•Troops Motorists and other road users moving into the Abuja City Centre in the FCT now spend several minutes or hours in traffic due to military checkpoints mounted on the artery ways. Investigation by our correspondent revealed that the checkpoints hitherto abandoned by soldiers for other assignments, were resurrected on Tuesday last week, w...
•FCT Minister Nyesom Wike Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike has appealed to youths in the nation’s capital not to join the planned August #EndBadGovernance protest against hardship and economic woes. The former Rivers State governor had last week said the FCT was not available for any protest, attracting a barrage of ...
•Wike The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike has started mobilising Abuja youths and other stakeholders against joining the planned Aug. 1 nationwide protests over hunger and hardship. Wike stated this during a ministerial engagement with FCT youths from Abuja South Federal Constituency, in Kwali Area Council of the FC...
•Fuel scarcity The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has confirmed fuel supply and distribution challenges in some parts of Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) but promised to work on restoring normalcy. “The NNPC Ltd. wishes to state that the tightness in fuel supply and distribution witnessed in some parts of Lago...
Two suspected armed robbers were shot dead while attempting to snatch a Prado Jeep at gunpoint in the Jahi area of Abuja, the nation’s capital. CP Benneth Igweh, disclosed this to newsmen while parading two arrested members of the robbery gang at the command in Abuja, today. He said this happened around 10:45 pm yesterday, […]
•Bags of grains are offloaded from a truck The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Shehu Gabam has faulted the federal government’s palliative measures, saying the move falls short of addressing the economic hardship in the country. “The palliative processes the government has brought in have no elemental effects. Recently, ...
•The protesters Protesters from Borno South, today, stormed Abuja demanding the reinstatement of Mohammed Ali Ndume as Chief Whip of the Senate. Ndume was removed for criticising the President Bola Tinubu-led government, following a letter transmitted to the Senate by the national leadership of the his party, All Progressives Congress (APC). H...
•Dele Momodu A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu has said that Nigeria is failing because someone transferred Lagos template to Abuja. Momodu, who did not mention name, stated this during an interview on Channels TV. He criticised the composition of the cabinet of President Bola Tinubu, who was Lagos governor from [&...
•Bread Some consumers of confectionaries in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have stopped buying bread, meat pies and other pastries, due to continuous hike in price of the commodities. The consumers spoke in separate interviews with our correspondent today in Abuja, reports NAN. They said the increasing cost of food c...
•A national protest Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and those of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (SANU) have converged at the Unity Fountain for a national protest. A handful of the protesters are already in the premises of the Unity Fountain, however, security operatives have locked some of...
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