Author: nationalpoint

As the acting vice chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt looks deeper into the school’s records to resolve some contentious issues, which attracted serious public condemnation under the immediate past VC, the new helmsman, has been urged to look deeper and address another unwholesome matter, the expulsion of two PhD female students over issues with a self-appointed supervisor.Prof. Steve Okorodudu, the acting VC recently reversed a harsh law introduced by the former VC, Prof. Ndowa E.S Lale that was strongly resisted by students when suggested, leading to the death of a final year student. Its implementation caused agony for…

Dr. Francis NubariDoc, how would you describe the state of the health system in the country?Generally speaking, the health system in the country is in a deplorable state that we expect at least an emergency in that area reason being that, the administration is not being administered the way it should be. Ideally, we are supposed to have a primary healthcare system, a secondary healthcare system and a tertiary healthcare system. Incidentally, the primary system is in existence in its little way but the secondary is completely in a backseat because the secondary healthcare system is supposed to be a…

Our attention has been drawn to renewed threats on the lives of members of staff of Amnesty international by a faceless group which calls itself Center for Africa Liberation and Socio-Economic Rights (CALSER). Although the group claims to be a civil society organization. Suspicion is rife in some quarters that they may just be agents of the Nigerian repressive state which is hell bent on silencing credible voices exposing the atrocities of the government, including gross violations of peoples’ rights.In a recorded video, the group threatened to attack the offices of Amnesty International at Abuja to kill members of staff…

As the world grapples with the challenge of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic for which water is acknowledged a key battle agent, only about 18 million Nigerians, representing less than 10 per cent of the population, have access to pipe-borne water, a new survey on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH NORM) has shown. The survey showed that the total number of Nigerians with access to basic water, sanitation and hygiene services dropped to 18 million people in 2019 from 21 million in the preceding year. It is not clear if the numbers have dropped further in 2020. The WASH NORM report…

The footage from Lekki Tollgate was played prior to the cross-examination of Ahmed Taiwo, the Commander of the 81 Division, Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island. Earlier denial of the military in the Lekki killing of peaceful ENDAR protester continue to meet embarrassing bumps. From initial non-involvement claims to bland bullets and protective live bullet, the military sink deeper in the mud at the Judicial Panel of Inquiry in Lagos. Now, it has been revealed that enough military trucks were deployed to the protest ground. The Nigerian Army deployed no fewer than seven military trucks to the Lekki Tollgate on the…