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A 19-year-old girl has been raped and stabbed to death at Agenebode, the administrative headquarters of Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State. The attack happened a few hours after a Benin-based accountant allegedly killed his pregnant wife, then hanged her corpse to feign suicide in Benin City, the Edo State capital. The victim, Precious Aigbokhode was stabbed severally and allowed to bleed to death on Sunday, July 17, 2022. Precious Aigbokhode, was said to have been attacked in her apartment as her naked lifeless body was dumped at Pandaponti Street in Agenebode town. When the bad news was…

All is not well with bread consumers in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, as they have continued to lament the recent rise in the price of bread considered the cheapest, common man’s food in Nigeria. A random sampling of prices of different sizes of bread in Port Harcourt, shows that the product has increased by between 30-45 percent. A consumer told National Point: “The sharp increase in the prices of bread at this point in time is too outrageous and unexpected. It is done without consideration to the poor man.” Another concerned consumer said: “This situation is totally wrong,…

The Ogun State Government of Nigeria through the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Sagamu in collaboration with Leicester Children Hospital, United Kingdom is organizing a 5-day Free Surgery outreach for children. From 15th to 19th August, 2022 The scope of cases will include: 1)Hernia and hydrocele 2) Undescended testes 3) Hypospadias 4) Hirschsprung’s disease 5) Anorectal malformations 6) Lumps and swelling etc Screening and registration will hold every Monday between 4th July to 8th August, 2022., 9am – 2am. At Paediatric surgery Out patient clinic, OOUTH. For more information, Contact: 08028944158, 08105302502 or +447931662796

INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE REPORT OF UNCOLLECTED PERMANENT VOTERS’ CARDS (PVCs) DISCOVERED IN INAPPROPRIATE LOCATIONS The attention of the Commission has been drawn to videos trending online of Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) allegedly buried underground in some locations, including the compound of a high-profile person. The Commission is not taking these allegations lightly. We have commenced immediate investigation and anyone found culpable in this diabolical scheme clearly intended to disenfranchise Nigerians will be sanctioned under the law. Every eligible Nigerian who registered as a voter is entitled to his/her PVC. The constitutional right to vote in any election…

The menacing activities of kidnappers suspected to be herders around Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State and its environs, are getting out of control, as the people have raised alarm over the latest tactics of the hoodlums. According to the locals, herdsmen who initially raped only women they met in the farms now invade homes in search of women. This sudden twist is coming barely one month after youths in Umunneochi staged a peaceful protest against incessant kidnappings in the area, demanding the relocation of the Regional Cattle Market at Lokpanta, which they alleged, provides safe haven…

The Commissioner of Police Delta State Police Command, Mohammed Ali, has assured residents of Ika South, Ika North East LGA, and travellers that use the railway from Delta State to Abuja of their adequate security and safety. Ali stated this on Friday when he visited the Railway Station at Owa Ewere in Ika North East LGA in the company of the Assistant Commissioner of Police Operations, ACP Sa’ad Ibrahim, the Area Commander Agbor, ACP Friday Idachaba, and the Commanding officer Army 181 Aphibions Agbor, for an ‘on-the-spot’ assessment of the security situation in the area. According to…

Niger Delta Activists, CSOs from Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Ondo, Edo States gathered in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State to return focus to Regional Development/Environmental challenges. The gathering was piloted by Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF. It was a full hall at the Nelson Mandela Hall of the Watbridge Hotel, June 23, 2022 as notable persons, activists and students congregated to discuss the regions pressing challenges. Photos: Tife Owolabi and HOMEF

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…