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Certainly, she was threatened by some retarded northern illiterates.

Yakubu Dogara na Christian o

A near-chaotic situation is currently brewing along Abuja Airport Road in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, between the Nigeria soldiers and Abuja Indigenes over the death of one Hamza Usman, a native of Abuja from Tungan Maji.
According to an eye witness account, Usman was allegedly shot dead yesterday by a trigger-happy soldier over a large parcel of land which allegedly belongs to the natives but is forcefully being claimed by the Nigeria Army.

The situation has irked the Abuja natives who have taken to the streets to protest the killing of one of their own by Nigeria soldier over their ancestral land.

Giri road, linking Gwagwalada and Airport road has been currently barricaded by the angry natives, thereby disrupting vehicular movement into the city center from Gwagwalada.

An eyewitness account revealed that the man was shot when he and other indigenes mounted a peaceful protest over a large portion of land allegedly cornered illegally by Nigeria Army. Midway into the protest, the soldiers were said to have violently confronted the protesters. One of the soldiers was alleged to have shot Hamza Usman at a close range, leading to his instant death.

“They manhandled us, treated us like animals and eventually killed our brother. We were not armed. We were carrying out a peaceful protest of our ancestral land which Nigeria army fraudulently claimed to have acquired. We have taken the case to the Minister of FCT, who confirmed that from records available, the land does not belong to Nigeria army.

“Intimidation, harassment, and incessant killings of innocent people have become what Nigeria Army is known for. Let them be ready to kill all of us because we will never chicken out and cede our ancestral land to them”

Meanwhile, it was gathered that all the Abuja indigenes have embarked on demonstration along airport road to demand for justice for their kinsman who was brutally murdered by Nigeria army.

The indigenes who threatened to match to the Army headquarters, the National Assembly and the Presidential Villa vowed to do whatever necessary to ensure that they get justice for their dead kinsman.

Meanwhile, all the efforts to reach the Minister of FCT Mallam Musa Mohammed and the spokesperson of the Nigeria Army were unsuccessful as at the time of filing this report

drdeola001:
Gurara falls in Nigeria?
You are lie Mohamed twin brother

Where is Gurara water falls located then? Please always do your homework before commenting.

Beautiful!

louiskay:
make dizz woman just adopt me....
E don be for me be that.....

lol.... I'm laughing my guts out. mehn! you are so killing funny.

this post is helpful and I'm learning from it because I'm almost considering going into same relationship cuz I like this lady.

Is it accident - proof?

It's amazing how people see things from different angles. Most comments are influenced by other comments. The view of others tends to becloud our own sense of reasoning and judgement. That's a natural human being for you. It doesn't happen only in this part of the world but in everypart. Imagine what how better the world will be if we allow our sense of reasoning, and judgement to be influenced by the word of God. Happy Sunday people.

I rep FCT, I got mine too. Yesterday.

Thanks for your post. But this is Nigeria and not UK or US. Most we copy everything from the Western world? Including driving age?

