Author: nationalpoint

The Rivers State chief judge, Justice Simeon Amadi, has decried the low quality of houses built and donated to the judiciary by past administrations. The CJ, said this last week at the opening of the 2024/25 legal year mock court session held at the Ceremonial Court in the Port Harcourt High Court Complex. Justice Amadi, who said his plea is coming on the heels of defects noticed from such buildings at handovers and subsequent use. While reeling out his achievements and challenges, he appealed to the governor of Rivers State to involve the state judiciary while constructing offices for its…

Rivers State governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has said that those who ruthlessly attempted to end his administration undemocratically, had boasted then to achieve their purpose quickly to boot him out of office within one week but failed woefully. The governor said he had not only stayed in office for more than one year and still counting, his administration is forging on strongly with sterling leadership, focused on delivering social services and quality projects to Rivers people. Fubara was speaking at the Rivers State Day of Thanksgiving, Praise and Worship, held at the Main Bowl of Alfred Diette-Spiff Civic Centre, Port…

I write to express my anger and disgust at a recent order given by a Federal High Court in Abuja ordering the Federal Accountant General, Central Bank, Zenith Bank and others not to give monthly statutory allocations to Rivers State government any longer. Even though I am not a municipal lawyer, it makes no logic that a statutory allocation meant for the people of Rivers State would be withheld for whatever spurious reason. The enemies of the state have really worked overtime to spin these present turn of events. More worrisome, is the speed with which the pro-Wike forces were…

Climate change is increasing the risk of floods worldwide particularly in coastal and lowland areas because of its role in extreme weather and sea rise conditions. Delta State is one of the major states in Nigeria prone to flood year in year out, except there is no heavy downpour and this has become an annual occurrence since the massive flood of 2012 which ravaged many communities and displaced thousands of the residents, submerging their farmlands as well. Following a two-day heavy rainfall on Monday July 8 and Tuesday, July 9, 2024, major streets in Warri South, Warri South-West, Okpe, Patani,…

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…