Depending on where you live in Nigeria, you may be subject to occasional bouts of heavy rain that could potentially damage or ruin your home if proper precautions aren’t taken. So learn how to prepare your home for the rainy season in order to keep your family safe and also save yourself some repair costs. Here are couple of areas ...

Every day in Nigeria, especially in the metropolitan city of Lagos, people troop out to hunt for a place to call home. You should count yourself among the fortunate ones if it takes you just a day to get a place of your choice. For most persons, it takes at least 2 weeks or more to finally find a place ...

The Real Estate sector has become lucrative and it is contributing in its own way to curbing unemployment in Nigeria. There are different levels of people involved in Real Estate business, but there is a particular set of people in the industry who are not without controversy, as regards who pays them or should pay them. These people are the ...

Chief Sam Maduka Onyishi, CEO of Peace Mass Transit on behalf of the transport company at a meeting with Simon Obi and Otuto Amarauche Chukwu both of Greenlight Initiative, decided to align and foster effective delivery of service. Greenlight Initiative is a non-profit organization focused on road safety and environmental preservation. Peace Mass Transit, on the other hand, started operations ...

The Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) has embarked on public sensitisation to inform residents that all buildings in the state must have valid building approval plan. Mr. Olalekan Shodehinde, the General Manager, LASBCA, made this known at a sensitisation through the Lagos metropolis of Yaba, Tejuosho and Oyingbo area of the state. Shodehinde said that almost all the structures ...

Majority of Nigerian tenants don’t believe the average Landlord can be nice and dandy or even have the tendency to be nice. This article talks about how landlords can go out of their way to be nice to their tenants. Honestly, I am tired of hearing tenants complain about their landlords. These days no one seems to have something good ...

Buying land in Nigeria isn’t a process that anyone should take with levity at all, lest they be burned. A great deal of investment, both financial and time, goes into buying land anywhere in Nigeria, hence the need to get it right. Although buying land is most times not as capital intensive as buying a house, the process involved however ...

Do not dabble into “timing” the market. From my wealth of experience in real estate investment, “timing” the market is too risky a venture for any real estate investor. To avoid this practice, you need to have a sound knowledge of the market that you are in, and you also need to know the stage at which the market is ...

Estate surveyors and valuers in the country have advised the Nigerian government to deploy part of the nation’s huge pension funds worth over eight trillion naira to the real estate sector as this will reduce the funding gap in the sector and assist even pensioners own their homes. The chairman estate surveyors and valuers registration board of Nigeria Nweke Umezuruike ...

Nigeria and China on Wednesday signed a $328m agreement for the Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Backbone Phase II (NICTIB II) project. The concessional loan agreement between Galaxy Backbone Limited and Huawei Technologies Limited (HUAWEI) was signed by Nigeria’s Minister of Finance Kemi Adesoun and Wang Xiaotoa, Director-General, International Development Agency, in the presence of President Muhammadu Buhari and President ...