Biafra

30,000 active combatants with a handful of volunteers and mercenaries.

Nigerian Federal forces

250,000 active regular combatants supported by military advisers from USSR, UK, Egyptian and Pakistan pilots and combatants plus an unknown number of Chadian mercs.


Total Military Casualties

100,000 dead.

If every single one of the 30,000 Biafran soldiers was killed in action that leaves a whopping 70,000 dead federal soldiers.


The kill ratio was 2- 10. That is assuming at least a 60% casualty figure on the Biafran side, there would be at least 18,000 KIAs with 12,000 surviving the war.

Consequently, we are left with 86,000 dead niggerians.


Now if you consider that the fighting force was overwhelmingly in favour of the Niggerians, 3 to 25, you will see this figure of 86000 killed Niggerians as a remarkable feat.

Outgunned 3 to 25 with no air and naval power plus no excess world war 2 weapons from UK and Russia, the Biafrans fought gallantly.

compton11:
see this one,those idol worshippers that have Muslim doesn't mean they are praying solah,they just have same as many northern Christians have Muslims name,concerning the Islam of north u said,u people hypocrite is worst on earth,it is in north we will see a Hausa Muslims kill another Muslims because of politics, not only that bringing harlots into House and still praying,the Islam of north is filled with hypocrite.

Don't you Muslims worship and revere a stone housed in a cube?

Acidosis:


Protest or religious processions?

The Shiite processions are held annually in solidarity to Palestinians and to enlighten Muslims in northern Nigeria of Israeli occupation of Palestine and Jerusalem, hence Al Qud day or Jerusalem day.

I know for a fact that Israeli jew rats are the main architects of the Shiite clampdown through the crypto Jews in Saudi Arabia aka Yehuda Arabia.

Buhari's stupidity is legendary and that is why the Jews are manipulating the goat like a puppet.

Acidosis:


Protest or religious processions?

No. The shiites blocked the road to protest Killing of their members by Sunnis over disputes that arose over leadership of a mosque in Zaria.

Unfortunately for them that brute, Buruntai was on his way to Zaria.

This is the origins or rather excuses by the FG to clampdown on Shiites.

SmartMugu:
Some people still practice this in 2019?

And what of the fool's that still adhere to that medieval Arab pagan religion called Islam?

Acidosis:


No, it shouldn't continue. But note that deliberately blocking roads meant for public transportation and intense traffic congestion due to heavy movements by religious tourists are not the same.


I've seen some supposed educated folks compare Lagos-Mowe congestion with Oro festivals or Friday prayers on expressways. Such comparisons are senseless and shouldn't be heard from a literate mind.

Then why do you support Buhari's massacre on shiites when they blocked a section of the Zaria -Kaduna Road to protest Killing of their members by Sunni bastards?

Ibnjurayj:


Point of correction they only have Islamic Names but they’ve automatically left Islam since they worship idols. No one can be idol worshipper and call himself a Muslim except they repent. They are just mushrikeen (polytheists) ponbele.

Islam is also an idolatrty religion


If not, why do Muslims revere the black stone in mecca?

They pray facing towards it and do an annual ritual of visiting that shrine.

Islam is paganism! Even the god of Islam - Allah, is an Arabic pagan goddess - Aliat. This explains why the moon is both symbolic in Islamic worship and rites and also why the moon crescent and a star are symbols of islam

xyz123456:
Nonsense. If Muslims starts now, they will say their own too much

Muslims in northern Nigeria have been known to attack non-Muslims for not observing Ramadan fast.

The denial of Christ by Peter was a prophetic rendition of the three false churches that will arise before the second coming of Christ.

The Orthodox, Protestant and evangelical churches.

Peter was ordained by Christ as the head of His Church.

Christ warned Peter of the Devil's plan to infiltrate and pollute the Church.

This idiot does not know what it signifies for one to give one's life to Christ. She can rant and insult St Leah all she likes.

Leah is now in the bosom of our Lord.

