The rainy season is here again to ensure that crops germinate and food production increases. However, too much rainfall has led to residents being sacked from their homes by floods, even as lives and property […]
Motorists plying Suleja/Lambata and Zuba-FCT/Tafa roads have expressed satisfactions over the security measures put in place in Suleja local government, a neighbouring town with the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with a view to check robbery […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has urged youth to be committed to technological advancement and vocational skills development as the right direction towards job creation and poverty reduction. Permanent Secretary, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), […]
The proliferation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) stations across the country, especially in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has continued to be a cause for concern for residents given deaths recorded as a result of […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has said that over 13 lives have so far been lost to flooding in 3 years. The Permanent Secretary FCT, Mr. Christian Ohaa, stated this when he flagged off […]
Alhaji Wadata Dogo Bodinga is the director, Directorate of Road Transport Services (DRTS) otherwise known as the Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In this interview with PAUL OKAH, he sheds […]
Despite restrictions on their operations on major roads of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), commercial motorcycle operators popularly known as okada, like their counterparts, who operate commercial tricycle known as Keke NAPEP, are gradually making a comeback into […]
Some residents affected by flood in the 42 housing estates at Lokogoma district in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have pleaded with the authorities to take appropriate measures before commencing its planned demolition slated for […]
FCT residents are groaning over the hazard of increasing waste dumps around the nation’s capital, especially in the suburbs, as the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEBP) which is saddled with the responsibility of, among others, […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has given two weeks ultimatum to residents of Ipet-5 Estate in Lokogoma district, in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), whose buildings are along water ways and road corridors, to […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has said that it will continue to provide the enabling environment for all women within the FCT to succeed in their field of endavours. The permanent secretary Federal Capital […]
It was sheer display of anger and frustration by the residents of Galadimawa Municipal Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) when our reporter KEHINDE OSASONA visited the community recently to ascertain the cause […]
The return of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA’s) park and pay policy in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is seen by informed residents and others as legalising corrupt tendencies and pain visited on them […]
In Jahi 1, a satellite community, situated behind the popular Next Cash and Carry supermarket in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), there exists a refreshment centre known to residents simply as Forest. PAUL OKAH visited […]
Over the years, vehicle owners have protested what they see as overzealousness by Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) in the discharge of their duties, which often lead to death. PAUL OKAH takes a look at the […]
In this report, PAUL OKAH writes on open defecation and the attendant health challenges faced by residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This is as landlords and the authorities charged with providing toilet facilities […]
Proliferation of worship centres, especially in the city centres, has led to indiscriminate siting of churches and mosques within residential areas constituting a nuisance to residents and sometimes leading to fracas between worshippers and residents. […]
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has Wednesday, commenced hearing on the alleged harassment of vulnerable women during a recent raid of nightclubs operating within undesignated places in Abuja. Both FCT administration officials and representatives […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has said in order to avoid loads of litigations befalling the administration over land allocations, it is adopting measures would reduce land related litigations. The Executive Secretary FCDA Engineer […]
The Medical Laboratory Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) has approved Bwari general hospital laboratory as one of the laboratories certified to be part of Quality Management System (QMS) The acting registrar and chief executive officer of […]
PAUL OKAH in this piece looks at the increasing suicide cases across the country, what traditions, psychologists and organisations say about the trend as well as possible help for anyone with depression issues. From time […]
Despite the proclamation of stiffer penalties against erring officers by the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, extra-judicial killings are on the increase in different parts of the country. However, a human rights lawyer, Barrister […]
The quest for quick money may have led many girls in Kado Kuchi, a community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to embrace a life of prostitution. However, unlike other professional pleasure givers their services […]
Kado Kuchi is a settlement within Jahi, a community in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It is largely inhabited by civil servants, artisans, and petty traders. A visit by Blueprint Weekend PAUL OKAH revealed untold […]
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