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Due to non-payment of ground rents for more than ten years, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has ordered the ten districts of the nation’s capital to revoke the land titles of four thousand, seven hundred, and ninety-four owners of property in the country’s capital.

Lere Olayinka, the senior special assistant to the FCT minister for public communications and social media, made this disclosure while giving journalists a briefing at the FCT administration’s Abuja office.

Lere explained that property owners who are still paying their ground rent owe over $6 billion to the FCTA.

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Additionally, he made the announcement that over 3,500 landowners had to extend the grace period to pay their outstanding debts or face default.

Adedamola Ogunbode, a graduate of Lagos State University (LASU), is one of the four suspects who has been detained by the Nigerian Correctional Service in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The Celestial Church of Christ, Ileri-Oluwa Parish, Ojo, Sunday Whepetoji, and one Sheriff Adebayo were both imprisoned after failing to have their warrants renewed by a Lagos magistrate’s court in Yaba.

As the investigation progressed, the police had requested a court order to keep the suspect in their custody, but the court decided that the pair should be remanded in the Ikoyi Correctional Center.

Two months after he disappeared, Adedamola’s body was excavated last week from a shallow grave by homicide detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti.

His killers, who had his phone stolen and had to transfer money from his account to his graveyard, then laid him to rest nearby the church. The deceased later vanished after telling his girlfriend he was going to the church on January 16 allegedly at the pastor’s invitation.

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Adebayo, a church member, sent N70, 000 to the pastor’s personal account.

Ogunbode, a graduate of LASU’s political science program, was on the phone with his girlfriend when he arrived at the church’s grounds and had previously disclosed where he was before she vanished.

Whepetoji was apprehended by detectives during the course of the investigation after his family complained, but he denied ever seeing the victim.

The Ojo police station immediately received a report of the January incident as a missing person case. However, when the new Lagos Police Commissioner Olohundare Jimoh took office with the directive to conduct a thorough investigation of the murder and find the victim’s whereabouts, it only received the necessary attention.

The State Criminal and Investigation Department detained three suspects shortly after, including Ajisomo Olaoluwatomi, 25, and Sheriff Adebayo, who is alleged to be the prime suspect and the one who issued the order for Ogunbode’s execution.

In the wake of the governor’s challenge on November 8, 2025, governor Chukwuma Soludo said he sees no qualified opponent in the state’s election.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), argued that the state’s Ndi Anambra (the state’s citizens) are convinced that his party has produced benefits of democracy and deserves to have another chance in the upcoming election.

In a media conference to mark his third year, Soludo claimed that the people of the South-East state are party loyal to APGA when it comes to the election process for governor and local government chairmen.

He said, “If there is an election, I mean there will be an election, and I will be on the ballot after that, and I will ask: Who else is running?” Which political party is putting up a candidate?

I have not heard of any people until they come down from somewhere, though.

Bishop Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, has been appointed as the president and head of the Kachia, Kaduna State, Federal University of Applied Sciences, as its Pro-Chancellor and Chairman.

The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made the disclosure in a statement on Monday.

He claimed that the president also appointed professors Daniel Abubakar as university librarian, Prof. Qurix Williams Barnabas as vice Chancellor, Sanusi Gambo Adamu as bursar, and Ibrahim Dalhat as bursar.

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Additionally, President Tinubu approved the appointment of Zarah Bukar (North East), Chief Fabian Nwaora (South), Prof. Femi Taiwo (South West), and Mr. Thomas Etuh (North Central), as members of the university’s Governing Council.

According to the statement, all the nominees were carefully chosen based on their distinguished careers, leadership skills, and commitment to advance education in Nigeria.

In keeping with the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda, Tinubu urged them to make use of their combined expertise to position the university as a hub for academic excellence and research.

As the university prepares to admit its first cohort of students in September 2025, President Tinubu urged the newly appointed officers to provide visionary leadership and lay a solid foundation for its growth.