Abuja Times

Abuja Streetlights: AEDC assures FCT minister of improvement

Ihesiulo Grace 8 November 2017 0

Hope for a significant and immediate improvement on power supply for Abuja Streetlights was kindled recently when the Managing Director of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), Engr. Ernest Mapwaya, paid the FCT Minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Beloo, a courtesy call in his office.

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Communities urge FCTA to upgrade healthcare centres

Ihesiulo Grace 8 November 2017 0

Residents of Idu, Gwagwa, Karmo and Jiwa communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have urged the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) to upgrade the three primary healthcare centres in the communities to general hospitals. Some of the residents told correspondents of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the centres were being […]

Abuja Times

Coming on stream of FCT IRS will boost FCTA’s revenue profile -Bello

Ihesiulo Grace 1 November 2017 0

The FCT Minister, Mallam. Muhammad Musa Bello, has announced the final confirmation of the Chairman/Chief Executive of Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service -FCT IRS, Malam Abdullahi Oteh Attah, by the House of Representatives. This brings to a close the process of ratification by the two chambers of the national legislature and paves the way […]

Abuja Times

FCT official calls for provision storage facilities for farmers

Ihesiulo Grace 1 November 2017 0

Head of Gender Unit, Agency for Science and Technology, FCT Education Board, Mrs. Hadiza Ingawa, says the provision of storage facilities will enable farmers to preserve their crops adequately for export. Ingawa made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday during the World Food Day Celebration marked by […]

Abuja Times

FCT transport secretary cautions AMAC taskforce over illegal duty

Ihesiulo Grace 25 October 2017 0

The newly appointed FCT Secretary of Transportation, Comrade Opeifa Kayode, has cautioned the leaders of Abuja Municipal Area Council Joint Taskforce who have engaged in illegal and undesignated duty against over stepping their jurisdiction as environmental and security taskforce. In what looks like clash of interest, on who controls the major axis within the Abuja […]

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Emir seeks FCTA intervention in primary healthcare provision

Ihesiulo Grace 25 October 2017 0

The Emir of Jiwa in the FCT, Alhaji Idris Musa, has called for the intervention of the FCT Administration in the provision of primary healthcare services. Musa made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. He blamed the overstretching of existing healthcare centres in the territory […]

Abuja Times

57 FCT schools for Principals’ Cup tourney –Official

Ihesiulo Grace 18 October 2017 0

No fewer than 57 schools in the FCT are expected to take part in the 2017 Principals’ Cup tournament, scheduled to kick off from November 8 to November 28, 2017. The Vice-Chairman of the FCT Football Association, Patrick Ngwaogu, who made the announcement in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday […]

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AMAC APC lauds NASS on tenement rate reversal

Ihesiulo Grace 21 August 2017 0

*Vows to monitor process The All Progressive Party APC in the Abuja Municipal Area council AMAC, has thumbed up decisions of the House of Representative committee on FCT on the reversal of earlier disbanded tenement rate by the council. Recall that the issue of tenement rate collection within the municipal has been a salient issue […]

News

LGBT: Two homosexuals escape death by whiskers in Abuja

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By John Haruna, Abuja It was a chaotic scene, weekend, April 8, 2017, as a loud shout by a woman, one Mrs Cynthia chukwuma drew hundreds of residents to a bizarre sight where her husband, Collins obinna Chukwuma , was engaging in homosexuality. The incident, which took place at the Durumi 1 area of Abuja, […]

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FCT administration laments non-payment of utility bills

Ihesiulo Grace 20 February 2017 0

Worried by the failure of residents of the Federal Capital Territory to pay their utility bills, the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) has begun a sensitization exercise to remind people to pay up their rates at when due, just as offenders of such laws are liable to face sanctions as obtained in the extant law […]

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FCT Pastors, Imams risk six months Jail term over illegal structures

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2017 0

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has said that defiant clergy men operating under illegal structures in the federal Capital Territory (FCT), henceforth risks. Six months jail terms and 50 000.00 fine for failure to comply with the proper building regulations obtainable in original Abuja master plan. Before now the nation’s capital city has

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Some FCT residents say economic recession will affect Christmas preparations

Ihesiulo Grace 23 November 2016 0

The poor performance of the Nigerian economy is going to prevent many Nigerians from celebrating the Christmas season the way they would like to, some Abuja residents have said.  The residents made this known in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday.  NAN reports that the present economic recession in the […]

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NANS Shut down FCT Offices

Ihesiulo Grace 15 May 2015 0

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), on Thursday, barricaded the entrance of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, demandingfor the payment of their unfulfilled welfare packages within the FCT Educational system. The protest, which took the intervention of the FCT Police Commissioner, Mr. Wilson Inalegu, to calm frayed nerves, however, caused several

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Court Ejects Nwobodo From Abuja Property

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2015 0

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has ordered the immediate eviction of former Governor of Anambra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo, from a mansion he is living at the Maitama District in Abuja. Justice Suleiman Belgore ordered Nwobodo to relinquish the property to the owner, Adib-Miles International Limited. The property in question is a six-bedroom […]

Features

WUYE ULTRA-MODERN MARKET INFERNO: Jilted Traders Slug It out with FCT in Court

Ihesiulo Grace 1 May 2015 0

  Fourteen years after the Federal Government granted traders who lost their goods to the 2001 inferno at the New Market, Central Area, Abuja, in 2001, AUGUSTINE AMINU reports that the traders are now caught in a legal crossfire with the FCT claim their allocation of shops promised them as compensation. His report.   Hope […]

Health

Rotary Club Donates Toilet Facility to School

Ihesiulo Grace 30 April 2015 0

Nine hundred and sixty four students of LEA Primary School, Gwarinpa, a suburb in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are to benefit from a 4 unit of toilet facility constructed and donated to the school by the Rotary Club of Abuja.   The project, according to Rotary, satisfies three of its areas of focus which includes […]

Technology

Infracos: MainOne, IHS Set to Connect 60 Cities to Broadband

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

Indication has emerged that the planned push by the licensed Infrastructure Companies (InfraCos), MainOne Cable and HIS are on the verge of having improved broadband services to link Lagos and about 60 other cities in the North Central zone of Nigeria. MainOne Cable is in charge of Lagos and IHS is focusing on the North […]

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FG Reads Riot Act to Owners of Abandoned Structures in FCT

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

The FCT Executive Committee (EXCO) has expressed grave concern over numerous uncompleted and abandoned buildings dotting the Federal Capital City, Abuja. The FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, expressed this concern on Monday during the FCT Exco meeting, held at his residence. Senator Bala Mohammed, who presided over the meeting, reiterated that such structures poses

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FG Names Streets after Jonathan, Yekini, Okadigbo, Others

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

President Goodluck Jonathan and other prominent Nigerians have been honoured by the Federal Government through the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) administration by naming major streets in Asokoro Extension, Guzape, Wupa, Wuye and Maitama Extension districts after them. FCT Minister, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, who disclosed this on Monday, during the FCT Executive

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Court Vacates Order Stopping Obasanjo's Book 'My Watch'

Ihesiulo Grace 16 April 2015 0

An FCT High Court, sitting in Apo District, on Wednesday, vacated its earlier order restraining former President Olusegun Obasanjo from publishing or selling his book titled ‘MY WATCH’. The judge, Justice Valentine Ashie, had on December 10th, , granted the interim order, restraining Obasanjo from publishing his new autobiography ‘My Watch’,