Insurgent Political Strategy

To gain the support (or at least the acquiescence) of the people, insurgents may apply a combination of persuasion, subversion and coercion.
• Persuasion will often involve the promotion of insurgent ideology, but it can also include the provision of money, basic social services, control of land, or positions of authority. Insurgents may appeal to the self-interest of constituencies through alliances with political parties, tribal leaders, ethnic or religious groups, warlords, organized crime networks, and local bandits. To do so, they will exploit societal trends and popular grievances or needs, manipulating elements of religious, tribal, ethnic or local identity that resonate with some subset of the target population. These trends do not necessarily have to be linked directly to the ideology of insurgent leaders to be exploited by them in the mobilization of support. Such partnerships may exacerbate localized conflict, perpetuate instability and help mobilize support for the insurgency. Propaganda is a key element of persuasion and is used at the local, national and often international levels to influence perceptions of potential supporters, opinion leaders, and opponents in the favor of the insurgents; promoting the insurgent cause and diminishing the government’s resolve. More specifically, propaganda may be designed to control community action, discredit government action, provoke overreaction by security forces, or exacerbate sectarian tension.
• Subversion is the action used by insurgents to penetrate, manipulate, undermine or disrupt government institutions and organizations. At the same time, insurgents may exploit competing power structures, such as tribal hierarchies, clerical authorities or criminal networks that challenge the authority and reach of control of the central government. In doing so, the insurgents seek to ‘out administer’ the local authorities. Clearly, these techniques will be particularly effective in areas where government services are weak or absent.
• Coercion can either augment or replace persuasion as a means to mobilize support, depending on the ability of government forces to protect the population. Insurgents seek to intimidate government supporters or collaborators, and force community leaders to take sides in the conflict. This often entails the use of violence as follows:
– Insurgents can use violence to intimidate or eliminate those who oppose their aims. In particular, insurgent attacks against government infrastructure and personnel will undermine the government’s morale, confidence and capability, weakening its authority and control over affected areas;
– This effect is magnified by the depiction of such violence in propaganda, portraying the government as weak and the insurgents as strong, and exacerbating local grievances. Propaganda is sometimes the primary aim of insurgent violence;
– Targeting members of different ethnic or sectarian groups may engender a sense of social identity, solidarity and alienation from the government;
– By creating violent instability, insurgents may be able to encourage people to turn to them in preference to the government to ‘restore’ public order;
– If insurgents can provoke excessive government action against a population, then death, injury, mistreatment, or dishonor can become a powerful motivator for retributive action against the government.

Trans-National Dynamics

Most insurgencies need a physical safe haven, and may find it in neighboring countries. Moreover, contemporary insurgencies are often supported or driven by transnational networks with access to satellite communications, the Internet, global media and transnational banking systems. International support may be leveraged from diaspora or émigré communities, international institutions, friendly foreign governments and populations, or the international media. If other countries give support to the affected government, the insurgents may directly target public opinion there, pressuring them to cease their assistance. Such pressure may be exerted from the affected territory through the kidnap, torture and murder of intervening civilian nationals, often broadcast internationally to reach the population of origin. Alternatively, more direct effect may be achieved through terrorist attacks launched within the intervening country itself (perhaps facilitated by immigrant or other sympathetic community groups). Policy makers must therefore take into account regional and global dynamics as well as the internal situation of the nation most directly affected.

Funding

To fund their activities, insurgents may foster an illicit economy, sometimes of international scope, eluding government monitoring, taxation and interdiction. Such illicit financial activities diminish government revenues, increase corruption among local officials, and weaken the control and legitimacy of the government. Criminal activities may include theft, extortion, trafficking (of narcotics, arms and people), money laundering, piracy, document fraud, bribery, kidnapping and black market activity. These funding streams will often drive insurgents into alliances of convenience with organized crime. In some cases, long-standing insurgencies morph into gangs or organized criminal networks that are motivated by profit and economic self-interest, rather than ideology. Funding may also be obtained through donations from sympathetic foreign governments, diaspora groups and individuals. Such funding streams may be simple and direct or complex and masked dependent on the efforts being taken internationally to interdict them. In extreme cases, funding may be channeled through a third party organization purportedly conducting charitable work.

