The Federal Government has said it will continue to encourage the organized private sector and development partners in Nigeria and abroad to invest in the country’s national housing market in view of its viable and enormous potential. The Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Suleiman Zarma said this at the 2nd Real Estate Development Association of Nigeria ...

Just when its metamorphosis from being Ibadan’s ritual killers’ den to possessing imposing educational infrastructures was being celebrated, Soka area of Ibadan has again hit the spotlight over a raging land ownership dispute threatening peaceful coexistence in the area. In the past two weeks, the dispute has gravitated to the destruction of structures, marking of houses for demolition, locking up ...

Youths in Bayan Dutse Area of Nairayi in Kaduna State, on Thursday, burnt down a police station and a church. The rampaging youths were said to have razed a Narayi parish of Celestial Church of Chrish, over the death of a youth in the area, who was working for the church when he died. Youths suspecting foul play, stormed the ...

Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi says his administration has completed no fewer than 500km of roads across the 13 local governments in the state. Umahi also said that his administration had reconstructed over 100km of federal roads within the 13 local governments. The governor made the disclosure on Thursday during Ebonyi Special Day at the on-going 29th Enugu International Trade ...

The Federal Government says it is focusing on critical infrastructure and housing mandate that will enhance the socio-economic development of the country. The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said this during the inspection of phase one project of National Housing Programme (NHP) of 72 flats in Gwagwalada Area Council on Thursday Fashola noted that the Federal ...

The managing director/chief executive of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa has called on Primary Mortgage Banks (PMBs) to harmonise their interest rates in order to conform to the laid down uniform underwriting standards. He also enjoined PMBs to spread their branches to cover the entire country for easy access of mortgages by Nigerians. He stated ...

The Oyo State government has paid compensations to about 77 Land owners who acquired the site recently for mass production of cassava in Otu near Iseyin. Mr. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu, the State Commissioner for Lands, Housing, and Survey, presented the cheques to the beneficiaries at a brief ceremony in Otu, Itesiwaju Local Government Area of the state last week. The ...

The Ogun State Government says to a large extent, it has resolved the issue of unemployment in the state by creating over 500,000 jobs within the past seven years. The Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, stated this during the state’s Investors Forum in Abeokuta, the capital on Tuesday while listing his administration’s achievements so far. “I am sure since we have been ...

The Police Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on Thursday arrested an electricity cable thief at Sangotedo Housing Scheme under construction by the Lagos State Government. Policemen guarding the site told the Commissioner for Housing, Mr Gbolahan Lawal, during his inspection visit to the project that the suspect, an employee on site, was rescued from being lynched. “We got information that the ...

The Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has expressed fears that the late passage of the 2018 budget by the House of Assembly could affect the road construction components of the fiscal law. Speaking in Minna on Wednesday after assenting to the Appropriation Bill passed by the House of Assembly last Thursday, the governor said: “We have lost almost ...