By FRED ITUA Exactly 40 years ago today, the military government of Nigeria created the Federal Capital Territory through the enactment of the FCT Decree No. 6 of 1976, today called the FCT Act. A lot of provisions were made and foundation findings documented by the Akinola Aguda Panel of 1975 that provided for the number of persons that would be affected in the relocation and revocation of lands. The plans also included how to and how much they would be compensated with for their lands to be taken. While one leg of the implementation that has to do with taking over of lands and development has taken place effectively, the aspect of compensation and proper relocation and resettlement of natives remains in paper. These years later, the natives who knew of the plans and procedures of the takeover in law still fume that the whole episode to take over their land has been fraud. It is only few that argue that beyond non- compensation for their lands, the incident has been some blessing to the development of the area and the people. The long walk to the creation of Abuja as Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) began in 1976, with the military regime of Gen. Murtala Muhammed. The regime had decided that Lagos, which was then Nigeria’s capital, had become too over-crowded as both political and commercial capital of Nigeria. Consequently, Gen. Muhammed on August 9th,1975, set up a committee headed by Dr. Akinola Aguda to advice the government on the suitability of Lagos to continue to play the role of Nigeria’s capital, as well as a new location suitable to replace Lagos as the nation’s capital. Dr. Aguda committee who toured Nigeria for this purpose, recommended Abuja as a suitable replacement as Nigeria’s capital. On July 6th, Gen. Muhammed promulgated the decree No 6 of 1976 making Abuja Nigeria’s new capital. Although the new FCT was created in 1976, physical development of the territory only began in 1980. This is despite the earlier establishment of the famous Parastatals, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) in 1976, charged with the responsibility of the design and development of the new capital, after setting a 15 years target for the phased, movement of the seat of government. The pioneer administrator of the FCT, Mr Mobolaji Ajose Adeogun immediately embarked on a massive recruitment of town planners, architects, engineers and other professionals for the FCDA. In 1976, the infant FCDA started out in Lagos and within a year, it opened an office in Kaduna, nearer to city. And by 1978, when surveys of the territory had reached an advance stage getting ready for physical development, FCDA transferred its headquarter to Suleja town. The administrator and all the senior staff of FCDA who lived and worked in mobile caravans in an open field base on the outskirts of the town moved also. On the 12 of December, 1991 President Ibrahim Babangida signed the Decree formally declaring Abuja as the new FCT of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He boarded a presidential Plane and made the historic one hour journey to Abuja. He was received at the city gates by ministers, the diplomatic corps, civil servants and other prominent Nigerians. After a colourful ceremony at the city gates, he was conveyed in a convoy to the new seat of government at the valley by the foot of Aso Rock. This is to bring to an end a planed 15 years movement of the seat of power from Lagos to Abuja from 1976 to 1991. Nigeria joined the league of countries that had built new capitals such as the United States of America that transferred from New York to Washington DC, Brazil from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, Australia from Melbourne to Canberra and few others. Despite all these, there was one nagging issue and that was the resettlement of original inhabitants of FCT. The spirit of Decree No 6 of 1975 by Gen. Mohammed was that the original settlers in Abuja were to be compensated and relocated to the adjoining states to the new FCT. However, in 1978, the government of Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo saw the assessment of N2.8 billion estimated for the compensation of the original settlers before their relocation out of the New FCT as too big for government to pay. Instead, Obasanjo decided that such amount was better spent on infrastructural development of the FCT. President Shehu Shagari who came to power in 1979, tried to effect the compensation and relocation policy by setting up a site in Plateau state to relocate the indigenous people of Karu in FCT as the first test case. Only a few family from Karu benefited and were relocated to the new site that became known as NEW Karu. While the majority of people in Karu were waiting for their compensation and relocation, the federal government then said there was no more money to continue the compensation and resettlement policy. What became clear was that the federal government had administratively decided on total, but gradual evacuation of the original settlers of the FCT as development approaches each village and settlement. Forty years after the creation of the territory, the original settlers are still gnashing their teeth. Yunusa Ahmadu Yusuf, Secretary- general Of Abuja Original Inhabitants Youths Organization believes that successive administrations of the territory, as well the federal government have not been fair to their plight. “We the Abuja Original Inhabitants Youths Organization, are an Organization with the mandate of the original inhabitants (Gbagyi, Gbari, Gade, Ganagana, Amwamwa, Bassa, Egbira, Gwandara and Koro) of Abuja in particular and FCT in general,” he said. “Our sole aim is the of protection of our rights and the interests on our land and its resources, as they relate to property protection, identity, utilization of empowerment opportunities, environmental protection, preservation of our rich cultural heritage, safety of lives and property, education and sensitization on government programmes, mineral resources and other policies of government,” he added. Speaking on the importance of land and what it means them, Yusuf said: “To us, the Original Inhabitants of Abuja, land represents the future. land represents wealth. It represents health, freedom and everything. It is land that makes a people a community. Can anyone imagine what the consequences will be if communities in the Niger Delta are deprived of their lands in the manner it is meted out to the Original Inhabitants of the FCT? People will do everything including supreme sacrifice to defend their ancestral land. God created the land and out of land, God created man. “Few months ago, our people defied bullets from the police when they protested the demolition of their settlements and acquisition of their land perpetrated by land racketeers. The people of Abuja are known for farming and crafts-making. But with the coming of the Federal Capital Territory to Abuja, our people have been deprived of their farm lands. “Due to the activities of the FCTA environmental enforcement agents, our mothers, these days, can no longer hawk their farm produce harvested from the remaining parcels of land waiting to be taken by the takers. “Our mothers and youths who hawk food and snacks are now seen and treated as environmental nuisance who are routinely molested with seizures and destruction of their wares by the environmental enforcers. Yet, there are never any sustainable measures put in place to engage them in gainful employments. “While other states in Nigeria are sending over 500 students overseas for sound education and training, the FCT Scholarship Board is poorly funded. Consequently, our youths who are willing and are qualified for such training are handicapped and stranded. Those in some institutions here in Nigeria are perennially awaiting sponsorship. “The FCT indigenous slots for employments in the Federal Civil Service are being taken by non-Indigenes through illegal activities. We are calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to join the advocacy of Abuja Original Inhabitants to let the government look into all the injustices to which we have, for too long, been subjected to. It is at the interest of peaceful co-existence and stability for our plight to be positively addressed.”

