Tag: Land Dispute

Tension in Abuja, as Wike, military clash over controversial land linked to ex-Naval Chief, INEC Chair

Aminu Imam
Wike, military clash

A major controversy erupted in Abuja yesterday, as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, clashed with Nigerian military officers over an alleged illegal occupation and development of a disputed 30-hectare property in the Gaduwa District. Wike, who personally led an FCT task force to the site, accused the soldiers of land grabbing and harassment of officials from the Department of Development Control. The officials had reportedly been chased away from the site earlier by armed military personnel. “I will not succumb to blackmail or intimidation”, Wike…

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Land Grabbing: Overriding public interest Kaduna North LGA plan to sell 4 primary schools

Aminu Imam

Tension is brewing over an alleged plan by Kaduna-North local government council to sell four public primary schools in the area against the public interest. The four primary schools slated to be sold, as alleged by the Doka branch of the School-based Management Committee, in a petition to the State Governor, Nasir el-Rufa’i, are Kaduna Local Education Authority (LEA) Primary School Gwari Road and LEA Primary School, Muri Road. Others are LEA Girls Primary School, Lagos Street, and LEA Primary School, Ahmadu Bello Stadium 1, all in Kaduna-North Local Government…

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Land Dispute: Kaduna allocates another land to ABU

Aminu Imam

The Kaduna State Urban Planning and Development Authority, (KASUPDA), says it plans to allocate another land to Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU), Zaria at Kangimi village, following disagreement over alleged encroachment by the university’s College of Agriculture and Animal Science, situated in Mando area of the metropolis. Addressing a news conference in Kaduna yesterday, the KASUPDA Director-General, Isma’il Umaru Dikko, stated that, It is strange that people who are supposedly out to protect institutional land will not exercise any curiosity regarding the unauthorised excisions that have occurred on the land, or…

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