Tag: Abuja
Overland begins Abuja-Dutse flights
Simon Ateba Overland Airways, on Tuesday 15 July, announced the commencement of scheduled flight operations from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport…
Boko Haram claims Abuja, Lagos attacks in new video
The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists has claimed responsibility for a June 25 bombing in the capital Abuja and…
Nigeria: Police issue bomb plot alert
The Nigeria Police High Command said it has uncovered multiple plots by terrorists to attack the Abuja transport sector. Anchoring…
Pastor, civil servant appear in court for fighting in public
A 33 year-old pastor, Nathaniel Ogwuche and 43 year-old Civil Servant, Benjamin Amadi on Tuesday appeared before a Senior Magistrates’…
FCT converts 4 agencies to departments
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration on Tuesday converted four agencies to departments, due to lack of appropriate laws to…
Boko Haram Attacks: Security Beefed Up In Abuja
Sola Adeola/Abuja Security surveillance over the nation’s capital, Abuja, has increased following recent bomb attacks in the city. Soldiers this…
Catholic to build N1.5bn church
Reverend Father Innocent Jooji, the Parish Priest of Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Wuse, Abuja, on Monday said that the parish…
APC condemns Abuja, Bauchi attacks
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday condemned in strong terms the recent terrorists’ attacks in the Federal Capital Territory…
Newspaper editor killed in Abuja blast
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Alhaji Suleiman Bisalla, the Managing Editor (North) of New Telegraph Newspaper, which began operation some months ago was…
10 students bag first class at Nigeria Turkish Nile University
No fewer than 10 graduating students bagged first class degrees at the 2nd convocation of the Nigeria Turkish Nile University…
UNIABUJA Students Blame Lecturers For School’s Closure
Harrison Iyoha Students of the University of Abuja, UNIABUJA, Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital, have blamed the institution’s lecturers for the…
Two women jailed for slapping Abuja policeman
An Upper Area court in Zuba, FCT, on Wednesday sentenced two women – Binta Mamman, 35, and Safiya Aliyu, 19,…
Students Appeal To FG On ASUP Demands
The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) on Tuesday appealed to the Federal Government to attend to the demands of…
FRSC Trains Teachers To Curb Crashes
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Abuja on Tuesday began a teacher training campaign to curb road crashes in…
Mass Disconnection Of Water In Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Water Board, FCTWB, on Monday began mass disconnection of Abuja residents who owe arrears of…
FCTA seals 2,491 facilities
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), said on Sunday that 2,491 facilities and sites were sealed in the territory between…
Chibok girls: Religious leader calls for more prayer
Reverend Father Patrick Emmanuel, Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, Karu, FCT Chapter, has called for intensified prayer sessions for the…
APC elects Oyegun, others to lead party
Dr. John Odigie-Oyegun, a former Governor of Edo State was on Saturday morning elected as the first substantive chairman of…
Fake Airforce officers arrested
The police on Wednesday arraigned two drivers in a Senior Magistrates’ Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, for impersonating air…
Shun divisive utterances, bitter politics – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday called on Nigerian politicians to shun divisive utterances and politics of bitterness that cause a…
FEC mourns Akunyili at a special session
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday held a special session in honour of late Professor Dora Akunyili, Nigeria’s…
Bomb scare: Police shut three markets in Abuja
Fresh panic gripped residents of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria on Tuesday morning following fears that another attack by…
Jonathan inaugurates 1,000 housing units for police
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, inaugurated 1,000 housing units for the police at Dakwa, Abuja and urged other security agencies…
Bomb Scare At Wuse Market Abuja
Sola Adeola/Abuja There was bomb scare in Wuse area of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital Tuesday. Residents woke up to see that…
FCT records zero polio since January 2013
The Minister of State for FCT, Olajumoke Akinjide, said there had been no case of wild polio virus when only…
Independence Blast: No private physician for Okah
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja A Federal High Court siting in Abuja on Monday refused the request of Charles Okah, suspected mastermind of…
Four dead in Gwari/Fulani clash
The police in Gwagwalada (FCT), Abuja, have confirmed that four people were killed and 19 others injured in a clash…
FRSC should adopt modern technologies – IRF
The International Road Federation (IRF) on Wednesday urged the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to put in place modern technologies…
Arik commences flights to Abuja-Dubai
The Arik Airline on Wednesday in Lagos said it would begin commercial flight operations between Abuja, Nigeria and Dubai, the…
Ezekwesili, 16 others drag FCT Police to court
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja Frontline activists campaigning for the rescue of the over 200 abducted Chibok school girls using the #BringBackOurGirls slogan,…