Scores of police retirees under the aegis of the Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria (ARPON), on Tuesday, protested the perceived injustice meted out to them by the National Housing Fund, National Pension Commission (PENCOM) and National Health Insurance Scheme. The retired officers, who marched on the major streets of Ilorin, started the protest at the Government Day Secondary ...

Towards achieving affordable housing, the Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation (OPIC) has introduced a new homeownership scheme, which will enable home seekers pay over a period of time. Under the scheme known as Advantage Home Purchase Plan, indigenous building materials manufacturers will be partnering the agency to develop, enhance locals content and the quality of the products they deliver ...

Engineers have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to work towards reducing Nigeria’s dependence on imported products. This, they said, had made the country a consuming nation and dragged down its economy, stressing that Nigeria was still struggling to export finished products. The President, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Maitama District Branch, Abuja, Israel Abraham, observed that most countries of the world that ...

It was learned that Nigeria has donated $300,000 (around 14 million) and housing construction materials for the government’s post-Haiyan rehabilitation effort. Nigerian Ambassador to the Philippnes Buba Tekune turned over to Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman, the donations at the DSWD on August 19. Charge d’Affaires Tekune the donations reflect the Nigerian government’s sincere desire ...

A disabled Toronto man had his name removed from the waiting list of a subsidized city apartment because he does not meet the main criteria for living there: being Muslim. “It doesn’t make any sense; I lived in Texas, that doesn’t make sense even there,” said Austin Lewis, 21, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Lewis is attempting ...

Investment in real estate has been one of the oldest and most common forms of investment dating back to the beginning of human civilization, evolving into a more sophisticated market having its own real estate backed securities, which could be issued privately or on the domestic/international capital market. The desire to pool resources from multiple investors to acquire prime real ...

Ifeanyi Obua, a graduate of Mechanical Engineering with specialisation (MSc) in Technology of machine manufacturing from Krivoy Rog Technical University, Ukraine, is the CEO of Obua Technology Solutions LTD. Obua mentioned legislation and empowerment of land ownership, use of appropriate technology, training of labour force in the construction industry among others as the solution to Nigeria’s housing deficit. In an ...

A scenic view of arguably the biggest ghetto in Nigeria would lay credence to its notoriety. A place where the quest for survival is at its highest. In Ajegunle the average young girl is expected to become a mother before her 18th birthday. You can live in ‘AJ’ for free but what happens afterwards can’t be guaranteed. This was the ...

No fewer than 50,000 members of 800 co-operative societies have indicated interest in the Social and Co-operative housing programme of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). Similarly, FHA is working with State governments towards the implementation of a rent-to-own housing scheme, which would convert rents paid by tenants for the eventual ownership of such houses. The Managing Director/Chief Executive of the ...

He who invests in properties does a good thing. However he who buys or builds a house in his own country is blessed beyond measures as long as his hands are clean. In an era where the acquisition of state-of-the-art properties by our politicians is being questioned by higher authorities, same can’t be said about our celebrities or entertainers who ...