Author: nationalpoint

The choice of the title for this piece is deliberate, and it is the outcome of relentless, and agitated, even if cautious reflection over the issue and phenomenon of what has transitioned from a perennial anomaly to an endemic crisis, of increasingly existential dimension for the country.The window of opportunity for resolving this crisis in a manner that augurs well for the nation and het peoples and that mitigates the present and clear danger of a potential descent into the anomie of fratricidal conflict is fast closing; and thence the urgency of now, occasioned by the immediacy of the existential…

By Lorine EmenikeA coalition of civil society organizations in Rivers State has decried the daily shrinking of civic space in the state. Their alarm was raised at a one day press briefing in Port Harcourt on redressing the shrinking civic space in Rivers State, arrested victims of the #EndSARS protest, reappearance of black soot and community advocacy.Lead the advocates, Debbie Effiong said “the form and essence of human rights and democracy and the entrenchment of democracy in Nigeria have undoubtedly become a cause of concerns for citizens,” for which reason Stakeholder Democracy Network, SDN, a Niger Delta focused NGO in…

Cows harassing even neighbourhoodsWomen from the Epie/Atisa communities in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State recently staged a peaceful protest against the menace herdsmen.The women who were waving leaves at the Tombia Roundabout, Etegwe axis of the state capital, also barricaded the ever busy Mbiama/ Yenagoa Road, which is the major road leading into the state capital-to drive home their demand for herdsmen to vacate their farmlands and end the destruction of their crops as agrarian communities.Former governor of the state, Seriake Dickson had during hissecond tenure, set up a committee to enforce restriction of grazing activities to the…

By Constance MejuThe year 2020 was a trauma for Nigerian women. It was bloody, deadly and filled with reports of unimaginable violence breaking out globally against women and children and these fitted squarely with happenings on our own soil.Husbands took out their frustrations on their wives and a few wives who had endured domestic abuses for too long found the serial lockdowns too discomfiting to accept continued violations from their spouses. The result was that reports began to emerge of wives tabbing their husbands to death and even girlfriends killing their unfaithful lovers with knives, etc., while women became on…

Chief Dennis AbudaFirst of all, I want to give honour to who honour is due even at death, Chief Denis Eloniyor Abuda. You were a beacon of hope and light to my community Fugar, Edo North ,Edo State indigenes in United State. You came, saw and conquered but, your killers have murdered peace and they will never know peace either living or dead.September 21 2020, I was kidnapped at Isele Uku for three days on my way from Asaba to Benin in the presence of the Nigeria Police and the Nigeria Army; none came to our rescue. For over 40…

Sling, setting of communities on fire and sundry atrocities as tactics. Though Nigerians, appalled by the development have consistently raised alarm over thince 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari took over the reins of governance in the country, the body language of Fulani herdsmen has changed but, not for positive reasons. From gradual assaults of the citizenry through the destruction of their farmlands, the herdsmen have metamorphosed into bandits brazenly attacking people, properties, farmlands employing kidnapping, kilis ugly new herdsmen way and have called on the president to address the matter to halt the drift from sanity, a clandestine attempt to…

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of a reporter attached to the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) in Port Harcourt, Mrs. Chidiebere Onyia.SP Nnamdi Omoni, the Police Public Relations Officer in Rivers, said Wednesday, that the command had deployed personnel to locate and rescue the reporter from her abductors.He said the commissioner of Police in the state, AIG Joseph Mukan, had ordered the police tactical units to ensure the safe release of Onyia. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that gunmen had kidnapped Onyia, a female reporter with NTA, at about 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday around Woji…