The Senate Committee Chairman on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Smart Adeyemi has expressed regret and disappointment over the doggedness with which cabals within real estate industry sabotage the signing into law a bill to control rent. He said the bill, pending before President Jonathan for assent, was meant to do the nation good. While speaking Wednesday immediately after plenary session ...
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Construction companies downsize workforce over projects’ debt
According to ngrguardiannews, fresh facts emerged last week that construction operatives may have started to downsize their workforce due to the inability of the Federal government to offset a debt of N500 billion owed the industry players. The President, Federation of Construction Industry (FOCI), Mr. Solomon Ogunbusola who lamented that the construction industry is in a comatose because Federal government ...
Read More »‘Housing policy should be overhauled to make it more proactive’
Experts are calling for a new housing policy that would speed-up housing delivery through regeneration, and tailored towards effective demand of the nation’s various income classes and economic groups. They mentioned the need for an overhaul in the national housing policy. They also recommended that the retirement savings of workers should be used to fuel a surge in house building in the country, while ...
Read More »Family members killed over land dispute
Three members of a family in Amechi community, Awkunanaw Local Government Area of Enugu State have lost their lives over a land dispute. The victims were identified as Nnaemeka Agbo (alias Echidime), Sunday Nnamani, and Nnamani Ikpa. The disputed land lies directly opposite government-owned Millennium Estate, which is still under construction along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. It was gathered that ...
Read More »Full details of a Landlord and Tenant relationship
Landlord and tenant relationship is an association between two individuals arising from an agreement by which one individual occupies the other’s real property with permission, subject to a rental fee. The term landlord refers to a person who owns property and allows another person to use it for a fee. The person using the property is calleda tenant. The agreement between ...
Read More »Embattled senator-elect, Kashamu, has Land troubles added to his plate
The embattled senator-elect of Ogun East Senatorial District, Prince Buruji Kashamu is enmeshed in another mess as he has been accused of forging documents for a landed property worth billions of naira in Ajah area of Lagos state, Southwest, Nigeria. Kashamu, who is also fighting extradition to the United States over drug related issues, has been challenged by the family ...
Read More »Lagos state: Fire Guts N1.14 Billion Worth of Property in 3 Weeks
As much as some resident in Lagos state still have their peace and tranquility, some others have lost millions to fire outbreak in the outgoing month of May. The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, on Tuesday said property worth about N1.4 billion were destroyed by fire within 24 days in May alone. However, he said, property ...
Read More »The BROUHAHA of Oga Martins – Episode 18
The landlord returned around 12p.m. to find out if they had repented of their ways and willing to hand over the culprit. Since there was no culprit to hand over considering the fact that no one had confessed to starting the fire, he had left, refusing to call off his dogs. While they stood or sat in the sun which ...
Read More »History of Surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the surface of the Earth, and they are often used to establish land maps and boundaries for ownership, locations like building corners or the surface location of subsurface features, ...
Read More »A couple talk candidly about living ‘hand to mouth’ in their dream home
Louise Edgerton, her partner, John Camus, and her 10-year-old daughter, Fianna, joke around while making brownies. They move around with ease in the gleaming white kitchen of the new dream home they designed themselves. But for Edgerton, one financial setback could change everything. “I am discouraged, because I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s a ...
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