According to analysts, besides edifying the nation’s capital city, the proposed Abuja City Gate, when completed, is expected to be a tourist attraction of world class – an international landmark.

Abuja’s residents are not opposed to change. We welcome development that uplifts, that addresses our daily struggles and builds a city worthy of its status. But we cannot abide by decisions that ...

Whether one sees Abuja, Nigeria's 30-year-old federal capital, as an urban paradise or a place where survival is a constant struggle depends largely on one's income bracket, writes Ola Awoniyi.

For Dayyabu Haruna, 43, home is an unfinished two-room bungalow, almost a shack, sitting next to a heap of stinking rubbish in Karu, a sprawling suburb on the edge of Nigeria's glossy new capital city ...