Author: nationalpoint

The recent removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government has thrown many families and individuals across the country into deep hardship and difficulties. Many homes are finding it difficult to cope with the high cost of living that the government policy has thrown at them. And with no palliatives or improvement in incomes coming their way, they are doing what they can to cope. Many have been forced to make tough choices about how to survive the hardship. Such choices range from trekking long distances to work to changing feeding habits to enable them cope with the situation. President…

The President of the Indigenous Youths of Ogoni People, Mathew Degi has once again advised Ogoni Youths to keep hope alive and continue to stand for what late Ken Saro Wiwa stood for. Speaking on Monday at Saro Wiwa memorial Park, Bane Khana local government area of Rivers State where a 30 years memorial celebration was held in his favour, the president stated that the celebration was also to remember all the fallen heroes of Ogoni land. Degi said the essence of the celebration was to educate the younger Ogoni people who didn’t have the privilege to meet with late…

The Bayelsa State Police Command on Monday said that it has established contact with a coastguard officer from Saô Tomē and Principe and are making a concerted to connect Antonio Sabino and Osorio Pires to connect them back to their families. Recall that two Sao Tome and Principe fishermen identified as Antonio Sabino and Osorio Pires from Neves town, were on Sunday rescued in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State five days after they got lost in the Atlantic Ocean. The Police however confirmed that the fishermen were rescued some 50 nautical miles off the Atlantic Ocean on July…

The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Maj.-Barry Ndiomu, has introduced counselling and mentoring of ex-agitators to curb all forms of unrests especially street protests. The Chairman, PAP Strategic Communication Committee (SCC), Nature Dumale, said the initiative was introduced by Ndiomu to help ex-agitators deal with stress-related challenges that could push them into violent reactions. Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday after a programme tagged, Resilience Building Workshop, organised by PAP , Dumale said it was part of Ndiomu’s efforts to eliminate all threats to the existing peace in the Niger Delta. Dumale said the PAP boss adopted…

Residents of Polobubou (Tsekelewu) town in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State have called on the various oil companies operating in their community to urgently tackle the environmental degradation, their activities have caused in their land. Making the call recently at Polobubou as part of activities marking the World Environment Day, Elder Anthony Tiemo, Chairman Health and Environment Committee, Polobubou noted that the pollution wrought by oil companies had destroyed their lands, waterways and impoverished the people. “Polobubou, originally a fresh water environment with fresh water ecosystems, has been replaced by salt water environment due to the exploration…

The scorching heat tops more than 100 degrees Celsius. Children, women, and men are forced to run out of their hovels due to harsh weather. The shambles were strewn with old sacks, worn-out tarpaulins, and dirty rags, but the use of threadbare zincs on roof makes them almost inhabitable in the afternoon. However, there is nowhere to run to. “Inside seems like an oven; outside is similar to a kitchen. We sweat from 12pm to 5pm every day whether we are inside or outside our rooms,” says one of the occupants of New Kuchigoro Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp, Ms…

An unprecedented and thoroughly depressing chapter in the contemporary diminution of the judiciary and consequential erosion of the rule of law in Nigeria was written with two contributions on the Senate floor during the valedictory session of the 9th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Senator Rochas Okorocha expressed mock awe at how the Senate President Ahmed Lawan found his way back to the Senate without contesting in his party’s primaries for the seat, and hence ineligible for the election at all; with the innuendoes pointing at the inexplicable and widely criticized judicial decision which occasioned that otherwise most…

Some operative of the Edo State Police Command have arrested two suspected child traffickers in Auchi, the administrative headquarters of Etsako West Local Government Area. The two female suspects identified as Vera Okhakhu and Blessing Agbokha, were allegedly arrested by operatives of the Auchi Police Divisional Headquarters. The suspects claimed to hail from Fugar, Etsako Central Local Government Area of the state. The police disclosed that the arrest of the suspects was yet to be confirmed by the authorities of the State Police Command as the image maker of the command Mr Chidi Nwabuzor was yet to respond to calls…

Governor Godwin Obaseki has congratulated Yusuf Aminat Imoitesemeh, for emerging as the Best Graduating and best-ever student at the Lagos State University (LASU), with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 obtained in the institution’s Law degree programme. This followed a statement issued and signed by governor who praised Yusuf Aminat on her remarkable and pacesetting feat, noting that she has once again displayed the indefatigable Edo spirit of excellence and hard work. “I congratulate Yusuf Aminat Imoitesemeh on her record-setting feat as the best graduating and best ever student at the Lagos State University. With a perfect 5.0…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) June 23 protested against the over 360 percent increase in school fees introduced at the Edo State owned Ambrose Alli University, (AAU) Ekpoma. The students’ national body, was at the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Council to protest and demanded the reversal of the increment, the sack of the Special Intervention Team (SIT), which tenure is said to expire on June 24, as well as the sack of the acting vice chancellor of the university, Prof Sonnie Adagbonyin. NANS vice president, Inter campus Affairs, Comrade Vanessa Egheahie, said…