Elusive001: BREAKING: FCT Administration Under Minister Wike Restates Ban On Smart Phones, Says Only 'Torch Light Phones' Allowed During Work Hours
The directive, contained in a circular with reference number FCT/DLA/259/III dated 28th November 2025, was addressed to all Heads of Division, Sections, Units, and staff of the Department of Land Administration and the Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS).
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has issued a new directive prohibiting the use of smartphones and other smart devices by staff members on Grade Level 14 and below within office premises during working hours, SaharaReporters has learnt.
The directive, contained in a circular with reference number FCT/DLA/259/III dated 28th November 2025, was addressed to all Heads of Division, Sections, Units, and staff of the Department of Land Administration and the Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS).
Signed by Amaka Ezike, Assistant Director (Administration), on behalf of the Acting Director of Administration, the circular announces full enforcement of the ban beginning Monday, December 1, 2025.
According to the document obtained by SaharaReporters, the restriction covers smartphones, smartwatches, and all internet-enabled gadgets, which staff will no longer be allowed to use or possess within office premises during working hours.
"To implement the directive, management has provided secure storage cabinets where affected officers are expected to deposit their devices upon arrival. These gadgets will only be accessible during official break periods," the circular stated.
The memo also recalls the staff general meeting of November 18, 2025, where workers reportedly agreed that only basic ‘torchlight’ phones without internet capability would be permitted for essential communication during office hours.
Management staff have been directed to enforce the policy among their subordinates and ensure strict compliance.
The statement read, "I am directed to inform all Staff of the Department of Land Administration and Abuja Geographic Information System (AGIS) on Grade Level 14 and below that Enforcement of No-Use of Smart Phones, Smart Watches, Smart Gadgets etc, within Office premises during working hours will commence on Monday, 1st December, 2025.
"However, there are provisions for secured cabinets where Officers could drop their smart phones and other gadgets for safe keeping and could only be accessed during their break time.
"In view of the foregoing, all affected Staff are hereby reminded of our collective resolution during the Staff general meeting held on Thursday, 18th November, 2025 that only torch light phones without any internet facilities will be allowed for the purpose of useful communication during office hours.
"Affected Officers are hereby advised to comply strictly with this directive for any violation will attract appropriate disciplinary action.
"Management Staff are enjoined to bring the content of this circular to their subordinates and ensure strict compliance," Ezike added.
SaharaReporters had in the first week of November reported that Wike ordered a sweeping ban on the use of mobile phones by staff of the Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) and the Department of Land Administration.
The controversial directive, contained in an internal memo sighted by SaharaReporters, targets all officers on Salary Grade Level 14 and below, forbidding them from entering office premises with their mobile phones beginning Wednesday, November 12, 2025.
The memo was issued by the Head of AGIS, Chijioke Nwankwoeze.
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So he can be messing up as usual and the internet will never know.
gidgiddy: The Bishop of Oji River Diocese, Enugu State, Bishop Ikechukwu Egbuonu, has shared his experience visiting IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu in Sokoto prison. Speaking on AIT, the Bishop said he had to visit Kanu to see how he was doing and was surprised to see that Kanu was in high spirits despite his travail. According to the Bishop, Kanu is still adamant that his trial was baseless as it was done on a none existent law, and that the illegal way he was kidnapped and brought to Nigeria meant the courts had no jurisdiction to try him
He said that Nnamdi Kanu urged him to tell Igbo youths not to turn violent over his conviction, that the judgment will definitely overturned at the court of appeal
When asked if he supports Nnamdi Kanu's agitation, Bishop Ebuonu said that although he does not support everything Nnamdi Kanu does, he supports the agitation because Nigeria is not working
He also said that the day Nnamdi Kanu was sentenced to life improvement, Igbo land felt like someone had died
SJMag1: Anambra state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, visited president Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the state villa, Abuja, to express his gratitude following his victory in the recent gubernatorial election in Anambra.
Soludo, of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), who was recently re-elected for a second term, shared the visit on his X handle on Friday, November 28.
“Yesterday, I paid a courtesy visit to my dear friend and brother of over 22 years, his excellency president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, at the State House, Abuja,” he wrote.
