The Osun State Government has blasted the former Deputy Governor of the state, Senator Iyiola Omisore, over his comment on the 2.8 km road in Osogbo, describing him as a liar and unfit to govern the state. It said Omisore should apologise to the people of the state, “for lying on the funding of the recently commissioned Workers Drive Road ...

Kogi State Government says it is in partnership with Julius Berger Nigeria PLC to construct 10 key roads across the three Senatorial districts of the state for infrastructure development of the state. Mr Abdulmumuni Sadiq, Commissioner for Works, disclosed this on Monday in Lokoja while addressing journalists at the end of a Reconnaissance Survey of the roads by a team ...

The Lagos State government yesterday approved payment of over N1.4 billion as compensation for affected property owners on the alignment/right of way for construction and re-construction of dilapidated roads, flyover and ramps aimed at alleviating traffic gridlock in parts of the metropolis. The approval, the state said, was to improve the economic lives of affected property owners. Appreciating the gesture, the ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has called on Nigerians to be patient with contractors handling federal road projects over inconveniences caused by the on-going projects. Fashola made the appeal in Kano on Sunday while he was inspecting Federal Government road projects in Kano State. The projects inspected by the minister were the expansion of Kano-Katsina ...

The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, Lagos State Branch, has intensified moves to end quackery in the real estate profession. One of the recent moves was the launch of a website where all accredited estate surveyors and valuers would have their profiles and products displayed. During the unveiling of the website at a business luncheon in Lagos, the ...

Since the Lagos State House of Assembly passed the new Land Use Charge bill on the 29th January 2018 and the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode signed the bill into law on the 8th February, 2018, the law has received varied opinions from the populace. We have received several calls from stakeholders as custodians of physical assets and managers ...

LAND USE CHARGE AMENDMENT LAW (LUC) Written by Olayinka Alao Introduction The Lagos State Land Use Charge is a consolidation of all property and land based rates and charges erstwhile payable under land rates, neighborhood improvement charge and tenement rates laws of Lagos State. The Land Use Charge (LUC) as the name implies is a novel imposition on the owner ...

Faced with criticism on its decision to out rightly sell off some legacy projects to finance the 2018 budget, the Kogi State Government has proposed backtrack on the controversial policy. The controversy was stoked by the State’s Commissioner of Finance Asiwaju Idris during his budget defense for the ministry, where he revealed government’s plan to sell off some of the ...

Fresh moves are being made by the Lagos authorities to restore sanity to the built environment and further curb cases of building collapse and its attendant loss of lives and property  by giving defaulters grace of 6 months before penal fee is charged. Under the new initiative supervised by the Lagos State Building Control Agency, (LASBCA), the agency is carrying ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday commissioned the Mararaban Jamaa road renamed after him, following his arrival in Jos on a two-day working visit to Plateau State. The visit is in continuation of a tour of states ravaged by communal strife, mostly between herders and farming communities. He kicked off the tour on Tuesday in Taraba and is scheduled to also ...