The parents of Lucy Ukpong who was reportedly shot dead by policemen in Abuja on Friday will on Monday (today) visit the Federal Capital Territory Police Command to demand justice for the killing of their daughter. The Ukpongs, who reside in Akwa-Ibom State, were scheduled to arrive in Abuja on Sunday to meet with their […]
BY Favour Nnabugwu The Federal Government has flagged off the construction of six pedestrian bridges, estimated to cost N10million in various parts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememem, at the event in Abuja, yesterday, said government was committed to safeguarding the lives of its citizenry. The six bridges are […]
-Punch The police have arrested a man, Usman Inuwa, with the corpse of a three-year -old child in a suitcase. The suspect resident in Bwari, a satellite town in Abuja, was said to have been arrested by security personnel after a tip-off at Maitama area of the city. He was said to have been accosted […]
Protesting lawyers, Thursday, shut the main entrance into the Abuja International Conference Centre, venue of the on-going Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, annual general conference. The protest, which lasted over two hours threw the entrance into conference venue and adjouring areas into confusion. The lawyers, who were protesting against 500 percent hike in conference fees since […]
BY Favour Nnabugwu ABUJA—A nine- year-old son of Alhaji Sani Abubakar, Abuja Bureau Chief of Newsday Newspaper, was, yesterday morning, electrocuted. Vanguard learnt that the boy left his family house in Jukwei area of Abuja to State Security Service, SSS, quarters, also in Jukwei, in the early hours of Monday to feed his Pigeon, when […]
A two-storey building under construction collapsed in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, claiming three lives. About 10 persons were, however, rescued alive. Nigerian Tribune, which was at the scene of the incident, located on Ademola Awosika road, Kubwa Extension III, observed that a stop-work notice was served on the contractor handling the project on […]
By SONI DANIEL ABUJA—As the spate of violence escalates, particularly in the North, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to quit if he could not solve the growing security threats to lives and property in the country. In an exclusive interview with Vanguard yesterday, el-Rufai […]
Photo: Sun News Publishing By: FRED ITUA, Abuja Date: Sun, 07/29/2012 – 22:17 Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, has defended the action of the FCT administration in revoking the plot of land allocated to the former first lady, Hajiya Turai Yar’Adua’s NGO, ‘Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation (WAYEP).’ The FCT, however, […]
Action Congress of Nigeria has condemned the legal tussle between Mrs. Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua, over a plot of land in Abuja. ACN said, “A study in despicable sycophancy, insider abuse, arbitrariness and manifestation of the culture of impunity all of which have become the hallmarks of the administration of President […]
Aviation Minister Ms Stella Oduah has said the full restoration of the airfield lighting at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, will boost passengers’ and operators’ confidence. The minister spoke yesterday in Abuja after the inspection and inauguration of the newly rehabilitated airfield lighting project. She said this would improve air safety. Ms Oduah […]
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