Author: nationalpoint

There was confusion at the Ikpoba/Okha end of the Benin – Sapele expressway on Monday when indigenes and other residents of the communities in that axis blocked the road to protest the deplorable state of the road. Hundreds of motorists and travellers were trapped in the gridlock that followed the protest that lasted overnight. The protesters lamented the failure of the federal, state and local governments to fix the road. That section, according to the protesters, deserved to have a flyover because of the busy nature of the road. The federal road that links the Niger Delta region with the…

To teach the younger generation of journalists how to do their job better, National Point Newspaper/Foreword Communications Limited, last week, organized a two-day media training for journalists from across the Niger Delta region. The programme which held at Habitat Hotel Port Harcourt, was a collaborative project with the Wole Soyinka Center for Investigative Journalism with support from the MacArthur Foundation. The training took the participants through topics like ‘Ethics, Media and Development’, ‘Exploring The Landscape of Insecurity in the Niger Delta,’ ‘Data Journalism’, ‘Gender Sensitive Reporting’, ‘Human Rights Reporting, Investigative Journalism’ among others. In her remarks, Ibiba DonPedro, managing director…

A court in Abuja has ordered the Nigerian government to implement the National Gender Policy (NGP) which provides for the allocation of 35 percent of all appointments to women. The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the federal government to enforce the National Gender Policy by allotting 35 per cent of appointments in the public sector to women. A non-governmental organisation, Women in Politics Forum (WIPF), filed the suit against the Nigerian government, seeking the implementation of the 35 per cent Affirmative Action in appointments of women into public office. Delivering his judgement on the suit on Wednesday,…

Rivers State has always been thrown into a volatile state during general elections. Though the seat of power is in faraway Abuja, Rivers State has always been one of the key states in the country by virtue of its strategic position as an oil rich state, and a major interest in the presidential election has always been about access to the oil wealth in the Niger Delta. Nigerians are on the march again for the 2023, general elections and the polity is seriously heating up with the two major parties, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress,…

It is a cherry news for the Federal Polytechnic, Ukana in Akwa Ibom State following the accreditation of eight new courses by the National Board For Technical Education (NBTE) for the institution. A statement issued by the institution’s public relations officer, Mr Manasseh Umoette, said the approval was contained in a letter signed by the director of Polytechnic Programmes, NBTE, Architect Ogoh Ngbede, and addressed to the rector, Dr. Uduak Sunday Ukekpe. According to the statement, the programmes accredited include, ND Civil Engineering, ND Electrical/Electronic Engineering, ND Computer Engineering, ND Science Laboratory Technology, ND Computer Science, ND Statistics, ND Accountancy…

Succour has come the way of 1000 youth in oil rich Akwa Ibom, as the state government has doled out start-up grants to them after completing one year skill acquisition training. Governor Udom Emmanuel at the graduation ceremony advised them to make judicious use of the acquired skills and start-up grants for higher productivity and self -development. The governor who was represented by his deputy, Moses Ekpo said the Ibom 3000 Project was a human capital development and economic transformation programme conceived by the state government to empower the youths. The governor charged the trainees whom he described as trail-blazers…

EMINENT Nigerians, including former Chief of Staff, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (retd); former Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang; Second Republic Senator, Professor Banji Akintoye; President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo; former Vice-Chairman of Arik Air, Senator Anietie Okon; Commodore Idongegist Nkanga, (retd); of PANDEF, the leader of Middle Belt Forum, Dr. Bitrus Pogu; former Minister, Prof. Yusuf Turaki and 121 others, yesterday, alleged that the 1999 constitution was skewed in favour of the North They also petitioned the United Nations Security Council, African Union, European Union, United States and the British Government on the need to urgently convoke a…

The police in Edo State have arrested one Favor Oyhou, for allegedly hacking her boyfriend, one Paul Handsome, 25 to death in Auchi, Estako West Local Government Area of the state. In a statement made available to newsmen in Benin City, the assistant police public relations officer of Edo State Police Command, ASP Jennifer Iwegbu, said: “Sequel to the incident of 23/7/2022 at about 1930hrs in Auchi, Edo State where one Paul Handsome ‘M’ 25yrs was reported to have been stabbed to death by his girlfriend, One Favor Oyhou, and went into hiding. “Consequent upon this dastardly act, the commissioner…

For two consecutive days, Thursday, 4thto Friday, 5th August 2022, practicing journalists from Niger Delta region of Nigeria, converged in the conference Hall of Habitat Hotel and Resort, Rumualogu, NTA/Choba Road, Port Harcourt, where they brainstormed on “Investigative Reporting, Inclusive Development and Accountability.” The two-day media training was courtesy of National Point Newspaper/Foreword Communications Ltd, with the support of Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ)and MacArthur Foundation. In her opening remark, the Managing Director of National Point newspaper, Ibiba DonPedro traced the story of National Point to 2007 when it was founded by herself and Chief Constance Meju with…

When Mrs. Jennifer Jackson, 38, a widow and mother of four accepted an invitation from a neighbour to attend the May 28, 2022 Shop-for-Free seminar of Kings Assembly Church at the Polo Club field, GRA, Port Harcourt she did not know it was an invitation to death. She and hundreds of other people who got injured or lost loved ones in the early morning tragedy did not only return empty handed without the promised food and household items, they have been left alone to bury their dead and bear the full burden of their bereavement. More curious is the effort…