The Griswold Senior Center has started the preliminary design phase for its new building.   Senior Center Director Tina Falck said a request for proposal for architecture designs has been sent. The deadline for architects to submit proposals is Oct. 1.   In April 2012, the State Bond Commission allocated $343,500 to provide a grant-in-aid to the town to pay ...

Housing refugees is big business for Swedish pop tycoon, Bert Karlsson A Swedish pop music tycoon turned TV celebrity who once founded an anti-immigration political party might well be the most unlikely beneficiary of Europe’s migration crisis. But as long as the country is taking in the most asylum seekers per capita of any in Europe, Bert Karlsson is happy ...

LASEMA – The general manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Michael Akindele, said on Wednesday that no live was lost in the building collapse at Lekki, Lagos on Tuesday. Mr. Akindele said the agency’s search and rescue mission was concluded at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday. A two-storey building under construction at No. 37 Agungi-Ajiran Road, Lekki collapsed at ...

Family of Real Estate Mogul Gives $15 Million to Singapore’s New National Gallery The National Gallery Singapore has received a fifteen-million-dollar gift from the family of Singaporean real-estate magnate Ng Teng Fong, according to the Straits Times’ Deepika Shetty. The donation will help in research, curation, and exhibition, with a focus on outdoor commissions. The Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden ...

Kashamu seeks to restrain Federal Govt from seizing N20b property Senator Buruji Kashamu has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain the Federal Government from seizing his property worth N20 billion for alleged drug trafficking allegations. In a fresh application, he sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Attorney-General ...

Solving The Problem Of Affordable Housing In Nigeria Rolling out mind boggling policies capable of solving identified problems in the housing and other sub-sectors problem has been lack of sincerity of purpose by successive governments to implement the policies, George Okojie writes More worrisome is that the trend has continued under governments that lay claims to democratic credentials despite the ...

Doctors at the Central Hospital in Benin City battled to save the life of one Alex Aigbogun who was stabbed in the stomach by his landlord, simply identified as Enogieru. The victim rushed to the hospital at about 9:00am Wednesday by policemen in a Hilux van. Eyewitnesses said the incident occurred at about 12:00midnight, but the victim’s family has no ...

They say the best ideas come as jokes like “Get high on milk…our cows are on grass. You got milk?” Now that’s an ad intended to drive traffic to a product. Nonetheless, some statements intended to be jokes turn out to be foolish enough not to be recognised as jokes, meaning it turns out to be so foolish that the ...

The Senate President, Olubukola Saraki, after an unsuccessful attempt to challenge the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to put him under criminal trial, began his defence against the 13-count false assets declaration charge. Prosecution counsel led by Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) briefed the tribunal how the accused person, while in office as the executive governor of Kwara ...

The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has directed Kano university to provide sufficient plots of land to build residential quarters and other required facilities for the professors. According to premiumtimesng, Mr. Dangote, who is the pro-chancellor of the university, also granted approval for the Kano University of Science Technology, KUST, to recruit 15 professors from across the world, with ...