Chief Olabode Afolayan is the Chairman of Housing Developers Cooperative Society (HDCS) and past President, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN). In this interview he notes that the Housing sector has been identified as a sector that can create a lot of employment for the people and will help jump start the economy. Read excerpts below: Now that we ...

The Garden Tomb is believed by many to be the garden and sepulcher of Joseph of Arimathea and therefore a possible site of the resurrection of Jesus. The Garden is owned and administered by the Garden Tomb (Jerusalem) Association, a Christian non-denominational charitable trust based in the United Kingdom. Easter is only few days away, as Christians all over the ...

Towards easing transportation problems in the rural communities, Nasarawa State government has announced plans to construct a N500 million bridges and culverts across the state. Governor Tanko Al-makura disclosed after inspecting the Lafia-Ashinge-Fadama-Bauma road over the weekend. He said construction and reconstruction of roads across the state had been the centre focus of his administration, considering the plight faced by ...

It is quite usual to think of the wealth of nations or cities, as Adam Smith did. David Ricardo, in a letter to his fellow economist Thomas Robert Malthus, spoke of “the wealth and poverty of nations – the grandest of all questions in political economy”. Two centuries later, “national competitiveness” is seen as driving wealth creation for nations, regions ...

Residents of Lekki Gardens Estate located along Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos State have called on Governor Akinwunmi Amobode to have a rethink on his vacation order given to the residents of the estate. There appears to be no sign of any resident of the estate moving out as at the weekend. Following the collapse of a five-storey building belonging to Lekki ...

The national chairman of Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE) has called on the general public to tread with caution while acquiring properties by performing in-depth due diligence on the expertise of the developer as panacea for the menace of building collapse, particularly with reference to the Lekki Garden tragedy of the penultimate week. Robbie James Owivry, made the call ...

The federal government has called for a new template, which will ensure proper costing of projects and prudent management of available resources. Speaking at the 2016 National Project Cost Reduction Summit organised in Abuja, by the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria (QSRBN), the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, said the move has become inevitable ...

Tyga is in it again with yet another landlord. TMZ reports that the landlord of the space he rents for his clothing company, Egypt Last Kings Clothing, is furious after finding the place in a state of disrepair and has sued the 26-year old rapper for being a ‘nightmare tenant’. Tyga is said to have caused $75000 worth of damage ...

Micheal Jackson’s children £900 million inheritance could be drastically slashed. Big bills mean that Prince, 19, Paris, 17, and Blanket, 14, could see the money and their trust funds, which they reportedly have access to at 30, wiped out. Insiders have reportedly claimed tax authorities in America are chasing the late singer’s estate for £555 million, while the late singer ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday tasked the 22 states governed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to build 250,000 housing units per annum. This, he said, is to meet up with the election campaign promise of providing one million houses for Nigerians yearly. He spoke at the opening session of the two-day National Economic Council (NEC) Retreat on the economy ...