GREENVILLE CITY IN NORTH CALIFORNIA: New project offers elderly affordable housing. A new housing project in the medical district of Greenville will offer elderly people an affordable housing option. The Taft Development Group held a groundbreaking for Parkside Commons Tuesday. The project’s $10.6 million price tag is partially being funded by tax credits through the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, ...

Nigerian most senior diplomat working at the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka has been appointed as the Acting Director, Regional Office for Africa (ROAF), UN-Habitat. The RoAf/ UN-Habitat is currently working in 24 countries in the Africa region (these include: Nigeria, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, ...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Cross River State has resolved to resist any arbitrary sale of the state government building housing the zonal office of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) and the Department of Technical Services of the Cross River State Ministry of Information in Calabar. The building, situated at a prime location in the state capital, is ...

Experts in the real estate sector have listed reasons why affordable housing has remained elusive in the country despite efforts from both the public and private sectors. This has become a major concern for the stakeholders in the housing sector as the same factors continue to truncate mass housing drive in the country. According to the managing director UACN Property ...

Traders in Anambra  yesterday were forcefully relocated to permanent market site. Some traders at Williams Street in Onitsha, Anambra State, have defied government’s relocation order leading to their forceful ejection by the State Government. The traders were ejected to a permanent and standard market at Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area of the state. Some of the traders who were ...

As tiny as Lagos appears in terms of landmass, it has remained the most promising habitation and business hub for many Nigerians of diverse tongues. If owning a house or a land in Lagos does not form the core of the dreams of the average man who resides in Lagos then probably that person is no Lagosian to begin with. ...

In a bid to sanitize Real Estate agents practice in the country, association of property investment and commission agents in Nigeria (APICAN) Iju branch held a one day seminar on Real Estate Management Accounting System. The seminar which was held at Baale Palace Saala Ifako Ijaiye Local Government had in attendance, APICAN national deputy chairman, Mr. Jide Odelola, National secretary, ...

At first Martins could not fathom Akon’s presence in Deji’s house until some events began registering in his network busy brain immediately Akon’s alluring anatomy strayed out of his eyes’ scrutiny. “Who would have imagined that the gorgeous and massively endowed lassie once lived in a “face- me- I –slap- you” apartment,” Martins thought aloud. The muscles in his jaw ...

The Ogun State Government has said that over 80 per cent of the structures demolished to pave the way for the construction of standard roads being constructed across the length and breadth of the state do not have title documents. The Permanent Secretary, Ogun State Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Kayode Ademolake, who stated this in a statement issued ...

The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors will examine the cost management aspect of critical infrastructure projects in the country. The NIQS in a statement signed by its Secretary for Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Mr. Jide Oke, stated that measurement and cost management of engineering infrastructure projects would form the basis of  NIQS national workshop. He said the two-day workshop, which ...