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FCTA TO TAKE POSSESSION OF 4,794 PROPERTIES REVOKED OVER NON-PAYMENT OF GROUND RENT
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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) will begin taking possession of 4,794 properties revoked over non-payment of Ground Rent for between 10 and 43 years, starting Monday, May 26, 2025. The properties are located in the Central Area, Garki I and II, Wuse I and II, Asokoro, Maitama, and Guzape districts. According to the FCT Minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, ownership of the revoked properties has already reverted to the FCTA. “As from Monday, next week, the government will begin to exercise its rights of ownership on the affected landed properties. This will be done without consideration as to ownership of the affected landed properties. It will be purely in line with extant laws and regulations guiding the process,” Olayinka stated. The Director of Development Control, Mukhtar Galadima, explained that affected properties will be sealed up and access to them restricted as from Monday. “The FCTA will decide what to do with the affected properties in due course,” Galadima added. The Director of Lands, Chijioke Nwankwoeze, disclosed that the FCTA was already compiling records of compliance and non-compliance of title holders that were in default of payment of Ground Rent for between one and ten years, who were given a 21-day grace period to pay up. “The government will act accordingly as soon as the records are fully compiled and analyzed,” Nwankwoeze said. The FCTA had revoked the land titles in March 2025 due to non-payment of Ground Rent, which contravened the terms and conditions of grant of the Rights of Occupancy. A total of N6,967,980,119 was owed as Ground Rent by 8,375 property owners. The affected properties will be taken over by the FCTA, and the administration will exercise its lawful rights of ownership.