•Protest The Take It Back Movement (TIB), a key organiser of the EndBadGovernance nationwide protests, in collaboration with other protest organisers, has announced a massive one-million-man protest scheduled to take place across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, tomorrow, Saturday, August 10, 2024. According to Mr....
•Edward Onoja Natives and residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have strongly condemned the appointment of Chief Edward Onoja, former Deputy Governor of Kogi State, as the FCT Commissioner for the Public Complaints Commission, calling for an immediate reversal. Danjuma Tanko Dara, a major stakeholder and elder statesman in the FCT, ...
Cholera outbreak in Nigeria has claimed 103 lives in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, so far. This was disclosed today in a press conference by Dr. Jide Idris, Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). Idris provided a comprehensive update on the ongoing cholera outbreak that has [&hel...
The House of Representatives Committee on FCT Area Council and Ancillary Matters is set to grill the six Area Council Chairmen of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on their expenditure from Tuesday next week. The chairmen would face the House Committee after failing to show up for several invitations, reports Vanguard. Chairman of the Commit...
•A truck conveying bags of rice The federal government has donated 20 trucks of rice to the 36 state governors and the federal capital territory for onward distribution to Nigerians. Addressing state House Reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting today, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the ric...
•Shettima The governments of Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory owe the federal government an outstanding liability of N1.72tn in budget support facilities. The figures were revealed in a presentation on state budget support facility by Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, at the 140th meeting of the National ...
•Nyesom Wike The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has said that most cases of kidnap in the FCT in recent times were stage-managed. He also declared that there has been a remarkable improvement in the security situation of the territory. Wike said this today at the National Assembly while addressing journalists after [&h...
•Mariya Mahmoud and the looted warehouse The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mariya Mahmoud has described the looting of a warehouse in the area as a “criminal act”. Some suspected hoodlums had on Sunday looted the warehouse in the Gwagwa-Tasha of the FCT, carting away food items, reports Channels TV. During an inspection [&...
The House of Representatives today, Tuesday, February 13, asked the Chief Judge of the FCT High Court Abuja and the National Judicial Council to suspend the ongoing recruitment process for vacant positions in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory until adherence to the Federal Character principle and quota system is ensured. This dec...
•The suspected armed robbers Operatives of the FCT Police Command have arrested six suspected armed robbers in Utako Village in the Federal Capital Territory. The suspects were apprehended on Wednesday in an uncompleted hospital building which is a marked black spot during a coordinated raid operation, reports Channels TV. Police Public Relati...