“President Tinubu received me with his usual warmth, big smile, and open arms. He again personally congratulated me on the resounding mandate given to me by the good people of Anambra state in the just-concluded governorship election, a victory he described as a testament to the trust and confidence Ndi Anambra have in our shared vision for a livable and prosperous homeland.”
The governor thanked Tinubu for collaborating with his administration to improve the state and the country.
According to Soludo, such partnership will help turn Nigeria’s aspirations into reality.
“I remain deeply grateful to president Tinubu for his immediate congratulatory message on that historic day, and for his continued goodwill and support for Anambra state,” Soludo said.
“We are one Nigeria, and together, with God on our side, we will build the Anambra and the Nigeria of our dreams. May Anambra continue to win!”
Soludo visited the king of rigging to show gratitude for rigging him into Anambra government house for second term.
Soludo has been attacking Obi and Igbos all because he wants tinibu to rig him in for second tenure. If you want your political career to be strong in Nigeria, just attack Obi and Igbos you are good to go.
Kalashnikov49: Their wickedness has been exposed. They hide behind the North to always debase and undermine the SE.
Anyway, Kwara State is GONE OGUN, OSUN, OYO, EKITI, ONDO etc and their kith and kin in Auchi, KOGI, are crying already.
A region that lies without qualms for benefits is actually the headquarters of the COVEN of Darkness.
The LORD ALMIGHTY elevates BIAFRA in the spirit that is why they already know it will be made manifest in the physical.
All their rants and antics is because they fear of what is to become of them once BIAFRA emerges. The NORTH , will not let they have LAGOS and have peace. That is why they attach to the North to sabotage the SE to remain relevant to Northerners against the SE.
Anyway, that narrative has expired. They are on their own Now.
But terrorists are killing a whole community, grabbing land, kidnapping.
Also your government whom you are supporting are releasing terrorists into the Army, into communities. They are even negotiating with terrorists. They even pay ransom to terrorists.
This is the Government you are supporting. The question is why are you quiet in all these rascalities the government you are supporting are into ?
mrvitalis: So there is insecurity all over the South, from South West to South South and South East
But you want me to believe 1) IPOB is responsible for insecurity in South East meaning the actors causing insecurity outside South East can't come to South East?
Christistruth00: What you couldn’t see about Ipob and Kanu in 2019 many people had already seen that danger in 2015. Kanu was full of deadly hate even in 2015
Listen to this
Yoruba r kawordz, fiIthy dirty backstabbing people - Nnamdi Kanu
Talking down on late Ooni of ife.. using a fake story...
Dey all, including @PeterObi want him released.. Show me where any of dem condemned him when he was saying all this? But na Yoruba start bygotry 🙄😂 Cc… pic.twitter.com/2lbRFCY79F
Nnamdipapa: My final piece on the Nnamdi Kanu judgment and Peter Obi Statement situation:
On the 25th of July 2021, I and some family members drove from Lagos to Anambra to collect the bridal list from my in-laws, officially commencing the journey to my marriage. We arrived Nnewi around 5 pm and finished sometime past 8. My wife was in that blue Lexus 350 with us, likewise my uncle and brother, and the plan was that very early the next day, being Monday the 26th, we will drive into Nnewi to pick her and then be on our way back to Lagos.
We slept in my hometown, Azigbo, and around 5:30 the next morning, as planned, we started for Nnewi. We drove through Amichi. On getting somewhere around that market close to Igwe Orizu, we noticed that the vehicles going in the other direction were flashing their headlamps on us. We slowed down and soon a commercial bus driver revving his vehicle asked us while speaking at the top of his voice to go back because they were shooting somewhere ahead of us in Nnewi.
Who, we asked, and he said something about Biafra and IPOB and zoomed off. We reversed and join the procession of fleeing vehicles. Because of different engagements the people in the vehicle had back in Lagos the next day, we really needed to return to Lagos. So we tried again to drive into Nnewi through the inner roads in Awka-Etiti. The closer we got to Nnewi, the worse it became because we could now hear the gunshots. We drove back and decided to wait a bit. We phoned our in-laws and they confirmed it was hot that morning in Nnewi and that we should consider staying back, and/or leaving without their daughter. She would come back the next day using public transport.
We went back to Azigbo and decided to wait out the time. Later, because we hadn't planned on staying that long, we wanted to go find something we would eat, and also see if we could still travel back to Lagos, even if later than earlier. While on our way, a group of men intercepted us at Ichida Bus Stop.
