Author: nationalpoint

There is lamentation among lecturers in Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State as they are currently being owed 17 months salary arrears. Their pains were made public at a congress meeting on Monday, June 5, where the university’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) denounced the deliberate denial of salaries to some staff since the inception of the university’s Special Intervention Team (SIT). A joint statement issued after the meeting signed by Dr. Cyril Onogbosele and Dr. Williams Odion, chairperson and assistant secretary respectively of the local ASUU chapter, blamed SIT for the deliberate denial of…

The People of Sangana Community in Brass local Government of Bayelsa State have called on the Bayelsa State Government and oil sector regulatory agencies to call indigenous oil company Conoil Producing Nigeria Limited to order over the death of their youth who were shot at the company’s offshore platform near the community by security operatives guiding the facility. A young man, Ido Ikiowori 28 years old, was shot dead, while two others are reported missing. Two others, who sustained very serious gunshot wounds but, survived the incident which occurred Monday, May 29, 2023, are receiving treatment at a private hospital…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from Service as well as their replacements with immediate effect. The newly appointed Officers are: S/N NAME APPOINTMENTS 1. Mallam Nuhu Ribadu – National Security Adviser 2. Maj. Gen. C.G Musa- Chief of Defence Staff 3. Maj. T. A Lagbaja- Chief of Army Staff 4. Rear Admirral E. A Ogalla- Chief of Naval Staff 5. AVM H.B Abubakar Chief of Air Staff 6. DIG Kayode Egbetokun – Acting Inspector-General of Police 7. Maj. Gen. EPA Undiandeye- Chief…

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…