Author: nationalpoint

A gender based advocacy group, Greenleaf Advocacy and Empowerment Center, Friday, February9, trained community women on the use of air quality monitoring Equipment to check Pollution. The training, which held in Aleto, Eleme, Rivers State, engaged rural women from several communities across the Eleme Local Government Area. Also in attendance, were expert environmentalists, who took participants through what constitutes good and polluted and educated them air quality reading of particulate matters using android phones and air note monitor methods. The project was a sensor based case study of Ogale Eleme.,  The women and a few men in their midst, were…

A helicopter transporting Herbert Wigwe, the CEO of Access Holdings has crashed and killed him and 5 others in California. We learnt that the chopper was bound for Las Vegas when it crashed near a border city between Nevada and California on Friday night. The US government confirmed all on board dead.Wigwe was travelling with his wife, son and a lawyer Bimbo Ogunbanjo.Wigwe one of accomplished Rivers persons in business hailed from Isiokpo in Ikwerre LGA. He was the son of Shyngle Wigwe.

As long time key observers and experts in the operations and politics of SHELL and other Multinational Oil Companies exploring and exploiting Petroleum from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria since 1956 till date, we are not at all surprised that the Management of Shell Plc based at its London Headquarters, announced its decision to sell its claimed 30% Share of the NNPC, SHELL, ELF and Agip Joint Venture Onshore Assets in the Region to some companies for $2.4b under the false excuses that this is due to declining crude oil production caused by crude theft, pipeline vandalism, unrest in…

On the 16th of January 2024, Shell announced on its website and social media platform X that it had reached an agreement to sell its Nigerian onshore subsidiary SPDC to a consortium of domestic and international oil companies for a total net fee of $2.8 billion. However, the finalization of the transaction is dependent on the approval of the Nigerian Federal Government. As civil society organizations in Nigeria who have worked in the Niger Delta in the context of oil and gas extraction and its attendant ecological, economic, social, and health impacts, we have keenly observed the scheming by Shell…

The National Probity and Value for Nation Building Organisation has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the renewal of the Pipeline Surveillance Contract of TANTITA Security Company The group through its spokesperson appraised the work done so far in the fight against crude oil theft in the last one year. With excitement, the spokesperson for the group, Mr. Adewale Balogun, lauded the arrest of the vessel MT KALI and its crew by TANTITA Security Company owned by Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at the Pennington Oil Field in Bayelsa…

George Oppong Weah is the story of an African child who rose from the slums of Clara Town, Monrovia to glittering heights in Europe and America but never lost his sense of purpose. Rather, after he had become quite rich and famous, he returned home to give back part of his wealth, and overcame serious obstacles by entrenched local and foreign interests to lead Liberia. He is holding his head high in the process of exiting the Presidency; leaving yet another positive example to be emulated, not just by Liberian youths, but also people all over the continent. Weah, son…

The visit of the Hon Minister of Environment Hon. Balarabe Abbas Lawal to HYPREP on 19th and 20th December, 2023 for the commissioning of water schemes in Ebubu, Korokoro Kpean and Terabor witnessed the symbolic planting of mangroves in Bomu, Gokana/inspection of health facilities provided by HYPREP in Terabor General Hospital. The Ogoni Clean-Up concerns four local government areas – Eleme, Gokana, Khana and Tai. A lot of successes with respect to the provision of potable water for Ogoni people are linked to the recommendations of the UNEP Report on Ogoni in 2011. Now those in Alode, Alesa, Aleto, Agbonchia…

Governors of the six South-South states met last week in Benin City, the Edo State capital to deliberate on the resuscitation of the BRACED Commission, the multilateral agency the six states established in 2011 to design joint development strategies for the states in the geopolitical zone. The meeting was presided over by the host governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, who is also the Chairman of the Board of the Commission. The governors made bold statements about their intention to work together to drive development in the zone. The resolutions of the BRACED Commission were far reaching and laudable and if followed…

The year 2023 is finally rolling to an end. Despite the trials, stress and unfortunate incidents, there is every reason for those of us crossing over it to another year, to thank the ever faithful father who has kept us to see this goodness. This journey calls for reflections and gratitude. Most of the times, people approach me to teach them the secrets of my gratitude. Well, it’s very simple. Someone with an attitude of gratitude appreciates everything in life. You are grateful for your relationships, health, business, and general sense of well-being. There is satisfaction and joy lodged in…

How much politicians in Nigeria care about national insecurity has long been correlated with how close it gets to their mansions in Abuja, the capital. On its outskirts on January 2nd a father and his six daughters were kidnapped, prompting a rare outcry on high. A crowdfunding effort to pay the ransom was even backed by a former minister. But the kidnappers instead killed one of the girls and demanded more cash. The wife of President Bola Tinubu publicly lamented a “devastating loss”. Yet such horrors are still appallingly frequent—and largely ignored by politicians. In one incident last week in…