Author: nationalpoint

The Human Rights for Development Alliance joins the rest people in the world, including governments, intergovernmental organizations, Indigenous and minority communities and other civil society organizations to celebrate this year’s World Ocean Day on June 8, 2021.Coming on the heels of the just celebrated World Environment Day, it clearly demonstrates the deepening concern that the global community is showing towards protecting our ecosystem, in this case, the marine ecosystem.Undoubtedly, Oceans form an essential part of the web of life and sustains a greater percentage of life’s biodiversity and livelihoods.It is regrettable that in recent years, the activities of man are…

I woke up this morning to see that Twitter was trending with multiple terms related to the state of affairs in Nigeria. I found this rather odd and here’s why.I use Twitter more as a listening tool, to keep my finger on the pulse of things. One look at the trending topics, and you could have a summary of current affairs for the day. When I left Nigeria last year, I updated my location on the Twitter app to ‘United States’ as I now wished to be updated on current affairs in the US.Consequently, whenever something significant happened in Nigeria,…

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) wishes to express its concerns over the restriction on twitter by the Nigerian government. MOSOP considers this decision to be inappropriate, unjustifiable and an assault on the rights of Nigerians to free speech and association.MOSOP is of the opinion that Nigeria’s Twitter ban is not only improper, it is derogatory and diminishes the status of the government, being in response to an internal decision of Twitter, an independent, private business network.It is our opinion that the action of Twitter in response to a perceived violation of its terms of service…

Dear Mr President,Your Excellency, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI,Thank you for your speech for which we all waited with bated breaths.Thank you for promising to work on the present situation of volatile insecurity in Nigeria.Mr President Sir, I must remind you, that you cannot put out fire with fire. Your administration has rehabilitated unrepentant terrorists, has paid monies out to kidnappers, protected rampaging herdsmen even as they sack villages burning, looting and raping innocent women.BUTWhen South East Nigeria requests a referendum, when they complain they feel excluded from opportunities in Nigeria, to mention just a few grievances, there is no negotiation, no…

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, says the Ogoni people will resist any coercion into Ibo Biafra. Speaking in Eeken in Khana Local Government Area, rivers State on Sunday, where he met with the Kingdom coordinators and chapter leaders of MOSOP in Babbe Kingdom, president of MOSOP, Fegalo Nsuke, said the Ogoni people will resist any force of coercion into an exclusive Ibo nation whose design is to advance the powers and domination of the Ibo people over the Ogonis of the Niger Delta region.A release signed to that effect by Alex Akori, secretary-general, MOSOP dated…

As the world continues to  condemn the Nigerian Government’s rash suspension of Twitterin Nigeria, the PDP Caucus of the House of Representatives in the National Assembly has asked thefederal government to rescind its order or face legal action.In a press release titled, Suspension of Twitter Nigeria,signed by the caucus leader, Hon KingsleyChinda sent to National Pointdaily.com, the lawmakers dubbed the government act unlawful and dangerous to democracy.“We condemn the Federal Government’s decision to suspend Twitter in the strongest possible terms and call on the authorities to immediately rescind this decision in the interest of free speech and the rule of…

Consternation has overtaken many persons in the Ijaw youth activism family over the whereabouts of the President of the Ijaw Youth Council Comrade Timothy Peter Igbifa who was reported to have been ‘kidnapped’ by unknown persons on Tuesday. This strange development happened just as the D-Day,Tuesday May, 25ththe day announced for a show down with the Federal government, to announce a substantive Board to run the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC landed. The ‘Mother of Protests’ was anticipated as a tactic to return the Niger Delta to its core forte of activism for development.Igbifa after the crashNational…