A new year has come with the crude oil market expectedly teetering along uncertainty and volatility. Many crystal gazers are starring into crystal balls for a pleasant prospect in 2018. Some believe that the fortune tellers’ globe may have been infiltrated and manipulated by two groups of petroleum marketeers. The two groups are relishing in diametrically opposite geopolitical zones to convince global citizens of what to expect in 12 calendar months. Experts say the long-term equilibrium of the market is expected to reflect prices that result in a reasonable supply-demand balance in a price range that would be neither high nor low.

Tell this to all Igbo far and near, at home and abroad: Henceforth Ochiagha Okoh Ebitu Ukiwe, Ofo Ndi Igbo, is the new Igbo leader world wide. In the military, what  I am doing now will be termed a coup d’etat and I  am ready to face any consequences arising there from.

Rivers State has been in the eye of the storm for years; and if gunning gangsters down is the only way in which law enforcement personnel can restore sanity and safety on behalf of terrified innocent citizens, so be it

He is not the spokesman of the North. He is not that of ACF or NEF, and he is not so old as to count in the circles of the gerontocracts who lead the two Northern Elders groups that address issues of concern and interest to the North. Yet, whatever he says is invariably the position of the aggregate of Northern Elders.

GIVEN its painful birth, wars with India, support for terror groups in the Kashmir, role in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, and reluctance to declare war on its brand of the Taliban, it is  easy to hang  a tag of terrorism around the neck of Pakistan.  So when  the United States, one of its best known allies accused it of sponsoring international  terrorism, virtually no country was willing to defend it or come to its aid.