{"id":204111,"date":"2025-08-06T21:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-wike-threatens-to-seal-properties-of-ground-rent-defaulters\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:43:05","slug":"nigeria-wike-threatens-to-seal-properties-of-ground-rent-defaulters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-wike-threatens-to-seal-properties-of-ground-rent-defaulters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Wike Threatens to Seal Properties of Ground Rent Defaulters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to seal the properties of owners who have not paid their ground rents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Wike issued the warning in Abuja yesterday during his monthly media chat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">He stated, &#8220;You should know what I&#8217;m going to do next. I thank God the President said two weeks; we are at more than three months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The minister also lamented the failure of some defaulters to pay their debts, despite a period of grace from the President.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He noted that without recovering these funds, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508060545.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to seal the properties of owners who have not paid their ground rents. Wike issued the warning in Abuja yesterday during his monthly media chat. He stated, &#8220;You should know what I&#8217;m going to do next. I thank God the President said two weeks; we are at more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,22971,6914,257,4687,393,14665,20632,5120,254,10413,8730],"class_list":["post-204111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defaulters","tag-ground","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-properties","tag-rent","tag-seal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens","tag-wike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}