Your titles will be revoked in two weeks – Wike warn 45 embassies over ground rent [full list]

Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has published the names of foreign embassies owing ground rent in Abuja.

According to the list, the total amount outstanding is $5.36 million.

In a document headed Final Notice on Payment of Outstanding Ground Rent in the FCT, the impacted organisations were given only two weeks to pay up.

“All allottees, property owners, as well as beneficiaries of the sale of Federal Government Houses in the FCT who could not pay or settle their outstanding ground rents for the year 2023, are hereby advised in their interest to ensure payment. 

within two weeks from the date of this publication, failure of which such titles shall be revoked,” the notice read.

“For ease of reference, the names of allottees and corresponding outstanding ground rents are listed below.