Author: nationalpoint

The Edo State chapter of the Labour Party, LP, has raised alarm that its members and supporters who turned out to collect their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, are being intimidated and attacked across the state by thugs allegedly sponsored by the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had raised similar alarm of disruption of collection of PVCs in some centres and the intimidation of its staff by thugs Saturday, January 7, 2023. Raising the alarm, the Edo State publicity secretary of LP, Comrade Sam Uroupa, who confirmed the attack in a statement made available to…

2.9 As predicted by the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information , it was reported on the 16th of December 2021 that the spill had advanced to the Abureni kingdom in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The crude was reported to have been seen floating on their river with an unbearable stench coming therefrom. The Denouement of the Injustice 2.10 It is now common knowledge that the damage caused to the environment by the recurring cases of oil spillage and the seemingly untameable gas flaring, has resulted to the communities’ economic woes considering that our people are predominantly fishermen,…

A special court has been inaugurated in Bayelsa State for the recovery of small claims debts of up to N5 million. Speaking at the inauguration of the five-member management committee of the courts, the Chief Judge of Bayelsa State, Justice Kate Abiri noted that the idea of small claims court was conceived to accord legal inclusiveness to aggrieved persons whose claims are denied space and time in the congested and expensive dispute resolution platforms. She regretted the expensive and time consuming traditional adjudicatory system, saying it offered little or no succour to litigants with small claims, especially those relating to…

The new Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has promised that his administration would give priority to strengthening the nine state offices of the commission. Ogbuku made the promise while addressing the commission’s staff during his maiden visit to the Bayelsa State office in Yenagoa. The NDDC MD remarked that the state offices provided the closest platform for the supervision of development projects and programmes being executed by the commission and therefore needed to be beefed up with expertise and materials. “There shouldn’t be a disconnect between the headquarters in Port Harcourt and the…

Bayelsa Government has commenced the training of 100 girls on Technology Entrepreneurship that will enable them deploy technology to solve problems in Bayelsa. The girls were selected from Model Secondary Schools in the state and the training will last for three months. The Executive Secretary of the Bayelsa State Education Development Trust Fund (EDTF), Mrs Alice Atuwo, said at the opening ceremony of the programme in Yenagoa that the benefits of the programme were enormous. She explained that the EDTF had earlier carried out the training of “Coding and Robotics” for 103 students in SS1 and SS2 during the last…

I see in Opobo is something everyone should experience most especially in a festive period like this. I have gone round and I discovered that they have been able to instill their tradition on people including visitors that came to visit them. As we were going round, people were saying that the traditional plays that have been going on have been hijacked by visitors, by strangers. That would tell you that the community is welcoming because if you are not welcoming you won’t allow strangers to come in and also be part of your tradition. For me, they have been…

The economic downturn in the country cuts across all strata of the Nigerian society including charity homes. National Point took a tour of some of the charity homes in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital to feel the pulse of people there. Our reporter visited The Cheshire Home, the Old Peoples’ Home at Habour Road and the Compassion Home at Nkpogu. At the Cheshire Home, the matron in-charge who would not want her name in print, said things are not as they were in the past. She said a lot of things have gone wrong, that they is a clear…

President of Igueben Area Customary Court, who was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Edo State, His Honour, Precious Aigbonoga has been rescued by the State Police Special Anti-Kidnapping Squad. This information was contained in a statement by Festus Usiobaifo Esq., publicity secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, Benin Branch made available to newsmen in Benin City, Edo State. The statement disclosed that in the process of rescuing the victim, there was an “exchange of heavy gunfire between the police and the kidnappers which led to the killing of one police officer. “A source told the chairman and his team (Dream…

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command in conjunction with the Edo State Security Network (ESN), have killed one robbery suspect in a gun battle and arrested another suspect. Disclosing the information in Benin City, thepublic relations officer of the Command, SP, Chidi Nwabuzor said the armed robber was gun down during fire shoot-out. According SP Nwabuzor, the suspect killed during the gun duel, has been deposited at the morgue while the other suspect will be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID). He explained:”Police operatives attached to Ugbor Division, G.R.A, Benin City, Edo State and the Edo State…

Worry over crime incidents has heightened following the recent abduction of passengers awaiting boarding at the train station in Igueben, Edo State for Warri, Delta State. About 31 unidentified passengers waiting boarding have been declared abducted by suspected herders living in the area. The kidnappers were said to be armed with sophisticated AK 47 riffles,and shot sporadically into the air before carrying out the kidnap which allegedly left some persons with bullet wounds. In a press statement released by the Edo state police public relations officer, Superintendent of Police, SP ChidiNwabuzor confirmed the incident to have happened on January 7,…