Tag: Federal Capital Territory

Police deny reports claiming Abuja schools have been shut down over fear of bandits attack

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, has dismissed reports claiming schools in the capital city have been shut down over fears of bandit attacks. It was learnt that reports have been making the rounds on social media that the Nigerian Law School and Veritas University, in the Bwari Area Council, as well as other schools, have been shut down over fear of bandits or Fulani herdsmen attacks. A senior Police Officer who spoke to newsmen on the condition of anonymity, disclosed that contrary to reports in the media,…

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Insecurity: Schools shut down in FCT as bandits arrive in border town

Aminu Imam

Despite assurances by the Police authorities that Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is safe, private schools in Bwari area council of the FCT yesterday hurriedly shut down their activities over the fear of possible attack by kidnappers. According to reports, some schools hurriedly sent their students home when news got to them over 200 unidentified men suspected to be bandits were dropped by a truck in Sabon-Wuse area of Niger State, a border town with Bwari, Abuja. According to intelligence, some private schools closed their schools with instructions to…

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FCT to seal off all houses, shops without fire alert system

Aminu Imam

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Fire Service has announced that all public and private structures without fire alert systems linked to its emergency monitoring centre will be sealed off. This was contained in a notice released by the Fire Service. According to the agency, the move follows a recent resolution passed by the national assembly. Recall that the House of Representatives in March following a motion moved by Henry Nwawuba, lawmaker from Imo, had asked the FCT minister and fire service to ensure that all public buildings and markets within…

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Female Abuja driver who makes N390, 000 monthly shares experience

Aminu Imam

When many Nigerians are struggling every day to get paid employment due to the rising unemployment rate in the country, such could not be said of Hanatu Jubrin, who is one of the female Bolt drivers in Abuja. Jubrin told newsmen that despite the scarcity of jobs which had led to the huge unemployment rate in the country, she is not prepared to take any paid job that the salary is less than N350, 000. This, according to her, is because she currently earns above that amount monthly by being…

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FCT: Men in soldier uniform nabbed for kidnapping and extorting a man

Aminu Imam

Only for another man to be found in the trunk of their car Men believed to be Nigerian soldiers because of their uniform were nabbed in Abuja after one of their victims called for help. According to reports, the men kidnapped a man named Paschal Oshi and took him to an unknown location in Abuja, where he was beaten and forced to transfer N220K to one of their accounts. Paschal was later dumped in the middle of a bad road in Kubwa, Abuja, but he raised alarm before his abductors…

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Insecurity: Abuja monarch laments incessant kidnappings in FCT

Aminu Imam

A traditional ruler in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Etsu Kwali, Dr. Shabban Audu Nizazu III has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to give security issues a topmost priority in the country. Nizazu lamented and disclosed that people are being kidnapped on a daily basis in Kwali Area Council of the FCT and enjoined the President not to decline assent to the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) Establishment Bill when transmitted to him as he did during the eighth National Assembly. Speaking at a lecture on: “Nation Building and Security Challenges: Advancing…

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VIO to issue special identification numbers to commercial drivers in FCT

Aminu Imam

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) says it will begin the issuance of special identification numbers to commercial drivers operating in the territory. The FCT VIO Director, Wadata Bodinga, disclosed this during an interview with newsmen yesterday in Abuja, adding that commercial vehicles without the number would not be allowed to operate within the FCT. The Director stated that before issuing a side number to a vehicle owner, the vehicle must have undergone ‘Revalidation’ by the agency. Bodinga noted that through the numbers, VIO would…

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Reps Speaker’s aide reportedly shoots newspapers vendor dead in Abuja

Aminu Imam

A police officer attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila reportedly shot a newspaper vendor in the head yesterday, in Abuja, the Federal capital Territory, (FCT). According to reports, the victim, whose name was given as Ifeanyi Okereke died shortly after he was rushed to the National Hospital by his brother and some police officers. The incident was said to have occurred at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, around 3 pm. The shooting incident happened when Okereke and other street vendors flocked around the convoy of the…

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#EndSARS: Police attack protesters, arrest four in Abuja

Aminu Imam

Two weeks after unrest over the issue rocked the country, the police yesterday tear-gassed some #EndSARS protesters and arrested four, as dozens demonstrated in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) against police abuses, activists said,. Footage on social media showed a small crowd taking to the streets to try to keep up pressure on the authorities after a bloody crackdown helped stamp out demonstrations last month.  Four of our members were arrested this morning in front of the National Assembly,” rights activist, Deji Adeyanju told AFP. Recall that the country…

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