Wike’s son bags Master’s degree from King’s College London

Joaquin Wike, son of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has bagged a master’s degree in Management and Technology Change at King’s College, London. Photos from the graduation ceremony were shared on Thursday by the Senior Special Assistant to the Minister on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, on his X […]

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Wike Getting Awfully Close to Fighting Tinubu, By Farooq A. Kperogi

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike revels in controversies, contentious public disputations, vituperative recriminations, and tensile political stress like a pig exults in mud. Peace and harmony bore him to tears. That is why he has an incrementally lengthening list of political spats with multiple people. His quarrel with Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his former […]

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Tinubu brokers peace in Wike-Fubara crisis

Reports are coming in that President Bola Tinubu has intervened in the ongoing feud between Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. According to a highly credible source, Tinubu summoned Wike for a meeting over the Rivers crisis. Saturday Punch  reports that the source, who is close […]

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Tinubu gave Wike assignment to destroy PDP ―Emma Ogidi, PDP chieftain, claims

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Emma Ogidi, has accused President Bola Tinubu and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike of collaborating to weaken and destabilise the opposition party. Ogidi, while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, claimed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is interfering in PDP affairs in a manner he described as “a threat to democracy.” “This […]

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Weeks after resisting FCT minister Wike, Naval officer, Lieutenant A.M. Yerima weds (Video)

Lieutenant A.M. Yerima, the military officer and fearless man of integrity, who resisted Nyesom Wike, the minister of the federal capital territory (FCT) a few weeks ago, has married his beautiful fiancee in a private family wedding in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Watch the video below: View this post on Instagram Video: CapCut, Blackswansazy, Instagram  

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Wike’s Weak, Wild, Wicked Week, By Farooq A. Kperogi

In Nigeria, elite oppression and callousness are often mostly abstract. Most people at the lower end of the social scale think and feel that many people in positions of power, comfortably ensconced in their sinecures, are haughty, self-impressed, and possessed of ice-cold disdain for them. But it is FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, more than anyone […]

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Wike-backed Abdulrahman Mohammed as PDP acting chairman rejected by INEC

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected a correspondence signed by the acting chairman of the Samuel Anyanwu faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying it failed to meet the requirements of the law. Reports say Abdulrahaman Mohammed and Senator Samuel Anyanwu had written to the commission seeking to postpone the Ekiti Governorship […]

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PDP govs Makinde and Bala Mohammed resist Wike’s secretariat takeover plan

A theatre of the absurd day for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday as Wadata Plaza, the party’s national secretariat, became a centre of chaos, factional power play, and intensified scheming by rival factions seeking control of the party and its head office. The crisis was sequel to the release of two separate […]

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PDP expels Wike, Fayose, Anyanwu, Ajibade, Nwachukwu, others for anti-party activities

Main opposition political party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at its ongoing 2025 National Convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Saturday expelled high-profile members including Federal Capital Minister, Nyesom Wike, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Kamaldeen Ajibade SAN, former Governor Ayo Fayose, Austin Nwachukwu, and many others for anti-party activities. It was Chief Olabode George, […]

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Wike faction petitions NJC against Oyo judge who authorises PDP convention

Leadership crisis that is rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a fresh twist on Monday as a faction loyal to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, petitioned the National Judicial Council against Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court. In a petition dated November 5, 2025, and received by the […]

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Sowore petitions Florida Attorney General, accusing Wike of money laundering to buy houses in US

Activist Omoyele Sowore has petitioned the attorney general of Florida, James Uthmeier, demanding the prosecution of FCT, Nyesom Wike, for alleged money laundering and the forfeiture of multimillion-dollar properties in the U.S. over unlawful acquisition. Citing Peoples Gazette’s September 1 exclusive report alongside three claim deeds as exhibits in the petition dated September 22, 2025, and […]

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Labour Party’s factional chairman, Abure visits Wike in Abuja (Photos)

Factional chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure has held a closed-door meeting with Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), at the latter’s residence in Abuja, Nigeria. Details of the meeting remain unclear, but its timing has raised eyebrows as it follows closely on the heels of a public demand […]

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You are jittery but it is too late in the day to cry” ―ADC Coalition movement replies Wike

PRESS RELEASE July 3, 2025 Minister Wike is Jittery – ADC The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has taken note of the virulent attacks launched on the various leaders of the coalition movement by the Hon. Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike in his media chat today. Without justifying this behaviour that we find […]

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Fubara, Wike, Rivers lawmakers meet Tinubu in Abuja (Photos)

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday held a closed-door meeting with key political actors from Rivers State in a move to resolve the prolonged crisis rocking the state. The meeting, held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, brought together the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, Speaker […]

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I will not join issues with my former employee ―Amaechi hits back at Wike

Former Rivers governor and ex-Nigerian Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has stated that he will not stoop to the level of a child by exchanging insults with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. Even without mentioning Wike’s name, this response came after Wike mocked the former Rivers State governor, alleging that Amaechi […]

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Wike, Appeal Court president dragged to court over IBB Club BoT leadership

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and the Chairman of Incorporated Trustees of IBB International Golf and Country Club, Abuja, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem have been dragged before the Federal High Court with the presiding judge, Justice Emeka Nwite over the latter’s appointment by Wike. Also joined as defendants in the suit instituted […]

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Wike revokes Buhari, Onnoghen, Abbas, Akume, Uba Sani’s Abuja land titles

Minister of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has revoked lands belonging to former President, Muhammed Buhari; former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen; Speaker House of Reps, Tajudeen Abbas; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, and his wife, Regina Akume; and Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani.. 759 other prominent figures and […]

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