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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has announced the deduction of N328 billion from state governments’ monthly contribution to the federal account for April 2022. The country’s oil company made this known in its Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) report for March published on its website over the weekend. According to the report, NNPC said it failed to contribute a...

Political activist and presidential aspirant, Omoyele Sowore has mocked Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over the declaration of his presidential ambition. Bibian Anekwe News reports that Wike declared his intention to contest in the 2023 presidential election under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday in Benue State. Addressing some PDP members at the Government House, Makurdi, Wike described himself...

The reported plan to bring in former President Goodluck Jonathan as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress seems not to be ending anytime soon. The focus of the ruling party will now turn to searching for a presidential candidate after its successful national convention on Saturday. With the emergence of Abdullahi Adamu as the National Chairman of the party...

  Over the passing months, admirers of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi's administration has renewed their call for him to run for the highest office in the land. This increased demand is spreading beyond the south east borders. People of other tribes are joining the que in pushing the pressure to Ugwuanyi's door. And when one analysis the scenario introspectively, one will begin...

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has stated that some serving political appointees who previously held elective office will be able to vote at the APC National Convention slated for today. Recall that the ruling party had said that serving political appointees would not be allowed to vote at the convention in line with Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to declare the All Progressives Congress’ national convention slated for today unconstitutional and illegal. Bibian Anekwe News reports that the PDP made this known in the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/389 2022, dated March 25 and filed by its counsel, Samuel Irabor. The opposition party also sought a court order...

Nigeria’s first female Vice Chancellor, Professor Grace Alele-Williams, ha died at the age of 89-years-old. Bibian Anekwe News gathered that Alele-Williams died on Friday at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos. Alele-Williams, who was appointed the Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin in 1985, was the first woman to receive a doctorate in Nigeria. This online newspaper reports that she was a...

Fans of Nollywood actor and comedian, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr Ibu, who is currently receiving treatment after being poisoned for the third time have expressed concerns. Bibian Anekwe News understands that Mr. Ibu is currently in the hospital after being poisoned for the third time in three years. The comic actor while speaking with Saturday Beats disclosed that he...

The 37-man zoning panel set up by the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is expected to submit its report on April 7. Bibian Anekwe News reports that the panel members comprised of three sitting governors, twelve former governors, former ministers and lawmakers. The committee was set up and inaugurated by the National Chairman of the party, Senator...

The Supreme Court of Nigeria, on Friday upheld the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to de-register 22 political parties. The electoral body had scrapped and banned the political parties from contesting in elections in 2020. Justice Ejembi Eko in his ruling on Friday, voided and set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal which had nullified the...