Welcome to another issue of the first ever Real Estate Fiction Series in Nigeria – The BROUHAHA of OGA MARTINS. If you have been following the story since the first episode, you will realize that Oga Martins has gone through a lot both at home with his co-tenants and at his new job. His life is not all gloom and ...

Inaugurated on the 1st of April 1960, the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) was established after a detailed planning of its structures and systems by an 8-member study group two years earlier. However, the idea for the formation of an autonomous organization for professional architects was first conceived by three Nigerians living and training in England in the early fifties. ...

The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG has commissioned a N2.2 million storm-water drainage system the church donated to the Langbasa Community in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State. The project represented the response of RCCG to the outcry of the community which has long suffered uncontrolled flooding with the associated health and environmental consequences. The community had solicited ...

Improving on efforts to deliver more affordable housing units and reducing the housing deficit in the country, the Federal Government of Nigeria has taken a giant step by collaborating with an estate development agency. The Federal Government of Nigeria and BASAP Ventures International Limited/ JS Neoplans & Artemis Angel Global Limited on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the ...

The Lagos State government last week, reaffirmed its resolve to complete the massive Lagos-Badagry expressway project despite the delay in completing the second phase of the ongoing N220 billion expressway expansion. But there are indications that the project would not be delivered by the Babatunde Fashola administration which fixed last month for the completion of the second phase of the ...

Expectations are high that Nigeria’s mortgage market which has, for too long, suffered slow growth, will experience a boom when the Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC), a private sector-led secondary mortgage market, starts refinancing more mortgages. The company, which launched 10,000 mortgages last year with an initial target of creating 200,000 mortgages, disclosed recently its plan to refinance one million ...

The consul-general of the People’s Republic of China, Liu Kan, has said that the volume of trade between Nigeria and China in 2014 was about N38.01 trillion ($18.1 billion). Liu said that there was relative increase in the exchange of goods and services in the year over the 2013 transactions. “Today, Nigeria is China’s third major export destination in Africa ...

Civil servants in Delta State are up for good times as the government is making plans to look into housing for its workers with plans to complete about 150 housing units along Ibusa road, Asaba. The State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan gave the assurance to civil servants in the state last week during an inspection tour of the government owned 150 ...

It’s another Wednesday, and the struggle continues for Oga Martins just as it continues for most of us. He is under a tough condition on his first day at work; he must seal a deal or lose his job. As you read this episode, you will be required to share your views in the comment section. Tell us what you ...

Henry Enotiemwonmwan Omoregie, a popular social, political, environmental and human rights activist, has been inducted as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV). He was inducted among many others at a ceremony in Abuja. Omoregie, FNIVS, RSV, MNIM, is the Managing Partner, Henry Omoregie and Company, a firm of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, Real Estate ...