Author: nationalpoint

By Ibiba DonPedroDikio who spoke at a Stakeholder gathering in Yenagoa Wednesday, November 18,2020 to seek understanding and to reposition the beleaguered Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration, DDR programme in the Niger Delta noted that:‘This approach of protest, protest is antithetical to the progress of the region. We have to find creative ways of bringing back business to the region’.The interim administrator who is on a Niger Delta wide tour themed, ‘Back To The Region Tour’, in responding to the myriad of concerns about the beleaguered programme which is thumbed down for the culture of fraud, including a scheme of corruption…

By Contance Meju, Henry EferegboFor Ogonis, Niger Delta, Nigerian activists, government and the environment world, November has assumed a month of significant events. On November 9, 1995, the then military government of Gen. Sani Abacha stamped itself as a government with impatience for dissenting voices. It gruesomely snuffed life off a world recognized environmental activist, playwright, poet and great advocate for ethnic nationality, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogonis over the killing of four pro-government Ogoni leaders.The killing of Ken and the others was the climax of a long series of brutalization, dehumanization and destruction of hundreds of Ogoni lives…

Schools reopen for the new academic session, the Rivers State ministry of education has warned principals, and heads of schools to banish the thought of collecting any fees or levies from pupils/students as violation will attract serious consequences.In a release sent out to the media and the public to this effect signed by the commissioner for education, Prof Kaniye Ubeku, parents are directed to call the number 07030967868 to report any found violating the order, which is from the governor.The full statement read:As schools reopen for the new academic year, 2020/2021session, Principals and Heads of Schools are hereby, reminded that…