Author: nationalpoint

..Demand Representation, Passing Of Gender BillsAs some Nigerians celebrate the passage of bills permitting amendments to the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is tears of frustration, disappointment and deflation for Nigerian females, activists and non-activists as well as surprise and pity from development partners.Hopes had been high that with an opportunity for constitutional review and amendment by the 9th National Assembly, issues of poor representation of women in political and public decision making positions, indegenship for their foreign husbands, the long demanded 35 per cent affirmative action and other gender concerns would be…

– Re: Let’s Make This Man Nigerian Next President -By Abdulkadir Salaudeen Abdulkadir Salaudeen wrote on February 17, 2022 as published by Opinion Nigeria, which I had read with keen interest and I quote, “The upcoming general elections in Nigeria deserve our participation—all of us. I know we must be tired of the present leadership through which is many calamities were (and are being) let loose on us. “Haven’t we observed that Nigeria is always leading from the behind in every index of development? We ought to have also observed that we are always leading from the extreme top when it…

An explanation has been offered to pinpoint exactly why international oil companies are leaving Nigeria and shifting their business to other oil countries in Africa and elsewhere. Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Mr. Mele Kyari has stated that the companies are moving to places where they may add value to the efforts towards carbon net-zero commitment an agenda of the current global Climate action programme to stem the impact of the earth warming reality.Mr Kyari spoke in the course of an address in a speech during the 2022 Nigerian International Energy Summit (NIES2022) in Abuja on Monday…

Rivers State civil servants have in the wake of Governor Nyesom Wike’s bill abolishing gratuity for retiring civil servants last year, coupled with the accumulated backlog of pensioners entitlements, are embarking on massive voluntary retirement.The move is, to help them escape the bill recently passed by the Wike administration which will put an end to gratuities for retiring civil servants scheduled to take effect from June this year.Workers with less than two years to their retirement dates and those whose date are dew in a few months’ time, are mostly affected and they cut across parastatals and ministries in the…

The head coach of the Nigerian senior national team included 31 players in his initial list for the June friendly but has now pruned it down significantly.   Having featured in the 31-man roster made public last week, Villarreal’s Samuel Chukwueze and Almeria’s Umar Sadiq are among the nine players who did not make the revised list of invited stars named for Nigeria’s friendly clash against Cameroon in June.Franco-German manager Gernot Rohr had previously included Chukwueze and Sadiq in the squad he was preparing to take on the Indomitable Lions on June 4 in Austria. But the two former youth…

concerned about the wanton killings in the country by state and non-state actors, astern Rights CSOs and Intelligentsia Coalition (a coalition of 40 Rights CSOs and Intelligentsia bodies), Intersociety has invited members of the public in the east including town unions, human rights and Christian faith activists or leaders particularly in Igbo land, parts of Benue, Kogi and Edo and Delta, Anambra, Rivers, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Abia, Enugu and Ebonyi  states, to report any human rights violation in their areas by the following security personnel including the Army, Navy, Air Force), SSS, Police and its various operational squads.…

for the emergence of the presidential flag bearers of the mainstream political parties from the South West. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo respected the agreement and handed over to the North in the person of Musa Yar’Adua. Again, Goodluck Jonathan, a Southerner, respected the gentleman agreement and handed over to the North in the person of President Muhammadu Buhari. Therefore, the least that is expected from the North is a show of profound gratitude to the entire South for their large heart, equanimity and sportsmanship. Furthermore, it is in the interest of every Nigerian that there should be a paradigm shift to…

History is kind to those who positively impact society. The General Overseer of the Redeem Christian Church of God ( RCCG), Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, Pastor Felix Omobude and president, Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Bishop Francis Wale Oke have extolled the positive impacts and leadership qualities of late Archbishop Andrew Benson Idahosa.They paid tribute to the late scion of Pentecostal movement in Nigeria at the 1st Archbishop Benson Idahosa Memorial Lecture organized by the Benson Idahosa University, Benin city, Edo state.In their individual submissions, they said Archbishop Benson Idahosa still lives on, that he has not died because…

HWPL Statement on Human Rights Crisis in MyanmarWe, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), express deep concern over the situation in Myanmar, which has caused casualties and posed grave threats to human rights.The recent efforts of the Myanmar military to suppress nonviolent protests have led to dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. The number is still continuing to increase.Human life must not be disregarded in any circumstances. No conflict of interest can justify violence against civilians, and no interest of any group can prevail over human life. Using violence to suppress peaceful protests and silence voices for…