Author: nationalpoint

As arrangements for the 2023 general elections gets underway, Nigeria’s foremost election observation coalition, the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), has declared readiness to mobilize its members across the country to engage critical aspects of the process to ensure successful transition. The election monitoring body vowed to utilize its experience and expertise on elections to help strengthen Nigeria’s democracy, promote citizens participation in all stages of the process and strengthen good governance, especially at a time citizen’s faith in democracy appears to be waning as a result of the failure of the political elite to meet the expectations of Nigerians across…

The PDP Governors’ Forum comprising all elected Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party held its regular meeting on Wednesday, 23rd March, 2022, at Aba, Abia State. The meeting reviewed the excruciating hardship and suffering being meted out to Nigerians by a failed APC led Federal Government; the near collapse of the APC as a viable political party, the readiness of the PDP to take over and offer qualitative leadership options to rescue the nation and issued the following Communique: 1. We lament the terrible pain and hardship facing Nigerians in virtually all aspects of life. The meeting noted…

The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) comprising Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Middle Belt Forum and Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has commended PDP Governors of South South and South West as well as National Assembly members and other key stakeholders of the People’s Democratic Party in the two zones on their commitment to the quest for fairness, equity and justice in the power equation of the country.The reaffirmation of the declaration of the Southern Governors at Asaba, Delta State, in May last year, on the zoning of the presidency of the country to the South by the PDP leaders…

The PDP Governors’ Forum comprising all elected Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party held its regular meeting on Wednesday, 23rd March, 2022, at Aba, Abia State. The meeting reviewed the excruciating hardship and suffering being meted out to Nigerians by a failed APC led Federal Government; the near collapse of the APC as a viable political party, the readiness of the PDP to take over and offer qualitative leadership options to rescue the nation and issued the following Communique:1. We lament the terrible pain and hardship facing Nigerians in virtually all aspects of life. The meeting noted that life was much…

International Adolescent Health Week, celebrated on the 20 -26th of March yearly, is an opportunity for young people, parents, care givers, health care providers, teachers, advocates and communities to come together and celebrate young people with the goal of working collectively towards improving the health and well-being of the over 1 billion adolescents across the globe. The international theme for year 2022 is titled “Transitions” from childhood to adulthood, physically and mentally from a pre-pandemic life into a life shaped by a pandemic from dependence to independence. In Nigeria, the celebration for the year is titled, transition: Building a case…

Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Good luck Ebele Jonathan has commended ERASKCORP Nigeria Limited for bringing the company down to Bayelsa State maintaining that the establishment of the company will improve the internally generated revenue of the state. Speaking on Thursday in Yenagoa during the unveiling of the ERASKON products, Jonathan stated that the company when operational will also generate more employment for the people especially the locals. He advised that the company should employ more of its staff from the host community. Lamenting that the oil industry supposed to positively impact on the host communities was not doing so,…

Why am I saying all this? The point I am trying to make is this: When you go through a shipwreck when something you held dear is destroyed or shattered, kindle the fire first before you do anything else!A ship that carried Paul and others, while going through a storm was destroyed. Paul held on to just one plank and landed on the island of Malta. He was on his way to Rome to stand before the law makers. The first thing he thought of when he was shipwrecked was not that he needs to build another ship (so he…

Events marking the birthday celebration kick-started with a thanksgiving at John Mary Vianney Catholic Church, Asaba.The thanksgiving was well attended by family members, friends and well wishers drawn from all walk life.At the reception venue, various dignitaries, who graced the occasion eulogized Ezinne as a woman of substance, disciplinarian and a good mother to all around her.Family members, including her son and daughter-in-law described Ezinne as one in a million. Her daughter-in-law described her as a good mother that any woman would want as a mother-in-law.The grandchildren were not left out, as they had words to describe Ezinne as the best…

The Nigeria Police Force, established in 1930 and Africa’s largest police department has proved difficult to effectively manage and control, and has become largely unaccountable to the citizens it is meant to serve.No doubt majority of Nigerian police officers conduct themselves in an exemplary manner, serving in difficult and often dangerous environment, abysmal working conditions, appalling salaries and poor welfares. In 2009 alone, some 250 policemen and women were shot and killed in the line of duty and that number has continued to grow since then to now, attributable to serving as a police officer in what has become one…

Ijaw nation, the Niger Delta, Nigeria, and indeed Africa, have lost a titan with the exit of Ambassador Professor Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu who passed on to glory on 2nd January 2022.A cool, calm and collected teacher and an unflappable diplomat, Ambassador Professor Lawrence B. Ekpebu, right from his days as a student at Harvard University in the mid-1950s when racism was widespread in the United States of America, made Africans proud by demonstrating that it is possible to break barriers, move mountains and raise standards without noise and fanfare but by sheer determination and willpower. He excelled over his peers…