Author: nationalpoint

Just two weeks ago the local media came abuzz with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) celebrating its silver jubilee. The organisation has scored a string of successes despite the problems that have dogged its steps especially since the present crop of executives led by Dr Sam Ogbuku. NDDC operates in nine states with a laundry list of development issues begging for attention . But abrupt and quick changes in leadership make it impossible for consistent conclusive effort at execution, said Sam Ogbuku at last month’s luncheon in Port Harcourt. The other issue with past officials, it has been observed,…

A troubling trend is unfolding in Lagos State. In the aftermath of the recent local government elections, some newly elected officials have embarked on a reckless spree of renaming streets particularly those bearing Igbo names or named after prominent non-indigenes. This is not coincidental; it is a calculated political maneuver rooted in resentment, identity politics, and shortsighted leadership. It’s true that some individuals within the Igbo community, in asserting cultural pride, have crossed into political overreach not just in Nigeria but abroad. A recent example is an Igbo man in Ghana who purchased large tracts of land and declared himself…

Still deep in the controversies surrounding its appointment and inauguration, the board of Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RISIEC) on Monday, July 28th, 2025 unveiled what it called a revised timetable for the 2025 local government council elections in Rivers State. In it, RISIEC fixed the election of council chairmen and councilors for the 30th of August, 2025. In doing so, it cancelled the previous date of the election, August 9th, that was fixed by the dissolved board headed by Hon. Justice Adolphus Enebeli (Rtd.) Expectedly, the new timetable has attracted wide rejection by the people, lawyers, civil society and…

Port Harcourt, July 31, 2025 — The Rivers State branch of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has rejected the recently announced timetable for the 2025 Local Government Council Elections, describing it as unconstitutional, illegal, and a misuse of public resources. The revised timetable, released by the newly reconstituted Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RISIEC) on Monday, July 28, fixes the elections for Saturday, August 30, 2025. This move effectively overrides an earlier schedule set by the previous RISIEC under the leadership of Hon. Justice Adolphus Enebeli, which had slated the polls for August 9, 2025. In a strongly worded statement…

Suspects in the abduction of Justice Ebiyerin Omukoro have narrated how they committed the crime. Eight of the suspects, which included six males and two females, were on Thursday paraded by security agencies led by the Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Francis Idu, and the State Director of the Department of State Services, Mr. Adedapo Amao, in Yenagoa. The suspects were said to be in the custody of the DSS, which coordinated the rescue of the victim and arrest of the abductors. The Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, on Wednesday, during the state executive council meeting, disclosed…

A frontline human rights organization in Port Harcourt, PILEX Center has warned Rivers People off the planned local government elections scheduled for the state by the sole administrator,    Ibaas in August.Speaking through a press release dated July 21, 2025, Courage Nsirimovu, Pilex Center Excutive Director described the proposed election as illegal, unconstitutional and billed to be a waste of Rivers human and financial resources. Urging Nigerians and Rivers people to revisit the recent utterances of the Vice President of the Federation, Shettimma, who spoke up at a book launch in veiled condemnation of President Tinubu’s declaration of a state of…

A profound concern regarding a perceived “leadership vacuum” in the Niger Delta region took center stage at the Special Isaac Boro Memorial Symposium held on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Organized by the NDPiD Symposium Board, the event aimed to reflect on the legacy of the late Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, a pivotal figure in the fight for the rights of the Ijaw people and other ethnic groups in the Niger Delta, while also addressing contemporary leadership challenges. The symposium’s communique, signed by Annah Buseri (NDPiD President) and Martins Biu (NDPiD Secretary), highlighted Boro’s innate leadership abilities, fueled by the…

A wave of support is sweeping across Delta State from various communities for Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited (TSSNL) as ethnic agitations threaten to undermine its crucial pipeline surveillance contract. Community leaders and youth organizations from Isoko and Urhobo nations have vociferously condemned calls for the termination or splitting of Tantita’s contract, describing them as “calculated distractions orchestrated by criminal cartels” and “corruption fighting back.” A coalition of Isoko Patriot and President-Generals (PGs) of Isoko oil-bearing communities held a press conference in Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area, to express their strong disapproval of the campaigns against Tantita. Chief Idonis…

The Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF) Worldwide has concluded its annual convention with a series of bold demands, including an N18 trillion compensation from the Federal Government for alleged genocide committed against Igbos during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). The forum also called on all Nigerian political parties to field presidential candidates of Igbo extraction in the 2027 general election to foster a “sense of belonging.” In a communique issued after its two-day summit held between July 9th and 10th, 2025, the NUF asserted that over three million innocent Igbo civilians were “massacred” during the war, describing it as “pure planned…

Abuja, Nigeria – The Southern Nigeria People’s Mandate (SNPM), a pan socio-political organization, has issued a scathing assessment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s two years in office, declaring his administration’s performance as “zero in all sectors.” The group, in a statement by its President, Augustine Chukwudum, warned the world of what it termed the “failure” of the current government, citing a drastic increase in hardship for Nigerians. According to the SNPM, President Tinubu’s 2023 campaign promises to alleviate suffering have been unfulfilled. “A day after Tinubu was sworn in, prices of goods started skyrocketing,” Chukwudum stated, lamenting that instead of…