•Wike Investors under the aegis of Abuja Technology Village Free Trade Zone, have dragged the Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, before the Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging the legality of the administrative decisions he took in relation to activities at the Abuja Free Trade Zone. They claimed that the decision culmin...
The federal government has indicated that concerns over ground rent obligations involving several foreign embassies in the Federal Capital Territory will be addressed through established diplomatic processes. Speaking to our correspondent yesterday, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, said the matter would be...
•FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike Thirty-four embassies in Abuja risk being closed down by the Federal Capital Territory Administration over unpaid ground rents spanning 11 years. It was however learnt that the opposition Peoples Democratic, Federal Inland Revenue Service and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, who were...
•Wike and Kingibe Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe, has said it is illegal for properties to be seized, revoked, or sealed solely on account of failure to pay ground rent. Reacting to the ongoing development in the capital city, the lawmaker warned FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, not to run foul of […]...
•Tinubu and Wike Following the sealing of several structures in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday by the Nyesom Wike-led FCT Administration, defaulters have been granted a 14-day grace period to settle their ground rents with associated penalties, after the intervention of President Bola Tinubu. This was confirmed in a statement re...
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 […]

