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FCTA warns against trading on road shoulders, corridors

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has warned traders across the city to desist from trading on road shoulders and corridors or risk having their goods confiscated.

Chairman of the FCTA Ministerial Taskforce on Traffic Management, Mr. Ihkaro Attah, who issued the warning during inspec [...]

COVID-19 vaccination: FCTA takes campaign to traditional rulers

As part of efforts to ensure that residents of the Federal Capital Territory fully participate in the vaccination against the spread of COVID-19, FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Aliyu, has called on graded chiefs to support government efforts in the sensitization of residents.

The minister wh [...]

Regularise all area council plots, minister directs land departments

The FCT Minister, Mal. Muhammad Bello, has directed the necessary Departments and Agencies of the FCT Administration to immediately resolve all outstanding issues associated with area council plots.

Bello, who gave the directive at the recent commissioning of the Accelerated Area Council Sectio [...]

Nigeria, China partner on agric technology in FCT

In a bid to ensure food security and also boost job opportunities for residents of the Federal Capital Territory, the FCT Administration has partnered the Chinese government in setting up an Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre.

The permanent secretary of the FCTA, Mr. Olusade Adesola, [...]

150 criminals take over 200 hectares in Abuja – Devt Control

Over 200 hectares of land in the Federal Capital City has been encroached upon by illegal land grabbers raising unapproved structures around the Lugbe District, the FCT Administration has revealed.

The Acting Director, Development Control Department of the FCT, Garba Kwamkur, said over 150 crim [...]

Aliyu tasks Kogi traders on access to NSIP

FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Aliyu, has called on market men and women to leverage on the National Social Investment Programme, N SIP, initiated by the Federal Government to win the war against acute poverty, especially at a time when the country is striving to recover from the economic difficult [...]

COVID-19: FCTA to install oxygen pipes to 28 beds at Idu

The FCT Administration has said it is looking to further upgrade the Oxygen Supply Facilities installed at the Idu Covid-19 Isolation and Treatment Centre, to convey oxygen to 28 additional beds in the coming weeks.

The Ag Secretary of the Health and Human Services Secretariat, Dr Muhammed Kawu [...]

’Look inward for solutions to national, African challenges’

Participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course 14 of the National Institute of Security Studies, NISS, have been asked to look inward and develop home grown solutions to Nigerian and African challenges.

The Minister of the FCT, Mal. Muhammad Bello who gave the charge during a cour [...]