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The Edo State commissioner for Business, Trade and Cooperatives, Hon Afie Braimoh, says the Edo State NUJ Council’s just set-up Food Mart outlet, is in line with the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led government’s ‘Made in Edo Product’ policy. She made the commendation during the commissioning of the Union’s Food Mart on Friday, March 31, 2023, in Benin City. The commissioner thanked the leadership of the NUJ State Council for the establishment of Edo Food Mart in its NUJ Secretariat describing it as a plus to Governor Obaseki’s Mega agenda policy According to her, the state government will partner with the NUJ…

A man arrested for alleged kidnapping has claimed he never knew his exploits amounted to kidnapping until he was arrested and taken to police custody in Benin City, Edo State. The suspect, Joel Emazor, 31, was paraded on Tuesday, with one Philip Roberts, 30 for allegedly kidnapping one Albert Igbinomwanhia, 31 in Benin City. Police said the duo connived with one Ossai and Eguavoen now on the run, to kidnap the victim and held him in their hideout for five days before he was released after N5.1 million was paid as ransom by his parent. Said he: “We had a…

In this interview with Emmanuel Obe and Clifford Christopher Solomon, Kingsley Wali, a notable politician in Rivers State speaks on the 2023 general elections and the fallouts Before the elections, a lot of Nigerians, particularly young people had hopes that the elections would be the changer in Nigeria’s democratic journey. INEC did promise repeatedly that with the use of BVAS, for instance, the votes would count this time around. The elections have come and gone. But a lot of people are not happy with the outcome. They believe that the votes did not count. Being yourself, a politician and an…

The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has demanded that the Federal Government should allocate licences for oil blocks in the Gombe, Bauchi, Nasarawa and Kogi basins to people from the Niger Delta region. The President of the council, Mr. Peter Igbifa, in a statement to mark the 2023 Workers’ Day, said allocating oil blocks in the North to Niger Delta people would build bridges of unity and economic integration in the country. Igbifa said since most oil block licences in the Niger Delta are owned by northerners, it will only be equitable, fair and just to allow Niger Delta people own…

Former Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (rtd) has advocated that for the sustainable development of infrastructural projects, engineers should to show more interest in national politics so as to be given lead roles at the level of policy conception. He also advised that ministries with mainly engineering functions should be headed by engineers just as doctors and lawyers head their establishments. Speaking recently at the fifth Annual Lecture and first Memorial Lecture of Prof. (Chief) Telimoye M. Oguara, organized by the Nigerian Society of Engineers Yenagoa branch, Jonah said for Nigeria to catch up with…

As the euphoria over the semi-final feat achieved by Morocco at the last World Cup continues, a sports philanthropist Chief Ernest Elochukwu says the only way the Super Eagles of Nigeria can qualify and surpass that record at the next World Cup is for football administrators to review the football system in the country. Chief Elochukwu said this last Tuesday in an exclusive chat with National Point in Port Harcourt. “For the Super Eagles to qualify for the next World Cup and surpass the feat achieved by the Atlas Lion of Morocco, our football administrators need to run an efficient…

The management, staff as well as pupils of State School 1, Rumuji town in Emohua Local Government Area have held their 18th Annual Inter-House Sports Competition. The chairman of the occasion, Mr. Edmund Ohaka charged the teachers and pupils to always play according to the rules of the games in order to replicate the record set by the past and former pupils of the school. Mr. Ohaka who was represented by the chairman of Rumuji Education Committee, Dr. Clement Ojims, stated that the 18th annual inter-house sports of the school was of high standard, and full of excitement. He commended…

The head teacher of 1, 2, 3, and 4 of St. Andrew’s State Model Primary Schools Mile 1, Diobu, Port Harcourt, Mrs. Chinah Leah Chika has commended the governor of Rivers State, Chief Ezenwo Nyesom Wike for the establishment of Real Madrid Football Academy in Port Harcourt. Mrs. Chika who made this commendation during the 3rd annual Inter-House Sports of the schools, said, “We the management and staff of these schools will like to thank our gallant and amiable governor, Chief Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike who made sports compulsory for primary schools and have further established and developed the Rivers State…

On April 25, 2023, frontline civil society organisations, socio-cultural groups, academics, traditional rulers, and individuals drawn from the Niger Delta states of Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers assembled in the city of Port Harcourt for the 2nd Niger Delta Alternatives Convergence (NDAC)for the purpose of setting a pan Niger Delta socio-ecological agenda for the new political leadership at the national and sub national levels that would be sworn-in on May 29, 2023.The convergence discussed the state of the region after over 65 years of oil and gas exploration, and what the Niger Delta…

When we had no oil, we were happier and in peace,” says Dr. Uzo Nwamara, a former Chair of the Association of Nigeria Authors (ANA) in Rivers State about the social and security distortions in the Niger Delta following the discovery of oil in the region. Nwamara spoke at the reading of Dance in the Delta, a literary work he created in response to the call for peace when Port Harcourt and most parts of Rivers State were embroiled in violent conflicts among contending cult groups in 2007. Dance in the Delta and Dr. Ebideyefa Nikade’s 14 Letters to My…