As public outrage over the killing of 10 squatters in a compound believed to be owned by a serving General in the Nigerian Army grows, soldiers and other security agents, who carried out the attack, as well as residents, have fled the area. This is just as the Senate has ordered a probe into the killings while the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has also set up a panel to investigate the incident.

THERE are very practical but undesirable consequences to the terrible situation in our universities. The wrong people, staff and students, find their way into our universities, the very space in which we expect to train and provide leadership for the country’s quest for scientific and cultural rebirth and development.

•Eagle Square wears new look, security agents lock up Abuja
•Governors in marathon meeting to decide delegates
•146 polling centres available, 4 points for each state, FCT
•Screening committee clears all…
ABUJA: EAGLE Square, venue of the Special National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Friday wore a new look just as 3,500 delegates from the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) converge today at the Eagle Square to elect the party’s national officials.

WHEN I wrote those series I had no idea that two months down the line ASUU would embark on a paralysing strike that would do serious violence to the academic calendar. One doesn’t need to be prophetic, Godspower Oyewole-style, to see our public universities are headed for the rocks.

Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Delta State have emerged winners in the 2013 Mobil/STAN National Science Quiz/Project Competition held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

Nigeria’s Federal Capital, Abuja, was literally grounded, yesterday, as about 30,000 women drawn from 36 states of the Federation, led by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, held a rally to sensitise women in the country on the gains recorded so far in enhancing peace and women empowerment.

A former President of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, NITP, Mr..Moses Olubunmi Ajayi has faulted the design of some Nigerian cities without taking the culture of the people into cognisance. He particularly faulted the design of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja, saying that it didn’t take public transportation into consideration.

ABUJA — There was mayhem at Nyanya, a sprawling slum located at the suburb of Abuja, the Federal capital city, Sunday, as a result of an encounter between a commercial motorcycle popularly called Okada rider and a soldier.

ABUJA—To safeguard the health of Abuja residents, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has set out modalities to regulate food vendors and operators of eateries.

THIRTEEN years after the famous “Abuja Declaration”, African Heads of States and and Government are set to converge for the Abuja +12 Summit on HIV/AIDS TB and other Infectious Diseases which opens in Abuja, July 15-19, 2013.