Author: nationalpoint

The Nigerian authorities must ensure that Shell’s planned sale of its operations in the Niger Delta, does not lead to a further deterioration in human rights in a region blighted by decades of oil pollution. Amnesty International has documented grievous and enduring human rights abuses resulting from oil contamination in the area, where Shell has operated since the 1950s. Amnesty International is concerned that the proposed sale will deny people already harmed access to adequate remedy, and potentially expose many more to future abuses. The report tainted sale, recommends a series of safeguards and actions to help protect the rights…

Prof Joy Ezeilo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), law teacher and founder of WACOL, says she is fully in support of creation of state police in Nigeria. Ezeilo said this in a statement through her X social media handle. She lamented the failure of government to implement the recommendations of various judicial panels of inquiry and to ensure justice for the Nigerian people. “I was a part of the #ENDSARS Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality. “It’s disheartening that justice has not been served, and the decisions from the various Panels of Inquiry nationwide have yet to be…

My name is Ayo Okotie from Otujeremi Community in Delta State. The PIX boards have been instituted for a longtime now but there is nothing happening, no information to community members. And of course, the boards that they have constituted, they just have only one woman in the board and that one woman was intentionally picked because she is not literate, and because she is not literate, she can’t relate, can’t interact the way that she is supposed to relate. So, this is a concern for us. The members of the board, we actually don’t know them. It looks like…

In as much as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has an inalienable right to have his style of governance, the recent slant of his administration to create toothless regional organisaitons all over the place is becoming mindboggling. At the last count, development commissions are springing up in the North West, North East, South West, South South and South East. At best, these quasi regional organizations are becoming increasingly like retirement homes for aged activists, expired politicians and their ilk. Without mincing words, the propensity of the government in power to replicate regional development commissions whilst state governments are funded copiously leaves…

The newly inaugurated Rivers State Investment Promotion Agency, RSIPA, has said that it will work with ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to promote ease of doing business and improve the operating environment for investors in the state. The agency also said that an integrated one-stop-shop platform that will enable the sharing of useful information and opportunities that exist in the respective MDAs and various sectors of the State’s economy has been put together for potential investors to access and feed their business and investment aspirations. Speaking during its maiden stakeholders’ engagement session at the Government House, in Port Harcourt on…

Gentlemen of the pressProtocol SEIZURE OF RIVERS ALLOCATION – WE SHALL TRIUMPH RIVDAL expresses its strong condemnation of the judgment by the Federal High Court, led by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, which bars the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from releasing the monthly allocations for Rivers State. This ruling is not only harsh but is, in our view, unconstitutional and illegal. Such a decision threatens the wellbeing of millions of Rivers people, placing undue hardship on citizens who rely on critical state services funded through these allocations. RIVDAL firmly condemns this judgment, viewing it as an affront to the constitutional rights…

…Says he’ll pay salaries this week …Atiku warns judiciary against setting Rivers on fire Rivers State Governor, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara, has said that his government was not shaken at all despite Wednesday’s order by a Federal High Court in Abuja halting the Central Bank of Nigeria from further releasing the monthly allocation of Rivers State. Fubara, who spoke at a special thanksgiving in Port Harcourt to mark the one year of the failed attempt to impeach him from office by an embattled faction of Rivers State House of Assembly, said, “They said we would not last a week. But here…

In politics, sustainable outcomes, even though pursued vigorously, cannot flourish where alienation and coercion thrive. Only collaborative leadership can foster the resilience that gives political relationships desired longevity. Between the State and Local Government structures, such relationships should remain unbroken. It was so in Rivers State. Year after year to wit. Never had there been an absence. One existed, actively much like the other. The people stay in the Local Governments. Mobilisation machines reside with them. It is for them that policies and programmes are implemented. So, they cannot, therefore, be alienated from the governance offered at the State level.…

Commercial transport operators in Nigeria have vowed that so long as fuel prices continue to rise, they would have no option than to transfer the burden of paying for it on commuters. The operators said they should not be blamed for their action, which they admitted might be harsh and painful. They said they hardly make any gain from their business. Commercial bus and taxi drivers who spoke to National Point Newspaper at different locations stressed that they if they bore the burden alone they would be pushed out of business. Mr. Chikezie Onyeije, a commercial bus driver operating along…

Organized by the African Climate Justice Collective (ACJC), the APCC aimed to provide a platform for African voices, long marginalized from international climate negotiations, to demand justice and solutions tailored to the continent’s specific needs. Participants at the APCC, representing grassroots movements, civil society organizations, and climate experts, issued a strong declaration condemning the domination of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC Conference of Parties) by Global North countries and corporations. These entities, the declaration claims, continue to exploit Africa’s resources while failing to address the climate crisis that disproportionately affects the continent. The declaration emphasizes the…