Author: nationalpoint

The Edo State Government led by Governor Godwin Obaseki, has vowed that with effect from March 31, 2023, mosques, churches, event centres, clubs, lounges and other public spaces that fail to meet the state’s guidelines on noise pollution will be sealed. The governor said such centres must instal sound-proof facilities. This followed a joint task force comprising officials of Edo State Ministry of Physical Planning, Housing, Urban and Regional Development (MPPHURD) and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainability serving notices to the facilities, intimating them that a 90-day grace period has been granted for those affected to install soundproof materials…

The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has urged the people of Edo State to unite and take back their state from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). The former governor of Lagos State assured the people of Edo State that he will make money for Nigeria and create prosperity for the people of the state by developing the gas deposits in the state. Tinubu made the statements on Sunday at the town hall meeting in Benin city with Edo APC stakeholders, interest groups, and civil society organizations. He said under his leadership Nigeria will pipe gas to…

Faith and Expectation are not the same thing? Although they are closely related, faith and expectation are distinctly different. You can have faith without expectation but you can’t have expectation without faith. Many believe the Bible is true. They have faith in promises of the Bible and believe scriptures like Isaiah 53:5 when it says: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” They believe it’s a provision of the Word that God heals, but they don’t expect healing to…

Rivers State is infamous for its cycles of electoral violence. “Do or die” politics has returned fully in the violence prone state, following attacks on the APC, SDP and Accord.

Several weeks before the Polo Field disaster occurred, Kings Assembly Church had sent out public invitations for people desiring to participate in the 2022 Shop-For-Free seminar to be at the Polo Field venue of the event. Church members were encouraged to invite their neighbours, friends and families to attend the seminar. A day before the incident, church workers and events managers set up canopies, seats and stages for the event at Polo Field. As early as 5 am on the on the D-Day thousands of people had begun to converged on the neighbourhood of the event. People came from as…

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…