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Wike: Some Judges Still Tenants, We’ll Solve Accommodation Problems Before 2027
Wike: Some Judges Still Tenants, We’ll Solve Accommodation Problems Before 2027
Wike: Some judges still tenants, we’ll solve accommodation problems before 2027. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday said 80 percent of judges’ accommodation problems would be solved before the end of President Bola Tinubu’s first tenure.
Wike gave the assurance while lamenting that some judges still live in rented accommodations and are at the mercy of their landlords.
Speaking during the official flag-off of the construction of Magistrate Court Jabi in Abuja, the Minister decried the poor welfare of judges in the capital city.
He said the president is determined to provide an enabling environment for judges to facilitate the quick dispensation of justice.
Wike said: “My lord has been able to read out what the FCT Administration has been doing as regards the Justice sector.
“All we are doing regarding initiatives of Mr President must be executed or implemented by us.
“Mr President has always believed that you cannot have a total dispensation of Justice when the enabling environment just like when he came to Port Harcourt in 2023, before his celebration, by that time he was present-elect, he came and inaugurated the mindset complexes.
“He said we can’t talk about fighting corruption when you don’t provide an enabling environment for the judges and magistrates, when you don’t provide welfare for them, it will be very difficult.
“I have been going around and sometimes when I see where our judges and magistrates sit, it’s very embarrassing and then you still want them to deliver justices quickly.
“You need to provide a good learning environment, good offices, and good courts for them to be able to do that.
“Sometimes you see our justices are living as tenants and sometimes when they are not able to pay on time, they are at the mercy of the landlords. The landlord can use their cars to block the gates – you have not paid us – that can be embarrassing.
“Even where you are living, you don’t even know where criminals are, sometimes you are leaving with those criminals around, so how do you know, so how do you want to guarantee your life?
“Mr President has said that has to come to a stop and let me assure you that before the end of the first tenure of Mr President, we would have solved 80 percent of your accommodation problems in terms of housing.”
According to the Daily Post, Wike also promised that 20 units of four bedroom duplexes would be handed over to the Federal High Court in June 2026 and during Tinubu’s third 30 units would also be given to the FCT High Court.
He added: “By the end of this year, we are going to handover 20 units of duplexes of four bedroom flat to the Federal High Court and by June next year, during the third anniversary of Mr President, we are also handing over 30 duplexes to the FCT High Court.
Wike: Some Judges Still Tenants
“It’s not just here, if you are going to the Villa where you have the fire service station, there is another project ongoing there and then in Garki, so that it would accommodate a lot of our magistrates and they would be able to carry out their jobs the way they should.”
The Minister further disclosed that the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, is responsible for the building of public buildings in Abuja.
“It’s important that so many people would have criticized the government for providing accommodations and offices for the Judiciary.
“Let me say this clearly that FCDA is primarily concerned about public buildings in Abuja, most public buildings are built by the Federal Capital Development Authority.
Be it INEC, Supreme Court you are seeing from here is also done by the FCDA,” he added.
FCTA Confirms Antivenom Stock, Warns Negligent Hospitals, Gives Emergency Lines
FCTA confirms antivenom stock, warns negligent hospitals, gives emergency lines. The FCTA said all public hFCTA confirms antivenom stock, warns negligent hospitals, gives emergency linesospitals have sufficient antivenom after singer Ifunanya Nwangene’s death at FMC Jabi. Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe warned facilities to follow protocols or face sanctions, stressing that early treatment is critical.
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The territory has added 12 ambulances, improved ICUs, and centralized antivenom storage.
Residents are urged to use emergency lines 090157892931 or 090157892932.
FCT Police Warn NLC Against Planned Abuja Protest, Say Proscribed Groups Plot To Hijack
FCT Police warn NLC against planned Abuja protest, say proscribed groups plot to hijack. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command has warned the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) against its planned protest scheduled for Tuesday in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The NLC leadership had fixed February 3 for a solidarity rally along with members of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria and the Joint Union Action Committee (JUAC) at the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) secretariat in Garki Area 11.
The NLC declared that the rally is to publicly affirm that “an injury to one is an injury to all”, adding that the Nigerian labour movement will not abandon its members.
On January 24, the labour body declared support for the indefinite strike by workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), describing the action as “necessary and heroic” in response to alleged violation of workers’ rights.
In a statement, Joe Ajaero, NLC president, said the labour union stood “in very strong solidarity” with FCTA workers under the aegis of JUAC.
Ajaero described the strike as “a necessary and heroic response to a vicious cocktail of neoliberal attacks, gross administrative impunity, and a systematic violation of the fundamental rights of workers by the FCTA management and its political leadership”.
However, in a statement on Monday, Josephine Adeh, FCT police spokesperson, said the command respects the constitutional right to peaceful assembly, but noted that intelligence reports indicate “plans by proscribed groups and other non-state actors to infiltrate and hijack the protest, posing a risk to public peace and safety”.
Adeh said in the interest of public safety, the organisers should consider rescheduling the protest to prevent any breakdown of law and order and to protect lives, property, and the rights of other residents.
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“The Command remains committed to safeguarding all lawful activities and urges residents to continue cooperating with security agencies to keep the FCT peaceful and secure,” the statement reads.
Meanwhile, the national industrial court has reportedly issued an interim order restraining the NLC, TUC and JUAC from embarking on the planned protest.
The court had earlier ordered workers on the payroll of the FCT administration to suspend the strike.
Emmanuel Subilim, the presiding judge, held that although the matter before the court amounted to a trade dispute, the defendants’ right to embark on industrial action was not absolute.
Akwa Ibom Indigenes Protest RMAFC Meeting, Warn Against Tampering With State’s Oil Wells
Akwa Ibom indigenes protest RMAFC meeting, warn against tampering with State’s Oil Wells. Akwa Ibom indigenes resident in Abuja on Tuesday stormed the venue of a meeting of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), where the Inter-Agency Technical Committee (IATC) on Disputed/New Oil Wells was sitting, to protest what they described as attempts to reopen a matter already settled by the Supreme Court.
The protesters cautioned that no individual or agency should tamper with Akwa Ibom State’s 76 oil wells, stressing that the ownership of the wells was conclusively determined in favour of the state by the Supreme Court in 2012.
They insisted that any move to revisit the issue through administrative or technical processes would amount to a disregard for the authority of the apex court and could undermine peace in the Niger Delta region.
Akwa Ibom State was formally represented at the IATC meeting by a high-powered delegation comprising leading legal practitioners, government officials and technocrats. Members of the delegation included Paul Usoro, SAN; Assam Assam, SAN; the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Uko Udom, SAN; Uwemedimo Nwoko, SAN; Emmanuel Enoidem, SAN; and a former Attorney-General of Akwa Ibom State.
Akwa Ibom Indigenes Protest RMAFC Meeting
Also on the state’s delegation were the Commissioner for Finance, Mr Emem Bob, Former Attorney General and Commissioner Justice, Barr. Ekpenyong Ntekim; the Commissioner for Information, Dr. Aniekan Umanah; Honourable Member representing Ikot Ekpene Federal Constituency, Dr Patrick Umoh, among others.
The delegation is expected to present Akwa Ibom State’s position before the committee, reiterating that the Supreme Court judgment remains final and binding, and urging all relevant federal agencies to respect and uphold the ruling.
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