The N1.28 trillion proposed Federal Capital Territory (FCT) budget for the 2024 fiscal year on Tuesday was passed by the members of the House of Representatives. According to reports, the budget was passed after the bill was presented for consideration by the Chairman of the House Committee on FCT, Rep. Mukhtar Betara (APC, Borno), on…
Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), is in a closed-door meeting with senators at the National Assembly, sequel to the deteriorating security situation in the FCT. According to reports, the meeting is taking place at the senate chambers of the National Assembly in Abuja. There have been a series of kidnappings…
Dr Mariya Mahmoud, the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has said that the looting of a warehouse in the Gwagwa-Tasha area of the nation’s capital is beyond hunger but criminal. The minister, while stating this at the end of her assessment visit to Gwagwa-Tasha to ascertain the level of damage to…
The operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have arrested a “notorious kidnapper”, Saidu Abdulkadir. The Informant247 reports that the FCT minister Nyesom Wike had, on Monday, placed a N20 million bounty on two kidnappers. CP Benneth Igwe, the FCT police commissioner, while confirming the arrest of Dahiru to newsmen at the command headquarters…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) sealed Sahad Store, a popular supermarket in the Garki area of Abuja, twenty-four hours after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disclosed plans to tackle factors responsible for the food crisis. According to reports, the enforcement, led by FCCPC Acting Executive Vice Chairman Adamu Ahmed Abdullahi, said the supermarket…
Nyesom Wike, the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, placed a N20 million bounty on two notorious criminals declared wanted by the FCT Police Command. The minister, while witnessing the parade of some suspected criminals at the command, commended the police for an excellent job. He said, ‘’You said there are…
Nigerian President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday, flagged off the construction of 3,112 pilot housing projects under the Renewed Hope Housing Initiative in the Karsana area of the Federal Capital Territory. The Informant247 gathered that the estate was planned through a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and a consortium…
A “notorious kidnapper” terrorising the outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has been neutralised by the operatives of the Nigeria Police Force attached with the Department of Force Intelligence-Tactical Teams (DFI-IRT). According to reports, the notorious bandit, named Isa Dei-Dei, was neutralised during a gun duel with security personnel who had combed the hideouts…
The Nigeria Police Force says it has arrested its officers who abducted a businessman in Abuja and extorted N29.9m from him in January. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the force spokesperson, while confirming the development on Tuesday through his X (formerly Twitter) handle (@Princemoye1), said the force had taken significant steps toward ensuring justice prevailed in the case….
Bandits have again demanded two brand new Bajaj motorcycles for the release of the remaining 11 victims in captivity after collecting N8.5 million before releasing four among 17 people, including a nurse at Kawu in Bwari area council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It would be recalled that the bandits had invaded the Kawu…
Suspected gunmen, numbering six last Sunday, attacked the Guita community, Chikakore, Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and abducted two sisters, said to be 16 and 14 years old. According to reports, the gunmen, after the attack, escaped through the bush track, which links the community to another village. Confirming the…
No fewer than three notorious bandits on Friday, neutralised by the operatives of the Special Intervention Squad, Federal Capital Territory Police Command, in a forest within the Bwari area of Abuja. According to reports, the bandits were killed in the early hours of Friday, January 26, at about 2 am, in a forest linking Abuja…
The FCT Police Command, on Wednesday, reacted to reports of an explosion in the Maitama area of the Federal Capital Territory, which some residents attributed to a bomb. The FCT police command, in a statement by SP Josephine Adeh, the command’s Public Relations Officer, said the incident resulted from an overheated metal refuse bin. “The…
A resident of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Suleiman Sabo, who was kidnapped on Friday at Sauka along the airport road, Abuja, has been rescued It was gathered that Sabo was abducted when heading home with his wife after the gunmen intercepted them. It was learned that the victim was driving in his Ash colour…
No fewer than two people were kidnapped on Thursday night after suspected gunmen invaded the Nigerian Army Post Housing Scheme in the Kurudu area of Abuja. The Informant247 gathered that the kidnapped victims, which include the wife and one of the in-laws of a lawyer, Cyril Adikwu, were abducted around 10:00 pm in the Phase…
No fewer than two suspected vandals of railway infrastructure and 11 illegal miners have been arrested by the operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC) FCT Command. According to Okomanyi Comfort, the spokesperson of NSCDC FCT command, in a statement on Tuesday, the two railway vandals were arrested by the Operatives of the…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Monday, threatened to shit down Utako market poor sanitation to avert the epidemic. According to reports, the Utako market was said to be one of the largest markets located in the Utako district, within Abuja’s city centre, and is being managed by the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC)….
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, at a meeting with estate developers in Abuja, announced that the FCT Administration has pegged the cost of issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy (C- of-O) at N5 million. Wike, while making the announcement, said the payment could be made within four months of land…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday, ordered that Godwin Emefiele, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, be remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of his bail request. The Informant247 gathered that Emefiele is standing trial on an alleged procurement fraud, the trial which had been stalled…
Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has approved a draft property tax regulation for Abuja that will see property owners start paying taxes on their properties. The Informant247 gathered that the FCT-Internal Revenue Service had begun the implementation of Capital Gains Tax in Abuja, as entrenched in the Capital Gains Tax Act…
