•Tinubu The presidency has maintained that there are no plans to move the Federal Capital to Lagos as speculated in some quarters. Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Tinubu, stated this in a statement via his official X handle today. According to Onanuga, those peddling the rumour are dishonest, [&h...
•Bawa Naibi Uneasy calm pervades residents of Suleja, a commercial city in Niger State bordering the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja and dominated by non-indigenous Nigerlites as the Chairman, Alhaji Isiyaku Bawa Naibi has vowed to enforce a fraction of the Shariah law forbidding sales and consumption of alcohol. The development is comi...
•Wike Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, yesterday, said the Ministry of Finance has released N50 billion to the Administration to finance ongoing capital projects. The amount, according to Wike, is 50 per cent of FCT’s N100 billion 2023 supplementary budget approved by the National Assembly in December, 2023. The mi...
Dear Hon Minister, First, a disclosure. You may not know me but we have met on two occasions in the house of our mutual respected Oga, first as a Minister of State and second as a Governor, but l doubt if you can recognize me now. I’m one of your admirers and critic. As a […]
According to the Cadre Harmonise, about 26 million Nigerians in Borno, Sokoto and Zamfara states including the FCT are expected to be in a food crisis between June and August 2024. Cadre Harmonise is a report put together by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation [&hellip...
The Supreme Court has agreed with the Court of Appeal that the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is like other states. The presiding justice of the panel, John Okoro, asked, “Are you saying if someone scores 25% votes in 30 states but not in Abuja, he should not be president? Is that how you interpret the […]

