The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has approved N36.5 billion for the execution of several projects in Federal Capital City and satellite towns. Coordinator, Satellite Towns Development Department, FCTA, Mr Abdulkadir Zulkiflu, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the FCT Executive Committee...
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Sen. Ned Nwoko on Wednesday at plenary officially notified the senate of his defection from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Party (APC). Nwoko’s notification is contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and read at plenary on Wednesday. Nwoko in the letter titled:...
By OLA MODUPE , Ibadan – FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has paid a condolence visit to the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, in Ibadan today, over the death of his elder brother, Sunday Makinde. He was accompanied by former Governors Okezie Ikpeazu and Samuel Ortom as well as Senators...
Almost mid way into the Tinubu presidency, the face of the 2027 opposition to his perpetuation is on display. An untidy opposition is nearly on full display but in a perpetual stampede. Key opposition figures are lashing out at surrogates of the ruling party from different angles in a...
The acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has blamed party leaders for the crisis rocking the nation’s main opposition party. Damagum stated this in his remarks at the party’s 79th Board of Trustees (BoT) meeting on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that though the PDP...
Court fixes March 12 for judgment in suit seeking to stop Wike from arresting Commercial Sex Workers
Court fixes March 12 for judgment in suit seeking to stop Wike from arresting Commercial Sex Workers
A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed March 12 for judgment in suit seeking to stop Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, and the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) from arresting and prosecuting Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) in Abuja. Justice James Omotosho fixed the date after counsel for the...
Embattled former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello and his successor Usman Ododo visited the Abuja residence of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike on Thursday. The appearance of the three politicians who belong to different parties has set tongues wagging online since Wike’s media aide...
A group of researchers from Imo State University’s Faculty of Biological Sciences and the International Society for Phyto biotechnology and Public Health Research (IS-PPHR), have in a groundbreaking initiative converted agricultural waste to a delectable new table wine and animal feed. The innovative product, trademarked as WATOWI in 2024,...
President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, held a closed-door meeting with a delegation of Ogoni leaders led by Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State. Also present at the meeting was the Chief of staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila;...
A former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, said that he would not join issues with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, over his alleged denigrating media comment on him. Wabara, the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), said this during...
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory has arrested 50 suspects over theft of manhole covers in Abuja. The Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of FCT, Mr Olatunji Disu, stated this at a media briefing on Monday in Abuja. Disu said that a targeted operation by operatives...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has expressed satisfaction with the progress recorded so far in infrastructure development in the FCT in the last 12 months. Wike stated this after inspection of an ongoing road construction in Gishiri and construction of Judges’ Quarters in...
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike has given owners of the 762 revoked plots of land in Maitama two-week grace to pay for their Certificates of Occupancy (C of O). The owners of the plots, located in Maitama II, Cadastral Zone A10, Abuja, are expected to pay...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has said the party’s target is to wrestle Rivers state from the grip of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come 2027. Mr Ganduje made this known in Port Harcourt during the inauguration of the state working committee on...
The Rivers House of Assembly faction loyal to Gov. Siminalaye Fubara, on Wednesday initiated a bill to regulate the real estate sector. The Leader, Mr Sokari Goodboy, who presented the River State Real Estate Regulatory Authority Bill 2024, said it was aimed at ensuring transparency in the sector. Goodboy...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has assured Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, not to be disturbed by the political crisis rocking the state. Jonathan spoke at an event in the Nihi Community in the Etche Local Government Area of the State on Sunday. He explained that Fubara would eventually emerge...
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has elected Chief Tony Okocha, its former Caretaker Committee Chairman, as the substantive Chairman. Okocha was elected at the party’s Delegates’ Congress held on Saturday in Port Harcourt. He was elected alongside other State Working Committee members to run...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Council, has directed all workers in the six area councils of the FCT to begin indefinite strike from Dec. 1. The chairman of the council, Mr Knabanyi Adalo, gave the directive in a statement in Abuja on Saturday. Idalo explained...
The member representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Hon Ikenga Ugochinyere, on Friday accused FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, of destabilising the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike, the immediate past Rivers State Governor, was appointed minister by President Bola Tinubu in 2023. He is a PDP member serving...