Tag: Abuja
Abuja warns car wash businesses to stop using piped water
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has banned the use of piped water for car wash business, its spokesman, Mr Segun…
Abuja’s isolation centre for coronavirus cases still under construction
Nigeria's capital Abuja has no isolation centre yet for possible cases of coronavirus, as the facility being built at the…
Abuja not ready for Coronavirus outbreak – Senate President
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has asked the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, to immediately release the sum of…
Court finds Metuh guilty of N400m money laundering
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday found the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP's former Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh guilty of…
Police, robbers in shoot-out in Abuja, 2 killed
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday killed two suspects during exchange of fire with armed…
Aso Rock Director assassinated
Ms. Laetitia Naankang Dagan, an Assistant Director at the State House, Abuja was on Monday night assassinated by unidentified persons…
Earth tremor? Not in Abuja, says geological agency
The Nigeria Geological Survey Agency has called on the public to disregard reports in some quarters that there was an…
Developing story: Robbers holed up in Abuja bank
Some robbers are now holed up in an Abuja first generation bank in Mpape area of the Nigerian capital.
Five Internet fraudsters jailed in Abuja
Justice A.O. Musa of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Bwari, has convicted five Abuja-based internet fraudsters to different…
Maina looking pensive, sickly in court
Abdulrasheed Maina, Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team (PRTM), was, on Thursday, wheeled into Court 6, Federal High Court, Abuja, where…
Winner emerges in BBC Hausa short story competition
A winner has emerged in the 2019 BBC Hausa Short Story Writing Competition.
Fear grips civil servants as IPPIS deadline approaches
Hundreds of workers at Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday, waited for…
Abuja thieves target Toyota, Mazda cars
Do you live in Abuja and drive a Toyota or Mazda vehicle? An extra security measure could save you the…
Police disperse Shi’ites’ procession with gunshots
The police on Friday dispersed a procession of Islamic Movement in Nigeria members around Wuse Market in Abuja.
Gunmen in military uniform kidnap 9 persons in Abuja
Kidnappers pierced Abuja ‘safety net’ on Monday night and made away with nine persons in the Kuje area of the…