Building Networks

Insurgents require supporters, recruits, safe havens, money, supplies, weapons and intelligence on government actions. A robust insurgency can be waged with the support of just a small percentage of a given population. From the remaining majority, insurgents require only compliance (acquiescence or inaction). The position of an active individual within an insurgent network will be determined by the combination of a number of factors including:
• The level of respect and trust they hold within a community;
• Their reputation established through previous insurgent actions;
• Their degree of motivation, ideological or otherwise;
• Their perceived loyalty to other network members;
• Their level of expertise in a particular field;
• Their access to resources, human or otherwise;
• The degree of risk they are prepared to accept.
Insurgent networks provide life support for the movements they support, but they also entail vulnerability. Command and support networks establish lines between isolated cells whose operational security may otherwise be impeccable. Some key functions may be deliverable only by individuals with dubious loyalty, for example criminal smugglers enabling logistics supply or personnel movement. Modern information infrastructure including mobile phones and the internet provide means of rapid communications and networking between insurgents, but are also open to exploitation. The most secure insurgent networks involve small numbers of active personnel who are trustworthy and employ tight operational security. However, the insurgent dilemma is that in order to promote the insurgency and exploit success, these small networks have to expand, exposing themselves to action by government security forces. Effective interdiction can lead to a cycle of expansion and contraction of insurgent networks as security and trust is repeatedly built up and then lost.

During the Twentieth Century, insurgents were often motivated by Marxism, religion or nationalism (or a combination of these). Insurgencies were often led by university educated ‘intellectual elites’ whose personal circumstances were sometimes far removed from those of the rank-and-file insurgents that they inspired. Modern insurgencies are often more complex matrices of irregular actors with widely differing goals. At least some of the principal actors will be motivated by a form of ideology (or at least will claim to be), but that ideology will not necessarily extend across the whole insurgent network. Modern insurgencies are typified by the points below:
• The charisma of insurgent leaders can sometimes be more important than ideology in convincing others to join their movement
Some insurgent actors will be more interested in financial reward than ideology. This applies from the unemployed youth getting paid to fight to the criminal gang leader exploiting a state of lawlessness;
• The basic wants, needs and grievances of the population may have little to do with the intellectual ideology of insurgent leaders, but may still be exploited to generate support;
• Even those fighters, sympathizers, and supporters who justify their actions with the rhetoric and symbols provided by insurgent propagandists may not be fully conversant with the ideology;
• Hatred that emerges during armed conflict, through atrocities and dispossession, often overshadows the initial motivators that drove individuals and community groups to join the insurgency or support the government;
• Players in pre-existing local conflict may draw on the insurgents (or the government) as an external ally to help them;
• In tribal societies (as found in parts of South and Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa) the support of one tribe or faction for the government may often predispose tribal rivals to support the insurgents, and vice versa.

Insurgency is the organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify or challenge political control of a region. As such, it is primarily a political struggle, in which both sides use armed force to create space for their political, economic and influence activities to be effective. Insurgency is not always conducted by a single group with a centralized, military-style command structure, but may involve a complex matrix of different actors with various aims, loosely connected in dynamic and non-hierarchical networks. To be successful, insurgencies require charismatic leadership, supporters, recruits, supplies, safe havens and funding (often from illicit activities). They only need the active support of a few enabling individuals, but the passive acquiescence of a large proportion of the contested population will give a higher probability of success. This is best achieved when the political cause of the insurgency has strong appeal, manipulating religious, tribal or local identity to exploit common societal grievances or needs. Insurgents seek to gain control of populations through a combination of persuasion, subversion and coercion while using guerrilla tactics to offset the strengths of government security forces. Their intent is usually to protract the struggle, exhaust the government and win sufficient popular support to force capitulation or political accommodation. Consequently, insurgencies evolve through a series of stages, though the progression and outcome will be different in almost every case.

TheFacelessMan:
IF Tinubu was this stupid, he wouldn't be the most relevant and influential in the class of 1999

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Tinubu is only as wise as his primary constituency.

The man's stupidity has been elevated to the center by his stupid supporters.

johnmartus:
We can't justify his education contribution based on national exams Because it's a fraud.

Jesus!

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plaindealer:






Under Aregbesola, education in Osun state improved spectacularly.

He even invested in education more than many states in Nigeria combined.

