Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has fined Abuja property owners N5 million apiece for repurposing their properties and using them for commercial purposes without permission.
The Federal Capital Territory administration (FCTA) stated the minister has given the property owners 30 days to regularise their titles in a notification that was published in national dailies on Monday.
The notice reads, “This is to notify the general public, particularly allottees/title holders of properties, that the honourable minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), his excellency, barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, CON, has approved a reviewed land use/purpose clause of properties on the underlisted streets/locations of the federal capital city (FCC),” the notice reads.
“All affected allottees/holders of properties who, without approval, converted the land use of their properties on the above listed streets/locations, having violated the terms and conditions of grant of the right of occupancy, are hereby given thirty (30) days from Wednesday, 10 of September, 2025, to pay a penalty/violation fee of five million naira (N5,000,000.00).
“The allottees/title holders should visit the FCTA department of land administration at No. 4 Peace Drive, Central Business District, Abuja, with their original title documents and valid means of identification, for collection of their respective letters of conveyance of approval for the land use change/conversion containing details of the new land use and the applicable fees.
Findings gathered revealed that former All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman Abdullahi Ganduje, former Osun governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former Supreme Court justices Atanda Fatai-Williams and Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited are among the impacted property owners.
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