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Public Interest Law Center, PILEX aka The Peoples Advocate with support from Public Interest Lawyers Initiative in West Africa and Advocates for Community Aternatives, ACA, recently held a conference on Black Soot, Pollution and Flooding to draw attention to the grave dangers they are causing to lives in the Niger Delta. The very interactive session which took place at the Conference Hall of the Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN in Port Harcourt, featured presentations from experts and reactions from participants drawn from the civil society and some government departments. Convener, Courage Nsirimovu Esq., said the body…

As the world marks the 2023 Environment Day, Center for Media Environment and Development Communications, CEMEDEC calls on Government and individuals to stop destroying the environment. The earth is in danger and only man- you and I -are in a position to save it. Marshall Burke, department of Earth System Science, Stanford University said of Covid-19, “Just two months of reduced pollution has saved the lives of 4000 children under age five, 73,000 adults over the age of 70”. Reduced carbon dioxide emission and human mobility caused the earth to breathe again. Wild animals came out, rivers flowed undisturbed showing…

TotalEnergies has announced end to gas flare at the end of 2023. The company also said its action plan especially on renewable energy, is fully on course. The long expected news was announced Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES) held at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja. Announcing the targeted flare out, the deputy managing director (Deep Water Operations) of TotalEnergies, Victor Bandele, said the international oil corporation (IOC) has been flaring not more than five percent of the gas it produced. He said the flare out was something the company had been working on.…

As world attention drifts towards cleaner energy sources, former managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), now chairman, Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor, has urged Nigeria and other crude oil producing countries not to be in a hurry to discard crude oil. Okunbor told top industry players and regulators who converged in Abuja that fossil fuel is still a needed product: “We do need crude oil,” he stated. Okunbor spoke as an expert and resource panellist Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES) ongoing at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja. He spoke…

In this interview with EMMANUEL OBE and CLIFFORD CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON, the Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government in Rivers State, Dr Samuel Nwanosike reveals how the local government is responding to illegal bunkering activities in the area. How is Ikwerre Local Government responding to illegal bunkering activities, particularly where they have led to destructive fire incidents like it occurred at Ogbodo in Isiokpo last week? I want to say clearly that it is common knowledge that Ikwerre Local Government is on zero tolerance to oil bunkering activities. All over the world, incidence of theft and crime you cannot say you have…

Prominent Ijaw highlife musician Barrister Smooth, has lost five members of his band in a horrific motor accident along the Abuja-Lokoja Expressway. The incident occurred on Sunday June 11, 2023. National Point gathered that the band was billed to perform at the inauguration of National Assembly members from Delta State, who were sworn in Tuesday, June 13, 2023.They were reported to have been travelling to Abuja from Lokoja in a Sienna bus which ran into a petrol tanker on the highway. The band members killed include the popular Ikesima Brown, a lady with a beautiful voice, well-loved for her rendition…

As the euphoria over ex-Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike’s eight year tenure in office continues, the Eze Epara Ola IV, Eze Henry A. Wonodi has commended the former governor for successfully handing over r to his successor in office. Eze Henry Wonodi made this commendation last Monday in a chat with newsmen at his palace at Rumuola in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. Said Eze Wonodi, “I heartily congratulate our bosom former Governor Wike alias Super Quality Project for his successful handover to our amiable governor, Sir Siminialayi Fubara. He expressed delight and happiness with Wike for transforming the state. “Rivers people…

As the national executive of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), suspended four of its members for professional misconduct, chairman of the Rivers State branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Anele Promise Enyi has lauded the immediate past president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari for signing the 2022 Pharmacy Council of Nigeria Bill into law. Speaking to National Point recently in an exclusive interview, he said that the 2022 Pharmacy Council Act of Nigeria would now replace the old Pharmacists Council of Nigeria. Anele explained that the benefit of the new Act is huge. “The new Pharmacy Council of Nigeria…

Some members of the House of Representatives under the umbrella of Ijaw Legislators Forum have raised alarm over the alleged remapping of some local government areas in Akwa Ibom state, South-South region. The remapping of the local government areas belonging to the people of the Ijaw extraction has led to threats to the livelihood of the Ijaw people in Akwa Ibom state. This was disclosed during a briefing to the House Press Corps by Hon. Awaji-Inombek Abiante, lawmaker representing Opobo Nkoro Federal Constituency of Rivers State. He said that several communities belonging to the Ijaws in Akwa Ibom State were…

Gentlemen of the Press, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the good people of Polobubo (Tsekelewu) Community of Egbema kingdom, Warri North Local Government Area, Delta State, I welcome you to this press conference on the World Environment Day commemoration by Polobubo (Tsekelewu) community. Since the 1980s the need for scientific disposal of waste plastic was recognized but, the oil companies operating in Polobubo (Tsekelewu) community have refused to adhere to the practice or identified with these methods compounding the already existing degradation, pollution and deforestation faced in Polobubo. It will interest you to know that plastic is produced…