•Wike The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has revoked the land allocation for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national secretariat in Abuja. The decision was conveyed in a letter dated March 13, 2025, titled “Notice of Right of Occupancy with File No: MISC 81346 in Respect of Plot No: 243 within […]
•A protest The power play between the Benue State Government and the State Chief Judge took a dramatic twist today as protesters stormed the Federal Capital Territory to express disaffection over relocation of the Benue State Local Government Elections Petition to Abuja. Convener, Coalition of Civil Society Organisations, Comrade Igwe Ude-Uman...
•Pro-Akpabio protesters Protesters under the aegis of Women for Change Vanguard took the lingering face-off between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Kogi lawmaker, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, to the United Nations office in Abuja today. Chanting solidarity songs and displaying several banners that read ‘We believe in actual victims of sexua...
•One chance A female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), serving at the National Assembly, identified as Miss Ruth Isaiku was robbed and dumped by the roadside after boarding a ‘one chance’ taxi in Abuja. Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama that around 7:40 p.m. yesterday March 12, 2025, one good samaritan from Army [&hell...
Members of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are currently meeting in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The meeting taking place behind closed doors at the party’s national headquarters is presided over by the PDP National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Damagum, reports Channels TV. The meeting comes two days after the...
•Commercial sex workers The Federal High Court in Abuja today dismissed a suit seeking to stop the 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, in a judgement, held that the application of the plaintiff was incomp...
•Blackout Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has blamed the current power outages being experienced by over 20 areas in the FCT on a technical fault in the feeder that supplies electricity to the affected places. A statement released by the firm yesterday listed the affected areas as; Jabi, Kado, Life Camp, Idu, Karmo, Citec Mbora, ...
The Anti-kidnap Unit of the FCT Police Command has arrested a dismissed Immigration officer attempting to sell two rifles to bandits at Zuma community, which borders Bwari area of the FCT and Kaduna State. CP Olatunji Rilwan Disu, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the success recorded by the command between January, 2025 and March, [&he...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced a planned seven-hour power outage in parts of Abuja due to scheduled annual preventive maintenance on two transformers at the Apo 132/33kV Transmission Substation. A statement from the General Manager of Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, today, confirmed that the maintenance will take place tomorrow,...
•Former President Muhammadu Buhari The Frontier yesterday published a story with headline “Ex-President Buhari boycotts Babangida’s book unveiling” which was adapted from a story in a respected national daily newspaper (name withheld by us) with a similar headline, “Buhari absent as Babangida’s autobiography, ‘A J...