Natives urge Buhari to send bill to NASS seeking amendment of FCT Act As Abuja marks forty years of its creation as the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, natives of the area under the banner of the Original Inhabitants Development Association of Abuja (OIDA) have urged the federal government to stop the disenfranchisem ent and ongoing sufferings of the people by democratizing the system of governance in the FCT. In a statement by its President, Pastor Danladi Jeji, OIDA, said the February 3rd, 1976 pronouncement of Abuja as Nigeria’s capital by Major General Murtala Muhammed has multiplied the misery and woes of the original inhabitants of the FCT with natives lagging behind in terms of education, political, economic and social opportunities. Jeji said “as we recall the annexation of our lands forty years ago by the Nigerian government, we remain dismayed by General Murtala who erroneously referred to this area as ‘virgin land with sparse population’. How could a land be virgin and populated at the same time? This was the first contradiction. Infact, the imaginary ‘virgin land’ was later confirmed by ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo as homeland to over 400,000 indigenous Nigerian citizens who had settled, cultivated and adapted to this geo-climatic area since prehistoric times.” “Thus, the demolition of our homes, farmlands and land-grab by the federal government, politicians in power and wealthy land speculators in different guises have become the order of the day since 1976 without due compensation or regard for our existence as humans.” Jeji further lamented that “unlike other citizens of Nigeria, we are stateless people with our children constantly mocked as stateless Nigerians, our lawyers presently do not have opportunities to become Chief Judges, our politicians do not have opportunities of becoming commissioners, state house of assembly members or governors, our civil servants are short-changed from rising to positions of permanent secretaries or Head of Service, the development of our communities are at the mercies of strangers who are appointed by leaders at the federal level who hardly know the yearnings of our people. Our constitutional rights to self-determinat ion have been usurped by the Nigerian state thereby rendering us stateless.” Consequently, the people are asking President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the governance of the FCT by introducing a bill in the National Assembly for urgent constitutional amendment to allow FCT to fully operate as a second-tier system of government. “We want subsequent presidents of Nigeria to relinquish their powers as Governor of FCT and the National Assembly to also relinquish its powers as the House of Assembly for the FCT, to the original inhabitants and residents of the FCT so that they can freely elect those to govern them directly rather than the indirect rule presently obtainable in the territory.” Jeji also added that “we want the right to elect our governor and have an FCT House of Assembly driven by our people to make laws for our people and residents. We are also asking for the establishment of an FCT Original Inhabitants Development Commission.” OIDA traced the hardship and challenges facing the original inhabitants of the Territory to the defective legal framework known as Decree No. 6 of 1976 (now FCT Act, Cap 503 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.) noting that “in legal parlance, the provisions of section 6 of the FCT Act is null and void because of its obvious inconsistencies with the Constitution. But be that as it may, the Act has remained the only legal instrument that is being used” by the Nigerian government to administer the FCT. The natives called on the Nigerian government not to shy away from owning up to the fact that it had woefully failed to compensate, resettle or reintegrate FCT original inhabitants since 1976 as a result of its ultimate failure to compensate the natives with the 1978 compensation figure of N2.8 billion. Warning the Federal Government of the consequences of neglecting the original inhabitants of the FCT, OIDA said “the denial of natives the right to fully participate in the political, economic and other rights granted to fellow Nigerians is tantamount to denial of our fundamental human rights. Our rights should be restored and our properties be adequately compensated for justice.” The president asked the nine indigenous tribes of the FCT namely, Amwamwa, Bassa, Egbura, Gade, Ganagana, Gbagyi, Gbari, Gwandara and Koro to unite and forge a common front for the emancipation of Abuja natives. ### For more information: Sumner Shagari Sambo Media Adviser, OIDA/ACE 08065422832, 08125644612 shagarisambo@gmail.com oidaabuja@yahoo.com www.oida-fct.org

