Author: nationalpoint

Residents of Port Harcourt have been expressing strong displeasure over the closure last Friday of the Port Harcourt Mall operated by Spar Supermarket, through a court order that stopped it from going on with its Black Friday programme. But Rivers State Government, which obtained the court order to close the supermarket said the mall was shut for the Black Friday programme because its management failed to respond to the government’s demand that it should show evidence that it would contain the rush that could attend the Black Friday clearance sales. Thousands of shoppers that visited the mall last Friday were…

Governor Godwin Obaseki, has praised journalists for playing critical roles in advancing democracy in Nigeria and has also spoken of the need to empower journalists to continue to play those roles. Obaseki in a message he sent to the National Executive Council Meeting of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) that held in Benin also praised the media for being the eyes and voice of the people in a democracy. But he urged them to set agenda and provide working facts on activities and programme of government. The governor, who was represented by the commissioner for Information and Orientation, Christ…

The Edo State Police Command recently paraded six armed robbery suspects arrested in different police operations carried out to rid the state of criminals and their activities. The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Chidi Nwabuzor, told journalists during the parade of the suspects at the command headquarters that the police also intercepted a cult group as they planned an attack in Benin City and arrested one of the members. Nwabuzor said the police action was taken with the help of intelligence reports received by the police. He said, “On the 12th day of November 2022, at about 16.00 hours,…

Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said his government is disturbed by the high level of land grabbing in the state though it has recovered most of the lands. Obaseki who spoke to journalists on the side during the 2022 Alaghodaro Summit in Benin City said the government is fully enforcing the Land Use Act to recover government lands and allocate them for useful development. “Edo State has to be a modern state as our cities are fast growing into slums. We now experience a lot of land grabbing activities in Edo State following the neglect on the part of…

My attention was drawn to a publication in The Punch 11/25/2022 captioned: “I’m happy Makinde is among the G5 govs” the –CJN. Please, the publication refers: ‘The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola, backed his kinsman and Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, for his membership of the G5, also known as the integrity Governors. The five aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party Governors are Nyesom Wike, who is the leader, and Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom who is the Chairman. Others are Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, Seyi Makinde of oyo state and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State. The aggrieved Governors are…

The Edo State chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Col David Imuse (Rtd.) has described the annual Alaghodaro Summit organized to mark the anniversaries of the government of Governor Godwin Obaseki, as a hollow ritual and a celebration of incompetence. In a statement issued by Victor Osehobo, the party’s Assistant State Publicity Secretary, Col Imuse said, “The APC in Edo State frowns on the hollow ritual called Alaghodaro Summit by the Edo State Government, and the false claims that it annually consolidates on years of building a vibrant private-sector-led economy, which has benefited from Mr. Obaseki’s government reforms and…

The National Executive Council (NEC), of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has urged the Federal Government to declare a State of Emergency on federal roads across the nation. In a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting in Benin City, the NEC of NUJ said virtually all the federal roads in the country had collapsed and something urgently needed to be done to restore them. The communiqué, which was signed by the National Secretary, Shaibu Usman Leman, also called for security to be beefed up around INEC facilities and media houses ahead of 2023 general elections. It tasked…

Former Prime Minister, Republic of Guinea, Mr. Kabine Komara, has said that only sound and qualitative education that can transform the African Continent. Speaking at the 20th Convocation of Igbinedion University, Okada, where postgraduate diplomas, masters, doctoral and honorary degrees were conferred on graduates and awardees of the university, Komara said there was need for African universities to raise their standards. He said, “Let’s talk about how we can start developing our nations, the role of integrating and the need to raise the standards of university education in Africa. Unless African universities can reach the same system of measurement of…

Pastor Agentunya Napoleon Nwokeimaji, is the director of the Seventh Adventist Rehabilitation Welfare Orphanage Home, Kilometer 7, Ahoada/Abua Rd, Edeoha Ahoada, Rivers State. The center was established in 1996 by the Seventh Day Adventist Church in response to observed need for a center to care for needy children in the Ahoada/Abua axis and since then, it has successfully nurtured many children some of who have been handed over to their parents, some have grown to become self-sufficient adults. According to the director, Pastor Napoleon Nwokeimaji, God saved the center from flood. While the stretch housing the orphanage was submerged by…

As flood victims begin to head home after three excruciating weeks battling the flood, internally displaced persons are counting their losses and looking out for ways to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives. For persons with disability, the flood came with more challenges and unfortunately, less care. Bayelsa State PWDs were relocated to a camp at the former Women Affairs Ministry, Ovom Yenagoa by the state government but that was as much of the care they received. State chairman of the PWDs in the state Comrade Eric    told this publication in a chat with Ikilowei Eric, Chairman…