Author: nationalpoint

The time was 11.45am. The atmosphere in the large church auditorium was electric. A soul inspiring praise and worship session was going on, with most of the congregation up on their feet, swaying and responding to the equally soul stirring gospel rock renditions of the band on the stage. The singers were made up of a male lead singer and six backups, two male and four female. At the moment they were singing, The Name of Jesus That Conquers Satan. The singers were supported by instrumentalists and drummers on both sides of the stage. On the left side were a…

Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs is the governorship candidate of Accord, one of the 18 registered Parties. He is considered one of the front runners for Rivers Governor in the 2023 election. A Kalabari from Abonnema, he has run for governor severally, always stopping short of the actual elections. In 2019, his effort was cut short by a court judgement brought against him and the party by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Scorched, but not deterred, he and the party have recently won the cases and are set for the elections of March 11, 2023. He has been able to literally…

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…

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…

Majority of Nigerian are living below standard. Poverty in this country is becoming a norm. The citizenry are complaining, lamenting, crying and suffering, all because of the situation we have found ourselves in. Even the rich are equally crying. And where do we go from here? Since the inception of the present administration; since President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took over the leadership of this country, Nigeria has ceased to be what it was known for. Yes, there is no doubt about the poverty rate that has befallen this country which has worsened by the day.…

Nigerian voters will be stepping out on February 25 and March 11 this year to elect a new President, governors and national and state legislators in what has become the most crucial general election in the last 24 years of the return of the country to democratic rule. It will be the seventh time since the electorate have trooped out to the polls in the new democratic dispensation. But it is the first time that electoral awareness had reached a feverish point. The need for the people to fully and actively participate in the process to choose who run their…

With just a couple of weeks left for Nigerians to go to the polls again, the fear of election violence has gripped the people and residents of Rivers State following consistent attacks on the campaign trains of opposition parties in the state. Only on Monday, some gunmen attacked the campaign party of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, Senator Magnus Abe, as they visited communities in Ahoada West Local Government Area. Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Grace Iringe-Koko, who confirmed the incident, said, “There was a Pre-rally attack by unknown armed men on the campaign convoy of Senator…

The Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Pastor Tonye Cole, has praised Nigerian journalists for the significant roles they have played in the struggle and sustenance of democracy in Nigeria. In a message he sent to the dinner and closing of the 2022 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of Rivers State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Port Harcourt on Friday, Cole said right from the beginning of the struggle for Nigeria’s independence, Nigerian journalists have been at the forefront in fighting colonialism and dictatorship. “The media in Nigeria’s history has…