The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) has appointed Messrs Nekonini Business and Properties Limited, as the sole marketer of its Abesan Housing Estate. In a statement signed by Messrs Stanley Oparaocha, Head Business Development and Hayatudeen A. Awwal, Acting Managing Director, respectively, dated January 5, 2016, said the Messrs Nekonini has been performing to the satisfaction of FHA. The Abesan estate ...

Ahead of the proposed road expansion and rehabilitation work by the Lagos State government, the authorities have appointed Messrs Granebury Construction as contractor,  and met stakeholders to iron out some gray areas, especially ensuring affected people receive commensurate compensation. They met at the forum, tagged: “Stakeholders Meeting on the Rehabilitation of Strategic/Arterial/Inner Roads in Epe Local government”, attended by the ...

The Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations for Change has hailed the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Gimba Yau Kumo, for his “laudable achievements”. The coalition, which comprises students, artisans, traders and the civil society, in a communiqué by its President, Wole Badmus, at the end of its roundtable at the weekend, said Kumo ...

Property management encompasses more than the usual business of monitoring and organizing. Property management or real estate management is an asset care process that ensures your property is cared for the way you would, even in your absence. Every property deserves good property management. So for you to get a correct and up-to-date evaluation of a property and day to day ...

Understanding management of cooperative society is the key to the success of any society. You may say Knowledge is expensive but ignorance is more expensive. Effective management of cooperative society is not possible without adequate and up-to-date knowledge of cooperative management, the proper ways and means to which Trustees and Committees can be put to good use. How to even ...

A Boston company that completed architectural designs for renovating and expanding the Holyoke Public Library will oversee a similar project for the Jones Library. The Jones Library trustees last week, voted unanimously to hire Finegold Alexander Architects to handle the work, following a recommendation from a subcommittee that narrowed the five architects who participated in public interviews in December to ...

The notorious Playboy Mansion is set to go on sale with an asking price of $US200m. It was learnt that the surrounding homes have an asking price of $60m-$90m but the asking price of  $200m was marked for the playboy mansion because of the acreage. According to TMZ, the 1927 Los Angeles residence of Hugh Hefner is set to be ...

An Bord Pleanála has refused permission for a development of 74 houses beside Adamstown in west Dublin after its inspector determined the estate would be too small for the site. Minister for Justice and local Fine Gael TD Frances Fitzgerald had appealed to the board not to approve the development proposed by Crekav Landbank Investments Limited, the company fronted by ...

The state government may take over the powering of street light contracts hitherto handled by contractors says commissioner for works in Akwa Ibom, Mr. Ephraim Inyang. Inyang said this would be done to ensure that Uyo, the state capital as well as other major towns across the state are properly lighted up at night for security reasons. Inyang, who spoke ...

Enforcement of compulsory materials testing is necessary to stop the incidence of building collapse in the country, the Managing Consultant, Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory (LSMTL), Abel Famakin, has said. Speaking at the Eighth Anniversary of LSMTL in Lagos,  Famakin said making materials testing mandatory for new buildings as well as soil test, would reduce incidences of collapse buildings in ...