“In meeting with its office accommodation challenges, the authorities of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), have move to build an ultra modern administrative headquarters will be sited in Okwu, Umuoma – Nekede, Owerri North Local Council of Imo State. The Assistant Comptroller General of the service in Imo State, Alloy Uchenwa, who disclosed this during a courtesy visit by a ...

The Guardian reports that after a major agreement with Kaduna Government to promote mortgage penetration and home ownership recently, the Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Company (NMRC) has again entered into another deal with estate developers. The agreement with the Real Estate Development Association of Nigeria (REDAN) is meant to boost research, advocacy and housing finance in the housing sector. The deal ...

“Notwithstanding the negative growth recorded in 2016, the real estate sector is expected to grow at an average rate of 5.39 per cent between 2017-2020.” The Guardian The growth, experts said, would however depend on the supports from private and public investments, agricultural revolution, favourable oil prices, increase in volume of oil production and capable political leadership. This is the ...

The Federal Government says the country’s Constitution does not discriminate against women but also guarantees their rights to inherit property. The theme of the event, organised by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, was “Women’s Property Rights in Africa: Key to economic empowerment’’. PM News reports The Minister of State for Foreign ...

In an interview with Mr Lookman Oshodi of Arctic Infrastructure, we learned about how slums in Lagos state can be reduced and the different ways the Lagos state government can solve the housing deficit issue. Below is the interview by our correspondents- Esther and Lekan with the Project Director, Mr Oshodi. NREH: Good morning sir. First and foremost, we would ...

The Bermuda Triangle is a triangular region in the North Atlantic ocean that is somewhat bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.This article reveals 10 terrifying facts you never knew about the Bermuda Triangle The area that harbours the Bermuda triangle has been known to exude paranormal activity and is even feared by many people. Although many skeptics will chose ...

“The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has partnered the Federal Mortgage Bank on a N59.7 million social loan facility for the officers and men of the service. Making the disclosure yesterday, spokesman of the NIS, Mr. Sunday James, an Assistant Comptroller of Immigration (ACI) said the loan was part of efforts to enhance the welfare package of the workforce for improved ...

All over the world, people struggle for land. Many of them struggle with land conflicts and some of them struggle to solve them peacefully. This article aims to facilitate the understanding of people’s position, attitude and behaviour, as well as their underlying interests and motivation when an asset such as land ownership is at stake. From the ancient Greek myths ...

This Day reports that against the backdrop of incidents of collapsed building and other mishaps in recent times resulting from shoddy construction jobs by untrained artisans, gesellschaft für internationale zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and European Union (EU) have begun re-training of artisans in Plateau state, to adequately equipping them to deliver optimally on their jobs. Graduating the first batch of 160 trainees, ...

The Eagle Online reports that no Nigerian city was named in the top 100 Mercer’s 19th Quality of Living ranking released on Tuesday. However, Mauritius and South Africa made the top 100. While Port Louis in Mauritius was ranked 84th, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, all in South Africa, came in 87th, 94th and 96th. Nigeria, out of the 231 ...