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Why I write this article about security in Abuja.
Security in Abuja is everyone’s business. One night coming back from the church with a friend, I ran into some guys, one on a bike and the other standing just by the side. This happened at the Gaduwa junction, along the Prince and Princess Estate road. The other guy on foot randomly started making troubles but later apologized. The time he got close for apology was when picked my pocket. I didn’t realize I lost my phone until few minutes later.

When I shared my experience with friends, they also shared their experiences and or the experiences of people they know. In the light of this, I decided I was going to write on the red spots in Abuja. This is to inform and educate, not to scare or defame. We can help improve security in Abuja by circulating helpful information as this.

Note: this article is not intended to project the beautiful city and center of excellence in bad light. On the contrary, it is meant to help both residents and visitors to maximize the benefits of the city and enjoy the security in Abuja. This is a beautiful city and practically glows at night. For your safety, pay attention to these places as mentioned subsequently in the article.

The city is progressive and continuously developing in both in infrastructures and security. Measures are constantly being taken and innovations employed to ensure Abuja stays safe for both residents and visitors. Security in Abuja is one of the many blessings of the city.

As a matter of fact, whatever idea presented in this article may no longer holder true at the time you would be reading this. This article is for the best interest of the general public. Let’s go.


In no particular other, these are the popular places in Abuja you should avoid at night if possible.

1: Apo Bridge
Apo bridge is notorious for snatching of personal belongings. It is also crowded at day but scanty at night. Criminal elements use the cover of the night to melt out pains to pedestrians especially.

Few years ago a colleague was robbed of his phone and got stabbed in the process of trying to fight off the hoodlums.

Abuja generally is a beautiful sight especially at night, the street lights, flashes of headlight of cars, traffic lights and the cool Abuja evening breeze make walking in the street an attraction. Sometimes unsuspecting and unprepared citizens get caught unaware by this criminals.

Aside walking around for leisure, some persons may choose to walk home either to save money, exercise the bones or for lack of transport fare. Quick advise is: whatever reason you choose to walk, walk in group, or walk without any valuables like phones, laptops or wallet on you.

2: Area 1 Roundabout.
The area 1 roundabout is the most likely place to get a connecting ride to the outskirts and satellite towns of Abuja like, Mpapa, Kubwa, Gwarimpa, Dawaki, Chika, Alita, Gwagwalada, Airport road, Lugbe, kuje, Iddo, etc on one direction, and Nyanya, Masaka, Mararaba, Apo, Guzape etc, on the opposite direction.

These towns house most of the people who come to walk in the city center either as civil servants or private organization employees, having an affordable rent fees. So naturally, Area 1 becomes very busy as it serves as the converging point for commuters going to different places.

This place has been popular for pocket picking and bag snatching. This area is always very busy till about the midnight. In the heat of the moment commuters who are struggling to get a connecting ride to their various destinations become victims to these hooligans. And people hardly noticed they are robbed until they get to their destinations or suddenly have needs for their mobile phones. In fact, even motorists are sometimes victims as belongings can be picked from your cars if glasses are down.

Quick advice, it’s much better to hold your mobile phone in your hands, not in your pocket, not in your bags. For drivers, don’t leave any valuables on the dashboard and wind up all glasses.
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Also Read: 10 Reasons Abuja is one of the best places to live in or visit in the world.

Where are the cheapest places to live in Abuja? Is Abuja expensive to live in? Are house rents affordable in Abuja? What is the cost of food in Abuja? These are some of the questions people ask about Abuja. People who look to move to Abuja often ask these questions. We shall attempt to give answers to some of these questions.

Abuja is really an affordable place to live in. This post focuses on the cheapest places to live in Abuja. It all boils down to your budget and taste of living. There is always something good for everyone.

