Fct News

NAOWA urges parents to teach children local languages

The National President, Nigerian Army Officers' Wives Association, NAOWA, Mrs Umma-Kalsum Buratai, has urged parents to ensure that they teach their local languages to their children at home. 

FCTA, UNESCO graduate 400 youths on ICT

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Muhammad Bello, has charged graduands of the recently concluded United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO/FCTA YouthMobile Information and Communication Technology project in the FCT to use the skills they have acquired fo [...]

We are ready to move to Shere Galuwyi- Jabi monarch

The Esu of Jabi 1, Alhaji Yakubu Auta, has reiterated the willingness and readiness of his people to relocate to Shere Galuwyi resettlement site, in Bwari area council. 

Auta, who spoke through his Assistant Secretary, Mu'azu Ahmed, explained that majority of the people in Jabi Masalla [...]

ARDS set to address youth unemployment

In its bid to address the challenge of youth unemployment in the FCT, the Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat has organized an empowerment workshop on agro entrepreneurship for 200 youths drawn from the 6 Area Councils of the FCT

The workshop which took place at the Atlas Hotel in Gwa [...]

Bello lauds AMMC for ‘salvaging’ abandoned vehicles

Minister of FCT, Malam Muhammad Bello, has commended the management of Abuja Metropolitan Management Council, AMMC, for refurbishing the agency’s broken-down vehicles and machinery rather than procuring new ones.

The minister gave this commendation when [...]

FCTA gives police quit notice from Galuwyi Shere resettlement

The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has called on some personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, occupying one of its resettlement sites in Galuwyi Shere, to vacate the place to allow contractors complete renovation of work on schedule. 

Director, Resettlement and Compensation [...]

FCTA to clear illegal settlements on railway corridors

Preparatory to the opening of test run to the public, the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has directed relevant FCTA agencies to clear all illegal settlements and structures obstructing the FCT railway corridor and station access ways.

Malam Bello gave this charge when [...]

NGO fetes over 3000 widows in Abuja

A non-governmental organization, Tally Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society, announced its entry into the FCT by bringing succour to no fewer than three thousand women, mostly widows. 

The humanitarian event which took place at Social Development Secretariat auditorium had beneficiaries mostl [...]