Author: nationalpoint

Flood is a natural disaster that displaces people anytime it comes especially in the Niger Delta region where it has become a yearly occurrence. For the people of the region, they know when it comes and when it goes especially the perennial flooding that also displaces some people when it comes. That is a normal flood for them but that of 2022 was extraordinary as it displaced about ninety five percent of Bayelsans. In Bayelsa state, the flood wreaked havoc because most of the water channels were blocked by the residents including the high and the mighty in the state.…

Female media practitioners have been urged to upscale their capacity as well as their competence while delivering their jobs especially in the newsroom. This clarion call was made during a one day leadership seminar organised for practicing female journalists in Rivers state. The program was organized by Female Reporters Leadership Programme, FRLP, with the theme: factors challenging the rise of female journalists in leading newsroom. The seminar took place at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ secretariat conference hall, Port Harcourt. The keynote speaker at the event was Pastor Ann Godwin, Rivers State correspondent, the Guardian Newspaper, who is also…

Ese Usamali Foundation For Rural Development (EUFORDe), a non-governmental organization with the vision to integrate the rights and capacities of youth, women, vulnerable children and underprivileged in the socio-economic planning and development of communities, has held a three-day Early Warning Sensitization Workshop for women in the Orashi region of Rivers State affected by the 2020 to 2022 flood. The workshop drew women from all LGAs in the flood prone areas. The program, which was conducted in collaboration with Agricultural Development Program (ADP) Rivers State and Ahoada Health Center with support from Trykod Engineering and Construction Company and Fab Photography, sensitized…

Edo State street cleaners, who were majorly women, have protested against what they tagged as the low wages paid to them by the State Waste Management Board. The women, dressed in their sweeping uniform displayed placards bearing messages such as, “We Need Increment In Our Monthly Salary”, “We Are Tired Of N17,820.00” as they arrived the premises of the Edo State NUJ Secretariat. The women, speaking through their spokesperson, Mrs. Glory Efosa, said they have been receiving the sum of N17,820,as monthly salary for over six years and with the current economic reality occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy,…

National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure has vowed to win Edo State for the Labour Party (LP) in the coming 2024 gubernatorial elections where he has set up a reconciliation committee to settle aggrieved members of the party. The LP national chairman who was speaking with journalists in Benin City, Edo State capital, stated that he was embarking on a week-long sensitization tour of the state to ensure that the party triumphs in the 2024 gubernatorial election. Abure charged the state leadership of the party to open its doors to accommodate new entrants and cooperate with all other…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Asaba, has delivered a judgment in Appeal No. CA/AS/276/2019: FEDERAL ROAD SAFETY COMMISSION AND DARLINGTON UGO EHIKIM ESQ. and dismissed the appeal filed by the Federal Road Safety Commission challenging the judgment of the Federal High Court, Warri delivered by Hon. Justice E. Nwite. The Federal High Court had on January 25, 2019 entered judgement in favour of the plaintiff, who is a member of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA Warri and granted all the reliefs sought, which includes a declaration that the Federal Road Safety Commission has no right to operate and/or carry…

The Lagos State government through its Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, (DSVA) opened the ‘EKO HAVEN;, a shelter for survivors of domestic violence. This is part of the state government’s commitment to ensuring that holistic support is provided for survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence. Executive Secretary DSVA, Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi at the opening, revealed that the Shelter located in Ikorodu axis of Lagos, is a 30-bed space capacity to provide immediate shelter services to high-risk survivors of domestic violence. She said opening the shelter was the state government’s prompt response to the burgeoning demand to ensure the preservation of…

Four years of implementing the Police Duty Solicitors Scheme (PDSS) in some parts of Nigeria has revealed a dangerous trend affecting the effective implementation of the Administration of Criminal Justice System. The Administration of Criminal Justice Act/Law (ACJA) is undoubtedly an ingenious legislation that regulates how law enforcement and the courts handle criminal activities. The law has provisions that protect citizens from abuse and violations of their fundamental rights. Sadly however, there is a foundational problem in the exercise of the powers of law enforcement officers to arrest an individual. Even though the ACJA provides clearly, the steps to take…

The sorry state of the Eleme section of the East-West has continued to take a toll on motorists, commuters and truckers that use that section of the road daily. Since the first week of July when some articulated vehicles overturned and blocked sections of the road towards Trailer Park and near the gate of Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals complex, the road had virtually been blocked, easing out only in the early mornings. The result is that many people traveling through that road to Akwa Ibom, Cross River and parts of Rivers State beyond Eleme either had to sleep in their vehicles…

Six flyovers have been lined up to be constructed as Rivers State Government flags off the construction of its most ambitious project ever, the Port Harcourt Ring Road. According to the Commissioner for Works, Mr. George-Kelly Alabo, the flyovers along with several major roundabouts and a river crossing bridge would be located on the 50.15 kilometres of the new road that will run from UTC Junction in downtown Port Harcourt through Ogbogoro, Airport Road, Eneka, Igbo-Etche, Agbonchia to Refinery Junction, Alesa in Eleme Local Government Area. Out of the 50.15 kiloometres, 45 kilometres will be dual carriage-way, while in a…