Author: nationalpoint

Rivers State Government has formally inaugurated the Family Court, 13 years after the Child Rights Act was domesticated in the state. Wife of the governor, Hon. Justice Suzette Wike, has been appointed the presiding judge of the Family Court in the state. Speaking at the inauguration, the governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, called on the judiciary to find a way of promptly disposing of cases in the court, even when prosecutors become stumbling blocks to accelerated hearings. Wike noted that quite often, prosecutors inexcusably withdrew from the prosecution of child rights abuse cases, thus denying justice to the children. He therefore…

Women from Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State under the umbrella of Mba Okase Eleme Initiative trooped out Saturday December 18, to mark the 2022 Niger Delta Women’s Day as they lamented the damage that climate change has done to their livelihood and environment. Convener of the group, Dr. Patience Osaroejiji, who addressed the women at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Alode, said climate change has distorted the traditional rainy and dry climate seasons in the area. “We no longer know when it is rainy season or dry season,” she said, adding that a lot of traditional food and cash…

Qatar University has announced they will convert the hotel room where Argentina captain Lionel Messi lodged in during the 2022 World Cup into a mini museum. The room, which was reportedly shared with Messi’s lifelong friend and former colleague Sergio Aguero towards the end of Argentina’s triumphant World Cup campaign, will no longer receive guests, according to Qatari news agency QNA. “The room of Argentina national team player Lionel Messi will remain unchanged and will remain available only for visitors and not for residence,” Hitmi al Hitmi, director of communications and public relations at Qatar University, has told Qatari newspaper…

The 2022 version of World Cup in footballing held in Qatar has ended, but surges and eddies in fields of play have left some debris like a flood after receding. Many football lovers made forecasts; some consulted their crystal balls, others depended on Ouija board, for direction to the winner of the coveted trophy. At the end of the day, Europe locked horns with Latin America in a two-hour pulsating and excruciating artistry of soccer. Thirty-two countries started the journey. Gradually, the number started to whittle down as the battle got hotter. There were flashes of upsets, thereby invalidating permutations…

The Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises-Niger Delta (LIFE-ND), an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) project, has so far trained 1,033 incubatees out of the 4,250 targeted in Edo State, in various agribusinesses since the initiative came on board in 2020. Jude Ekpu, Edo State coordinator of the project, disclosed this on Thursday at an engagement session with media stakeholders in Benin City. Ekpu stated that the project was conceived to address poverty, boost food security, and create jobs for youths and women in rural communities through agribusiness development on a sustainable basis. Ekpu who, was represented by Benedict Akhamie, communication…

The Oba of Benin, Ewuare Ogidigan II, has performed the Emobo rite in continuation of the spiritual activities marking the ongoing Igue festival. Emobo is a memorial anniversary of the defeat of ARHUANRAN, the Duke of Udo by Oba Esigie about 1504-1550 AD, after a long period of epic battle over supremacy between the duo. Emobo ceremonial ritual is also meant to ward-off evil spirits from the land. The ceremony, which took place at the entrance of the palace main gate, saw Chief Esogban, the Odionweredohia of Benin kingdom, perform the opening of the spiritual dance of the Emobo rite.…

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) says it has commenced activities heralding the actualisation of the Federal Government’s declared commitment to gas production due to global demand for reduction in carbon emissions. The general manager, Corporate Communications and zonal coordinator of NCDMB Ginah Ginah, who made the disclosure while declaring a one-day capacity building workshop for media stakeholders in the South-South region recently in Port Harcourt, Rivers State noted that the government’s strategy is to use gas as the country’s fuel transition. At the workshop with the theme, ‘Enhancing Competencies to Support Nigerian Content in…

NNPC and its local partners have begun drilling operations at the giant Kolmani project in the north of Nigeria, the NOC has announced. The first phase of the project involves a 12,000-bopd refinery, gas processing unit, 300-MW power plant and 2,500-tonnes-per-day fertiliser facility. Further phases will include a downstream oil terminal. The Komani play has estimated reserves of 1 billion barrels of oil and 14.2 bcm (500 bcf) of gas. The initial well is expected to produce 50,000 bpd and the project has attracted investments of more than $3billion. NNPC first discovered commercial reserves in the Kolmani area on OL…

The mMinister of Environment, Mohammed H. Abdullahi has announced that the Federal Executive Council at its meeting on Wednesday approved a total of 95.9 billion naira for the remediation of simple hydrocarbon-impacted sites in Ogoni land. The amount is in favour of 35 contractors and the construction of 132 VK transmission lines and power substations for Phase 1 of the Ogoni power project. The minister stated this on Wednesday while briefing journalists at the end of the Federal Executive Council at the State House. He noted is essentially to provide succour to the Ogoni people. He again expressed concern…

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 Chesire 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 her name in print said things are not as they were in the past. She said a lot of things have wrong, that they is a clear decrease in…