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This is one of the worthy Nigerians, Prof Omieye Briggs who rejected Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike’s N30miilion bribe to change Peter Obi’s vote in Port Harcourt Local Government Area where she was the Electoral Officer. National Point joins Nigerians in celebrating her courage and integrity as we begin the Women’s Month. Prof has earned a space on the pages of the struggle for a new Nigeria. Below is the Presidential Result she protected: Presidential Election Result – Port Harcourt LGA  Omieye Briggs –  Collation officer 480250 –                 Registered voters  81264   …

The Community Initiative for Enhanced Peace and Development (CIEPD), with funding support from Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), implemented the Collaborative Election Violence Prevention and Mitigation Project in Rivers State in the 2023 General Election.  Following the release of the Final result of the Presidential and National Assembly Elections held on the 25th of February 2023 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Community Initiative for Enhanced Peace and Development in collaboration with PIND Foundation, makes the following statement:  * We commend Nigerians for coming out massively to express their civic duties on Election Day to…

The Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, monitored with keen interest developments in the state prior to the day of the 2023 Presidential Election. We also monitored the events on the day of the election, especially, in relation to the rights of the citizens to their freedom of association, right to expression, security, safety, and exercise of their franchise without fear or intimidation and we observed as follows;   Pre-election: The state witnessed desperate attempts by the state government and its cohorts in collaboration with certain security operatives and hoodlums, to intimidate the opposition, and the electorates. A climate of fear and…

Foremost women focused Niger Delta non-governmental organization, Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Center February 27 and 28, took awareness sensitization on the negative effects of climate change and adaptation and mitigation processes to some communities in the Port Harcourt axis of Rivers State. The exercises packaged through trainings on early warning on climate change, climate change mitigation, waste to wealth and renewable energy and the unveiling of manuals on these, are according to the executive director of Kebetkache, Obomowang Emem Okon, the concluding parts of the Climate Action Consortium, a platform of selected civil society organizations working together for enhanced…

As the 2023 general elections draw close, the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) wants politicians and candidates participating in the elections to commit to peaceful conduct and avert the bloodletting that greeted previous polls in the state. It was to this end that the chapel, whose membership is drawn from correspondents of national print and electronic media organizations based outside Rivers State, its Correspondents’ Week activities held between Monday January 23rd and Sunday January 29th, 2022 in Port Harcourt. Chairman of the chapel, Comrade Amaechi Okonkwo, said at the opening that politicians and political parties…

Prior to the commencement of the 2023 general elections, a key peace and development advocacy non-governmental organization, Community Initiative foe Enhanced Peace, CIEPD organized a training for  149 community members from eight flashpoint local governments in Rivers State February    to    . Venue was the Retreat Center of the   Bishop Crowther Memorial Anglican Church, Rumubiakani, Port Harcourt. Mrs Egondu Esinwoke-Obalor, executive director of CIEPD said the three-day programme was in partnership with the Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger delta, PIND with the reduction of electoral violence to the least minimum as target through early detection, prevention…

As Nigerians count down to the 2023 elections, the Nigeria Police Force has announced the redeployment of senior police officers for the elections. A release signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Rivers State Police Command, SP Iringe Koko states that the Rivers State Police commissioner, CP Okon Effiong has been drafted to Enugu State for the election while an assistant inspector general of police, AIG Abutu Yaro will lead four police commissioners for election duties in Rivers State. The release read: “The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 13 (Awka), Anambra State, AIG Abutu Yaro, will…

Nigeria’s South-East has been on a violent radar since the official declaration of self-rule by the country’s most prominent separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB). Led by a British-Nigerian political activist, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the group on December 13, 2020, announced the formation of a new security outfit known as the ‘Eastern Security Network (ESN).’ The ESN has as part of its objectives to protect the people and properties of easterners from killer-herdsmen. Soon after its formation the five governors in the region formed a counter regional security outfit called ‘Ebube-Agu.’ The formation of the two groups was…

Chairman of Goat and Cow section of the Rukpokwu Market along the former SARS road, now Anti Kidnapp Unit, Port Harcourt, Alhaji Muhammed Lawan has commended the executive chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Mr. George Ariolu for his developmental strides and achievements in office within two years. Alhaji Lawan made this commendation over the weekend at Rukpukwu in a chat with newsmen. “I want to use this medium to commend the executive chairman of Obio/Akpor LGA, Mr. George Ariolu for his developmental strides which are no mean feat. Mr. Ariolu has achieved much within his two years in office…

An educationist, Dr. Chianolam Jacob says there are several reasons why the people of Oyigbo, Eleme and Tai Local Government Areas respectively, should cast their votes for the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP candidate for the Federal House of Representatives, Eleme/Tai/Oyigbo Federal Constituency, Mr. Felix Uchenna Nwaeke. Dr. Chanolam Jacob spoke recently during the Rivers State PDP campaign rally at Afam in Oyigbo LGA. According to him, “Before Mr. Nwaeke began to seek for the seat of Eleme/Tai/Oyigbo Federal Constituency, he was a former commissioner in the Rivers State and also a former member of the Rivers State House of Assembly,…