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Federal Capital Territory Administration demolishes orphanage home

Government agency sacks 150 orphans from home

Post author:Macaulay Maduwuba
Post published:Mar 28, 2019
Post category:Editor's Picks FCT News

The demolition of a church housing an orphanage home in Kubwa, Abuja, has rendered 150 orphans homeless. The church, Divine Words of Jesus Christ which housed a school and the orphanage was demolished by the Department of Development Control officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) despite an ongoing suit in court. Five buildings comprising the church, the orphanage,…

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Read more about the article Abuja schoolboy imprisoned for defiling mate

An Abuja boy has been imprisoned for defiling his mate

Abuja schoolboy imprisoned for defiling mate

Post author:Macaulay Maduwuba
Post published:Mar 27, 2019
Post category:FCT News

Abuja schoolboy, Sani Filo, has been remanded in prison for defiling a mate in a special school for the Deaf in the Kuje area. Filo was remanded after his confessional statement to the act committed against Muhammad Kanun. Minister for Education, Adamu Adamu confirmed the prosecution in a report of the committee set up to investigate the allegations of sexual…

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‘Name Boko Haram Members In Your Govt’

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Jan 25, 2013
Post category:FCT

Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to name agents of Boko Haram in his government and possibly prosecute them. This was even as General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) had condemned the Jonathan administration for f...

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Police Superintendent’s Wife Kidnapped In Abuja

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Jan 19, 2013
Post category:Crime FCT News

The wife of a superintendent of police was yesterday allegedly kidnapped in Wuse by suspected gunmen. The FCT command of the Nigeria Police Force, however, told LEADERSHIP WEEKEND that it had no information on the incident. It was learnt that the offic...

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Jonathan, Mark, Tambuwal, Others Honour Fallen Heroes

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Jan 16, 2013
Post category:FCT News

President Goodluck Jonathan led others in laying the wreath to commemorate the 2013 Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony yesterday. The ceremony ended the one month activities lined up to mark the day which included fund raising for the veterans. In D...

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FCTA Realised N1trn Foreign Investment In 2012 – Minister

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Dec 27, 2012
Post category:FCT News

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed has disclosed that the administration realised a total of $6.6 billion (N1.086 trillion) from Foreign Direct Investment (DFI) in 2012. $2.6 billion of this is for the Abuja Town Cen...

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Abuja-Lokoja Road Ready By 2014 – Minister

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Dec 13, 2012
Post category:FCT News

Once again, Nigerians have been assured of the completion of the dualisation work on the 250km Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja Expressway which contract was initiated in 2009. The Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, accompanied by some senior officials of the minis...

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Abuja Children Unite, Pray Against Insecurity

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Dec 4, 2012
Post category:FCT News

As the nation continues to grapple with challenges of insecurity in parts of the country, children, under the aegis of Children’s Government of Nigeria, have united in prayer for God to rid the nation of the security woes bedeviling it. The child...

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FG To Establish ICT Innovation Hubs Before 2012 End — Minister

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Nov 5, 2012
Post category:FCT News

The Federal Government will establish Information Communication Technology (ICT) hubs this year to encourage young ICT entrepreneurs drive their ideas into innovations and money. The disclosure was made in Abuja yesterday by the Minister of Communicati...

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Presidency Warns States, LGs Against Stashing Funds In Banks

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Sep 22, 2012
Post category:FCT News

The senior special assistant to the president on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dr. Precious Gbeneol, has warned states and local government councils against undue delay of MDGs funds in banks, with the intent of earning interest on them. Gbeneol...

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Kumuyi Set To Release Miracles On Abuja Residents

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Sep 4, 2012
Post category:FCT News

The General Superintendent, Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi will today storm Abuja to release miracles on the residents as he visits the capital city. Kumuyi told LEADERSHIP in a telephone interview that God was out to shower...

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Queues Disappears From Filing Stations In The FCT

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Aug 25, 2012
Post category:FCT News Politics

Long queues have disappeared from filing stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) following the suspension of strike by NUPENG late on Aug. 23. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who went round the city on Saturday, report...

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Abuja-Kubwa Highway: One Road, Many Accidents

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Aug 5, 2012
Post category:FCT Features News

The federal government in 2009 awarded the contract for the dualization of the Abuja – Kubwa expressway to ease the heavy traffic that has become a source of worry for road users plying that route. However, reckless driving on the part of motoris...

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Missing Baby Brought To Gwagwalada Police Station

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Jul 31, 2012
Post category:FCT News Politics

The police in Gwagwalada, Abuja, on Tuesday, said that a missing baby boy of about a year was found at Gwako, FCT, and brought to the Gwagwalada Police Station. The boy was said to be found crying along the roadside in Gwako on July 25. Madam Hussaina ...

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2 Supected Drug Traffickers, Others Arrested At Abuja Airport

Post author:Leadership Newspapers
Post published:Jul 23, 2012
Post category:FCT News

The Aviation Joint Security Force arrested two drug traffickers and three suspected ticket fraudsters at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Monday. Mr Vincent Onye, Head, Crime Department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (...

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