The FCT Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) ,  Mr Sunny Monidafie, said in Abuja on Sunday that he was still not convinced that women were ready to lead the country in the foreseeable future. Monidafie told the News  Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Nigerian women in politics were their own worst enemies.

One Ramatu Suleiman, of No. 33, Ibrahim Abacha Estate, Wuse Zone 4, is being tried by a Magistrate Court in Abuja for locking her friend, Farida Ibrahim, in a hotel room in Wuse 2, and disappearing with key to the room.

United State based  firm, Balkan Center Development Group of Companies, which recently,  offered to invest, N384 billion( $2.6 billion), towards actualising  the proposed Abuja Town Centre (boulevard),  said it would employ more than 10,000 semi-professional and un-skilled workers, when the project takes off.

The President of the Balkan Group, Mr. Gene Philips, said during a meeting with the FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed that aside this, the company would employ thousands of other professionals  when the project takes off, January,  next year.

He said: "The Company has projected that upon take-off; the project is expected to employ thousands of Nigerian professionals, as well as upwards of 10,000 semi-professional and unskilled workers." 

The boulevard, which is intended to be the entertainment hub of the FCT, according to him, when completed, is estimated to have an economic impact which will run in trillions of dollars and last to serve future generations of Nigerians. 

The project, covering investment in real estate, power generation internal infrastructure and so on, he said, would be completed in six years.

It would be recalled  that the FCT minister, recently, set up a committee, headed by the Minister of State for FCT, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade, to study and make recommendations on the  proposals of the company project.

Residents of Abuja, the federal capital city, especially, commuters in the satellite towns, will not forget the erstwhile Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir el-Rufai, for a long time to come, for one singular initiative, which is the provision of public town service buses.