The Minister of State for Works and Housing, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, has said the federal government would provide more adequate and affordable housing for about 2000 families in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). A statement issued Monday night in Abuja by the ministry’s deputy director, Press and Public Relations, Mr. Stephen Kilebi, qouted the minister who spoke during his maiden Read More
At last, satellite towns in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will begin to wear a new look if the current efforts of the administration to clean up the area are sustained; ELEOJO IDACHABA writes. The task of ensuring the cleanliness of FCT satellite towns is long overdue. Attempts were made to incorporate them into the mainstream regular sanitation monitoring exercise Read More
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has vowed that any political leader or traditional ruler found colluding or aiding criminality in any area council, especially during the forthcoming area council elections, will not be spared. In his speech during a familiarisation tour to Gwagwalada and Kuje area councils, the Mandate Secretary, Area Council Secretariat, Abubakar Dantsho, said the FCT Administration Read More
Standard Bearers Islamic Organisation (Abuja Chapter) has awarded 79 indigent Senior Secondary School (SSS) students as parts of it efforts to contribute to the educational standard in the society. The program was tagged “Career Mentorship Programme Scholarship award presentation”. The Chairman, Planning Committee of the Organisation, Abuja Chapter, Ismail Yusuf at the presentation explained that the process of registration was Read More
The Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute has pledged to collaborate with Abuja Markets Management Limited in an effort to curb the growing case of fire disaster in markets and shopping facilities across the country. The Head, Fire and Safety section, Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) Surveyor Longtau Pirmak gave the hint while leading a team from NBBRI Read More
An Appeal court sitting at Central Area, Abuja, Friday, affirmed Alhaji Muhammad Angulu Loko as the chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for February 12, 2022 council election in Abaji area council of the FCT. The presiding judge, Hon justice Aliyu Abubakar Gumel, while delivering judgement in an appeal filed by Abubakar Umar Abdullahi, said the appeal filed Read More
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello, has pledged to provide needed support for the NEXT Cash n Carry supermarket to ensure that it bounces back stronger than what it was before the Boxing Day fire incident that wrecked it. Bello, who spoke while on an on-the-spot assessment of the mega shopping mall facility, Read More
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has called for review of Fire Service Act of 1963 to meet up with contemporary realities. Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, made the call in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja. Idriss said the Act had become obsolete, thus limiting the powers of emergency agencies in the discharge of their Read More
In a bid to ensure adequate protection of lives and property in and around the 250 square kilometers of the Federal Capital City, Abuja, the FCT Administration may have concluded arrangements to sanction owners of 435 abandoned and uncompleted structures. FCT Director of Land Administration, Adamu Jibrin Hussaini, who made this disclosure over the weekend while briefing the press on Read More
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Malam Muhammad Musa Bello felicitates with residents of the FCT, especially the Christian faithful on the celebration of Christmas. In a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary, Mr Tony Ogunleye, the minister enjoined all Christians in the territory to use the occasion to reflect and rededicate themselves to the virtues Read More
The National Coordinator/CEO SERVICOM, Mrs Nnenna Akajemeli has extended love to vulnerable groups in Gwagwalada and Kuje area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. This gesture was extended when the coordinator visited the Kuje Correctional Centre and the ANAWIM Home for the poor in Gwagwalada recently, as part of SERVICOM’s end of year activities. A press statement signed Read More
Officers of the FCT Police Command, Wednesday, dispersed #NorthIsBleeding protesters in Abuja. The NorthIsBleeding protests are organised against the continuous insecurity and killings ravaging the northern states under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government. Report in the media indicate that some Nigerians from the Northern part of the country took to Twitter since last week using the hashtag #NorthIsBleeding to demand Read More
As a result of allegations of cheating by traders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Abdullahi Adamu Candido, has introduced a new standard measurement (mudu) for traders within the Council. Speaking during the launch on Friday at Gosa market, Candido said a standard mudu “will curtail the bickering by traders and customers Read More
A new date, Feb. 28 has been fixed for a case involving a financial expert, and the chief executive officer of Mauritz Walton Nig. Ltd, Dr Maurice Ibe, against the Abia state government. Some of the Abia state officials were also joined in the $151 million Paris Club refund suit. An FCT High Court, Kubwa, Thursday fixed the date in Read More
The Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS), has said it remitted N118 billion into federal government coffers as at November with a projection of N202 billion in 2022. The acting chairman of the FCT-IRS, Mr. Haruna Abdullahi, stated this Wednesday in Abuja, saying that the figure meant for the organisation surpassed its target by 108 per cent. He said: Read More
To help promote the rights of original inhabitants of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), stakeholders from the political, traditional, religious, women and civil society converged and unveiled a strategic project on strengthening the traditional justice system. The official launching of the project was performed by the Ona of Abaji, with the support of Sa’peyi of Garki and other traditional Read More
The Commissioner of Police, in charge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, CP Babaji Sunday, has banned the sale and use of all kinds of fireworks, fire-crackers, knockouts, among others in the FCT. The CP in a press statement by the Police Publoc Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Josephine Adeh, Monday in Abuja, noted that the order was part Read More
The FCT minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has urged the Association of Psychiatrist in Nigeria to embark on public enlightenment and education campaigns on issues of mental health, especially in the cases of drugs abuse, depression and suicide. Represented by Dr Mohammed Kawu, the acting secretary of FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat, Bello gave the advice at the 52 Annual Read More
The Agbari Elite Association of Nigeria (AEAN) weekend held its maiden summit at the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) Abuja. The association called on Agbari sons and daughters to stay united to ensure the promotion of its cultural heritage, education, welfare, peace, unity and development. The chairman of the association, Comrade Musa Jibril, in his speech titled :”Rethinking The Gbari Read More
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has commended Minister of FCT, Muhammad Bello, for giving youth opportunity to be senior member of his cabinet. The NAN president, Comrade Sunday Adebayo in a letter to the minister and made available to Blueprint, applauded the minister saying that, “We wish to show our appreciation to the honorable Minister of FCT for Read More
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has warned FCT residents to equip their homes, offices, business places and cars with basic fire defense equipment to curtail fire outbreaks. The Director General of the Agency, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, gave the advice Friday in Abuja, during a television programme monitored by our correspondent. Idriss, who stressed that homes should be Read More
The fire disaster that struck the bustling Nyanya market located along Abuja-Keffi highway on Tuesday has once again brought to the fore the need to urgently secure our markets all over the country to stem huge economic losses by traders. According to an eyewitness account, the conflagration began around 7 pm after most of the traders had closed for the Read More
A collation of Nigerian concerned Citizen has applauded the leadership style of the current minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), saying Abuja is now a construction site.The group stated this while on a solidarity march tagged “peace work” in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The group was warmly received at the FCT Secretarial by the FCT permanent secretary, Mr Olusade Adesola, Read More
Organisers of the first Nigeria Industrialization Summit and Expo scheduled to begin Monday in Abuja would no longer hold. The industrialisation summit and expo is part of plans to bolster national development and put the economy on the growth part. Organisers of the event who did not give any reason for the postponement said it was on the advice of Read More
The Nigeria Police have said the body of the missing Vanguard Newspapers reporter, Tordue Henry Salem, was found at the Wuse General Hospital Mortuary in Abuja. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr. Frank Mba, announced this at a news conference briefing in Abuja Friday. Tordue was reported missing on October 13. Mba said the body of the reporter was Read More
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