Author: nationalpoint

The situation in Nigeria is unfolding into very ominous signs of a possible “melt down” of state institutions under President Muhammadu Buhari. We are tempted to ask: Can the centre hold as Things Fall Apart? 1) The health institution suffered a virus attack and haemorrhage, by the mass “exodus” of Nigerian doctors and medical personnel. Armed with their certificates which Nigeria seems to have little regard for since 1999, such health personnel grab their rubber slippers as economic refugees and leave to anywhere but home. Dr Chris Ngige as minister of Labour was reported as saying that Nigeria could do…

Tonye Cole, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC has been on a tightly packed campaign to communities in the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State. He stopped for a moment to respond to questions put to him by National Point Managing Director, Ibiba DonPedro, on the trending Kalabari governorship issue and other matters. Your campaign team has faced attacks in Port Harcourt during your campaign at Ojukwu field, as well as in Opobo. What is your party doing about these attacks? APC is a law-abiding party, and we have over the months, tried to keep all…

4.3 We are not asking for favour by heralding our yearnings for environmental justice; we are only asking that our rights, as enshrined in the laws of the land and in the various Treaties the State is signatory to, be effectuated in a manner that is manifestly seen to have been done. That is true justice! Justice is giving the people what is due to them, and injustice is depriving them of what is due to them. Our environment is in this horrendous state not for want of adequate laws; it is as a result of failure on the part…

I’ve always looked forward to an opportunity to rub minds with Rivers people while placing my grand plans for the prosperity of Rivers State on a weighing scale of ideas in a debate with other governorship candidates. By God’s special grace, today availed me that chance. Unfortunately, circumstances beyond my control took me out of Rivers State, thus making it difficult for me to attend today’s debate despite my overwhelming desire to be there. I take full responsibility for the inconveniences that may have been caused by my inevitable absence, and deeply look forward to a future chance at rubbing…

The Leadership and members of Tonye Cole/Barikor Campaign Organization (TCCO), Akuku-Toru LGA, received with utter displeasure, the unwarranted attack by members of the PDP/GDI group on the campaign train and materials/ equipment of the APC Rivers State Governorship Candidate, Pastor Tonye Patrick Cole, MNI, in a deliberate attempt to prevent the APC from campaigning in Opobo/Nkoro LGA, home town of the Gubernatorial Candidate of PDP, Siminalayi Fubara; in collaboration with some officers of the security agencies in the State. It should be on record that the APC in Rivers State has suffered so much losses within the short period of…

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…