Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has called on a former minister of work, Mike Onolememen, to explain to Nigerians the whereabouts of $700 million (N140 billion) released for the unexecuted second Niger bridge project. Mr. Oshiomhole said in a statement by his chief press secretary, Peter Okhiria, that he stood by an earlier statement that $700 million was drawn ...

Noise is not inherently harmful to humans or environment. It is when noise becomes unusually loud and uncontrolled that it diminishes the quality of air and adversely affects the environment, public health and welfare. Noise pollution is one of the environmental hazards affecting humans as well as climate. In most urban areas of the third or developing countries of the ...

With a resolution to make significant impacts in the country, particularly towards reducing the nation’s housing units shortfall, a frontline manufacturer of polyurethane prefabricated buildings in Nigeria, Vitapur Nigeria Ltd, has called on both the Federal and state governments to reach a pact with it. The pact, if eventually evolved, according to the firm, would back the firm’s desire to ...

The Chairperson, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), Federal Capital Territory (FCT), chapter, Hajia Binta Ibrahim, in this interview with Dele Ogbodo, said that the only way houses can be made affordable is when there is serious intervention from all the stakeholders in the sector and government has to realize that REDAN is a serious stakeholder in housing development. ...

At least three people were killed Monday in a deadly clash between rival cult groups in Elega and Ago-Odo areas of Abeoluta, Ogun State capital, police and residents said. According to premuimtimesng, Fighting broke out between the Eiye and Aiye confraternities, throwing the communities into confusion as residents fled for their lives. One of those killed, witnesses said, was the ...

Ekiti State Government has disbursed a sum of N144 million as housing and vehicle loans to 712 teaching and non-teaching staff in the state teaching service. The State Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Chief Toyin Ojo, who made this known, in Ado- Ekiti, said N63million of the amount was disbursed as car loans to 257 teaching and non-teaching staff ...

You reside in America and think your property tax rates are high? It’s all relative. To try and give you a sense of the property tax rates overall, the Tax Foundation calculated the average amount of residential property tax actually paid, expressed as a percentage of home value. That should produce a more even result since it factors in the ...

There are many mysterious buildings in this world, buildings where only certain category of people can inhabit or visit, most of them historical buildings and monuments. Also, there are some locations in this world that are  under the control of external forces or forces of evil that oppose any contrary being that strays into their dwelling place; places with an ...

Arc. Bashir Haiba is not only an advocate of housing for the low income earners, he has been in the construction sector for decades. First, he wants the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to look back at what the NPN government headed by Alhaji Shehu Shagari did to get numerous housing units across Nigeria. The strength of Shagari Low Cost Housing scheme ...

At least six people were killed and 206 injured in Saudi Arabia Sunday when a fire broke out at a residential complex housing employees of oil giant Saudi Aramco, authorities said. The fire started in the basement of a tower in the eastern city of Khobar, the kingdom’s civil defence said on Twitter. It added that several of the injured ...