{"id":66551,"date":"2025-05-26T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66551"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:44:44","slug":"abuja-set-for-property-takeover-as-fcta-targets-defaulters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/26\/abuja-set-for-property-takeover-as-fcta-targets-defaulters\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Set for Property Takeover as FCTA Targets Defaulters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of properties in Abuja face imminent sealing as the Federal Capital Territory Administration begins a bold clampdown on ground rent defaulters, deploying security teams to enforce the recovery of over 4,700 plots.<\/p>\n<p>The FCTA confirmed it will commence physical repossession of lands on Monday, following the revocation of titles linked to property owners who failed to pay ground rent for up to 43 years.<\/p>\n<p>The administration says it has lost more than six billion naira in revenue due to the widespread default.<\/p>\n<p>The sweeping move, ordered by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, affects top districts including Central Area, Asokoro, Maitama, Garki, Wuse, and Guzape.<\/p>\n<p>Among the properties revoked is the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party, a decision seen as evidence of the government&#8217;s no-nonsense approach, even against politically sensitive entities.<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing on Friday, senior officials of the FCTA including Lere Olayinka, Chijioke Nwankwoeze, and Mukhtar Galadima emphasized the legality of the action, insisting that the repossession aims to promote fiscal discipline and restore order in Abuja&#8217;s land administration system.<\/p>\n<p>With security deployment in place, the sealing of properties signals a new era of enforcement in Nigeria&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Thousands of properties in Abuja face imminent sealing as the Federal Capital Territory Administration begins a bold clampdown on ground rent defaulters, deploying security teams to enforce the recovery of over 4,700 plots. The FCTA confirmed it will commence physical repossession of lands on Monday, following the revocation of titles linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66553,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66551\/revisions\/66553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}