Author: nationalpoint

As the people of the South South continue to decry the non-attendance of federal government representatives for a crucial zonal meeting earlier this week, the   Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has described the failure of the federal government delegation to show up for a meeting, planned at its instance, with key stakeholders of the South-South Geopolitical Zone, as “one insult too many”.The meeting, which was scheduled to hold in Port Harcourt, Tuesday November 17, to discuss critical national issues, was botched at the last minute, after the governors, traditional rulers, clergy, elders, leaders, women and youths of the six South-South States…

Gov. Douye DiriBayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has again extended a hand of fellowship  to all those that filed petitions in court against his election.Governor Diri in his reaction to Wednesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court, which dismissed the last batch of cases against him and his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, said the litigants were neither his enemies nor enemies of Bayelsa.He said they only exercised their rights by going to court and that he did not consider the litigations as personal regardless of the fact that they were a distraction.His Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, said in…

Governor Douye Diri testifying during the church programme at Chosen Revival ground, LagosMy situation is known to everyone in Nigeria and beyond. Last year November 16th was the date for the governorship election in Bayelsa and Kogi states. As you are aware, the outcome of that election was criticised both inside and outside Nigeria as one of the worst elections ever conducted in this country. At the end of the day, winners were declared and I was alleged to have lost that election. And so, the only thing I could do was turn to my Father in Heaven.Before that election, several people…

Bayelsa State Government, on Saturday, commenced distribution of relief materials to victims of flood-ravaged communities in the eight local government areas of the state.The distribution is in fulfillment of Governor Douye Diri’s promise when he led top government functionaries on an on-the-spot assessment of flooded communities in the state.A statement by his Chief Press Secretary Mr. Daniel Alabrah, said the governor, who was represented by Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Konbowei Benson, noted that the distribution was the government’s own way of cushioning the negative impact of flooding on the people.He said the government was not unaware of the…

Victims of the November 13, 2019 dastardly attack on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members and supporters in Ogbolomabiri-Nembe had cause to smile on Thursday night as the Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, announced immediate employment for the survivors and relations of those that lost their lives.The governor also directed immediate promotion for victims that are already in the state civil service as well as the Commissioner for Health to take over the medical bills and treatment of those still undergoing treatment.His Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, said in a statement that the governor made the pronouncements at a…

By Constance MejuKen Saro-WiwaThe federal government has been called upon to exonerate late environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight whose lives were horrifically terminated by the Nigerian government over trumped up charges by the Nigerian government in connivance with Shell over the killing of four prominent Ogoni sons.This was part of resolutions reached at the end of a one-day environmental summit organized by Environmental rights action and friends of the earth Nigeria and some civil society organizations in honour of the 25th anniversary of the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa, November 12, 2020, at Visa Karena Hotel Port Harcourt…

By Mbah Okemsinachi, Yenagoa In line with ills accompanying the year 2020, residents of Bayelsa State have continued groaning in pains as they recount loss of assets worth billions of naira following the perennial annual flood that hit the state and its environs amidst the ENDSARS crisis rocking the country.The flood which submerged the entire state upland areas has caused severe damages to both public and private properties, left many homeless, with the business community plunged into huge loss. This came barely few months after the country stepped out of the scourge of the global Covid-19 pandemic.However, expressing concern over victim’s…

By Mbah  Okemsinachi, YenagoaVice-President Yemi Osinbajo, former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and former governor of the state, Chief Henry Seriake Dickson, were among prominent personalities that graced the 9th Bayelsa State Thanksgiving Day on Monday.The event which held at the 15,000-seat Ecumenical Centre at Igbogene near the state capital, Yenagoa, also had in attendance the national chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, members of the party’s national working committee, clergymen, as well as captains of industry.Governor DouyeDiri, again, extended his hand of fellowship…

We at the Rivers State Civil Society Coalition commend the setting up of the Panel on Police Brutalities in Rivers State by the state government led by Nyesom Wike. We congratulate the panel chairman and members, particularly the CSOs representative in the panel, Comrade Karl Chinedu Uchegbu, zonal chairman of the CLO, the foremost human rights organization in the country.Although we recognize that the task assigned to them is daunting, we are confident that they possess the experience, expertise, and all that it takes to achieve the aims and objectives for which the panel was set up.The panel is a…

We at the South South Zone of the Civil Liberties Organisation, C.LO, are seriously disturbed by the level of carnage allegedly perpetrated by Nigerian soldiers at Obigbo in Rivers State. Scores of citizens were reportedly gunned down while the lucky ones were chased into the bush where they stayed for several days, facing starvation.It is wrong, unacceptable and unjustifiable for a country’s army to be let loose on its people for whatever reason. It is very disturbing that the Obigbo carnage by the military took place few days after the same military was let loose on peaceful protesters at Lekki…