Author: nationalpoint

Rivers State made an audacious investment in primary and secondary education with the construction of 24 world class model secondary schools and over 250 international model primary schools. The schools which were built between 2007 to 2014, were equipped with modern boarding facilities and state of the art learning and teaching aids. While each of the schools constructed in the upland local government areas gulped the sum of N106million each, those built in the riverine LGAs were constructed at the sum of N117million each. Each of the schools also had functional laboratories, well equipped libraries, ICT and sporting facilities. The…

Outgone Chief Justice Tanko Muhammad left office more disgracefully than the man he schemed out. While popular opinion was that Justice Onnoghen CJN was framed and unfairly forced out, in his case public consensus is that Justice Tanko deserves to be outed and ousted. It is therefore ironic that while Gen. Buhari showered encomiums and conferred a national honor on the disgraced outgone Chief Justice Tanko, Buhari had rained false accusations in a long tirade against Onnoghen to justify his ouster. But the Nigerian people who heard Gen Buhari say recently that they were better off today than when he…

Oil operators in the Niger Delta are guilty of human rights abuses. Prof. Sofri Peterside gave the verdict at a Host Communities mock Court he presided over as chief judge organized by Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center at Watsbridge Hotel, in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capita, June 26, 2022. Prof. Peterside who is a renowned social scientist and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Port Harcourt stated that the multinational oil companies in the Niger Delta grossly degraded the environment in their areas of operation. The Environmental Tribunal which had as co-judges Nnimmo Bassey, an…

Rivers State governorship candidate of the Labour Party and embattled chairperson of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Rivers State Council, Comrade Beatrice Itubo, played host to the Civil Liberties Organization, CLO Rivers State Branch, on Tuesday, June 23, 2022, at the secretariat of the Medical and Dental Union in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. She spoke on wide ranging issues including the burden of a factionalised Labour Congress, standing up to the Nyesom Wike government for the payment of monthly pensions and gratuities to retirees in the state and being the only woman in the race to Brick House…

Senator Magnus Abe lifted the spirits of journalists in Rivers State, when he paid a condolence visit to members of the Rivers State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ on Friday, June 30. The visit which occasioned recall of memories of his days as state Information Commissioner and the relationship with the press, with the former secretary to the Rivers State government calling on the media to reflect to improve on their performance. He expressed sympathy over the death of four journalists over a short period and handed some cash to the bereaved families. Senator Abe used the…

Faithful of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (Niger Delta Synod) have held their 7th Annual Synod meeting 2022 with the theme: A Royal Priesthood: Expanding the Frontiers of the Church, 1 Peter 2:9. Speaking at the grand finale of the synod over the weekend at the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Rumuomasi Parish, Port Harcourt North presbytery, Elder Dr. Egwu Nkama said that members of the Niger Delta synod of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria have done well since its existence in the last 7 years, especially in the area of missionary works, education and health. Dr. Nkama hinted that they…

Women of St. Mary’s Catholic Church Aggrey Road, Port Harcourt, under the Port Harcourt Catholic Diocese have held their 2022 Mother’s Day celebration. Speaking while performing the unveiling of Mother Marty’s status and launching of Catholic Women Organisation CWO 2022 calendar recently at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Aggrey Road Port Harcourt, the parish priest of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Rev. Fr. Francis Normakoh said that the leaders and leadership of the church would continue to pray to the Almighty God to keep and bless the women of the church to enable them serve God and humanity more. “Today is a…

Johnson Uguzo, Secretary Elele Branch of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), has appealed to the chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Dr. Samuel Nwanosike to come to their aid by constructing a drainage that will channel the flood water that pools at Elele Motor Park into the Elele burrow pit. Elder Johnson Uguzo made this appeal in a chat with newsmen recently in his office at Elele town. Elder Uguzo said that each time it rains the park is always flooded. “Our offices are also affected. Part of the things members of NURTW of Elele branch are suffering…

The people of Abua/Odual are in jubilant mood following the confirmation of their son, Udi Odum as a Minister by President Muhammadu Buhari. To display this joy, a frontline organization in the LGA, Abua-Odual Kupe Foundation in collaboration with the Abua Odual chapter of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC organized a youth rally on the major streets of the council headquarters, Abua Central thanking God and President Buhari for giving one of their own a national spot. The oil rich LGA has been crying of marginalization for long. Except for Dr Monday Okonny, who was appointed Commissioner for Education in…

Three persons suspected to be specialized in child trafficking have been apprehended by a combined team of policemen and vigilante at Omerigboma Village, Oko in Oshimili South local government area of Delta State. Their arrest followed a petition to the area commander, Asaba, on behalf of a 13-year-old victim of child trafficking (name withheld) from Izza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, who was to be taken to Onicha-Ugbo in Aniocha North Local Government Area for prostitution. A release by the Police public relations officer (PPRO), DSP Edafe Bright, disclosed that, “a combined team of policemen and vigilante embarked…