Kaduna State government has asked the High Court sitting in Kaduna to dismiss the prayers and requests of Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi over the demolition of his house for lack of jurisdiction. Senator Hunkuyi, representing Kaduna North Senatorial District is demanding N10 billion from Mallam Nasir el-Rufai-led government as compensation for the illegal demolition of his house at No 11B Sambo ...

A court in Abuja has described the collection of tenement rate by the six area councils of the Federal Territorial Capital (FCT) from property owners as unconstitutional and has consequently barred them from further collecting the proper tax. Justice Valentine Ashi held that the collection of the property tax by the six councils was usurpation of functions donated to the ...

ACQUIRED LAND- Legal fire works are expected to start at the High Court of Ogun State sitting at Otta between the Alimi Ayinde Kasumu family of Lagos and Mikano International Limited, Chavnet Nigeria Limited, Ogun State government and three others over parcels of land situated and lying at Isheri, Ifo local council of Ogun state. Parties had resorted to trial ...

For sustainability of practice and enhancement of their relevance in the country, quantity surveyors have called for synergy among professionals in the built environment. Leading the call at a business Cocktail meeting organised by the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) in Lagos, the Vice president of the Institute, Mr. Olayemi Shonubi, who represented the ...

Properties worth millions of naira have been destroyed by rainstorm which wreaked havoc in Alifekede Community in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. Consumable goods like garri, yams, pineapples among others were lost to the rain which destroyed the foodstuffs while valuable property such as houses, electricity poles, and economic trees among others worth over N100 millions of ...

To ensure stability of buildings, engineers under the aegis of the Nigerian Institution of Structural Engineers (NIStructE) has called for a policy that will ensure that integrity tests are carried out on buildings above ten years. President of NIStructE, Edward Atumonyogo, told The Guardian shortly after the institution’s visit to Planet Project, the firm handling the construction of three terminals ...

We have heard a lot of proposals gone wrong. Some say it’s because both parties do not understand their stand with each other while some feel it’s simply because they haven’t proposed properly. We then decided to throw this question of proposing with a house key the air. Proposing with a house key is not new but we have never ...

The federal government has decided that it will no longer refund money spent by state governments on the construction of federal roads. The decision was said to have been taken late last year. The Niger State Commissioner for Works and Housing, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe, disclosed this while briefing journalists at the end of the state executive council meeting held at ...

A land speculator, Ibrahim Yusuf, on Friday appeared before a Kubwa Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, over alleged N710, 000 scam.‎ The defendant of Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja was docked on a charge of cheating, an offence he denied committing. Police prosecutor, Babajide Olanipekun, said that Sani Abubakar of Kubwa, Abuja, reported the case at Kubwa Police Station on April ...

Chairman of the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Jones Erhue has described the N521million allegedly spent on 40 rehabilitated roads during the first 100 days of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in office as a fraud, adding that the Okowa-led administration was not prepared for infrastructural development in the state, rather “it is all fraud and insensitivity to ...