appear in person, his Special Adviser on media and publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina said that he was represented at the event by his deputy. “We all went to school. There is a difference between cancellation and being represented by someone. The president did not cancel his trip to Ogoniland. He was represented by the Vice President”, Adesina said.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/buhari-didnt-cancel-trip-ogoniland-presidency/

queencalipso:
Nawah oo!!! God help us in this nation. Why kill the soldiers na? I don't support the taking of lives o!! One life is more precious than a dozen pipelines.

They can bomb all the pipelines for all I care but do not take lives. Abeg! Ejor! Biko nu!! No taking of lives.

it is really a pity how soldiers life are wasted theses days , but wait a minute , is the life of a soldier more important than the life of an unarme protester.

When soldiers feel the heat the might value the life of an unarmed protester more.

Cant ipob for once get sense ??

Does Nigeria have a military , if yes the useless miltary headquarters should be taken to bakassi penisular

this is good and should be encouraged

Legitbaba:
So sad...just heard the news on Nigeriainfo Fm pH.....please the police is always your friend...

Tell that to unarmed protesters

let us watch and see

respect80:
I'm happy for my guy but @op you identified him as an igbo man now but when it's an injury headline or any other bad news he becomes Nigerian striker abi

I identified him as igbo because all his life he has always been igbo, Nigeria contributed nothing to the making of this young man in fact his parents might have been a victim of Nigeria's inhuman attitude of using hunger to starve the innocent and if he was in Nigeria there are chances that quota system, Fulani herdsmen or unprofessional military men would have wasted his Career and destiny

I think God has favorably favored the igbos, coupled with their never say no attitude and mindset igbos are set to rule the world in coming years . Every metrics is pointing towards the direction that igbos will be a race to contend with in the next 5 to 10 years in every facet of the world endeavor.

Please discuss

What can we make out of this, are igbos going to rule the world of sports the same way they were declared the most intelligent black race and the among the most intelligent races in the world.