Author: nationalpoint

All the bickering by the NNPCL and Tinubu’s government boils down to a battle of Appropriate pricing of Petroleum products in Nigeria; breaking the bondage of oil cabals in Nigeria; and putting a permanent stop to oil subsidy payments to criminal petroleum products importers for subsidy payments; conserving foreign exchange for Nigeria; creating value for money; and opening up the nation’s oil and gas sector to new and credible entrants. The fight is real. It is about who controls Nigeria’s oil and gas sector in the 21st century. Dangote refinery took them unawares and the cabal is not ready to…

Recently, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote completed his refinery to the consternation of many. Many uninformed people have been lampooning the industrialist as an unrepentant monopolist whose prime motivation was to fleece unsuspecting Nigerians. With the benefit of hindsight, it is becoming crystal clear that Aliko Dangote is much more charitable than the hawks in NNPC. It is a painful irony that one man could organize himself to the point of constructing a massive refinery, while Nigeria as a nation cannot put their act together towards making their four refineries working. More painful is the fact that different administrations like…

The Founder and President General of Akwa Ibom Oil Producing Community Development Network (AKIPCON), Apostle Ufot Phenson has raised the alarm on ecosystem destruction by the extractive industry in Akwa Ibom and the likelihood of fish scarcity. Apostle Phenson said that the incessant oil spills with attendant contamination of water bodies and gas flares that scare wild life and rain down as acids continue to rob the locals of livelihoods and force many to abandon fishing and farming. Ufot warned that the unchecked pollutions including the most recent in Ibeno Local government area of the state would worsen the food…

WIKE: DESTROYING RIVERS STATE AND THE PDP Your Excellency, Sir Ordinarily, I would not be writing an open letter to you, but like a wise man once said, “Silence would be Treason.” So I prefer to stay alive than face the consequences of silence in the face of crime. With each passing day, and as the sociopolitical tides continue to turn, it has become more pertinent that more people speak up in a concerted MANNER to prevent the death of our party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as we appear to be, in the words of W. B. Yeats, “turning…

Following the devastating oil spill on August 16th, 2024, in Ibeno Local Government Area, His Royal Majesty, Owong (Prof.) Effiong Bassey Archianga, Paramount Ruler of Ibeno, has issued a urgent call to ExxonMobil to initiate a comprehensive cleanup of the affected communities. At a press conference held in his palace, Owong Archianga emphasized ExxonMobil’s responsibility as the primary IOC operating in the area to take immediate action. He stressed that cleanup efforts should be their top priority, superseding all other concerns. Addressing rumors about his health, the monarch assured the public that he is fully active and committed to advocating…

Pilex Centre has noticed that pipelines criss-crossing lands in Niger Delta are quietly leaking and seeping low into underground water level. The leakage is only noticed as spill when it sprays out of the surface soil for all to see. Something dangerous is happening underneath the Niger Delta Environment. Only 5 days ago, one of the very old and weak pipes of SHELL spilled over the surface soil in Rumuoduwere community in Elelenwo Village in Rivers State, Nigeria. PILEX CENTRE FOR CIVIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE in company of Nigeria info 92.3 Radio, visited the Leaders of the Community and the people revealed that;1. These pipelines are over 60 years old and…

In the midst of the bad and the ugly surrounding the personality of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the governor of Lagos State in 1999, Gani Fawehinmi alone had the singular courage to stand firm and call a spade a spade. But he met a brick-wall in the police and the courts of law that should have saved the country from the mess we see ourselves today. By allowing Tinubu to get away with all of his alleged crimes the police and the courts created a god, a political behemoth and a monster without a conscience out of him and thereby…

In 2022, massive floods swept through many states in Nigeria, particularly states that lie along the major rivers of the Niger, the Benue and their tributaries, leaving behind extensive destruction of lives and property. Similar flooding occurred in 2023 but on a lighter scale but also serious catastrophes. Last week, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) issued a warning that Nigerian communities downstream of the River Niger are likely to be seriously impacted by the significant flooding along the River Niger from the Niger Republic and Mali. The Director-General of NIHSA, Umar Ibrahim Mohammed, said, “The situation in Niamey is…

Hon. Iniruo Wills, a development advocate, has harped on the need to immortalize Niger Delta legends like King Alfred Diete-Spiff, the late Chief Melford Okilo and Harold Dappa-Biriye through the establishment and naming of governance and development institutions after them. Wills stated this on the heels of the 16th memorial programme of the late Chief Melford Okilo, the first civilian Governor of old Rivers State held in Port Harcourt on Friday. He stated that the people of Rivers State experienced their best governance under the respective administrations of Diete-Spiff and Okilo. He suggested that the ex-governors as well as other…

Rivers State Governor, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed appreciation to President Bola Tinubu over the appointment of Dame Didi Esther Walson-Jack, as the new Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF). Governor Fubara has also lauded the new Head of Service of the Federation for not just being a trailblazer but for shattering the glass ceiling as an ambassador of the state and the Niger Delta region. He noted that since her remarkable career in the civil service that culminated in her appointment as a Permanent Secretary in 2017, she had shown exemplary leadership, integrity, and resilience, saying…