Real Estate

The Peoples Democratic Party in Kogi State has rejected proposed plans by Governor Yahaya Bello-led administration to sell some of the state assets. The opposition party while admonishing the governor to immediately perish the thought, considered the plot to be selfish, devilish and myopic. A statement released on Monday by the party’s state publicity secretary, Mr Bode Ogunmola, he said ...

Transparency International has accused the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, of acquiring his UK properties with proceeds of corruption worth £15 million. The properties are located at 7 and 8, Whittaker Street, Belgravia, London. According to Transparency International, the report was conducted by Unexplained Wealth Orders, a new investigative power designed to help law enforcement agencies act on corrupt ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for urgent attention to address the infrastructure crisis  affecting the future of the aviation sector. The Director-General of IATA, Mr Alexandre de Juniac, made the call in his keynote address at the Singapore Air Show Aviation Leadership Summit (SAALS). The summit has the theme:“Re-imagining Aviation’s Future’’. A copy of de Juniac’s speech ...

The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has engaged over 200 youths in Bayelsa state to carry out repair works on the failed portion of the six kilometers Yenagoa-Immiringi-Oloibiri road. Head of FERMA Bayelsa Field office, Ayoola Bolaji, an engineer who disclosed during an inspection of the road said the youths were sourced from the communities located along the roads. According ...

Abuja – A group, the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council {AU ECOSOCC} said it has developed a road map to engage and attract Nigerians and investors in the Diaspora for socio-economic development of the country. Addressing newsmen at the weekend in Abuja, Mrs. Chinwe Maduike, an International Consultant / Special Adviser on Investment, Diaspora and Development Partners to AU ECOSOCC ...

Fresh widespread opposition may await the Lagos State Government’s newly passed Land Use Charge bill; if indications emerging from the sector’s major players are anything to go by. The proposed law, which repealed the Land Use Charge Law 2001 and enacted Land Use Charge 2017 and For Connected Purposes, aimed at increasing the revenue generation base of the state by ...

As the upward review of toll increment at the Lekki and Ikoyi Link Bridge toll plazas took effect yesterday, some motorists plying the corridor have expressed mixed feelings over the issue. The Lekki Concession Company Limited (LCC) had announced that the toll increment was due to current economic and business realities that had impacted on the cost of servicing its ...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said that the state government would revoke the ownership of all unused lands especially those at the industrial layouts in the State, regretting that people acquired those lands and kept them for years without developing them but waiting to sell them at a very exorbitant prices. The Governor gave the hint when members ...

Alhaji Tasi’u Dandagoro, the state Commissioner for Housing, Works and Transport, made the disclosure in Katsina at a news briefing on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting held on Thursday that the State Government has approved road contracts worth N15.6bn to transform Socio-economic activities across the State. He said that the projects covered the construction, completion, rehabilitation, asphalting, ...

The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) in Bayelsa, on Thursday, said it had provided job(s) for no fewer than 200 unemployed youths in road maintenance. Mr Bolaji Ayoola, the FERMA Road Maintenance Engineer in the state, made this disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa after inspecting some of the ongoing road projects in Bayelsa. He explained ...