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FCTA Impounds 700 Vehicles for Use of Fake Number Plates and Illegal Tinted Glasses
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has announced the impoundment of over 700 vehicles in Abuja for various offences, including the use of fake number plates, unauthorized tinted windows, and other traffic violations, as part of its renewed crackdown on motorists with suspected criminal intent.
The Director of the FCTA Department of Security Services, Adamu Gwary, made the disclosure during a late-night stop-and-search operation at Apo-Wassa junction and the Karu axis of the FCT, on Monday.
Represented by the Secretary of the Command and Control Centre, Dr. Peter Olumuji, Gwary said the exercise is the second phase of Operation Sweep Abuja Clean, a multi-agency initiative aimed at curbing “one-chance” robberies and recovering stolen vehicles.
“As at now in Operation Sweep, we have impounded over 700 vehicles from both the first and second phases.
“The operation has drastically reduced the incidence of one chance to the barest minimum.
“Our stop-and-search exercise has made it clear to criminals that no matter where they are in the FCT, the team will always reach them,” he said.
He explained that intelligence gathered from victims revealed that most vehicles used in “one-chance” robberies were illegally tinted, unregistered, or bore fake number plates.
Gwary warned motorists, particularly commercial drivers, against using tinted glasses, stressing that criminals exploit them to conceal their activities.
“We are seeing people who are into businesses using tinted glass.
“Most of the victims that we have interrogated who have fallen victim of one chance, they always let us know that the vehicles they boarded are tinted,” he added.
The task force, he disclosed, recovered seven stolen vehicles within the last week alone, while appealing to residents to endure the temporary inconveniences caused by the stop-and-search operations, noting that the measures were meant to safeguard lives and property.
Also speaking, the Head of Operations, Directorate of Road Traffic Services, Deborah Osho, highlighted that the joint task force has intensified efforts to rid Abuja of unregistered and unpainted taxis often linked to criminal activities.
She said several vehicles had been impounded for traffic offences ranging from driving against traffic to using plates not assigned to their vehicles.
“Most of the one-chance vehicles either have fake number plates not traceable to the actual vehicles, or operate as unpainted taxis, making it difficult to identify them.
“Today in Karu, you can see the huge number of vehicles apprehended. This is sending a clear message that Abuja is too hot for criminals,” Osho stated.
Both officials assured all that the clampdown would continue until sanity is restored on the city’s roads and urged residents to cooperate with enforcement officers for a safer FCT.
Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA has sealed an automobile assembly plant,Carry Heavy Industry Limited CHIL Moloko – Asipa near Abeokuta that specializes in the production of heavy-duty and passenger vehicle for contravening Section 2b(a) of the OGWAMA law which explicitly forbids anyone or industry from burning waste in the state.
In ordering the closure of the Industry,Special Adviser to the Governor on Waste Management who doubles as Managing Director of OGWAMA,
Hon Farouk Akintunde said the Authority had no other option than shutting the company down after several warnings to its management to patronize government approved Waste Private Sector Participants PSP to service them instead of burning them which is illegal, wicked and self centered.
According to him,by burning their waste they caused air pollution through toxic emissions and health risk not only to their workers but to their vulnerable neighbors which he said is not acceptable to the state government which lays emphasis on the wellbeing of its residents at all time.
Akintunde said the company will remain shut until they comply with the state extant law which forbids burning of waste and property register with Waste PSP for legal and proper disposal of their waste or in the alternative face strict legal sanctions.
In the meantime, the Ogun state Waste Management Authority,OGWAMA has also warned Camellin Industry Limited on the Sagamu Interchange, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has equally been sanctioned for the same offense.
According to Akintunde,they were equally found guilty of waste burning which is inimical to the wellbeing of their workers and their immediate environment adding that the management of the industry has been invited to show cause why they should not be sanctioned or prosecuted.
The Nigerian government, through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, has resumed issuance of petrol import licenses to petroleum marketers.
According to report, the licenses were issued to six petroleum marketers expected to import around 720,000 metric tons of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol).
The report says beneficiaries are major oil marketers such as NIPCO, AA Rano, Matrix, Shafa, Pinnacle, and Bono.
NIPCO is expected to import 120,000 metric tons; AA Rano, 150,000 MT; Matrix, 150,000 MT; Shafa, 120,000 MT; Pinnacle, 120,000 MT; and Bono, 60,000 MT, totaling 720,000 MT of petrol imports.
Although the NMDPRA officially stated the reason for the fresh licenses, Dangote Refinery has reiterated its capacity to meet local fuel consumption demand,while NMDPRA’s recent industrial data showed that the 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery supplied 90 percent of the country’s daily consumption.
NMDPRA’s recent decision toward petrol imports has stirred concerns among stakeholders.
The development comes barely a week after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Rabiu Abdullahi Umar as Chief Executive Officer of NMDPRA.
President Tinubu had sacked Saidu Mohammed as CEO of NMDPRA while he was on official duty in Germany.
Former Vice President and chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar has officially obtained his payment receipt for purchase of the party’s presidential election nomination form ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The payment for the N90 million nomination form was made on May 8, 2026.
The ADC disclosed this in a post on its official X handle on Saturday.
The post read: “A New Chapter in Nigeria’s Democratic Journey:
“H.E. Atiku Abubakar, GCON, has officially received his payment receipt to contest under the platform of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) ahead of the 2027 Presidential Election.
“This development marks another significant moment in the growing movement for national renewal, democratic inclusion, and people-driven leadership within the ADC.
“As Nigerians continue to seek credible alternatives, the ADC remains committed to providing a strong platform built on unity, competence, economic recovery, security and national progress.
“The formal presentation of nomination forms is expected on Monday at the ADC National Secretariat, Abuja.
“The movement is growing. Hope is rising. Expect more.”
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