ABUJA AT 40: NATIVES DECRY LAND-GRAB, INJUSTICES AND UNDER-DEVELOPMENT OF FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY

It's a drill. Got this message this morning:
Office of the NSA&NPF informs the public of a planned training exercise on counter-terrorism crisis response at ICC,Abuja today,9am-2pm.Be cautious& don't panic

Congratulations bro. I claim the prayer. I shall have my dream job too. Be faithful.

Dats true. It's confirmed here in Abuja.

Na waoooo.... See FCT own abeg..... End time job formula.

End times governors....

P[b]lease has anyone successfully uploaded his/her signature? I'm still having issues. No link to upload mine. [/b]

Please has anyone successfully uploaded his/her signature? I'm still having issues. No link to upload mine.

Atobeia:
It's not always general. Rewrite the signature in the middle of an A4 paper. Don't sign on the paper in a big font; eligible. It should upload by then.

no 'upload' link available.... That's the issue.

please guys, my brother was admitted. right now we are trying to register online but we cant upload his signature online. please how can we go about it? is this experience general?
pls add him to the watsapp portal, his number is 08021368262

I thought this only happen in the North. Now I see that no state in Nigeria is actually developed. Na where dia oil money dey go?

Any thing you do good or bad, people must regionalize and ethnicize it.

Nonsense. Young lady, u know the right tin to do. Mayb u ar jus afraid of Wat u ar goin to lose.... Materially.

This is what happen when you marry someone Base on 'he=will=change' syndrome. I bet you even before you got married to him..... The signs were there that he will cheat.... You probably ignored them.
However, my advice is for you not to pay back evil with another evil. Darkness can't chase away darkness. Commit him in prayers, continue being nice to him. There is no one God cannot change; you have to be patient though. All d best.........

LIB-PHIN

Na igbo film house o.

ThisisBuhari:
Abuja the Center of Unity.

No ethnic group can claim ownership of Abuja.

We are proud of Abuja.

Gbagyi (also spelled Gwari and Gbari) are an ethnic
group in central Nigeria. They predominantly live in the
Niger, Kaduna , States[ citation needed ] and the Federal
Capital Territory . They are also found in Nasarawa and
Kogi States in central Nigerian Area.Gbagyi is the most
populated ethnic Group and indigenous in the Federal
Capital Territory of Nigeria and their major occupation is
farming. [1][2]

ThisisBuhari:
Abuja the Center of Unity.

No ethnic group can claim ownership of Abuja.

We are proud of Abuja.

you are clueless. Oya come build house for any land for Abuja na. Make we see weda ur saying is tru.