{"id":66607,"date":"2025-05-27T05:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66607"},"modified":"2025-05-27T05:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:19:49","slug":"fcta-rent-dispute-tinubu-approves-14-day-grace-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/27\/fcta-rent-dispute-tinubu-approves-14-day-grace-period\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Rent Dispute: Tinubu Approves 14 Day Grace Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved a 14 day grace period for property owners affected by the Federal Capital Territory Administration\u2019s recent revocation order to settle their outstanding ground rents and penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The directive was announced in a statement issued on May 26, 2025, by Chijioke Nwankwoeze, Director of Land Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The FCTA had earlier commenced enforcement action against 4,794 properties that had defaulted on rent payments for up to 43 years. Penalties for the defaulters range from two million to five million naira, depending on property location.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, property buyers who failed to obtain the mandatory Minister\u2019s Consent have also been given 14 days to comply with the regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo President Bola Tinubu has approved a 14 day grace period for property owners affected by the Federal Capital Territory Administration\u2019s recent revocation order to settle their outstanding ground rents and penalties. The directive was announced in a statement issued on May 26, 2025, by Chijioke Nwankwoeze, Director of Land Administration. The FCTA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66607","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\/66607","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=66607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66609,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66607\/revisions\/66609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}