Bibian Anekwe News

By Obinna Chima, Dike Onwuamaeze, Nume Ekeghe, Emmanuel Addeh Lagos and Abuja — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed deposit money banks (DMBs) providing bank guarantees to Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on behalf of the Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) to take full responsibility for collections of the Discos' bills. In...

Edo 2020 - APC Chieftain, 3000 Others Defect to PDP in Ovia North East APC, in Edo State, Wednesday, got a boost as a chieftain of the party in Ward 9, Okokhuo, Ovia North East Local Government Area, Mr. Frank Osayande, led over 3, 000 APC members to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, declaring their support for the reelection of...

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has narrated how it facilitated the return of a Nigerian nurse abducted by the Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists and held in captivity since the beginning of this year. The Chief of Military Public Information for MNJTF, Muhammed Dole, made the disclosure in a statement issued at Ndjamena, Chad and made available...

Wednesday, the daily figure of confirmed coronavirus infections in Nigeria again declined Thursday to the lowest number in at least eleven weeks. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 221 infections were recorded in 20 states across the country, the lowest number since late May. The latest figure brings the total number of infections in the country to over...

Electricity - Buhari Orders Mass Metering to End Estimated Billing President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the commencement of a nationwide mass-metering programme as part of efforts to end estimated and arbitrary billing for electricity. The Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), James Momoh, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the president's directive was in response to the...

  Ado Ekiti — Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has showered encomium on the late ex-Governor of the old Ondo State, Evang. Bamidele Olumilua for taking pragmatic efforts to enlist Ondo as an oil-producing State while superintending over its affairs. The elder statesman, Olumilua, an indigene of Ikere Ekiti, who was the governor of the old Ondo State between 1992...

The net worth of Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos eclipsed $200 billion on Wednesday as shares of the e-commerce giant climbed to a record. The move simultaneously pushed his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, 50, to the brink of becoming the world’s richest woman, just behind L’Oreal SA heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers. Elon Musk, meanwhile, extended an extraordinary stretch of wealth gains...

From available record, so many years now, the NYSC Orientation Camp, Awgu, has a distant section of the camp open at the rear; no fencing; the camp covered by bushes, thereby posing serious threat to the lives of the campers- NYSC Corp members. It was reported that there were serious cases of encroachment by hoodlums at the camp thereby...

In spite of the fact that many state governments in Nigeria have sustained their partial lockdown, by regulating commercial and educational activities and restricting vehicular movement in response to the pervasive Covid 19 pandemic, the government of ENUGU State led by His Excellency, Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi having carefully weighed the the debilitating effects of the lockdown especially on the...

This article is a timely response to the lies and false accusations directed to the person of His Excellency, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the executive governor of ENUGU STATE as peddled by one Arc. Jonathan Emejulu in a recent article published in some news platforms. In the article, Emejulu claimed to have bought a piece of land measuring about four hundred...