Author: nationalpoint

The attempts by soldiers last week to forcibly remove security men and women from Amama Security, a private security firm, owned by Niger Delta activist, Mujahid Dokubo Asari, which has been providing security on the dangerous Emohua-Kalabari road, is raising concern among locals and other users of the road. National Point investigations reveal that the men who have provided badly needed security services on that road since September, 2022 during funeral rites for four-time minister, Alabo T. O. Graham- Douglas in Abonnema from September 8, 2022, face threat of removal from their positions on the stretch of the road. Last…

Edo State Government has restated its determination and commitment to end the spate of human trafficking and illegal migration in the state. The government said it has so far secured the conviction of seven human traffickers with 47 others undergoing prosecution. Executive Secretary of Edo State Task Force Against Human Trafficking, Itohan Okungbowa, disclosed this at a press conference ahead of the International Community Unites programme to support the campaign against sex trafficking in Nigeria with the screening of ‘Oloture,’ which held at the Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub, Benin City. Okungbowa added that the government has recorded a huge success…

The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Pastor Tonye Cole, has condemned the abortion of the Town Hall meeting called by the Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt with candidates in the forthcoming general elections in Rivers State. Cole, who spoke to journalists shortly after the meeting was called off, said there was no clear reason why the Town Hall meeting was aborted given that it was not a party event, but an opportunity for candidates across lines to debate and tell the electorate what programmes they had in stock for them should they win the…

With less than six weeks to the all-important 2023 governorship election in Rivers State, concern is growing in the oil and gas rich Kingdom/clan of the Ijaw ethnic nationality over the splintered Kalabari front for the election which holds March 11, 2023. Six out of 18 candidates in the race to Brick House are Kalabari. Among them, three candidates are considered front runners likely to win the race against the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Siminalayi Fubara, handpicked by the governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, whose second tenure expires May 29, 2023. The six candidates of Kalabari extraction are…

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa needs to be acquainted with an African proverb that says “when your father scolds you in the public, a well-brought up child, does not exchange words with him, but goes home to reflect on the words of the old man”. At nearly 96, Chief Senator (Chief) Dr. E.K. Clark, OFR, CON is not only our national leader and elder statesman, but, more significantly, is old enough to be a father and even grandfather to most of us. PANDEF, thus, finds it stunning that less than 24 hours after Chief Clark wrote an open letter to the governor,…

1.Gentlemen of the Press, we give thanks to God Almighty for today as we welcome you all to this press briefing on the disturbing violent incidents in some parts of Ijaw land, particularly in Rivers State, as political parties and their candidates intensify campaigns for the February 25th and March 11th, 2023 national elections. The INC, as the apex socio-cultural organization of over 40 million Ijaw people worldwide, has observed with disgust and disappointment, the eruption of political violence and brigandage orchestrated in Rivers State, the heart of the Eastern Zone of Ijaw nation. Some of these acts of violence…

Ibom Air has spoke! of plans to commence international flight to seven African countries in a move to expand its operations in 2023 . The Manager , Communications and Marketing of Ibom Airline ,Mrs Anie Essienette who dropped the hints while interacting with Correspondents, said the flight operations to the African countries would commence in the next two months. Essienette listed the countries to include Liberia, Senegal , Gabon, Ghana , Cameroon, Cote d’ivoire and Gambia . “Already ,we have an invite to fly in Gambia but we will commence regional operations in the next two months. ” Ibom…

The guber flagbearer of the Labour Party  Mrs Beatrice Itubo recently paid a condolence visit to the widow of the late paramount ruler of Rumeme Kingdom, HRM Nye-Nwe-Eli Omunakwe Nyeche Nsirim (OCC) Apeti of Rumueme Kingdom, HRM Ethel Nsirim. The LP candidate who came with an entourage of some state and local government party officials described the late monarch as a father to the party, the state labour union and all. She told the widow that his death is a loss to not just his family and kinsmen but both the state and nation and pledged the body’s commitment to…

Women from all walks of life will on Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 embark on a peaceful march in Lagos State, Nigeria as part of efforts to promote awareness for issue-based campaigns by political parties and their aspirants and peaceful participation in the general elections with the presidential and national assembly polls taking place on on February 25, while the gubernatorial and state assembly elections billed for on March 11, 2023. The exercise, according to the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, Nigeria (WANEP-Nigeria), and Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF- Africa) is geared to enhance individual capacities on the need to exercise…

Women from all walks of life will on Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 embark on a peaceful march in Lagos State Nigeria as part of efforts to promote awareness for issue-based campaigns by political parties and their aspirants and peaceful participation in the general elections with the presidential and national assembly polls taking place on on February 25, while the gubernatorial and state assembly elections holding on March 11, 2023. The exercise, according to the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, Nigeria (WANEP-Nigeria), and Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF- Africa) is geared to enhance individual capacities on the need to exercise…