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Low voter turnout in Abuja – Under age voting detected

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Elections 2011, State News Saturday, April 9th, 2011

Unlike the April 2 botched National Assembly election when residents of the Wuse, Maitama and Asokoro districts of Abuja trooped out as early as 6am for accreditation, yesterday’s rescheduled poll witnessed a low turnout of voters in the city centres. At Wuse Zone 5 the turnout was impressive but still a far cry from last […]

Minister pledges to uphold Abuja master plan

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), State News Thursday, April 7th, 2011

THE Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has reiterated its resolve to preserve the Abuja Master Plan as the only working city in the country. Minister of the FCT, Bala Mohammed, gave the assurance on Tuesday when he received members of the territory’s wing of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, who paid him a courtesy call in Abuja. […]

FCT swells by 10,000 people daily

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), State News Friday, March 25th, 2011

The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed, said on Thursday in Abuja that the population of the territory increased by 10,000 people daily. Mohammed told the News Agency of Nigeria that the high rate of population increase had made Abuja one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The situtation, he […]

Why I support Jonathan’s ambition – FCT Minister

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, State News Sunday, February 20th, 2011

THE Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Bala Mohammed, has said he was behind President Jonathan’s ambition to get elected in April not because he does not want a fellow northerner to clinch the presidency, but that based on the circumstance in which the president assumed mantle of leadership, he remained the most suitable […]

Minister seeks Turkey’s help to develop Abuja

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

THE Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed, is in Turkey to explore the pro-gress of the country in the development and management of infrastructure to bring changes to the FCT. The minister, a member of the Federal Government’s delegation, led by President Goodluck Jonathan, on an official visit to Turkey, told […]

Abuja bombing: How the elements humiliated security agencies

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, State News Sunday, January 9th, 2011

Pandemonium will best describe the scene that fateful Friday of December 31, 2010. This was after an explosive device was detonated at a part of the Mammy market located inside the Mogadishu Cantonment Barracks in Abuja where people sell roasted fish. When the dust finally settled, four people, including a pregnant woman and three others […]

Abuja blasts can’t be linked to Jos attacks

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, Oyo, State News Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Minister of Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho (retd.), on Sunday said it was too early to link the bomb blasts at the mammy market beside Mogadishu Military Barracks to the Christmas Eve explosions in Jos, Plateau State. He stated that investigators were still collating evidence and working hard to apprehend the perpetrators, noting that it would […]

Abuja Bomb Blast: Service Chiefs asked to resign

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT) Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

WORRIED by the series of bomb blasts in the country, the African Renaissance Party, has called on service chiefs to promptly resign from their various positions. The ARP expressed shock at the lackadaisical attitude of security agencies on the bomb blasts that had claimed the lives of many Nigerians. National Publicity Secretary of the party, […]

FBI agents storm Abuja •To investigate bombing

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), State News, Top Stories Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

UNITED States Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, told Fox News that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents have been despatched to help the Nigerian government investigate the deadly bombing that struck an army barracks in the country’s capital on New Year’s Eve. Napolitano spoke with Fox News, on Sunday, in Qatar, where she arrived for […]

U.S. bomb experts arrive Abuja

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Bomb experts from the United States of America yesterday arrived the federal capital territory to begin investigation into Friday’s bomb explosions at the mammy market at the Mogadishu Cantonment (formerly Sani Abacha Barracks). The team of forensic specialists, who arrived the cantonment in a space bus with registration number 140CD179, were received by the commander […]