We shall look at some towns in the FCT and see how those meet your tastes. This list of towns is based on specific factors which are:

Proximity to town. Town here refers to the Central Business Area(boulevard ). All the towns mentioned are less than 40 minute drive to the Central Area especially without traffic holdups.
Availability of basic social amenities especially power, primary health care, schools and security.
Even with this considered factors, this list of towns are not exhaustive. But we feel this is a good way to start the conversation.

Durumi.
Durumi is the historic town of Abuja with 9 lives. It is the town that survived two major demolitions exercises under El Rufai as the minister of FCT and still stands. Durumi is originally inhabited by the Gbagyi tribes, who are also one of the original inhabitants of Abuja.

The town grew bigger with better structure after surviving each demolition exercise. Before now (2022), Durumi enjoyed better power supply than the presidential villa. No jokes! Power rarely goes off, and when it does, it is back on in about 5 minutes or less. Things are really bad in regards to power now. But I guess it’s a national challenge.

Durumi is the closest you can get to the highbrow areas in Abuja. A single room goes for less than a 100k, while a self-contained apartment goes from anything around 120k to 250k. It generally on what your taste is.

So, if you earn say 50k a month, you can budget your 3 months salaries for your landlord, not funny. This is if you choose a self-contained apartment. Or your 2 months salaries if you choose a single room. From Durumi to The Central Business Area costs about N200 or less, and takes less than 15 minutes depending where you are starting the journey from.

Durumi is relatively a safe place to stay both as a single and a family. It has less criminality, utilizes community policing and has less institutions and groups that breed criminality in town. It is not a perfect place, but it is good. And definitely one of the cheapest places to live in Abuja.

The credibility of Durumi is boosted by the fact that it is strategically cited. It is surrounded by places like the Apo Legislative Quarters, the Nigerian Defense College Quarters and the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria Head Quarter. The old CBN Quarters, Savannah estate and the Addisa Estate form part of its surrounding. Other neighbours include the popular Gudu Market, the Gaduwa estate, Prince and Princess estate. Not forgetting to mention the games village, the National Stadium and the American International School.
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Also read: Places to Avoid in Abuja at Night.

Snitch24:
Totally misleading
This Post should be taken down

Please kindly point out the misleading part and I will amend immediately. Your observation and input means a lot to us.

etrange:
To leave or visit? That doesn't make sense. You mean "live"?

thank you a million times. I am so grateful for the observation.

The secret behind the massive love for Abuja for both residents and visitors. Who wouldn’t love a city like this?

Welcome to Abuja.

Abuja is the capital city of the most populous Black Country in the world with a total land mass spanning about 1,769km2. It is bounded by other equally amazingly unique states as Nasarawa, Kogi and Niger state.

The City was made the capital of Nigeria on December 12, 1991. Abuja is originally inhabited by the Gbagyi people who were believed to have inhabited the region for centuries now. The city has two major entrances and exits: the city gate and the Mararaba/Nyanya axis.

Here are the 10 amazing reasons people love to leave or visit Abuja.

1: The excellent road network in Abuja.
One of the complaints of visitors to Abuja is the road network but not for the wrong reasons. The roads are world standard and every street and district look frustratingly like the other. You could be in Maitama district and think you are in Asokoro because the roads and streets amazingly look pretty much the same. This applies to the highways too. I want to believe that the world class road infrastructure in Abuja is thanks to the then Minister of FCT, El-Rufai under the government of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

From the high quality of the roads, to the aesthetics of the road network designs, Abuja has one of the best road infrastructures in the world. It’s important to note that at a time, under El-Rufai as minister of The FCT, Abuja was said to be the fastest growing city in the world.

A joke has it that people from Lagos Nigeria and other parts of Nigeria come to Abuja only to drive around the city and have a feel of “abroad” in Nigeria, and then go back to their bases feeling like they travelled abroad. Lol!

I think there are more highways, flyovers, roundabouts, bridges and pedestal bridges in Abuja than all the West African countries put together. The crazy thing is that the surface has been barely scratched in terms of the City’s Master Plan implementation... Read More

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