“Who are you people”, one screamed at us, hitting the bonnet.
“Whine down the glasses”, another added, order coming from different angle as they surrounded our vehicle.
“Where are you going to”, the barking continued, with little time given to really answer their questions.
“Don't you know that today is sit-at-home; where do you think you are going when our leader Nnamdi Kanu is held prisoner in Abuja and is going to court?”
One of them tried to open the door.
“Oga come down; all of you should come down, we are driving this car to Abuja today. We are going to see Kanu. It is either you join us or you give us this car”.
We begged, cajoled, and agreed with them on the spot about the injustice meted out against us Ndigbo, Kanu, and the southeast in Nigeria. After a lot of parley led by my uncle who was in his late seventies, we gave them money, saying we supported the cause, and they allowed us to go. We went to the popular nwanyi ocha place in Ichida, ate, and decided not to go back that way, rather risk our way to Onitsha, away from Anambra, and then to Lagos.
The question I have asked myself all these years was, if that experience had happened sometime between 2022-2024 when tensions had stiffened and the group, with their spin-offs, more militarized and armed, what would have been our fate that mid-morning? Your guess is as good as mine as we have all seen similar events reported in the news and on social media and how they ended up.
Two months later, proceeding to the next stage of our marriage, my wife and I had to go to the headquarters of the Nnewi South local government in Ukpor to register our marriage and fufil other requirements like getting the documentation we would eventually hand the church. A local government wedding per se, which can be done in lieu of court wedding. Everything went well and while we were about leaving, we met a guy from my village, Iruokpala, who worked at the LG HQand he helped us take pictures.
A few months later, however, I met again with the guy in Azigbo. Amid conversation, he asked me to refer him to any job, building gig, or just about anything that he was no longer working at the LG HQ. On further enquiry, he narrated to me how sometime after we met at the HQ, unknown gunmen paid a visit and shot and ‘keed’ people, tagging them saboteurs working for the zoo government (or something to that effect).
“Nwanna, I escaped narrowly; small thing and I would have been a dead person today”.
I made some posts yesterday and a horde descended on them. Worse, my disagreement with the statement Peter Obi put out further inflamed many. I still stand by that condemnation.
Almost every social upheaval has a complex history, their evolution traced to various events. In 2019 or thereabouts, Obi was interviewed in the run-up to the election where he was vice to Atiku, and about IPOB he said something to the effect that they were harmless freedom fighters with valid grievances who could be dialogued with and things handled better, instead of the blanket proscription, nailing them as terrorists.
I agreed with Obi at that time. Even today, when situated in that context and time, I still agree. During the 2023 elections, when his detractors were everywhere whipping the video up in the face of worsening violent activities ascribed to IPON or its spin-off groups, attempting to utilize it in their bid to tag him a terrorist apologist, I was everywhere too erecting context to the video and arguing unremittingly in support of what Obi really meant there. This is a different case.
To be clear, I categorize the evolution of the agitation under Kanu and IPOB into two broad categories: Pre-2019 and Post-2019. If Obi’s statement verbatim dropped 22nd November 2019, I will agree verbatim with him. But this is 2025 and we have stood witness to the events of 2020 to this day. And, at this juncture, I will be fair to stop using the taxonomy, IPOB, as historically things began to be more complex somewhere around 2021/22 and it wasn't clear which group was behind the things that happened as we saw the proliferation of splinter groups, personalities, and units who carried activities that the ‘official’ IPOB themselves publicly denounced, or so it seems.
Staying relevant to Kanu, we all listened to broadcasts where he incited, ordered, and even took responsibility of some unspeakable things. These broadcast speeches are still out here on the internet. Kanu nailed himself with every broadcast, making it hard for anyone on earth to truly defend him with deep honesty.
I remember the 2020 EndSARS protest that was going on smoothly as disillusioned Nigerian youths vs incompetent government thing, and out of nowhere Kanu inserted himself in it. I remember listening to that broadcast in utter shock. It was too nerve-wracking that till today I still remember where I was, mouth agape, eyes popped in disbelief, and soon we were making calls amongst our young Igbo links and asking everyone to stay away from the protest or going out as Kanu’s speech might turn things on its head and set us against the Yoruba. Unfortunately, this happened towards or after a group of disgruntled younglings looted the palace of a Lagos Oba. It wasn't long and the propaganda machine went into work trying to leverage Kanu speech to say it was the Igbo youth burning down Lagos and desecrating traditional heritage. They also said the BRT inferno was set up by the Igbo.
