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Her Excellency,Dr Martha Udom Emmanuel,First Lady& ChairpersonFeYREP, Akwa Ibom State.Very warm greetings Mother of Akwa Ibom State!I am certain this Open Letter will meet you in good spirit and health even as your soul prospers.I thank you for your unrelenting and unwavering service to the less privileged in our society, with particular bias for widows, orphans, the physically challenged, expectant and nursing mothers and yes, The Girl child.I wish to draw to your notice, the video trending online, which has since gone viral, about the little girl, Precious, allegedly caught in the web of a sex orgy that went wrong,…

There is anger in the land; one engendered by the failure of the federal government to do the needful at the right time. The atmosphere is one of intense worry as the lives of Nigerians have become worthless even inside the country. In the month of January 2020 alone, a record 320 persons lost their lives to bandits operating as Boko Haram, cattle herdsmen, kidnappers or armed robbers. Thirty just died one day in Borno State.Travelling by road, sea or even by train has become a terror as bandits strike at any point holding commuters to ransom. Even farming is…

By Iduozee Paul, BeninThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) on Friday led hundreds of their members and non-state actors on a street march against the dangers of corruption in the country.The rally was organized by the EFCC and the NYSC with the theme “Nigerian Youths March Against Corruption” in Benin.Also there were non-state actors such as the Edo Civil Society O Organisations, Organised Labour, the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), the media and other interest bodies, with anti- corruption songs.They marched through the King’s Square carrying banners with the words,…

Leader of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has called on Bayelsans to shun all acts of violence and lawlessness with assurance that the mandate taken away from the APC by the Supreme Court and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) will be restored.He apologized to President Muhammedu Buhari and his wife, Aisha Buhari for the disruption of schedule as arrangements had been concluded for their travel to Bayelsa to witness the inauguration of the APC governorship candidate as governor of Bayelsa State.The former governor stated these in a statement on…

By our ReporterA man, known as Bestman from Nwagbara family in Nkpor village, Rumuolumeni Community in Rivers State was stabbed to death by his wife Thelma in the early hours of Thursday February 13, 2020. Cause of the killing is yet to be known.National Point gathered from a close family source that the murder of the man, second son of the family whose parents are still alive, came as a surprise.The source said, “I don’t know what happened but devil has used the woman to cause the untimely death of her husband. No matter the level of the problem even…

By Mbah Okemsinachi, YenagoaKing Paul SeideiFor members of Bilabiri Community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, it has been intense agony, suffering, lamentation and fear following the invasion of the coastal community on January 17, 2020 by a joint army and naval operation who with sporadic shooting, forced the indigenes to flee into the swampy forest for safety. The invaders subsequently burnt down targeted houses and everything within which have rendered elders, men, women and innocent children homeless and helpless.Before the invasion by the military men who surrounded and attacked the community with 21 gunboats for reasons yet…

Chima IkwunadoLate Chima Ikwunado’s family, the police, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), members of Ohanaze Ndigbo, some traders at Ikoku spare parts markets, and medical experts were among those who went to UPTH to identify the body and carry out an autopsy on Chima, the mechanic that was killed in police custody by members of E-Crack Unit of the Rivers State Command recently.After a long campaign following the gruesome death, it was agreed that the family would come with the police on Monday for identification and a fresh autopsy on the body since the earlier claimed autopsy by the police was…

Scene from the presentationThe Center for Environment human rights and Development, CEHRD, has unveiled a report on Environment, Health, Human Rights and Gender Baseline for Ogoni land Clean –Up.The research outcome was launched at the Reitz Continental Hotel, Abuja on Thursday February 6, 2020.Prof. Nenibarini Zabbey, coordinator of CEHRD said the study was done with proper quality control in collaboration with the International Association for Impact Assessment explaining that the exercise became necessary as considerable time had elapsed between when UNEP conducted the baseline research that declared Ogoniland contaminated and now causing changes in the environment.“There is a shift in…

PreciousAs the president of ALA UCHI WOMEN Development Initiative, I am calling on other organizations, human rights organizations, NGOs to fight for the release of this innocent girl, Precious who was taken advantage of by her client in a hotel which lead to his death, by taking an overdose of sex pills to inflict more pains on her. Please she might be a victim of anything but we need to fight for her to go and sin no more. She even tried to look for help for him from the hotel management‘Whether the police or the deceased’s family that is…

By Mbah Okem Green, YenagoaSenator Douye DiriThe Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Douye Diri now governor of Bayelsa State said all he needed to rewrite the result that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) presented to the public during the state’s November 16, governorship election was wisdom.Sen. Diri who, took to his Facebook handle shortly after the Supreme Court nullified the election of governor-elect, David Lyon and his deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo on Thursday, February 13, 2020, expressed optimism that the 2020 is a year of victory, laughter and prosperity.A five-man panel of the Apex court led by Justice Mary…