Author: nationalpoint

Defence for Human Rights and Democracy DHRD is concerned about the series of attacks on the All Progressive Congress APC, Social Democratic Party SDP, Accord and Labour Party as they go about in Rivers State campaigning to get citizens to vote for them. It is the right of all registered political parties to engage the people through campaigns to sell their manifestos within the provision of the1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Electoral Act. Rivers State in every electioneering cycle has been noted to be a theatre of war, where people are killed and properties worth…

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. That was thus the focus of the chapel, whose membership is drawn from correspondents of national print and electronic media organizations based outside Rivers State, in its Correspondents’ Week activities held Monday January 23 through Sunday January 29th, 2022 in Port Harcourt. Chairman of the chapel, Comrade Amaechi Okonkwo, said at the opening ceremony, that politicians and political parties should…

As the race for the coveted Brick House, seat of government in Rivers State intensifies and draws closer, the electorate and variegated stakeholders, were given a golden opportunity to have a firsthand assessment of what the major contenders for the number one job in Rivers State would do for the people, if elected. The Rivers Entrepreneurs and Investors Forum, REIF in tandem with Stakeholders Democracy Network, SDN, PIND and other development partners had aggregated their energies to organize the Rivers Debate 2023 with intent to give the people of Rivers State an opportunity to appraise the potential of the major…

The 2023 general elections scheduled to commence with the Presidential and National Assembly polls on February 25 is five days away. Below are some vital information to help eligible voters with the voting procedure. Who is Eligible to Vote? According to the new election guidelines released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), only individuals who register and present a valid Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) at their polling units will be eligible to vote at the election. Accreditation and Voting Procedure On election day, accreditation and voting is to commence at 8:30 am and is scheduled to close at 2:30…

The governorship candidate of the Action Alliance, AA, in Rivers State, Dr. Dawari George, and his Campaign Organisation, the Bridge Campaign Organisation, BCO, have endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, for the February 25 election. They have, therefore, urged Rivers voters to go all out on Saturday to vote massively for Mr. Obi. In a statement in Port Harcourt, on Wednesday, signed personally by Dr. Dawari George, the governorship candidate, and Prof. Kiikpoye K Aaron, the Campaign Director-General, the Bridge Campaign Organisation noted that prior to reaching the decision, a lot of issues were…

The Rivers State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has condemned Tuesday’s attack on Atlantic Television and Wish FM stations in Port Harcourt, where equipment and facilities worth millions of Naira were destroyed. The Union, in a statement by its chairman and secretary, Stanley Job Stanley and Ike Wigodo respectively, expressed shock over the attack, describing it as “barbaric, shameful, cowardly, irresponsible and retrogressive.” The Council said the bombing and gunshots that occurred at the premises of the media house are attempts to muzzle the media by the enemies of democracy. NUJ said, “Never in the history of…

There was celebration on the 17th of February, 2023 when a housewife, Mrs. Esther Omouvi, 25, was delivered of a set of triplets (all boys) at Nchia General Hospital, Eleme Local Government in Rivers State. The father of the triplets, Mr. Charles Omouvi, 32, is without a regular job. They already had a boy before the triplets came. It was the first time in so many years that the hospital has witnessed the birth of triplets. The three boys and their mother were safe and sound but had to stay a little longer in the hospital. The triplets were visited…

Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State in the heartland of the Niger Delta, has received a huge boost to its profile as the chosen location for an Alternative Dispute Resolution ADR centre, being set up by the Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission NUPRC in the oil bearing Niger Delta. Details to this effect came on the heels of a visit to Senator Douye Diri, governor of Bayelsa State Wednesday, February 22, 2023 by a team of NUPRC officials led by Captain John Roland Tonlagha, Executive Commissioner, Health Safety, Environment and Host communities. The establishment of the ADR centre beside boosting the…

Kidnappers of Chief Basoene Snithers-Briggs 87, a chief in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area, who was kidnapped from his home in the seaside community, have demanded the sum of N5million for his release, to be paid in the new currency. National Point spoke with one of the children of the ailing Chief, who spends his fourth week in the hands of the masked men who took him from his home and initially demanded ransom of N100million. “We have been able to speak with my Father about three times since the kidnap, after they made contact with the family. His…

overnorship candidate of the Accord in Rivers State, Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs unveiled his Manifesto and Minifestos in Port Harcourt Tuesday, February 21, 2023, giving graphic details on his structured blueprint for the development of the resource rich state, if he wins the March 11, 2023 governorship election. The event which took place at the Ark Event Centre, Rumuola had in attendance a hall filled with teeming supporters and party bigwigs, media persons and the curious, drawn to hear Lulu Briggs, a notable philanthropist in the state. The Accord flag bearer highlighted his plans of bringing prosperity to all in…