Sadly for you people, you can not substitute facts with lies, hatred and ignorance.

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You probably need an education badly.

A beggar who gets 500 naira daily and then suddenly sees an increase of 113% increase from his pan handling doesn't make him rich!

Osun is by far the worst performing state south of the river Niger even with a 500% improvement because they are still dragging last position with Yobe and it all started when the craggy beard rascal became governor.

iammo:



Goto.osun and see his model schools before bad mouthing him

Schools that produce Almajiri tier products?

Go and check WAEC and JAMB annual failure rates for Osun and see how it all went to sh!t when the alfa voodoo practitioner became governor.

Somebody who under his stewardship Osun state dropped in WAEC and JAMB score ratings with massive failure that Osun began dragging last with Yobe?

I see him getting Minister of Culture because of his juju expertise.

This is a total futile waste of time as the majority Northern Sunni Muslims and their SW ACN faction lackeys in the House will vote bi-partisanly for El Zackzacky to remain illegally detained. And by a very slim chance the opposite resolution occurs, do they think for once Buhari will adhere to their congressional resolution?

Wind sheer or Micro-Burst

GSA01:




Dambazzau was the chief of army staff during Yaradua not head of Guards Brigade.

Go and check well.

He wasn't COAS but head of Guards Brigade.

He was the one that ordered that airport lights and street lights on the highway route to Aso Rock be shutdown when Yar'adua was being transported from the airport in an ambulance.

Only Guards Brigade and DSS are responsible for the President's personal protection and security.

A simple Google search or Wikipedia page of Dambazzua should make this clear.

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Olexy46:
Inside a seed lies millions of forests.
Inside the MIND of EACH Nigerian lies millions of GOOD and PRODUCTIVE IDEAS to improve our standard of living if put into activity.

The country is at the moment enjoying a VERY STABLE POLITY and that is a good platform to grow and nourish our ideas into maturity.

Every morning, I listen to the news on the TV or sometimes read from the tabloid with undivided interest and attention to follow up on government activities and I observe that Nigerians are still holding grudges against their leaders because of the failures of past governments.

This is our problem in this moment....OFFENCE.

WE NEED TO WAKE UP FROM THIS NIGHTMARE.
The current President, Muhammadu Buhari is TOTALLY DIFFERENT. He is MILITARILY HUMBLE.

He has the interest of the country and the citizens in his heart and that is the reason for his SELFLESS DETERMINATION TO RID( or at least reduce) NIGERIA OF CORRUPTION, CORRUPT LEADERS and the so called MONEY BAGS.

This is THE GREATEST SACRIFICE any LEADER (and we the FOLLOWERSHIP) can offer to Nigeria.

He NEITHER GIVES NOR RECEIVES BRIBE. There's NO SIGN OF AFFLUENCE IN HIM and ACCOUNTABILITY is his watchword irrespective of who you are.

There is NO RECORD of CORRUPTION in him. These are the GREATEST of all the QUALITIES of a good LEADER in Nigeria of today.

So, why are the majority of Nigerians STILL COMPLAINING? God has already ANSWERED OUR PRAYERS over the years for a GOOD LEADER WITH THESE QUALITIES.

The "SCREAMY" HEADLINES and other TWISTED INFORMATION against the administration of Muhammad Buhari are simply SPONSORED by the so-called "BIG MEN" within the rank and file of the public sector, private sector, political office holders both serving and retired and in some FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

We should remember that the 1929 global economic crisis which began in the US was as a result of SPECULATION. Wrong information about the "imminent collapse" of the stock market was disseminated and panicked withdrawal of money from the banks actually crippled the financial sector.

MOST of our DISTINGUISHED LAW MAKERS have become SO REBELLIOUS to the extent that they have abandoned the promises they made in their MANIFESTO and are now at LOGGERHEADS with themselves and the EXECUTIVE. Whose cause are they championing?

Democracy in Nigeria is meant to FOSTER UNITY, GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVITY.
The grave consequence of their actions is that government activities slow down and the already poor Nigerians suffer the more, important projects are neglected or abandoned while the lawmakers can afford to BUY THEIR COMFORT WITH THEIR MONEY.

