The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the Chief Executive Officer of Mezcor Oil and Gas Limited, Mr. Donald Amamgbo, who is a cousin of the embattled Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. According to Punchng, Amamgbo, who is the CEO of three other oil companies, was a ‘front’ for the former minister. His house in the Wuse 2 area ...

Do you know that there is a house in Taiwan that is built completely upside down? Strange right? Ever since I came across this interesting piece of news I have been trying to imagine it in my head. Is it really possible to live in a house where every department of the building including the furniture are completely upside down? ...

Taking on a fixer-upper as your real estate investment opportunity entails a series of steps that must be taken to bring the value of the property up. This article focuses on how best to fix your fixer-upper to increase the worth of your property. With so much in any property that could use some work, the process of enhancing a ...

The Nigerian Institution of Structural Engineers (NIStructE) has pledged to tackle the problem of inferior building materials in the country. This, among others, was one of the programmes outlined by the new president of NIStructE, Mr. Oreoluwa Fadayomi, who was sworn in last week at the Julius Berger Hall, University of Lagos. While the President, the Nigerian Society of Engineers ...

NICON Insurance Corporation Plc has gotten the backing of a Court of Appeal, Ilorin Judicial Division, to raise fresh issues in a land matter involving it and the Kwara State Government. However, the victory was not on the whole appeal initiated by NICON against the Governor, Kwara State, Attorney General, his counterpart, Commissioner for Land and Housing, Kwara State and ...

Messrs Kdscope International Limited has unveiled an energy efficient office complex suitable for high net-worth investors and multinational organizations in Lekki axis, Lagos. The building of the future, which is constructed to a standard of international specifications consists of two wings of office spaces being partitioned with galvanized channels on four-floors. Sitting on a land area of about 922.953 square ...

Two South African children are suing the mega church of popular Nigerian preacher TB Joshua over the death of their father, their lawyer Bolajii Ayorinde has told the BBC. The three-year-old and six-year-old have filed papers in court in Nigeria’s main city, Lagos, demanding compensation of more than 8m rand ($521,000; £375,000) from the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Nigerian media reports. Their father was among ...

Dangote Cement Plc says it has commenced the construction of cement plants in Okpella, Edo State, and Itori, Ogun State. The new plants are expected to add nine million metric tonnes per annum to the company’s current local cement output of 29.25 million tonnes. According to the company, Okpella is a three million per annum plant, while the Itori plant ...

The Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation and Lafarge Africa Plc have unveiled an affordable housing estate in Sagamu, known as New Makun City. At the unveiling of the estate, the Chairman, Board of Directors, OPIC, Mr. Adekunle Adesina, said that in building the estate, the corporation keyed into the Governor Ibikunle Amosun administration’s vision to provide affordable housing for ...

The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) has vowed to sanction any practitioner who engage valuation service informally without proper registration with the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON). Delivering a speech in Calabar, last week during its 22nd John Wood Ekpenyong Memorial Lecture/Fellows’ Induction ceremony, Chairman of the Board, Mr. William Odudu appealed to such practitioner ...