Author: nationalpoint

Cash-hungry officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have done the unthinkable, selling off to an export company 30 million litres of slop oil reserved in Port Harcourt Refinery as a national strategic stock. The sale, carried out under a controversial bid process, was conceived and personally supervised by the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Refinery, Mustapha Yinusa Yakubu. An export company by name SIGN Oil & Gas emerged the preferred bidder. Industry stakeholders, shocked to the marrow because slop oil has never been exported in the history of the NNPC, consider this latest manoeuvre as a taboo transaction capable…

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, has advised Niger Delta stakeholders to stop blaming Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, the governor of Delta State who, was recently picked as Atiku Abubarkar’s running mate but rather, support him to succeed. The Ijaw Council stated that pulling Okowa down amounts to rejecting the only opportunity available in that political party for the region especially as the PDP is the biggest party in the region with huge followers. The IYC in a statement signed by its president, Peter Timothy Igbifa, advised that instead of pulling Okowa down, all stakeholders should rally round, close their ranks…

A body known as Stallion Group has disclosed that it would encourage potential female Keke riders from Bayelsa State by offering them special discounts and flexible terms of payment to acquire their own tricycles. The group also indicated interest in partnering with the Bayelsa State government on Youth Empowerment, Sports and Agricultural Development. The regional head of Stallion Group in Nigeria, Jayesh Shinde, gave the indication recently during a courtesy call on the deputy governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo in Yenagoa. A statement by the deputy governor’s media aide, Doubara Atasi stated that the group also expressed readiness to provide technical skills…

The Ijaw Youth Council worldwide, has raised an alarm over the strange movements of suspected herdsmen in some riverine communities in the Niger Delta region, warning indigenes of the Ijaw communities to be on red alert to avoid a repeat of the violent killings in Owo, Ondo state. The IYC who made this known in Yenagoa on Monday through its national spokesman, Ebilade Ekerefe, stated that intelligence report available to the council revealed that the movement of strange men under the guise of Fulani herdsmen and non-indigenes is making indigenes of the communities in the region uncomfortable. Ekerefe said the…

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, on behalf of the Planning Committee, we welcome you all to this Press Conference. It is hosted with the objective to give further publicity, through the print, electronic and social media, on the forthcoming South – South Zonal Stakeholders Summit on: “DOMESTICATING STAKEHOLDERS STATUTORY RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROTECTING NIGERIA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND ASSETS,”The Summit shall hold at the Atlantic Hall, Hotel Presidential, Aba Road – Port Harcourt, on 25th and 26th July, 2022. This Summit is a follow up to the successful convention held at the Congress Hall, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja on Monday 28…

Recently, I was a guest at a phone – in – radio program where we discussed on ‘Reducing Gender Violence: aWoman’s perspective’. There were many contributions as the fact remained that GBV is real; a human rights violation that’s been perpetuated for decades and is detrimental to humanity as it rips off its victims Pride, Dignity and Values. Millions of Women are undergoing this dehumanization on daily basis where cultural and traditional practices, as well as religious beliefs, are considered as major causes coupled with economic, environmental and political barriers therewith. Environmental challenges have posed huge threats to young girls…

Communication experts from the academia, media have blamed the declining quality of Nigerian elections on the non-readiness of political parties to reform. Rising from an x-ray of Nigerian elections from to 2019, the experts, who converged in Port Harcourt recently to participate in a global communication conference under the platform of the International Communication Association, Port Harcourt Hub, noted that while the electoral managing body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has been undergoing reforms and trying to improve on its operations, the political parties have remained undemocratic internally holding on to unwholesome practices. Prof Musa in his presentation on…

Fifty-one (51) suspected cultists among others, are currently cooling their heels at the Delta State Police Headquarters following their arrest by the men of the Delta State Police Command. The cultists, who are believed to be members of the Eiye Confraternity, were arrested at Ogwashi-Uku while marking their anniversary. According to the police public relations officer, PPRO, DSP Edafe Bright, acting on a tip-off, CP Ari Muhammed Ali detailed the Command’s Buffalo Patrol team, operatives from Area Command Ogwashi-Uku and Ogwashi-Uku Division, stormed the venue at Big Apple Hotel in Ogwashi-Uku. According to the PPRO, the suspects on sighting the…

Leaders under of the auspices of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) have taken a swipe at Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State for accepting his nomination as a running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The group made their position known in a statement signed by leaders of four groups which include Chief Edwin Clark, for the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) and the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF); Chief Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Afenifere, Dr. Dru Bitrus, the president-general, Middle…

Polobubo Community of the Ijaw Egbema Clan in Warri North Local Government Area Delta State, held a Press Conference June 15, 2022 in Warri to draw attention to the threats to its survival through massive environmental pollution caused by the activities of Shell, Chevron, Conoil and NPDC /Elcrest companies.