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 ...

According to Business Day, Nigeria has led advocacy campaign for the promotion of women’s property rights in Africa, saying it is a panacea to achieving women economic empowerment in the continent. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, hosted Africa’s women parliamentarians at a side event at the ongoing UN Commission on the ...

“The Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) has identified land issues and lack of finance as major hindrance to achieving housing for all in the country.”- Business Day Ugochukwu Chime, the President of the association, made the observation on Wednesday at the Building Expo and intensive workshop for real estate developers in Abuja. Chime regretted that there was no ...

The real estate industry has increasingly become relevant to our economy. However in recent times, the prices of real estate goods and services have risen rapidly with home prices increasing sharply in comparison to prices of goods and services in other industries. At the same time, housing demand has posed economic and social challenges, arousing continental and universal concerns. This ...

News according to Business Day has it that Kano State Government said it was on course to deliver 2,000 houses currently under construction for low income earners in the state. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje made the commitment in a message to the opening of the 96th Council Meeting of the Association of Housing Corporations of Nigeria held in Kano on Tuesday. Represented by his ...

“Access Bank Plc has sued the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, for allegedly allocating a piece of land belonging to it to a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Ishaya Ibrahim (retd.). The contentious land is located at No. 7 Ojora Street, Ikoyi, Lagos. The bank, in a suit marked, LD/3767/LWM/2016, claimed that though the land belonged to ...

“A 46-year-old landlord of a house on Hassan Close, Itoki, Ogun State, Omotayo Sanda, has been beaten to death by his neighbour’s son, Joseph Isiwele.”- Punch reports Twenty-six-year-old Joseph reportedly rained blows on Omotayo and fled the area after the landlord fell and died. PUNCH Metro learnt that Joseph’s elder brother, Michael Isiwele, had packed some sand from a pit ...

The formation of slums in any rapidly urbanizing city is inevitable, just like it’s being witnessed in Lagos state. However the population of slum dwellers can be brought to its barest minimum if the rights steps are taking in the appropriate direction. This article talks about the link between Urbanization and slum formation. There has been evidence of large slum ...

“A renowned environmentalist, Mr. Desmond Majekodunmi has lauded the Lagos State government for signing a new environmental bill into law. Majekodunmi, who praised Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s vision of ensuring that Lagosians have a right to clean, safe and healthy environment, said the new law would consolidate what the state government started a few years ago aimed at putting the state ...

Nigerian tribune reports that at the commemoration of the 2017 International Women Day (IWD) across the globe last week, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), Oxfam Nigeria, while appraising the poverty index of women in Nigeria, re-emphasised its earlier position that women’s deprivation of access to land has a significant contribution to their poverty level. Citing the United Nations (UN) Report ...