Author: nationalpoint

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu might still be settling down to duties after the elaborate inauguration on May 29, 2023 and other ceremonies that ushered him into office. However, it is heartwarming to note that those rituals of inauguration have not blurred his vision to urgent matters of state, given the dispatch with which he has treated some very sensitive national issues so far, like the removal of subsidy on fuel, the suspension and investigation of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and assenting to the power and student…

A father of quadruplets, Mr. Izogie Odiase has begged to Her Excellency, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki Edo State First Lady to come to his rescue as he is financially burdened to take care of the children. Izogie Odiase, a mobile welder (Iron Bender) said he lost his wife in the early hours of January 18, 2023 after giving birth to the quadruplet on the 17th Jand since then, it has been very difficult for him to take care of the children even with the assistance of his mother-in-law. The appeal letter reads: “Her Excellency, First Lady of Edo State, Government House,…

The police in Rivers State said that they have arrested a 30-year-old woman who allegedly stabbed a 12-year-old girl in the back and fled. The victim known as Miss Oluebube and her attacker, identified simply as Abigail were both residents of Chukwu Street in Rumuodara at Obio/Akpor Local Government Area in Port Harcourt at the time of the incident. A sister of the victim identified as Oluchi told reporters at the press conference what happened. “My sister was washing dishes outside when our mother went to the market. The woman (suspect) was fetching water outside and because our corridor is…

About 17 kidnappers and cultists have been killed in separate operations carried out by the police and vigilance groups in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. In one of the operations, the vigilante group in Rundele ambushed and killed 10 members of the Degbam Cult members who had raided the community two days earlier, killed and beheaded four members of the OSPAC vigilante group in the community. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nwonyi Emeka, who however confirmed four of the killings, said the police had responded to signals by members of the community of the invasion of the cultists.…

Information filtering into our newsroom indicate that three weeks after the current governor of Rivers state, Siminialayi Fubara was sworn in as governor of the maritime, oil and rich state on May 29, 2023 the former governor of the state, Chief Nyesom Wike is still in control of the reins of governance in the state. Events playing out in technicolor, are giving credence to widespread fears that, the present governor may just be a figure head while the power behind the throne, Nyesom Wike is the one calling the shots and pulling the strings of government from his comfort zone…

-A Call For Urgent Action By The Ben Nwabueze Center For Constitutional Studies And Rule Of Law. 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;…

Deltans have been told to disregard media reports claiming that the deputy governor of the state, Sir Monday Onyeme is currently angry over the looting of his office at the Government House, Asaba, and his lodge in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, by hoodlums allegedly loyal to his predecessor, Kingsley Otuaro.  According to the report in some media, (not National Point) Onyeme, who was sworn in as deputy governor alongside the state governor, Sheriff Oborevwori on Monday, May, 29, 2023 in Asaba, was shocked to discover that several government properties ranging from gadgets, light bulbs, air conditioners, new and old cars…

No fewer than five suspected armed robbers have been arrested by the police in Delta State. A press statement by the police public relations officer (PPRO) of the State Police Command, DSP Edafe Bright, revealed that the suspects have confessed to be members of a criminal gang troubling Agbor in Ika South Local Government Area of the state. According to the PPRO, “On the 5/06/2023 at about 1740hrs operatives of Agbor Division while on anti-crime Patrol along Baleke Street, Iregua Agbor, the team sighted a motorcycle with three passengers, carrying a bag. “On sighting the police, two of the passengers…

The South-south zone of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has congratulated Vanguard correspondent, Sir Festus Ahon on his appointment as the chief press secretary (CPS) to the Delta State governor. Sir Ahon was last week appointed by Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, as his spokesman. The congratulation was passed down June 7, 2023, during a courtesy visit by the student’s umbrella body in the zone led by the national assistant secretary, Comrade Chika Kessy Ossai, deputy coordinator of NANS Zone B, Comrade Dio Oghale and NANS presidential aspirant, Comrade Pedro Obi, they expressed delight with Ahon’s appointment describing it…

The national leadership of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) has upheld the expulsion of the former director of projects in the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Cairo Ojuogboh. The decision to ratify Ojuogboh’s expulsion as recommended by the Delta State chapter of the party is coming barely 24 hours after the party’s national legal adviser, Ahmad Usman El-Marzuq, Esq. nullified the punitive action, saying that the chieftain was not given fair hearing. In a letter dated June 7, 2023 addressed to Ojuogboh’s counsel, El-Marzuq, however, upturned the nullification, stating that subsequent facts…