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Ground Rent: FCTA threatens to revoke properties belonging to ex-FCT minister, 3, 382 other allotees [FULL LIST]

According to a notice released Monday, owners of 3,383 plots of land in the FCT may lose their R-of-Os or C-of-Os due to unpaid ground rents

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the military, foreign embassies, religious groups, government agencies, and private property owners in Abuja to settle outstanding ground rent arrears or face revocation of their land titles.

According to a public notice shared with PREMIUM TIMES on Monday, over 3,383 plots of land across the Federal Capital Territory are at risk of losing their Right of Occupancy (R-of-O) or Certificates of Occupancy (C-of-O) due to unpaid ground rent accumulated between 2014 and 2024.

The affected properties are primarily in high-profile areas, including Central Area, Garki I and II, Asokoro, Maitama, Wuse I and II, and Guzape.

A wide range of ground rent defaulters named
The public notice released by the FCTA lists defaulters categorised from A00 to A09. These include key ministries, diplomatic missions, banks, religious organisations, private firms, and prominent individuals.

The Nigerian Navy, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Department of Petroleum Resources, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Debt Management Office, Federal High Court, and National Industrial Court are among the government agencies owing ground rent. Liaison offices of states such as Kwara, Benue, Osun, Zamfara, Katsina, Imo, and Enugu are also featured on the list.

Foreign embassies include Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Kuwait, Zimbabwe, Canada, India, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mauritania, Indonesia, Venezuela, and North Korea.

In the private sector, defaulters include Huawei Technologies Nigeria Ltd, UACN Property Development Company PLC, First City Monument Bank PLC, Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, Standard Construction Ltd, Baram Nigeria Ltd, and Elbe Pharma Ltd.

Religious organisations owing ground rent include the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, Abuja National Mosque Council, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria, and Jama’atu Nasril Islam.

Notable individuals on the list include retired military officers and prominent figures such as Gado Nasko, a former FCT Minister; Aisha Alhassan; Mathew Nwagwu; Alexander Okafor; Dominic Oneya; Gladys Ibanga; and Jimoh Oyedele Ibrahim.

Real estate and investment firms named are Neo-Vista Property Development Ltd, TRCC Nigeria Ltd, Vibrant Insurance Brokers, Next International Nigeria Ltd, and Abuja Investment & Property Development Company Ltd.

FCTA’s warning and payment instructions
The FCTA reminded allottees that annual ground rent payments are mandatory under the terms of their Rights of Occupancy and Certificates of Occupancy and must be paid in advance starting 1 January each year.

“All allottees and property owners who have not paid ground rent up to 2024 are hereby given fourteen (14) days from the date of this publication to settle their arrears,” the notice stated.


“Failure to comply will result in revocation or withdrawal of affected land titles.

“Payments are to be made via the Remita e-payment platform, directed to the account of the “FCT Department of Land Administration.”

“Property owners are advised to visit https://remita.net, select “Pay TSA & States,” then “Federal Capital Territory Admin,” followed by “FCT Department of Land Administration,” and finally “FCC Ground Rent.”

Recent enforcement and government response
The ultimatum follows recent enforcement actions by the FCTA, which sealed the premises of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national secretariat, FIRS, Access Bank, Total Energy, Ibro Hotel, and Mabuda Company Warehouse in Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, over unpaid ground rent.

FCTA’s Director of Land, Chijioke Nwankwoeze, said these properties have reverted to the FCTA and described the exercise as the beginning of reclaiming possession of over 4,794 revoked properties.

He noted that the ground rent for the FIRS building on Plot 627, Wuse Zone 5, had been unpaid for 25 years, while the Access Bank building on Plot 2456, Wuse I, had not been paid for 34 years.

However, President Bola Tinubu has directed the FCTA to suspend sealing activities on some properties pending further review.

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Wike the master revenue man

Lol

I thought firs said they've paid?

People should simply obey the law and pay up.

Is this not getting out of hand

Yes, you're free sir.... Dat man no work

Wike, power is transient o. The evil you do to others today, another will do you tomorrow. But if what you're doing is right, no problem.

Wike head dey hot 🥵
E go touch everybody

AmazingELixir:
Ground Rent: FCTA threatens to revoke properties belonging to ex-FCT minister, 3, 382 other allotees [FULL LIST]


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Revoke el-Rufai property

APC!
After una don extract from the rich through taxes finish.
Una go enter the poor with economic policies wey make prices of goods and services dey extremely high.

DuBLINGreenb:
Wike head dey hot 🥵
E go touch everybody

And somebody will still succeed him someday.

Inukwa ooooo

Well if they were supposed to pay ground rent wen R of O was issued to dem ....then they should be given more time to pay.Bt they must pay.How u wan dey get that kinds maxi plots in d hrt of abuja n refuse to do d needful

AmazingELixir:
Ground Rent: FCTA threatens to revoke properties belonging to ex-FCT minister, 3, 382 other allotees [FULL LIST]


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Everyone pay up

Next International is Peter Obi's company o

This is very commendable from the FCT minister

They should pay up. Tinubu needs money to flex and share amongst the political elites.

Good

I feel tinubu hand dey this thing.

But him just dey form saint

E choke

All of you singing "power is transient", "somebody will succeed him".....your heads are not correct.

People should not pay ground rent or what? Is something wrong with you?

When they sealed PDP secretariat, you said it was political. Now that MDAs, embassies, ex-ministers etc are involved, you are saying rubbish. Someone even said "Tinubu needs money to flex and share amongst the political elites". Some of you need psychiatric evaluation honestly.

U go revoke my land wey i do buy since becos of ground rent n you gave a 14days as payment deadline....perhaps you smoke igbo!

Why not give a durable length of time than acting as if you are on a personal vendetta.
Power does not last forever oo!

Aify147:
Wike, power is transient o. The evil you do to others today, another will do you tomorrow. But if what you're doing is right, no problem.

For u not to see dat wat he is doing is right. Then you are a bad person. We obey laws of other countries. When it comes to ours we start reading silly meanings to tyns.

Aify147:
Wike, power is transient o. The evil you do to others today, another will do you tomorrow. But if what you're doing is right, no problem.

Shey this one well like this? Land was forcefully taken by government from the locals in order to make a new federal capital, now so called rich men shared the land among themselves and refused to Jah government level. Even if you buy land in the most remote part of Yoruba land, you will pay government level, not to talk of FCT

Churches that are supposed to be charity organisations are also paying ground rent.

Isorait.

DesChyko:
Churches that are supposed to be charity organisations are also paying ground rent.

Isorait.

Charity organisations whose sole owners have up to four different private jets?

This is an exagerated, counter productive which should be haulted without delay.
To start with. the 14 days Ultimatum to pay up is too short and not feasible.
There has not even been a functional apparatus for the collection of the said ground rent.
Lagos state, that has been collecting Land Use Charge for ages always serve every household and Land User an annual Land Use Charge demand notice.
There are also in every district in Lagos a Land Use Charge office that is responsible for the Administration of this matter.
If the FCT has been serving such payment notices, the fee wouldn't have accumumulated so much