Author: nationalpoint

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and familyThe Nigerian rich and upper middle class folded their arms and allowed Nigeria to go to the dogs. We reasoned we don’t need to care if others go hungry, once we have had our fill. The result is here! We are destined to become losers and geezers. As most of us saunter into middle age, an epidemic of loneliness and social isolation, like never before in the history of Nigeria, is becoming our portion. Our fathers, who retired as teachers, professors, engineers, doctors, civil servants, lawyers, and are now in their seventies and eighties,…

Malami, AGFA southern leadership group has joined the long line of voices in condemnation of the attorney-general of the federation and minister for Justice who recently forgot his unique role of custodian of the Nigerian legal body to shamelessly speak for his Fulani herdsmen currently in the eye of the storm for causing serious security breaches in parts of the country.Malami in a recent reaction to an announcement from southern governors of a ban on open grazing as a means of checking herdsmen impunity and rising insecurity in their zones, suggested that a ban on open grazing should also attract…

Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has commended the Board and Management of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited on the recent commissioning of its corporate headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.In a release signed by the Niger Delta Pressure group’ spokesperson, Hon Ken Robinson, NLNG was applauded for doing what the international oil companies which for decades have been milking the region, destroying the land and livelihood of the people, have failed to do.The release read in parts:“PANDEF is indeed gratified that NLNG decided to relocate its corporate headquarters to Rivers State, where it operates. The development is highly…

Winner of the 2021 AFRICA MATHEMATICS Project Competition is Nigerian Dabotubo Lordson Lawson, from Kalabari kingdom, Rivers State.Datubo is receiving widespread praise for this accomplishment in a season of growing low school attendance by the young. Many young Kalabari no longer treasure education resulting in high school drop-out rates. Membership of violent cult groups is high and many teenagers prefer to be engaged in the dangerous but lucrative artisanal crude oil refining business known as kpofire.The Kalabari were famous for early exposure to Western education in the Niger Delta and had hundreds of highly educated persons including women, who were…

The Rivers State Government says it is pleased to partner with Rotary Club in the quest to positively impact on its communities.Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike stated this during the Rotary Club District 9141 Conference at the Obi Wali International Conference Centre, in Port Harcourt on Friday, May21, 2021.Speaking through his deputy, Dr. Mrs Ipalibo Harry Banigo, Governor Wike, said as a voluntary, not-for-profit international organization, Rotary Club had become a household name, having addressed several service projects and committed service to community and humanity.According to the governor, Rotary, globally known as the World’s First Service Club has always emphasized inclusiveness…

On the evening of Sunday May 23, Vigilante members rescued a man from being beaten to coma at Ojotolane street in Mile 3 Diobu of Port Harcourt.National Point gathered from a human rights platform that the man had booked two girls and agreed to pay N15,000 to each of them for their services.After the show he did a fake crash transfer to them. The ladies saw the alert and without checking their account balance, left.When they got home, however, they realized the alert was fake. In anger, the young ladies mobilized two others and four of them went to the…

Iniubong Umoren, murdered in UyoThe current state of insecurity resulting from failure by the Nigerian government led by President Muhammadu Buhari to uphold its primary obligation to the people-protection of lives and properties-has thrown Nigerian women as mothers, wives, girls into deep pain; a pain so intense that they are unable to shout out.Nigerian women are losing their husbands, sons, daily to bandits, terrorists, Fulani herdsmen, cultists and robbers, more than at any other time in history. They have even become instruments of warfare-captured from their husbands and taken away as sex slaves by bandits and other groups, and all…

Emeritus Prof. E. J. AlagoaProf. E.J in 2019The Ebitimi Banigo Hall Auditorium, University of Port Harcourt Choba venue of the event was packed full. The hall was filled with people of all ages and strata of life yet, as speaker after speaker eulogised the man, academic, prolific author of award winning books, there was a palpable sense of agreement that all the accolades were real, well deserved and more. The occasion was a public celebration by the University of Port Harcourt, of the life and 88th birthday of a simple man, with a deep intellect who enriched lives of people…

STATE OF THE NATIONThe Nigerian Press Organization, comprising of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), and the Nigeria Union Of Journalists (NUJ); after their meeting on Friday May 21, 2021 on the State of the Nation make the following deposition:Nigeria has been embroiled lately in profound socio-economic, political and security challenges that threaten its very existence as reflected in ethnic divisions and separatist agitations in the country, with growing fears that an implosion is imminent.Today, criminality- kidnapping for ransom, banditry, arson, killings – defines the everyday reality for a good number of our…

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 internationals missed the…