NUJ berates magazine over alleged blackmail against FCT Minister
FCT Minister Senator Bala Mohammed By Stanley Onyekwere The Abuja chapter of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has lampooned Desert Herald, a Kaduna-based magazine, for allegedly demanding the sum of 50 million naira from the Minister of FCT, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, purportedly claiming that it has written a book running into hundreds of More...
Int’l donors to support FCT Health Board
By Adeola Tukuru As part of their support towards improving the welfare of mothers and their new born, the United Nations Children Education Fund(UNICEF) and a foreign non-governmental organisation(NGO), Helen Keller More...
Council chairmen to provide social amenities
By Usman Shuaibu The Chairmen of Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Hon. Yahaya Kigbe and his counterpart in Gwagwalada Area Council, Hon. Abubakar Jibrin Giri, have reiterated their commitments More...
Kuje chair reads riot act to councilors
By Adeola Tukuru The Chairman of Kuje Area Council of the FCT, Mr Ishaku Tete, has called on councilors to help deliver dividends of democracy to the people. Tete stated this during the swearing in of the newly More...
Bricklayer convicted for raping minor
An upper Area Court in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, yesterday sentenced a bricklayer, Emmanuel Attah, 29, of Gidan Zakara, Mararaba, to four years in prison for raping a minor. The presiding judge, Mr Vincent Gwahemba, More...
3 men jailed for abuse of Nigerian currency
A Zuba Grade 1 Area court in the FCT has sentenced three men to two months imprisonment each for selling the Nigerian currency across the table.The convicts are Malam Abdulwahabi, 32, Salisu Nuhu, 20, and Bashir More...
FCT residents lament over broken sewage
Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday expressed concern over the broken sewage that was leaking faeces with offensive odour on Sultan Abubakar Way in Abuja metropolis. Some of them, More...
12,728 illegal structures removed in 2012, says FCTA
By Adeola Tukuru In compliance with the Abuja Master Plan, the FCT Administration has removed a total of 12,728 illegal structures in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in the preceding year of 2012. FCT Minister, More...
AEPB warns residents against building structures on river banks
By Stanley Onyekwere The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) yesterday advised park owners in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) not to build structures on the bank of streams to avert flooding. The Acting More...
UniAbuja gets audit panel
A five-man panel has been set up to determine the number of academic and non-academic staff and students of the University of Abuja. The Chairman of the Governing Council of the university, Dr Samuel Ogbemudia, More...
