{"id":78453,"date":"2025-11-10T05:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78453"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:19:55","slug":"wike-gives-abuja-land-defaulters-final-14-days-to-pay-%e2%82%a65m-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/10\/wike-gives-abuja-land-defaulters-final-14-days-to-pay-%e2%82%a65m-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Gives Abuja Land Defaulters Final 14 Days to Pay \u20a65m Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has given property owners in Abuja who altered land use without approval a final 14-day grace period to pay a \u20a65 million penalty or face enforcement action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A statement by his aide, Lere Olayinka, said the grace period begins Tuesday, November 11, following the expiration of an earlier 30-day deadline issued in September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sanction targets owners who converted residential buildings to commercial use in areas such as Maitama, Asokoro, Wuse II, and Garki.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Defaulters who pay will receive new title documents, including a fresh Certificate of Occupancy valid for 99 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Olayinka clarified that the exercise excludes properties already revoked for non-development or non-payment of ground rent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Prominent individuals affected include ex-APC chairman Abdullahi Ganduje, former Osun governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, ex-Supreme Court justices Aloma Mukhtar and Atanda Fatai-Williams, and NNPC Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has given property owners in Abuja who altered land use without approval a final 14-day grace period to pay a \u20a65 million penalty or face enforcement action. A statement by his aide, Lere Olayinka, said the grace period begins Tuesday, November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78453","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\/78453","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=78453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78455,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78453\/revisions\/78455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}