Author: National Point Newspaper

At an event which drew a mixed crowd that included students of Literature of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Rivers State, some female students of Holy Rosary Secondary School, Port Harcourt and sundry others, the Rivers Chapter of the Nigerian Literary Society, NLS held a lecture in honour of Captain Elechi Amadi, a departed novelist and one time officer of the Nigerian Army. Amadi died in June 2016 at the age of 82 in Port Harcourt. Amadi a reknowned novelist, poet and playwright is famously known as the author of The Concubine, The Great Ponds, Sunset In Biafra among…

Energy and Maritime Reporters, EMR in Rivers State held a dialogue June 8 at the state NUJ Secretariat where stakeholders and the media interacted on the state of oceans with a resolve to treat the blue zone better for greater dividend for humanity. The event drew personalities from the shipping sector, UN representative, energy and related businesses and was well attended by journalists. Central point of the discourse was the harm being done to the water bodies by man through varied bad habits including feeding drains with waste, suffocating the ocean with plastics, defecating in the water and unregulated refining…

There is rise in killings and fraud popularly referred to as ‘yahoo’. What is the role of the Church in all these? You will agree with me that many of these youths involved attend churches and some of them even play major roles in their churches. Honestly, I want to say that I am totally dumbfounded but we cannot totally blame the entire situation of misconduct of the youth on the Church because the Church stands for the truth and preaches the truth. What is happening is a big problem to the society because the youths doing these things know…

The jamboree of the party conventions and primaries are over. The stage is now set for the final lap to the February 2023 when Nigerians will go to the polls to elect their next President. Apart from the drama and tensions that characterized the processes of nominating the presidential candidates, what stare at Nigerian voters now are the credentials and the manifestoes the candidates are presenting to them. The three major candidates are Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu of the All Progr4essives Congress (APC) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP). They have all…

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri has stressed the need for concerted efforts in implementing policies and programmes aimed at protecting the environment to promote healthy living in the country. Speaking during the 2022 World Environment Day which was marked in Yenagoa with the theme ‘Only One Earth’, Governor Diri noted that poverty reduction and environment protection are intertwined and therefore, must be taken seriously. The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, decried practices abusing the environment such as tree cutting, indiscriminate bush burning, and the unhealthy use of chemicals for edibles and illegal refining of…

Gbelekekro Women Empowerment and Development Organization recently sensitized and empowered women in Gelegele Community, Edo State with implements to promote and enhanced livelihood in the oil impacted community. Comrade Cynthia Bulubiere Bright, leader of GWEDO told this National Point that the sensitization cum empowerment meeting was held with Gelegele community women and key stakeholders to increase their awareness on livelihood issues and how economic empowerment promotes peace. She said that over the years, “women in communities have been denied the rights to their livelihood, environment, space and been marginalized leading to health challenges and poverty” and the empowerment will help…

Motorists, commuters and other users of the collapsed Eleme Junction-Trailer Park axis of the East-West road in Rivers State might be in for a very long wait in torture because findings by National Point have shown that it may take longer than they think for contractors to be mobilized to work on the road. The 18-kilometre stretch of the dualized road, which links Port Harcourt and the heavy industries and ports complex in the Eleme/Onne cluster, has collapsed in many portions, forcing motorists to file into single lanes on the very busy road and causing logjams and holdups. From time…

CAS2030 held its 3rd National Conference on THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, SDGs, May 17-19, 2022 with the theme: ‘Localizing the SDGs: Harnessing the Impacts of COVID-19 On SDGs Implementation in Africa’ and the sub-theme: ‘Building Forward Better, Prospects and Strategies for Achieving The SDGs in the Decade of Action’. Venue was Vienna International Hotel, Asaba. The Conference featured a football tournament, presentations on SDG and award presentations to dedicated SDG partners. OBSERVATION Presentations on varied topics bothering on COVID-19 and its impacts on the actualization of Nigeria’s SDGs targets, revealed that the pandemic dealt a heavy blow on Nigeria, slowing…

Wife of the Edo State governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, has commended the creative and ingenuity of Nigerian children, saying they represent the hope for a bright future of the country. She gave the commendation at an event put together by God’s Child Foundation Ministries and Forum of Children Ministers in Edo State in conjunction with BMI’s Children Church, to mark this year’s children’s day celebration in Benin City. Betsy Obaseki, who was represented by Pastor Charity Anakun, said the wish of every Nigerian parent is to see his children succeed and surpass his progress. Urging the children to follow that…

The Nigeria Police, like the defunct Nigerian Airways, share a symbol-the elephant. A flying elephant? That’s unheard of in world mythology. Elephants don’t fly. But never mind; that’s the symbol of the long dead, Airways. The Nigeria Police, though historically older, has for some reason refused to die despite a protracted illness. A sizeable amount of literature has been written on the Police organization, from that landmark work by Tekena Tamuno, (A history of Nigeria Police) ,to a relatively new one by Dr Mike Chukwuma, clamouring for reform. Chukwumah, unlike Tamuno, was a cop who’s seen so much from the…