Sudan were forced to stage their home fixture against Mauritania in the southern Moroccan coastal city of Agadir because of the civilwar in the East African nation.
The President had stated that many of those misbehaving in the South-East region were young and did not witness the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the civilwar.
"I participated in the civilwar and I said may I never have to participate in any civil waragain in my life. It was gruesome. It was destructive. It was deadly.
He fought civilwar for 30 months without rehabilitation; he ruled Nigeria for 20 months and was detained for 40 months without disclosing the nature of his offence.
President, Nigeria has never been as divided as this; except during the civilwar (1967-70). "You need, therefore, to rethink your strategy in order to avert unnecessary tension in this polity.
In Nigeria, the date of January 15 holds significance as it marks the surrender of Biafran troops to the Federal troops in 1970. This event marked the end of the Nigerian CivilWar, which aimed to divide the unity of Nigeria. 3.
He avowed that Nigerians have never been disunited as they currently are before not even during the civilwar and the solution is to elect an individual who will be accepted by the North and the South.
Magu while hosting some civil society organizations said about 1000 people put Nigeria in a sorry condition. He said he is not threatened by Senate's attempt to remove him as the EFCC's boss.
He recalled his struggle to keep Nigeria as one during the civilwar and said it was not out of hatred for any region or ethnic group but one borne out of the need to promote the course of unity in the country.
Reacting to Akpabio's claims, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Transparency International-Nigeria (TI-Nigeria) said: "A criminal is a criminals irrespective of where he or she
"Ahead of Remembrance Day, it was important to pay my respects at the graves of 12 soldiers, British and Nigerian, who gave their lives in the Second World War."
Nigeria was not listed among the ten most corrupt countries in the rating just released by Transparency International. Nigeria had consecutively been in the top ten for over a decade.
We had our own after the civilwar by kick-starting importation madness. If we produced anything, $1/N5000 will not be a big deal because our GDP would be high. What it means is that all of us would be rich enough to handle it.
Photo Credit: Newsoforum His father later went on to fight on the side of Nigeria during the Nigeriacivilwar, but he later died in May 1968 of unknown circumstances in Ogu, Rivers State.