Author: nationalpoint

More than four months after tens of people, mostly women and children were killed in a stampede at a church programme at the Polo Field in Port Harcourt, surviving victims and families of those that died in the incident are yet to receive any form of support from the church, government and the state. National Point investigations reveal that the victims of the stampede have been abandoned and left to their fate, with a lot of them suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders. They appear to have been left with the option to find means of seeking redress from the church…

Following increasing incidence of attacks and kidnappings along the Emohua-Kalabari road in Rivers State, the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mr. Friday Eboka, has assigned the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations to lead the tactical teams to secure the route. The Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Grace Iringe-Koko, told National Point that the police command was taking the situation on the road seriously and was doing everything to restore sanity to the road, which connects the three Kalabari local government areas of Degema, Asari-Toru and Akuku-Toru with the rest of the state by road.…

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has said that the state government spent over N1.2B to train the second batch of Engineers and Pilots from the state with aircraft manufacturers Airbus in a renewed move to reposition and increase the capacity of the state owned Airline, Ibom Air. Emmanuel who made this known during an interaction with journalists in Uyo said already the first batch of trainees was already undergoing the training meant to provide needed technical personnel in Nigeria’s flagship Airline, Ibom Air. The Governor who expressed joy at the strides of the airline within a short time said…

Governor of Delta State and Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa has inaugurated a 8.4km flood control project in Akwa Ibom State. The cost of the flood control scheme initiated by the Akwa Ibom State Government in partnership with World Bank through the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), is put at N16 billion, which transverses 18 communities in three local government areas of the state and is designed to carry more than half of the flood water generated in Uyo and environs. Speaking shortly before commissioning the IBB flood control project in Uyo, Okowa…

Former Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Hon Mrs. Elizabeth Ativie, has resigned her membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over what she termed the non-inclusion of women in elective positions, while seeking a third force where members are to freely express themselves, outside the APC and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Ativie’s resignation was announced at a news conference at the Press Centre of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council, Benin City, Edo State with a letter addressed to the Edo State chairman of APC, Col. David Imuse (rtd.), through the party’s chairman of Irhue Ward…

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has decried Nigeria’s continued importation of petroleum products despite being one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world. The governor made the condemnation while speaking with journalists at Ewohimi, Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State, at the 10-year remembrance service of Chief Jeremiah Ighodalo, father of the chairman of Sterling Bank Plc, Dr. Asue Ighodaro. Obaseki described the continuous importation of fuel into the country as a shame to Nigeria. He said Nigeria is one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world and as such, has…

Leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Zone F, comprising of all the states in the Niger Delta region, at the weekend, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate a lawfully and duly constituted Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in order not to continue to undermine the Act establishing the Commission. The NUJ made the statement in a communique issued at the end of its meeting held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and frowned at the continued delay by the Federal Government, to finish the construction of the East-West Road. The communique signed by the Zone…

The Step-Up for Women in Journalism Initiative (SUPWIJI), has urged media practitioners to learn and embrace modern journalism skills to enable them stay relevant, become financially viable and uphold integrity in the profession. The executive director of SUPWIJI, Mrs. Ann Godwin, stated this in Port Harcourt on Thursday at a workshop organized by the group to mark its one year anniversary. The event was supported by the Advancing Women in Business (AWIB) and Princewill Trust Foundation. Ann disclosed that with the Nigerian economy ailing, it is pertinent for media practitioners to think outside the box and follow the shift towards…

The bills are: 1. The Rivers State Prohibition of the Curtailment of Women’s Right to share in family property Law No. 2 of 2022. 2. The Rivers State Compulsory Treatment and Care of Victims of Gunshot Law no 3 of 2022 and 3. The Rivers State Pension Reform (Amendment) Law No 4 of 2022 The signing which took place in the Executive Chamber of the Rivers State Governemt House had the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, the state’s deputy Governor, Commissioners and members of the House of Assembly in attendance. The Rivers State Prohibition of the Curtailment…

The attendance included a cross-section of representatives from the three zones of the Ijaw Nation namely East, Central and West. After an exhaustive deliberation, the meeting resolves as follows: 1. The meeting resolved to commend the Federal Government for finding it worthy to award one of the surveillance contracts to a company in which one of our illustrious sons, in the person of High Chief Government Oweizidei Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) has interests. 2. That the meeting frowned at the wicked contrivance of some detractors of the Ijaw Nation and a section of the media, that have stoked confusion among the Ijaws…