The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has approved the cancellation of 485 land documents in Abuja after they failed to meet verification standards set by the authorities. The affected documents were nullified following an extensive review conducted by the Department of Land Administration in collaboration with the Abuja Geographic Information Systems. The notice specifically addressed applicants who had submitted Area Council land documents for validation. The background to the reforms dates back to last year, when the FCTA disclosed that only 8,287 out of 261,914 Area Council land documents submitted between 2006 and 2023 had been screened. The 8,287 vetted land documents represented just 3.2 per cent of the total submissions, leaving 253,627 documents pending in the database.

Source: Punch February 24, 2026 00:28 UTC