FCT | Intervention

Critical Moments in Nigerian Power Elite’s 5-Hour, Non-Stop Tributes to Chief Audu Ogbeh

Posted By: adminon: September 23, 2025In: People in ActionTags: 'Amen', 'Cockcrow at Dawn', AOBA, Bongos Ikwue, Chinua Achebe, Dr. Paul Unongo, FCT, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, KCOBA, Mark Okoye, Nasir el-Rufai, PDP, Prof Jerry Gana, The Obasanjo-effect, Third TermNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The Nigerian power elite pulled another stunning stunt Monday September 22nd, 2025 by overcoming all factional, fractional, class, ethno-religious, regional, gender, generat... Read more

The Case for a Facelift for Nigeria’s Revenue Sharing Formula

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Derivation, FAAC, FCT, IGR, NDDC, Population, SDGsNo CommentsViews:

Dr Muhammad Sagagi Nigeria’s revenue allocation formula, which dictates the statutory sharing of revenues from the Federation Account (Section 162(1) of Constitution of the Federal Republic)... Read more

Ireti Kingibe in a Tough Electoral Battle As Labour Party Candidate for FCT Senate Seat

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2023In: People in ActionTags: FCT, Gender criterion versus indigeneship, Kano, Labour Party, Senator Philips Aduda, Southsout, Yoruba nationalityNo CommentsViews:

Engineer Ireti Kingibe is, ordinarily, the sort of individual who should always be at the center of the system, irrespective of the party in power. She is not a populist or a rabble rouser.... Read more

Ireti Kingibe Returns to Politics, Contesting FCT Senate Seat Under the Labour Party

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2022In: People in ActionTags: FCT, Kano, Labour Party, Southsout, Yoruba nationalityNo CommentsViews:

Engineer Ireti Kingibe who made sensational entry into politics as a senatorial aspirant some decades ago is back in politics. She is set to have another go at being the Senator to represent... Read more

Joy and Tears as Abuja – Kaduna Dual Carriage Way Snakes Through Bwari

Posted By: adminon: December 18, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Bwari town, FCT, Megacities, ‘Stressful modernisation’No CommentsViews:

Development is leaping through Bwari Local Government of the Nigerian Federal Capital city of Abuja but leaving a good number of people who have lost their temporary structures to the bulldo... Read more

Rev. Tanimu Samari Aduda Was a Man of Peace – Engineer Mohammed Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2021In: People in ActionTags: FCT, Gwagwalada Diocese of the FCT, Senator Phlip AduddaNo CommentsViews:

Former FCT Minister, Engr. Muhammed Abba-Gana, CON, is leading the mourning of the father of Senator Philip Aduda, the Senator Representing FCT at the National Assembly, (NASS). Rev. Tanimu... Read more

Time to Create One More State in Southeastern Nigeria – Engineer Mohammed Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2021In: GovernanceTags: 1999 Constitution, FCT, General Gowon, John Stuart Mill, LGAs, National Assembly, The NorthNo CommentsViews:

Nowhere else might be a better proof of the diffuse nature of reality than Nigeria at the moment. It is coping with massive insecurity crisis, threatening war with itself but also reviewing... Read more

Only Two FCT Communities Have Received FG Palliatives So Far, Says Action Aid & CITAD

Posted By: adminon: April 14, 2020In: GovernanceTags: AAIN, FCT, FG, National Cash Transfer OfficeNo CommentsViews:

Only two communities have so far benefitted from the Federal Government of Nigeria’s palliatives regime, investigation has shown. A survey by two NGOs – the Centre for Information Tech... Read more

The North is on Fire But It Can Overcome – Hon Yakubu Dogara

Posted By: adminon: February 06, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Ahmadu Bello Foundation, FCT, Kwara State, Saint Augustine, Umaru Musa Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

An alternative siren is wailing for the recovery of the North from its current heritage of violence based on conditions for that possibility that Honourable Yakubu Dogara, former Speaker of... Read more

Conflict Experts Trace 2017 Bwari Violence to Cultism, Cultural Blinkers and the Government

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Bwari LGC, Esu Bwari, FCT, Gbagyi, Hausa, NAFDAC, NDLEA, NELSON MANDELA, Sarkin Bwari, Suleija Emirate Council, ToroNo CommentsViews:

Even as common place as scorched earth inter-group violence across Nigeria since the 1990s, the violent eruption in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, Nigeria on December 24th and 25th, 2017 has l... Read more