Kanu never cared about Igbo people in Lagos and what could have happened to them if the spin caught on. And from thereon things went further downhill. Kanu will make a broadcast saying, k*ll security operatives, police, soldiers, etc and take their weapon. Soon, mostly days after, security operatives are indeed murdered and weapons taken. Some of them were Igbo and they were dealt harshly with regardless for continuing to work in the Nigerian force. This happened in many places in the southeast. Today, people want to revise this recent history gaslight us for pointing these out, trying to divorce bloody effect from its clear cause.
To some others, it isn't that Kanu is innocent and blameless, rather that a case of calling out the apparent hypocrisy of the federal government and the equalizing of approach to insurgent groups. Fair point and a solid argument to be had there. However, I as an individual do not care about other regions of Nigeria pampering violent group that have now held them hostage, and I do not want that model replicated in my region.
There used to be a time, just as recent as 2014-16 when, right here on social media, we brag to other Nigerians that nothing will ever make an Igbo person resort to terrorist activities. We bragged that an average Igbo will rather man a kiosk from Igba Oso-Afia, and gradually grow it to a business empire, than take up arms. We said these things and believed it. How wrong we were.
Look at Ihiala, Iseke, and environs today. Our own people did those things, and to their very own folks. Some people have attempted to counter these occurrences with the conspiratorial claims that the violence and the violent groups were planted by ‘the evil federal government to destabilize our region and implicate Nnamdi Kanu’. To this, I will say nothing.
People like Asoegwu are receiving death threats by folks here just because he is calling out these maladies, complete with video proof. Such utter radicalization. Yesterday, someone whom I spent six years with in a boarding secondary school threatened me too right there in the comment section. This is the last I will say about this matter and I end it by reiterating the popular saying that those who feed and ride a tiger will someday end up in its belly. For years people have fetched ant-infested firewood and now the lizards are here, and it will take some time to get rid of them, if we ever.
Lies and propaganda from s@d wasté. They are trying so hard to justify the injustice of sentencing an innocent man without the backing of the law.
Ofunaofu: Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, says the Armed Forces are closing in on overcoming banditry across the country, despite the recent resurgence of school abductions.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service monitored in Kaduna, the minister acknowledged the persistence of security challenges but described the current pattern of attacks as characteristic of guerrilla tactics, where criminal groups strike intermittently to instill fear.
“This is how guerrilla warfare works,” Badaru said. “There will be periods of calm, and then they launch an attack that shakes the nation. Yes, we know their locations, but some of these areas are places where direct strikes could endanger civilians, or forests where our bombs cannot penetrate.”
He maintained that Nigerian troops are working “day and night” to dismantle the networks responsible for the violence, assuring the public that the military is making significant progress.
Badaru expressed concern over the return of mass abductions of students, noting that the government has ordered a full investigation into recent incidents.
“We never said the problem was completely over. But this renewed kidnapping of schoolchildren worries us. We are studying what went wrong and how to prevent a recurrence,” he said.
According to him, an established framework for school security had previously contributed to a reduction in cases over the last two years.
The minister confirmed an investigation into reports that security personnel were withdrawn shortly before bandits attacked a girls’ school in Maga, Kebbi State. “We will uncover what happened. If anyone is found culpable, they will be sanctioned,” he said.
Badaru also noted concerns about bandit groups extorting rural communities, while explaining that military operations in such areas are conducted cautiously to avoid civilian casualties.
Responding to remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about potential military action over alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria, the minister said Nigerian officials are engaging with the U.S. government to address the claims.
“Our leaders have been there, and discussions are ongoing. By God’s grace, there will be understanding,” he said, adding that Nigeria maintains defence partnerships with several countries
lordm: A coup will not happen in Nigeria. The citizens won't let it happen. No one should take Nigeria back wards
Which citizens will not support coup? Nigerian citizens wey wicked leaders don force patriotism commot for their mind. Most of them will support it 100% stop saying what you don't know.
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