•Late Abuja-based singer, Ifunanya Nwangene The Senate has called for urgent action to ensure public and private hospitals are stocked with life-saving antidotes, following a series of preventable deaths from snakebites, poisoning, and other medical emergencies. Sponsored by Senator Adebule Idiat Oluranti (Lagos West), the motion highlights th...
Top officials of the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) are embarking on an enforcement exercise to seal up over 4,700 properties owing to non-payment of ground rent. On March 18, 2025, the FCT Administration had lamented that over N6 billion had been lost as revenue due to non-compliance by some property owners to pay their […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) today crushed 601 motorcycles impounded over traffic violations in Abuja, in a move authorities say is rooted in existing regulations and aimed at enhancing public safety. The enforcement exercise, carried out by the Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS), was held in Abuja and attended ...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has identified one iron smelting company as one of the alleged buyers of stolen manhole covers in Abuja. Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, stated this in a statement in Abuja today. Olayinka noted that some exhibi...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has begun the demolition of 50 illegally constructed duplexes and bungalows in Sabon Lugbe, Abuja. Mr Mukhtar Galadima, the Director of the Department of Development Control, led the demolition exercise today, emphasising that the structures had been built by land grabbers without the necessa...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says that approximately one million Nigerian children die annually before their fifth birthday due to various sicknesses. Dr Adedolapo Fasawe, the Mandate Secretary, Health Services and Environment Secretariat (HSES), said this on Friday at a news conference to kickstart the 2024 FCT Maternal...
Justice Hamza Muazu of an Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama, yesterday, berated authorities of the Federal Capital Territory Administration for disobeying an order of the court that restrained them from demolishing an estate owned by Praco International Ltd. The multi-billion naira estate located in the Asokoro/Kugbo axis of the FCT is being...
•Wike In order to curb insecurity and ‘one chance’ menace, the Federal Capital Territory Administration ( FCTA) on Tuesday, February 27, inaugurated one of the private sector’s transportation scheme, to provide secure and efficient mass transit around the city. The inauguration of the 14 High capacity and fully air conditioned buses was said t...
No fewer than 130 rickety vehicles were impounded for allegedly operating in the guise of commercial transport business, to perpetrate crime in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It was gathered that the said vehicles were confiscated by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) via its Directorate of Road Traffic Services (...
Workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA, have rejected the posting of a new Permanent Secretary, Dr Magdalene Ajani, calling for the full implementation of the FCT Civil Service Commission Law, 2018, which provided for the appointment of a chief accounting officer from within the Administration. The workers under the aegis...

