One person has been confirmed dead while properties worth millions of Naira including houses have been destroyed by flood that ravaged some communities in Bauchi State following a torrential rainfall that lasted several hours on Monday to early Tuesday morning. The communities affected are Dindima village and Liman Katagum all in Bauchi Local Government Area which was submerged by the ...

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has re-echoed that there’s no land for Ruga settlement in the State, except land for only investment. Dickson stated this during the official launch of the New Yenagoa City within Yenagoa, the capital city, at the DSP Alamieseiyegha banquet hall, Government House, Yenagoa. Dickson started with the presentation of lands to the former Presidents ...

The FCT Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD) has engaged major property owners along Karu axis of the Nyanya- Karshi Road to maintain the road axis close to their properties. The Director, Environment Services Mr. Olusegun Olusa who met recently with these residents said the exercise was to help the government in ensuring proper sanitation on the roads. The Director  of ...

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has lauded the contributions of the former Inspector General of Police, Dr. Solomon Arase, to the success recorded in the fight against illegal Community Development Associations (CDAs) in the state. Obaseki who poured encomiums on Dr. Arase while receiving the former police chief’s resignation letter as Chairman of Edo State Private Property Protection ...

Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu Candido, chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), in this interview, spoke on why he insisted on the collection of tenement rate by the area council. He also explained why protests and agitations by the FCT natives are not what will get them a ministerial slot; among other issues. I think the priority areas may not be ...

Former Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Nduese Essien, yesterday, raised the alarm over the massive lay off of contractors and staff in the Niger Delta by oil-producing companies. The former member of the House of Representatives, who doubles as leader of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Elders’ Forum in Akwa Ibom State, lamented that the Federal Government was setting wrong priorities ...

Mr. Umar Gonto, Acting Managing Director, Federal Housing Authority (FHA), has solicited the assistance of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for road maintenance within the housing estates in the Federal Capital Territory. She quoted the FHA boss as making the appeal when he led a delegation of management staff of FHA to FERMA Headquarters on a courtesy visit on ...

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Monday ordered the arrest of any landlord whose house is used as hideouts by kidnappers. Abiodun also gave an order that the house used must be demolished, while the land must be confiscated. The governor said this while briefing newsmen on Monday after a security meeting held with the state Commissioner of Police, Bashir ...

An architectural expert, Mr. Samson Akinyosoye on Tuesday urged developers to adopt environmental-friendly housing designs that would stand the test of time. Akinyosoye, Secretary, Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), Lagos chapter made the call in an interview in Lagos. He said that there were also housing designs that do not cost much to construct. According to him, being conscious of ...

Abuja – President of the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Mr Ali Rabiu, says the council has been empowered to tackle building collapses in the country with its just amended laws. Rabiu said this in Abuja on Monday at a news conference organised by the council on its forthcoming 28th COREN Engineering Assembly scheduled for Aug. 19 ...