Author: nationalpoint

The stories below paint these unfortunate pictures better. There’s a barbaric tradition known as “Money wife” in a remote village in Cross river state called Becheve, where girls as young as 10 years old are being sold into marriage I decided to travel down to learn more about how these girls are being robbed of their childhood. It all started back in March this year, when a cinematographer sent a video to me on twitter, which properly detailed the stories of some of the victims of this barbaric act, and asked that we considered it as our next project for…

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has formally inaugurated the first batch of 100,000 Special Assistants to the Governor on Political Unit affairs. At the inauguration, which took place at Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, Omagwa on Thursday, Governor Wike told them to work among their people and sample the people’s views about his administration. According to the governor, as special assistants, they were to collate those impressions and pass them on as feedback through the 319 Ward and 32 Constituency Liaison Officers recently appointed, who will eventually transmit them to his office. He said, “Your own is the most important because…

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has urged personnel of the various security agencies to stop taking sides with politicians who use primordial tactics including religion to frustrate efforts at protecting life and property. Wike said politicians who deploy religion as a campaign tool could destroy the country as it moved closer to general elections next year. The governor spoke when the new Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Okon Effiong, visited him at Government House, Port Harcourt on Thursday. He said, “We believe we owe this country and we must also stop this politics of religion so that…

The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Engr. Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua, has the Commission will continue to support programmes and projects that empower youths of the Niger Delta region. Speaking when he hosted and formally presented car keys of a 2022 Kia Picanto to the winner of the Niger Delta Talent Hunt, NIDETH, Elvis Uchenna Igwe, Audu-Ohwavborua stated that the Commission will help youths to develop their creative talents. “This is part of the capacity building programmes, which the commission does to show case the great creative talents in the region,” he said. Speaking further, he called…

The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Engr. Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua has said that the commission would not abandon in their situation victims of the 2022 flood disaster in the Niger Delta region. Audu-Ohwavborua, who spoke shortly after arriving the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt, said the NDDC being an interventionist agency, had a responsibility to cater for the welfare of the people. “We will address the flood problem in conjunction with other relevant agencies of government such as the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA. “The President is concerned and so are all stakeholders. We will intervene…

RULAAC, in partnership with Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), organized a one day inauguration of a Police/Stakeholders Partnership and Accountability Forum and capacity building for human rights monitors on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at Visa Karena Hotels, Port Harcourt. The forum was part of the Community Access to Justice and Criminal Justice interactive Project being implemented across the country by RULAAC with support from OSIWA. The overall objective of the project is to facilitate the coordination and projection of the voices of the communities affected by insecurity and to promote their involvement in designing and implementing workable solutions…

In a bid to build the capacity of young persons in leadership, peacebuilding and advocacy, a three-day train-the-trainers workshop was recently conducted for 40 young women and young men in Abuja by the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Nigeria, in partnership with the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP). National Coordinator of WANEP Nigeria- Chief Mrs. Bridget Osakwe said at the commencement of the workshop that though the United Nations Council on December 9, 2015, adopted Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) which was preceded by a series of advocacy efforts from a number of Non-Governmental Organizations,…

A leading university scholar, Dr. Anthony Egobueze, has charged Nigerian undergraduates to get their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) to enable them participate actively in the 2023 general elections. Dr. Egobueze gave the charge last Wednesday at the Amphitheatre of Rivers State University (RSU) Nkpolu, Port Harcourt during a reception for Year One students of National Association of History and International Diplomacy Students of RSU. “As students who are 18 years and above I want to tell you that the first step for your participation in a democratic process is to get your PVC. I want to admonish you that the…

The Vice-Chancellor of Rivers State University (RSU), Prof. Nlerum Okogbule, has charged members of the Association of Business Educators of Nigeria (ABEN) to intensify their knowledge in digital skills acquisition and entrepreneurship. Prof. Okogbule gave the charge during the 34th Annual National Conference of ABEN held at the university’s main campus at Nkpolu Oroworukwu, Port Harcourt. He said since businesses were now operating in a globalized economy, educational programmes for self-reliance must be adapted to the now reality. Besides. He said, business educators in Nigeria need to adopt a global outlook developing the different fields of business education. “Business education…

If faith comes from hearing and believing, Nigerians have been charged to act and work faithfully and judiciously to salvage the country from her shackled condition. The Niger Delta synod moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Rt. Rev. Ndukwe Daniel, gave this charge during the 87th Central Working Committee (CWC)/Men’s Christian Association (MCA) of all MCA leaders and delegates held at Presbyterian parish church, Rumuomasi, Port HarcourtNiger Delta Synod comprises Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Rivers states “If Nigerian Leaders must get it right. They must act faithfully and judiciously and be trust worthy. It is good to be trustworthy.…