
Minister of State, FCT, and Satellite Towns infrastructure development, by Gambo Jagindi
By Gambo Jagindi Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria and one of the eight most populous cities in the country. Located in the center of Nigeria, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, is a city built in the 1980s based on a Masterplan by a Japanese architect, Kenzo Tange. Abuja replaced Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city as the capital on Dec. 12, 1991. Though development of the city is still in progress after more than three decades, the indigenous communities and the city's poor believe that Abuja was designed for only the rich, insisting that the masterplan has no…