Author: nationalpoint

As preparations for the 2023 general elections take shape, National Point undertook investigations to assess the potential risk factors that may likely cause electoral violence in Bayelsa State in the elections. This is based on the fact that elections in the state are often violence ridden. Data for this report is mined from field visits, community security architecture dialogues and election risk assessment programmes. Elections in Bayelsa State will take place in November 2024. The political climate in the state is currently going through alignments and fusion of political interests. The alignments have however come with noticeable unrest with unresolved…

Prepare for a fresh anointing through intensive daily worship! For me, preparation has always been closely tied to worship, and worship has often been linked to music. Apostle Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, told the church to teach and admonish each other with worshipful melodies: “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”- Colossians 3:16 Two of the first passages from the Bible that I committed to memory were these: “O…

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 describes the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Spirit occurs at the moment of saving faith, that is, when a person becomes a believer in Christ, has his or her sins forgiven, and is headed for heaven. “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”- 1 Corinthians 12:13-14 THE SEALING OF THE HOLYSPIRIT The sealing of the Spirit also occurs at the moment of saving faith and it is God’s pledge or promise…

YENAGOA-President of Ijaw National Congress, INC, the umbrella socio-cultural, politically non- partisan organisation of the Ijaw ethnic nationality, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, has said that the opposition by the Ijaws and Niger Delta to the re-introduced Water Resources Bill was that it would “enslave the Ijaw people and indeed the people of Niger Delta, who have suffered and are still suffering severe exclusion, deprivation and underdevelopment.” According to Okaba, the land, water resources, river basins and adjacent marine and coastal environment contained in the bill describe in totality, lands and homesteads of the Ijaw people and other ethnic nations situated along…

The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), Bayelsa State chapter, has thrown its weight behind the groundswell of opposition to the reintroduced National Water Resources Bill in the National Assembly, Independent reports. The group rejected the bill and described it as another obnoxious piece of legislation through which the Federal Government was plotting to deny the littoral states their God-given rights. The CLO made its position known in a communique signed by Alagoa Morris and Timi Igoli, which was issued after its meeting in Yenagoa, the state capital. It called on the Federal Government to jettison the plot and release ecological funds…

Ogbia—Mr. OtioOkilo, the candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) contesting for the Ogbia Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives has promised to employ a community-based approach toward bringing the dividends of democracy to constituents. He said Ogbia people need a representative that can use creative means in solving the problems bedeviling them. Otio who is the son of popular statesman and former governor of old Rivers State, late Chief MelfordObieneOkilo made this known in an exclusive interview with Mangrovepen.ng. He revealed that he was inspired to run for the Ogbia House of Representatives seat due to the…

Port Harcourt—The paramount ruler of Sambo Ama in Twon Brass Kingdom of Bayelsa State, HRH Samuel Sambo, has admonished Nigerian youths to avoid violence and politics of bitterness ahead of the approaching political campaign season for the 2023 general elections. In a statement sent to newsmen on Sunday, Sambo urged youths not to be used as tools by politicians to cause mayhem in their communities. According to him, elections are avenues for the people to choose leaders that would effectively manage their common resources, adding that no good leader would instigate people to cause crisis. In his words: “We are…

A book on the life and times of Nigeria’s first journalist, Ernest Sisei Ikoli is expected to be launched soon in his home state capital, Yenagoa. Alagoa, emeritus professor of history, is the lead author of the new long-awaited book on the biography of the foremost journalist and nationalist of repute. Even his peers in the pre-independence movement, such as Chief Obafemii Awolowo, acknowledged Ikoli as their mentor. Co-author of the book is John Horace Enemugwem, justice of the peace. He is a professor of history, and current Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt. He has also served…

The University of Africa, Toru-Orua has matriculated 300 students for the 2021/2022 academic session. The students are drawn from faculties of agriculture, arts and education, basic and applied sciences and social sciences. The event which held at the university’s multi -purpose hall, was the university’s fifth matriculation ceremony. Welcoming the students to higher education pursuit, the vice chancellor of the university, Professor Kingston Nyamapfeni said matriculation ceremony was always an important day in the calendar of any institution adding that it represents another opportunity to project what the future of the students may look like. “Every new cohort of incoming…

The chairmen and governorship candidates of various political parties who stepped down for Governor Douye Diri and his deputy Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo in the Bayelsa 2019 governorship election have cried out to the prosperity government that they have been abandoned. In a statement on, signed by Bob Manuel Fayeofori chairman and Tomvie Beinmo secretary in Yenagoa, the former party candidates lamented that they supported and sacrificed their lives and that of their families for Douye Diri and Lawrence Ewhrujakpo but have been abandoned. Crying out to the international communities and the PDP government at various levels, the people said despite all…