Author: nationalpoint

My Dear Good People of Rivers State,We were constrained by the continuing increase in the transmission of COVID-19 cases to impose further measures to mitigate the spread of the virus in our State, including a 24 hour total lockdown on Obio/Akpor and Port Harcourt Local Government Areas since Thursday 7th May 2020.These measures are neither new nor extra-ordinary. They are the very standard measures that are universally applied across all countries to fight the spread of this pandemic in the absence of any preventive vaccine or therapeutics.These very measures had been in place for over four weeks in Lagos and…

The Urhobo Political Movement ; a socio-political umbrella of well versed Deltans of Urhobo extraction, at home and in the diaspora,  berates the federal government for the exclusion of Deltans from the conditional cash transfer programme, insisting that there was no justification whatsoever for such a condemnable act. Moreso, when Sadiya Umar Farouk, the Hon. Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has not been able to justify this vexatious exclusion.The Urhobo Political Movement stated that at the twilight of the announcement of the programme, the leaders of the group alongside other community leaders swung into action, compiling…

I have read several articles and watched videos of people condemning the River State government demolition of property ( Hotel) of  Princewill Osaronwa OSAROEJIJI. I appreciate their concerns and worries as Democrats and law abiding citizens cos, I would have screamed louder if I am not an Eleme son. However, knowing Governor Wike well, they ought to ask questions and make further  investigations as to know what really happened.Note that the said hotel belongs to Princewill Osaronwa OSAROEJIJI of Alode in Eleme LGA of Rivers State.The demolished hotel has been a hideout for criminal gangs and venue of cult meetings…

The demolished Prodest Hotel, ElemeFormer President of the Nigeria Bar Association,  NBA, Chief Onueze Okocha (SAN) has declared that the Executive Orders signed by Rivers State Governor,  Nyesom Ezenwo Wike are appropriate.Okocha (SAN) advised anyone who is uncomfortable with the Executive Orders  should approach the courts.In an interview on Monday,  Chief  Okocha (SAN) lauded the steps taken by the Rivers State Governor to fight coronavirus as well thought out and well advised.  He said the steps will help check the spread of coronavirus.He said: “I believe strongly that the measures taken by the Rivers State Government, particularly the Governor, Nyesom…

Keniebi OkokoNumbing shock, is still the dominant response expressed by the vast majority of persons following news of the death of Keniebi Okoko from a failed surgical procedure at a Lagos hospital. Okoko was a politician and billionaire businessman with interests in oil and the power sector. He was a pastor with the Salvation Ministry, a popular Pentecostal church in Rivers and Bayelsa states. The 42 year old Okoko from the oil rich Obunagha community in Bayelsa state, was the son of Prof. Kimse Okoko, one time President of the Ijaw Nation Congress, highly respected for his vocal, strong leadership…

Dr. George Allen FenteDeath continues its grim reaping preoccupation, uncaring of what humanity considers its pressing focus. The Niger Delta and Ijaw nation, locked down by the imperatives of containing the ravages of the CORONA VIRUS 19 is shocked numb as families and friends mourn the loss of two personalities linked by politics and now death, in different circumstances.A Political Colossus And End of A GenerationChief George Allen Fente died April 11,2020 reportedly from health challenges related to renal failure. One of Nembe Bayelsa State’s prominent sons, he was a major political fixer and mixer. The stories of what he…

Dr. George Allen FenteApril 11, 2020 will go down in the annals of Bayelsa State’s political history books as a black Saturday. For on this day, news of the death of Dr. George Allen Fente, founder and chief executive officer of Royal FM 95.5 and ITV, Yenagoa, broke. He died after a brief illness. Dr. Fente’s death is shocking as well as unbelievable as he exuded an aura of indefatigability in his intercourse with people in recent times.It must be said that Dr. Fente’s indefatigability was a factor of his life as exemplified in his various vocational callings. As a…

Lagos, Nigeria, May 3, 2020IMS is delighted to join the rest of the world in celebrating the World Press Freedom Day 2020 with the theme: Journalism Without Fear or Favour.We are in a time of great complexity. The global community struggles against COVID-19 which has infected more than three million persons and claimed more than  two hundred thousand lives.Journalism finds itself in a situation where it has to provide information and education to diverse audiences in which there is limited understanding of the nature of this disease and destructive potentials. In many contexts, misinformation and disinformation are competing vigorously for the public space.…