Author: nationalpoint

In this interview with EMMANUEL OBE, the Acting Director of Medical Services of Rivers State Primary Healthcare Board, Dr. Siyeofori Dede, says the challenges confronting primary healthcare in the state are being addressed with the new policy direction of the state government. How many primary healthcare centres do we have in Rivers State? Currently, we have 344 primary healthcare centres in the state. Are they all functional? Oh yes. They are. But you also have to understand that we have three types of health centres. So, when we are talking of functionality, functionality is at different levels. So, I will…

The November 11, 2023 Off-Cycle elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States provided an opportunity for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to correct its failures in the February/March 2023 general elections The commission had introduced the novel Bi-Modal Voters Accreditation System (BI-VAS) to transmit election results in real-time and to upload elections results as recorded in the polling units to the iREV, the commission’s server, which would have made election results accessible by anyone anywhere in the world. The promise of the use of the transmission and uploading systems won so much trust for INEC so much so that…

The Supreme Court Thursday upheld President Bola Tinubu’s February 25, 2023 election and brought to an end, the long drawn legal battle by his main opponents, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party challenging his election. The ruling proved expectations of many Nigerians that the Supreme Court would not do otherwise. In giving its verdict, the apex court refused to admit new evidence procured by Atiku to show that Tinubu forged and falsified documents relating to his educational qualifications which he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying the application to…

Everybody has a right to live and live freely and happily in this world. Equal opportunity should be given to all to make this happen. This includes the orphans whose only surviving guardian is the government, their supposed burden bearer as in the book of Galatians 6:2-“Bear ye one another’s burdens and so, fulfill the law of Christ”. Opportunity should be given to the orphans to live like all the rest. The idea of some roaming the street like sheep without a shepherd, poses problem and endangers their lives and that of others around them whom they already see as…

Reynolds Construction Company Limited (RCC), the firm awarded the contract to reconstruct the Eleme axis of the East-West Road last week, mobilised men and equipment to site at the Trailer Park end of the road to commence work on the project. The move by RCC came barely a week after the minister of Works, David Umahi, inspected the road and disclosed that the sum of N33 billion had been released for the reconstruction of that section of the road covering a distance of 18 kilometres. Coming many years after the road collapsed and subjected businesses and millions of people whose…

We appreciate God Almighty for His abundant grace and the Relative Peace and Tranquility we experience in our land. I must on behalf of the INC, commend his Excellency, Sen. Douye Diri, Executive Governor of Bayelsa State for this benevolent gesture for honouring our past heroes in grand style and as a function of the State, since assumption of office. There can be no better way of encouraging and solidarizing with the families of these fallen heroes; and assuring and inspiring the living heroes and the younger generations that their sacrifices are not and will not be in vain. I’m…

Kenya’s Titus Ekiru, winner of the Milan marathon in May 2021, received a ten-year suspension for doping and obstructing the investigation, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Monday. BBCSports.com reports that the 31-year-old athlete tested positive for a doping substance after his surprise victory in Milan, where he had just won the marathon in a stunning time of 2 hours 2 min 57 sec. He had another positive test in November of the same year in Abu Dhabi, the AIU said in a press release. Ekiru had claimed that this abnormality was the result of legal medical treatment for…

The governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has awarded the sum of N30million to the victorious Rivers Hoopers Basketball Club that recently won the Louis Edem International Basketball tournament. The governor, who announced the award at a reception he hosted for the club at Government House on Friday, also assured that the government would continue to sustain support for the growth of all sporting activities in the state to make Rivers State attractive to the youths. Rivers Hoopers Basketball Club led by the Commissioner for Sports, Mr. Chris Green, were at Government House to present their laurels to the governor.…

Who is the man who today sits atop the presidency of Nigeria? What is his name? Who are his parents? Who are his childhood friends? What was his childhood like? What primary school did he attend? Where did he attend secondary school? Or, the university? Is he a criminal? Is he a serial forger? On account of the above, can we trust him? Can he be trusted with the destinies of over 200 million Nigerians? Can the rest of the world trust him as the embodiment of Nigeria? Last year, I wrote about the history of certificate forgeries and identity…

Man’s destiny is progressive. However, certain forces arise to hinder the flow of progress in life and ministry. One of these forces is the spirit of limitation. To be limited is to be restricted, resisted and restrained. The Spirit of limitation delays destinies from getting to their ordained and expected places. The spirit of limitation is a force that must be broken, if you are to fulfill your destiny in a grand style. The Spirit of limitation makes life to perform below capacity, reduces ministry to nothing and frustrates people from being all they could be. Limitation has the power…