Mr. Tonye Oliver Braide was on Nov. 21, 2015 decorated the 26th president of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) at the close of NIA Annual General Assembly and Conference in Abuja. In this interview with Daily Trust, Mr. Braide states that the country has about 4000 to 5000 registered Architects in Nigeria, he also pledges his support to deal ...

Residential property prices in some locations in the United Kingdom could increase by as much as eight per cent in 2016 as the recovery that has taken hold in London ripples out across the country. But overall price growth is expected to be around six per cent across the country during the year, according to the forecast from the Royal ...

President Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend assured that de­spite the fall in oil price, mea­sures taken to block revenue leakages would ensure enough cash to fund the 2016 N6 trillion budget. The President presented the national budget to the joint session of the National Assem­bly last Tuesday in Abuja. He said anybody convicted in the $2.1billion arms deal would forfeit ...

Police detectives attached to the Delta State Police Command are looking for some workers of Pentagon Real Estate Investment Limited over an alleged N2.5m fraud. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, who confirmed the development, said one Amunewa Steven Onyeka petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, on the matter. Kalu said the petitioner ...

A midnight inferno on Sunday consumed goods worth millions of naira at Baboko market in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 20 shops were completely razed by the inferno which lasted several hours. Some shop owners reportedly left huge sums of money in their shops before the incident occurred. Sources said that the inferno ...

A former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, on Sunday advised Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State against building N17 billion airport in Lafia. He said that instead of building the airport, the governor should provide other infrastructure that would spread across the state. Mr. Maku, a 2015 gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the state, gave ...

Gombe State government has planned to spend over N18 million as compensation to those who lost their houses for road construction in Kumbiya-Kumbiya Ward of Gombe Local Council of the state. The chairman of the committee on payment of compensation, Shehu Abubakar Durbi, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Gombe Tuesday, said the aim was to ensure that ...

Two professors born of same parents, Prof. Felicia Durojaiye Oyekanmi of the University of Lagos and her elder brother, Prof. Adebayo Durojaiye, are locked in a fierce battle over inheriting their late mother’s two houses in Lagos State. After failing to reach an amicable settlement within the family, one of the parties has proceeded to a Lagos High Court to ...

The Nigerian government on Wednesday said it was in the process of developing a national transportation master plan that would help in diversifying the nation’s economy. The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed this while briefing journalists after concluding the inspection of ongoing projects and facilities at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. Mr. Amaechi was accompanied on the visit by ...

For the country to be able to bridge its current housing deficit estimated at about 17 million housing units, the federal government has been urged to subsidise Housing sector by putting in place policies that would ensure this. The managing director, Infinity Trust Mortgage Bank Plc, Mr. Banjo Obaleye, stated this during the bank’s 2015 End of Year /Long Service ...