ALTHOUGH my effort here is the place of Igbos in the political scheme of things in the face of the raging debate on “the principle of power rotation or zoning” in Nigeria; I have commenced this treatise deliberately with the above title fully convinced that by origin of the Igbo, we are not just found in Nigeria only; there are Igbos in the Diaspora and we have accepted ourselves as descendants of children of Abraham, the Jewish patriarch.

THE Edo State Task Force Committee on Anti-Pipeline Vandalisation, has arrested eight tankers involved in alleged illegal bunkering, just as it warned community leaders to desist from conniving with those involved in the illegal business to avoid arrest.

THE Presidency, yesterday, distanced itself from speculations that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Allison-Madueke, had been tipped for removal ahead of next year’s general election, just as President Goodluck Jonathan, effected a minor cabinet reshuffle.

IT was a day of horror in Abuja and Lagos, Wednesday. Also, tragedy struck last Sunday when a woman faced a midday horror, with her four children drowned when the boat they were travelling in capsized along the Opobo/Kono waterways.

EMBATTLED former Director General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Prof.Ndidi Okereke- Onyiuke, yesterday, denied that billions of naira were missing at the NSE under her watch.