Many persons are trapped in a four-storey building that collapsed along 7th avenue junction in the Gwarimpa area of Abuja on Thursday morning, February 2, 2023. Details of the incident are sketchy at the time of this report but sources said some dead bodies have been recovered. The cause...
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Residents and motorists in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environ have continued to lament the hardship being experienced as scarcity of Premuim Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol worsened. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who monitored the filling stations on Friday reports that...
Long queues of bank customers have thronged Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of banks at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to collect the new naira notes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who monitored banks in Abuja on Friday, reports that many customers were seen on queues collecting the...
By KAYODE ADEBIYI – Acting Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB), Dr Alhassan Sule, has been presented with the award of the Most Prudent State Universal Basic Education Board Chairman for the North-Central geo-political zone. The recognition was presented to Dr Sule by Dr...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A Foremost Anti-Corruption Organization in Nigeria, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has filled a petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) against state governments and the Federal Capital Territory over the allegation of converting the...
A 36-year-old civil servant, Moses Saka was docked in an Upper Area Court Gwagwalada, Abuja for allegedly using ‘juju’ on four-year-old girl. The police charged Saka and Joseph, at large with criminal conspiracy and unlawful juju. The Prosecution Vounsel, Abdullahi Tanko, told the court that the complainant Mr Labaran...
Thirty-seven contestants from the 36 states of the federation and FCT will slug it out in a Reality TV Show grand finale tagged “The Next President Show” to elect a youth president for the country for 2022. Mr Daddy Kris, organiser of the event and the Chief Executive Officer...
The Federal Capital Territory taskforce and joint enforcement team, on Thursday confiscated and crushed 432 commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada operating within the city centre and other prohibited areas. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the crushing of the motorcycles was witnessed by the officials of...
The Senate on Wednesday, passed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) N607.9 billion 2022 Appropriation Bill. This followed the adoption of the harmonised report of the Senate and House of Representatives Committee on FCT at plenary. Presenting the bill, the Chairman of the committee, Sen. Smart Adeyemi, said that the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has debunked rumours that he has plans to relocate Nigeria’s capital from Abuja to Lagos State. It would be recall that the former Military President Ibrahim Babangida had relocated Nigeria’s capital from Lagos to Abuja...
President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted the 2023 statutory budget of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the House of Representatives for approval. Buhari also transmitted to the House, the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal (CCT) and the Constitution of the Federal...
The Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has ordered Visible Concept, the construction firm handling the N30 billion renovation work at the National Assembly to speedily complete the projects. Sen. Smart Adeyemi, Chairman of the senate Committee, gave the order at an on the spot assessment of the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Contrary to a security advisory from the U.S. and United Kingdom, warning of a possible terrorists’ attack in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has insisted that there is no security threat in Abuja. The IGP stated...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The management of the Jabi Lake Mall in the Utako area of Abuja has shut down its operations on Thursday over fear of terrorist’s attack in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The management of the mall disclosed this on Thursday on its official Instagram...
The Riders and Owners of Motorcycle Association of Nigeria (ROMAN) in the FCT, says plans are ongoing to issue digital identification to its members. According to the association, this will go a long way to check criminality among them. The National President of the Union, Alhaji Olusola Razaq, in...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), on Tuesday, arraigned a director with Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Solomon Okpa Ita for alleged diversion of N45 million. The ICPC also arraigned Gabriel Nathaniel, a staff in the Accounts Department of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC)...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – At least 9 passengers have been confirmed dead and ten others injured in a fatal crash at Yangoji-Abaji road, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Bisi Kazeem, confirmed this in a statement on...
Nigerian sensational singers, Terry-G and Joe –El and others, thrilled fans with electrifying performances from Saturday night to Sunday morning at the Blast and Funk Concerts held in the Federal Capital Territory. The much anticipated free-ticket music fiesta was organisd by the Bolingo Xperia. It was a show of...
The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has placed emergency workers on red alert in order to save lives and property in Abuja in the event of anticipated heavy rain fall. The Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, made this known in a statement by the Head, Public...
The leadership of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), says the union has suspended the ongoing strike by two weeks. Mr Godfrey Abah, the Chairman, FCT chapter of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...