Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday, inaugurated a 650 affordable housing units comprising 192 one-bedroom, 230 two-bedroom semi-detached terrace and 228 three-bedroom bungalows near Asaba. The VP accompanied by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa had earlier visited the Asagba of Asaba, Prof. Chicken Edozie. READ ALSO: Estate developer boosts sector with N3.8b The Pacific Tower in Lagos He arrived at the Housing ...

Volunteers on Sunday flagged off a campaign to clean up Somolu community in Lagos State. The initiative is designed to sensitise residents of Nigeria’s dirty commercial capital on the importance of environmental hygiene, according to the organisers. The campaign tagged “Cleanup Somolu’’ was facilitated by the Environmental Lagos Platform in partnership with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority and the ...

The Special Presidential ‎Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property has seized some properties belonging to Delta-North Senator, Peter Nwaoboshi, in Lagos and Delta states. Okoi Obono-Obla, the chairman of the panel, said this on Sunday, while sharing journalists, some 12 pictures he captioned as “Sealing up of Senator Peter Nwaoboshi’s suspicious assets carried out by operatives of SPIP ...

The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, has said that more than nine million Nigerians lacked affordable housing. The branch Manager, FMBN, Enugu, Mr. Emeka Aroh, made the disclosure on Friday in Enugu at a one-day seminar organised by a private company, Light Hill Housing Cooperative for multipurpose cooperative societies in the South-East. Aroh said that for Nigerians to have ...

The Ondo State Government said on Friday that it was set to boost agriculture in the state with the procurement of no fewer than 20 tractors before end of August. Mr. Adegboyega Adefarati, Commissioner for Agriculture, made this known during the distribution of 170,000 free cocoa seedlings to farmers in Owo and Ose Local Government Areas of the state. “Today, ...

Kaduna State Government says it will collaborate with the Federal Mortgage Bank(FMB) in providing affordable housing to residents of the State. The Deputy Governor of the State Dr. Hadiza Balarabe stated this while receiving officials of Federal Mortgage Bank lead by the Managing Director, Ahmed Dangiwa who paid a courtesy visit to the State Government House. She commended the bank ...

Governor Emeka Ihedioha has flagged-off the Ezemazu Urualla gully erosion control project at Urualla in Ideato North local government council of Imo state. The project which costs over N9billion is supervised by Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), while construction company, Arab Contractors will handle the project. Speaking at the ceremony, the governor said that his administration had paid ...

Residents of Laderin and other villages along the Lagos-Ibadan rail line staged a protest in Abeokuta on Thursday against the contractor handling the project, CCECC. The protesters, led by the Chairman, Abule-Ake Community Development Association, Alhaji Farouk Akintunde, staged a demonstration at the Ogun State House of Assembly. Speaking on behalf of the villagers, Akintunde lamented the failure of the ...

The State High Court, Ilorin, on Friday ordered the remand of a legal practitioner Akeem Jimoh, for alleged land fraud. The presiding Judge Mahmud Abdulgafar, gave the ruling when the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Sessan Ola, overruled the oral application for bail made by the defence counsel V. O Aluko. Abdulgafar ordered the defendant to be remanded in the custody of ...

Governor Bala Mohammed today inaugurated the committee set up to recover government properties and looted funds by the previous administration in the state. At the inauguration ceremony held at Banquet Hall, Government House Bauchi, the Governor said the setting up of the committee became necessary as the state had received over 2 trillion naira from May 2007 to May 2019 ...