A multinational cement company, Lafarge Africa has commenced relocation of no fewer than 1000 people and deities in two communities in Oke-Oko Sekoni community in Ewekoro Local Government area of Ogun State over environmental hazards faced during blasting of limestone The Managing Director, Lafarge Africa (WAPCO Operations), Adepeju Adebanjo disclosed this at the inauguration of housing facilities held at new ...

Real Estate Developer’s Association of Nigeria (REDAN), an agency tasked principally with the responsibility of facilitating the delivery of affordable mass housing in the country. The association has a membership strength of over 1, 500 members and is the brain behind any housing development or initiative that is organized and/or sponsored by the Federal, State & Local Governments, NGOs, private ...

A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has ordered a former governor of Anambra State, Jim Nwobodo, to vacate his rented home in Maitama, Abuja, over his failure to pay his due rent of about N11m arrears. Justice S. B Belgore ordered Nwobodo to relinquish the property located at 24 Ona Crescent, Plot 768 Cadastral Zone A5, Maitama Abuja, ...

Human beings were naturally ingrained with the instinct to survive, to exonerate self and shelve responsibility when the chips were down. No one wanted to take the fall for another or step up and be liable for other people’s actions. In fact, people didn’t want to be liable for their own actions and would rather shift the blame to someone ...

A private property firm, Rock of Ages Properties Ltd in partnership with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has unveiled plans to develop about 100, 000 housing units for members of the union across the country. The TUC President, Comrade Bala Kaigama said the initiative became important to provide affordable housing for the TUC members. Kaigama spoke during the inspection tour ...

A new deal has been sealed between a cement firm, Messrs United Cement Company of Nigeria (UNICEM) and microfinance bank for the building of 5,000 new housing units in the country. The agreement between UNICEM through its shareholder Lafarge in collaboration with French Development Agency (AFG) provides a long-term credit line of N1 billion to LAPO Microfinance Bank for the ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has implored the governor-elect of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode to consider low cost housing for workers in the state. NLC said this is in order to ameliorate workers plight as well as measure up with the prevailing national minimum wage in the country. “A situation where a worker is forced to pay about N500,000 ...

As we count down the May 29 handover date, the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Dr (Mrs) Akon Eyakenyi has called on the newly elected executive of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) to complete on-going projects on schedule. Speaking in her office during a courtesy visit by the association led by its President, Reverend Ugochukwu Chime, ...

Challenges of housing in terms of quality and quantity appear to be the same all over the world. The needy have less access to housing while the less needy have greater chances of accessing housing. In Nigeria, housing is generally inadequate in the rural areas in terms of quality, while the major problem in urban areas is more of quantity, ...

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are people or groups of people who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have ...