By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja In a bid to stem the spread of the Coronavirus in the workplace, the federal government has provided facilities for the conduct of tests for civil servants in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The facilities are located at the Thisday Dome in the Central Business District of the nation’s capital […]

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Permanent Secretary in the Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA, Sir Christian Ohaa on Monday resumed work after testing negative for Covid-19 last Thursday. The Permanent Secretary who was asymptomatic even while on treatment, had earlier tested positive for Covid-19 about two weeks ago. Upon testing positive his office was immediately shut […]

By Omeiza Ajayi The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, Command of the Nigeria Police Force to seal off the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Vanguard learned that the order was necessitated by the need to ensure public order and safety in and […]

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old daughter in Lugbe area of Abuja. The Commissioner of Police in FCT, Mr Bala Ciroma, disclosed on Friday this at a media briefing in Abuja. Ciroma said the suspect was mentally stable and had confessed to […]

The Federal Capital Territory FCT Ministerial Task-team on the Enforcement of Covid-19 Restrictions has arrested eight persons, some of who impersonated army officers, for violating the 8 pm to 6 am curfew imposed on the territory in the wake of the outbreak of Covid-19 Pandemic.

ABUJA-IN a bid to alleviate the suffering of some vulnerable people in Abuja following the lockdown arising from COVID-19 pandemic, the Alumni of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, has donated palliative items to the FCT administration for onward distribution to 500 households.

By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has announced the discharge of 12 persons from its Covid-19 treatment centres, having undergone treatment and tested negative for the disease twice. The development brings the total number of those discharged to 104. Making the announcement on its twitter handle, the FCT administration said; […]

…Warns patients against attacking health workers …To subject ‘Madagascan Cure’ to scientific analysis …Over 27, 000 tests conducted so far …Enugu, Adamawa top States with rights violations -NHRC …FCT unveils 500-bed isolation centre By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja The Federal Government has enrolled the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as well as Lagos, Ogun, Kano, Kaduna […]

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: The Federal Capital Territory Administration FCTA has announced the discharge of 39 persons from its Covid-19 treatment centres, having serially tested negative to the disease after days of treatment. This was as some patients at the Treatment Centre in Asokoro District Hospital were said to have gone on a rampage on […]

Few days after the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on Nigeria’s commercial and administrative capitals of Lagos and the FCT respectively, were lifted, the Federal government, was already considering the possibility of locking them down again. Indeed, if the disregard for social distancing was bad during the lockdown in the two cities, it was certainly worse during the lifting of the lockdown restrictions in the two cities.