Tag: Land allocation

Wike nullifies 485 Area Council land documents in FCT

Aminu Imam
APC on Wike2

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has nullified 485 Area Council land documents in Abuja, citing failure to pass official verification processes and confirmation that several applications were fake. According to a public notice issued by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA)’s Departments of Land Administration and the Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS), the minister approved the cancellation of applications that “failed the necessary official checks for genuineness, and have been confirmed to be fake”. It added that the affected applications would be removed from the regularisation…

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?Wike revokes land titles belonging to Buhari, Onnoghen, Abbas, others

Aminu Imam
Wike revokes plots

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has revoked land titles belonging to former President Muhammadu Buhari, former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume. Recall that the Federal Capital Territory Administration, (FCTA), in October had threatened to revoke the Certificates of Occupancy (C-of-Os) of plots of land owned by prominent individuals and corporate organisations in Abuja. In two separate notices published by the FCTA yesterday, the minister revoked the ownership of 762 plots of land in…

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FCTA threatens to revoke prime plots owned by Buharis children, other VIPs in Abuja

Aminu Imam
FCTA threatens on plots

The Federal Capital Territory Administration, (FCTA), has threatened to revoke the Certificates of Occupancy C-of-O) of the plots of land belonging to some prominent Nigerians and corporate organisations if they fail to settle the outstanding payments for the certificates within two weeks. The FCTA issued the threat in a notice to 3,273 allottees of the plots located in the Maitama Disrict of the Territory. The notice on Friday, titled, Demand notice for payment of Right of Occupancy bills for issuance of Certificates of Occupancy on all lands allocated at Maitama…

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CAC uncovers 189 fake companies used to secure land allocations in Abuja

Aminu Imam

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has raised an alarm over the high number of fake companies in the country. This is even as the Commission says it has uncovered 189 fake companies used to secure land allocations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The Registrar-General of the Commission, Hussaini Magaji, who disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja yesterday, stated that the discovery was made following a complaint from the FCTA to verify the status of a non-existent company seeking land allocation. He explained that the discovery of the…

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