South India – An explosion caused by fireworks during a religious festival at a temple in India, Sunday, leveled several buildings, killed about 106 people and hundreds more injured in the southern Indian state of Kerala according to reports. P. T. Chacko, a spokesman for Chief Minister Oommen Chandy of Kerala, said that the fireworks display had been forbidden by ...

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Land Transport, Gbenga Ashafa, has reacted to reports about the removal of the Lagos-Calabar rail project in the 2016 budget. According to Ashafa, the project was never included in the original budget presented to the senate by President Buhari but was however included in a supplementary budget brought to the Senate by the Minister of ...

The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers has called on the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Bello to revoke all landed properties allocated over a long period of time but are yet to be developed within the city centre. It condemned a situation where landed properties are left idle for years without developing them and described such as ...

The Lagos State Government says it plans to develop and encourage production of indigenous building materials to enhance housing delivery in the state. Mr. Moses Ogunleye, the Vice Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Housing, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos. Ogunleye said that the state would hold Lagos Housing Fair ...

Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday in Kano performed the foundation laying ceremony of 2,000 housing units projects initiated by the State government. The Vice President, Osinbajo also performed the foundation laying ceremony of the Integrated Skills Acquisition Center and 122 waste disposal tricycles near Amana City in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the State The vice president said at the event ...

The Dangote Group on Sunday started constructing a one billion dollars cement plant in Okpella, Edo State, to expand its cement production in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the six million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) Okpella plant and the upcoming six mmtpa plant in Itori, Ogun State, will increase the company’s local production capacity to 41 mmtpa ...

A former Inspector General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, last Thursday, failed to appear before Justice Baba Yusuf of the FCT High Court in Maitama for a property case with Kundu Nigeria Limited. The judge who awarded N25, 000 cost in favour of the plaintiff, held that Okiro’s lawyer had shown that he wanted to contest the case. The defence counsel ...

Check out photos of the newly constructed popular Ago Palace Way, Okota in Isolo Local Council Development Area. Governor Ambode had paid an unscheduled visit to the area in December 2015, where he expressed dismay at the state of this important link road vis a vis the slow pace of work and immediately mobilised and ordered the contractor to return to site ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Sunday dismissed reports that the National Assembly removed certain key infrastructural projects proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari from the 2016 budget. On Saturday, reports quoting anonymous presidency sources, said President Muhammadu Buhari proposed a N60 billion Lagos-Calabar rail project in the budget but was removed from the budget by the ...

I don’t think there is any living soul on earth that won’t love the idea of being a first time home buyer, neither are there persons who won’t want to own their own house. If there is, the person is probably not living. Nonetheless, as exciting as the feeling of buying a house/home is so is it easy to make ...