Beer parlours, drinking joints and pool centres in Abuja are now to close at 10pm every day including weekends, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) announced yesterday.
The decision of the FCTA, which was contained in a statement signed by Muhammad Hazat Sule, spokesperson of the ministry, also affects parks and gardens. Mr Sule said the administration of parks and gardens, cinema/film centre, disco/night clubs and other recreational centres in the Federal Capital Territory has also been reviewed.
"Henceforth, all operators of the above mentioned venues of recreation have been directed to adhere to the following time limit for their operations. Parks and gardens that admit children are to close at 6pm daily, including weekends. cinema/film centres and disco/night clubs are to close at 10pm daily including weekends," he said.
The FCTA government also called on the operators of all the above mentioned centres to, apart from complying with the directive, also put in place adequate security within their premises.
"The entrance and exit points into such premises must be properly manned," the directive states.
Its officials said monitoring teams will be going round to ensure strict compliance.
This measure, according to the statement is necessitated by the need to ensure adequate security of lives and property in the Federal Capital Territory sequel to series of bombings in the city and threats by Boko Haram elements to carry out further attacks.
The group, at the weekend in Borno, killed 25 people at a drinking spot when its members threw explosives into the gathering.
An FCTA official said the directive is not unconnected to the recent tense security situation in the city. There has been four different bomb explosions that claimed several lives and property in Abuja, the most recent being the bombing of the Louis Edet House where the Police headquarters is located.
Other security measures also including stop and search exercise being conducted by the military and police officials in FCT.
Recently, the FCTA also directed security agencies to beef up security in and around Abuja. Security agencies, including the FCT Command of the Nigeria Police Force, the Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission as well as the FCT Directorate of Road Traffic Services were asked to henceforth conduct stop and search operations on any vehicle in and around FCT.
Security has also been beefed up at several hotels in the city, including at high profile ones such as Transcorp Hilton.
The FCT spokesperson, Moshood Jimoh, tells NEXT in a telephone chat that he was aware of the FCTA order.
"I can assure that the police would enforce it," he said, adding that he cannot explain any reason why such order was issued.
"It is not from police," he said. "Why not contact FCTA for reasons behind it? Ours is to enforce," he said.
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