Some traders from Abuja markets on Thursday, besieged the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Headquarters, Abuja, and demanded an end to the leadership crisis that has crippled the Abuja Markets Management Limited (AMML). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Alhaji Abubakar Faruk was sacked as the Managing...
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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it has demolished 5,000 illegal buildings on unapproved plots in Gishiri Village Extension, Katampe District of Abuja. Mr Samson Atureta, District Monitor, Katampe and Mabushi, Development Control Department, FCTA, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja during the ongoing demolition of unapproved buildings...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State says with necessary arrangement in place, the planned Badagry Port might be ready by 2025. Sanwo-Olu said this on Tuesday, when the Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adeniyi, paid him a courtesy visit at the Lagos House, Marina. ...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has begun the auditing of remittances of monies deducted from workers salaries from 2010 to 2022. The Permanent Secretary, FCTA, Mr Olusade Adesola, inaugurated the exercise on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that the investigation would cover statutory and non-statutory deductions from the...
The Department of Development Control, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Monday, demolished a building erected on plot 661 B01, Gudu District, in Apo area of Abuja. The demolition team, led by Mr Chinedu Okoro, Officer-in-Charge of the District, explained during the exercise that the building was demolished...
The Lagos State Government has dismissed allegations that it held mass burial for 103 victims of Lekki Tollgate #EndSARS protest. This is contained in a statement issued by Dr Olusegun Ogboye, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health in Lagos on Sunday. Ogbonge said that peddlers of the...
Two siblings have been recovered dead from a partial building collapse at No 25, Ajao street CWC, by Olainukan Bus Stop. Ishawo. Ikorodu. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Coordinator. National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Territorial Office, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Saturday in Lagos. Farinloye said that the siblings, Rakib...
The Lagos State Government has explained why it carried out a recent demolition of distressed buildings in Alaba International Market in Ojo Local Council of the state. According to the state government, the demolition exercise was neither a witch-hunt nor intended to acquire the land but done to...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Lagos Command on Saturday confirmed that 30 inmates had been pardoned and released by the Lagos State Government. The spokesperson of the NCoS, Mr Rotomi Oladokun, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The NCoS Lagos...
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has arrested three suspects in connection with the murder of a Bolt Driver, Obasi Okeke in Abuja. The Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the FCT, Mr Haruna Garba, said this on Thursday at a news conference in Abuja. Garba said...
The police in Lagos on Thursday arraigned Charity Iroakazi, 28, at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly having in her possession 36 berets with IPOB insignia on them. The defendant, a woman, an artisan who resides at 14, Nurudeen St., Ojo, Lagos, is being tried for conspiracy and...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has clamped down on “one-chance” syndicates, operating in unapproved parking zones within the capital city, Abuja. Mr Peter Olumuji, the Secretary, Command and Control Centre of the Taskforce, established to enforce sanity in the city, explained on Wednesday in Abuja that the raid...
A 46-year old man, identified as Jude, has been arrested by the police for allegedly impregnating his two daughters in Ikwa community, Zuba Chiefdom, in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja. A neighbour, identified as Idris, who disclosed that the accused, a father of four: two females and two males,...
The Police Command in Lagos State on Monday confirmed the electrocution of a 20-year-old electrical apprentice, Micheal Akinwale, while working at Trade Fair Complex area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)....
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The police in Lagos State have arrested 2 suspects in connection with an intercepted substances suspected to be Indian Hemp valued at about N13 million. The Police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday....
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has warned residents with criminal tendencies to vacate the Abuja city. Mr Peter Olumuji, Secretary, FCTA Command and Control, Joint City Enforcement Team, gave the warning on Sunday during its ongoing clean up operations in parts of Abuja. According to Olumuji, the FCTA,...
Battery Dance, sensational New York-based dance group, and dance studios in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), on Saturday night thrilled fans at the “Dance to Connect Nigeria” concert in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the dance performance show was organised by the American Embassy and the...
The Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State has read a riot act to all aspirants jostling for the party’s ticket ahead of the Surulere Federal Constituency I bye- election, slated for Aug. 19. The party, at a news briefing on Friday evening at its state secretariat in Ikeja, cautioned ...
No fewer than 80 suspected cultists have been arrested between April and July 14, 2023 in Lagos State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN recalls that in April, 42 suspected cultists, allegedly belonging to different groups were arrested at different places within the state, while 17 others...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Abdulkarim Chukkol, has described investment, Business Email Compromise, BEC, and forex scams as well as land and property fraud as some of the most prevalent financial and economic crimes in the Lagos...