The Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), Lagos State last week, pledged to renew its efforts towards enthroning standards and safety within the construction industry. The builders unanimously expressed concerns over the invasion of the industry by foreigners, on one hand, and artisans on the other. At the 2015 Builders’ Conference gathering, organised by the Nigerian Institute of Builders (NIOB), Lagos ...

Paints Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMA) has reiterated its call to the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to end substandard products in the industry. Smarting from the successful awareness from the “2013 Coatings Show”, organised by the Paints Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMA) that drew attention of stakeholders and governments to the issue of the environment, quality of some products ...

This article reveals the underground cities that exist in the world. I’m sure while growing up we were given a full dose of tales about people who lived in caves, holes dug out in the earth, mines or even subway tunnels. I heard interesting and strange stories about cave men, the Hottentots and Khoikhoi tribes of South Africa, not forgetting ...

Reps plan to check the practice of keeping lands undeveloped. They say, if the practice is not checked, the noble efforts of the government to address the housing needs of the FCT will continue to be frustrated by land speculators to the detriment of helpless Nigerians. To stave off high cost of houses and scarcity of residential accommodation, the House ...

Zac Goldsmith, the Conservatives’ London mayoral candidate, has said he will propose amendments to the government’s housing bill to require local authorities to build two affordable homes for every one they sell off in London. Speaking during the bill’s second reading in the Commons, the Tory MP said he supported the proposed legislation in principle, but that it needed amending ...

In a major setback for many women across the country, the Supreme Court has said that a daughter’s right to ancestral property does not arise if the father died before the amendment to Hindu law came into force in 2005. The apex court held that amended provisions of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, do not have retrospective effect. The ...

The Oko baba plank market in Ebute Metta, Lagos was razed down by fire yesterday. ​The fire which started at about the close of work, ​was raging and threatening to spread into nearby Makoko, a community of stilt houses by the banks of the Lagos Lagoon. The Oko baba market is a sprawling timber market on the Lagos lagoon close ...

There’s no doubt that the internally displaced persons in Nigeria have suffered from serious violation to their rights to life, to health and adequate housing. Not only has the government not been able to tackle the threats to the lives of the Nigerians living in the North East region of the country, they have also failed in their responsibility to ...

As part of its plans to rehabilitate communities destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgency, the federal government will build about 10,000 houses for internally displaced persons – IDPs in Adamawa State. The vice chairman of the committee constituted by the federal government to superintend the reconstruction of the region, North East Housing Reconstruction Initiative, Hajiya Hadiza Muhammed, disclosed this yesterday. ...

Lagos has less than 500 licensed estate agents, the Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Estate, Rent and Commission Agents Association of Nigeria (ERCAAN), Godwin Alenkhe, said on Monday. Alenkhe, who paid a courtesy visit to the corporate headquarters of Punch Nigeria Limited in company with some other executives of the association, described the activities of quacks as ...