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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has advocated a review of surveillance contracts on oil facilities to involve host communities in order to check the high rate of oil theft in the country. He said that reviewing oil surveillance contracts based on performance of the contractors and engagement of host communities would ensure effectiveness in securing the nation’s oil and gas assets. Okowa made the call when he received a Federal Government delegation on anti-Oil theft led by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, on Monday at Government House, Asaba. He admitted that the challenge of…

Stakeholders from the Civil Society Organisations, faith based organisations, media, women groups and different political groups, today Tuesday, 9th August, 2022, tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and political parties on credible 2023 elections, including an increased participation of women in political leadership. This development was a fallout of a one-day stakeholders town hall meeting on the International Co-Working Day Celebration, organised by the Stand-Up For Women Society (SWS) in collaboration with the Elona Development Foundation, which held at the conference hall of the Delta State Orientation Bureau in Asaba. The Keynote address on the theme of the Day…

One of the leading Catholic priests in Nigeria, Very Rev. Fr. Louismary Obiajulu Okeyia has commended members of St. John The Baptist Catholic Church, Rumuolumeni (Olumeni) for their support and positive impact on his life. Rev. Fr. Louismary Okeyia made the commendation during his 55th birthday and 22 years priestly anniversary ordination. According to him, “Since I came to this parish you have been supporting me as well as identifying with me. Your support to me has not only made me happy but you have also given me more reasons to continue to serve God and touch lives. Therefore, I…

Following security threats in some unity schools in some parts of the country and response to the directive issued by the Federal Ministry of Education that unity schools across the country should be shut down for the time being, the management of Federal Government College (FGC), Port Harcourt has assured parents of the safety and security of their and wards at the college. Speaking to newsmen in his office recently, the vice principal (Special Duties) of the college, Dr. Ogbonna Joe said the management of the school has taken necessary measures against security threats or breaches within the school premises.…

A call has gone to the Rivers State governor, Chief Ezenwo Wike to appoint a quality commissioner for Transport to man the Ministry of Transport in the state. The chairman of the Rivers State branch of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Chief Eleazar Monday, made the call in an interview with National Point in his office in Port Harcourt. According to him, Rivers people and residents as well as commercial drivers need a quality commissioner for transport to manage this sector. “There is no state in Nigeria that is doing well in this sector that does not have…

*Staff Sleep On Duty Every Day; Student Doctors Experiment With Patients, Pregnant Women Without Supervision; No Dialysis Unit, Essential Drugs Out Of Stock, Patients Referred To Private Pharmacies;· CMD Evades Press, Holds Daily Endless Meetings On Monday, 11thJuly 2022, a viral video emanated from the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH), Port Harcourt (formerly Braithwaite Memorial Hospital) in which a man was seen furiously bemoaning the attitudes of doctors and nurses who rather than attend to patients in need of urgent attention, were always sleeping on duty. The man in the video narrated how the negligence of the medical personnel…

Kingsley Michael, who is under contract with Italian Serie A club FC Bologna, will play for SV Guntamatic Ried with immediate effect,” the club confirmed on their official website. “The 22-year-old Nigerian international, who made his Serie A debut at Bologna in 2019, has signed a loan deal for the current season.” Ried sporting director Thomas Reicheltshammer explained the reason the club signed the Super Eagle. “Due to the injuries in the past few weeks, we had to take action, especially in central midfield,” Reicheltshammer told the same portal, adding: “We deliberately took our time in our search to find…

Nigerian women recently shook off political marginalisation at home to shine brilliantly in two international sports festivals to bring honour and pride to their country. All the gold medals that Nigeria won, which placed the country seventh on the medals’ table of the Commonwealth Games at Birmingham, were clinched by women. They had earlier shone during the World Athletics Games in Oregon, the United States, where they had shown excellence, discip0line and hard work. The women did not only win gold, they shattered world records and posted national, African and Commonwealth records. People were beginning to wonder where the men…

Football didn’t start in 1992.” It did not, but it did change forever. Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the Premier League replacing the Football League First Division at the top of the English football tree. Here is what has happened in those 30 years and how the Premier League and the world have changed. Over the 30 years of the Premier League there have been 11,656 games and 31,016 goals. Those goals have come from 2,528 players. There have been 4,534 players in the Premier League, with 120 different nationalities. England leads the way with 1,632, with France…

Kinsmen of a former commissioner for Information in Bayelsa State, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, have expressed confidence that his new political platform, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) will give him victory at the poll in 2023. The kinsmen in Opume, Ogbia Local Government Area, organised a grand reception for Iworiso-Markson at the weekend to declare their support for his decision to dump the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) for SDP to enable him realise his ambition to contest the Ogbia Federal Constituency election. The kinsmen, who trooped out in their numbers despite a heavy downpour, said Iworiso-Markson’s benevolence, generosity, kindness and passion to…