We voted them in to CONTINUOUSLY "COLLABORATE" with Mr President to PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY, HONESTY and above all PRODUCTIVITY.

Mr President is always ensuring to PROMOTE STABILITY within the polity and the evidences of his performance are obvious.

OUR LAWMAKERS OWE NIGERIANS THIS DUTY.... to FIGHT CORRUPTION and they can only start this campaign by first REVIEWING THEIR RUNNING COST AGAIN. They should RIGHTSIZE NOW because the country cannot downsize them until their 4 years tenure is over.

MUHAMMADU BUHARI DON'T NEED TO GO DOWN ON HIS KNEES BEFORE THE LAWMAKERS TO MAKE THEM REALISE THIS. So why are the lawmakers avoiding this? They need to start with themselves.

£15,000(as annual minimum/ average wage) compared to £79,000 annual salary for UK Parliamentarians is relatively within reach. BUT NGN360,000 ( as new annual minimum wage) compared to NGN156 million( as yearly running cost) plus NGN8,4 million annual consolidated salary for our lawmakers is outrageous.
So, who are they representing?

DECENCY and TRANSPARENCY brings HONOUR, UNITY, PRODUCTIVITY and PROSPERITY.

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Original thread was locked by that Mod claiming it was "false info" even though Aregberascal submitted WAEC O'level as hi highest qualification to INEC in his governorship form.

See thread: https://www.nairaland.com/1807475/exposed-oshun-state-governors-highest


Well I am here to play the resurrector as the half assed clown is most likely to get minister of works with his quack certificate.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has cleared names of 20 candidates as contestants for the August 9, 2014 governorship election holding in Osun State.
This was contained in a list signed by the Administrative Officer of INEC in Osun State, Mrs. Augusta Ogakwu, and made available to journalists on Wednesday.
According to the document, while the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, presented a PhD as his qualification, Governor Rauf Aregbesola presented West Africa School Certificate.

The electoral body also cleared Alhaji Fatai Akinbade as the governorship candidate of the Labour Party while it listed Niyi Owolade as the Accord Party’s candidate and Mr. Segun Akinwusi as the flag bearer of the Social Democratic Party.
The INEC urged members of the public who had any question on the qualification of any if the candidate to do so.
The statement read in part, “In compliance with section 31 sub sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), the Independent National Electoral Commission, Osun State, on Monday, 16th June, 2014, displayed personal particulars of all candidates contesting the August 9th 2014governorship election in the state.
“By this act, members of the public by law, have the opportunity to scrutinise the documents submitted by candidates as pasted by INEC.
“Any person who has any claim to question information given by these candidates should approach the Court of law.”
Meanwhile, the Body of Head of Service and Permanent Secretaries in Osun State has condemned the governorship candidate of the SDP, Akinwusi, for allegedly telling lies by claiming that the current administration was owing about N350bn debt.
The body in a statement signed by the Head of Service, Mr. Sunday Owoeye, described the activities of Akinwusi as perfidious.
Owoeye said that Akinwusi, was precluded from placing in the public domain classified official information until after 10 years of his retirement from service under the Official Secrets Act.
The statement read, “Contrary to the lies being peddled by the former Head of Service, Mr. Akinwusi, the State Government of Osun owes only N30bn as loans, and N11.4 billion as bonds from the Capital Market totalling N41.4 bn.

http://www.naijahottestgist.com/2014/06/20/aregbesola-dumps-controversial-hnd-presents-waec/

Dalung used to head the notorious hate spewing radion station - Radio Chanji!

Dambazzua has always been an ally and friend to Buhari to the point of even spying on Yar'adua and passing information to Buhari's camp when he was heading the elite Guards Brigade..

Are these two alien to Buhari?

Because, we were told by Buhari to expect only his friends as ministers.

A small price to pay for getting these ab0kis to get a wash.

FarahAideed:
Plaindealer oya come and write that nonsense you wrote against Shia's ,it's needed here

That electric fan retailer still dey active?

Lol

It's now he knew he gaffed.

And to think this man was just recently promoted and given a command position.

Well, he wasn't far from the truth, a BH member is currently their commander and chief.

Bump