The Kano State Fire Service announced on Wednesday that a fire outbreak has gutted a residential building on New Road at Sabon Gari in Kano State. The spokesman of the service, Alhaji Saidu Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano that the fire broke out late on Tuesday. “We received a distress call from one Malam Jamilu Yusuf ...

NIGERIAN ROADS – Fresh facts have emerged that about 5,000 people died last year in Lagos State. Speaking at a one-day Interfaith Safety Seminar held Vehicle Inspection Service (VIS) Arcade in Lagos, the state Governor Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu appealed to Religious Leaders to enlighten members of their Churches and Mosques on need to check their vehicles at regular intervals and ...

Owing to other factors not limited to prolonged economic hardship and low purchasing power, landlords and tenants have been caught in the web of race for smaller apartments. Dayo Ayeyemi reports There is a shift in the demand for accommodation in the real estate market as many landlords are converting their three and four bedroom apartments to one room, room ...

A non-governmental organisation, Spaces for Change, has asked the Lagos State Government to publish the report of the committee set up to investigate the Ita-Faaji building collapse. The group, otherwise known as S4C, said the five-man panel of enquiry set up in March 2019 to investigate the cause of the Ita-Faji building collapse and proffer remedial measures to prevent similar ...

Lagos High Court sitting at Ikeja, will on July 8 hear a suit filed against Lagos State Government by Akinlowo Olaife family in Shasha area of Lagos for allegedly taking over their ancestral land without compensation and for overriding public interest as required by law. In the suit before Justice O.A Ogala, six members of the family namely Chief Tajudeen ...

LAGOS PROPERTY – The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu I, has asked the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to influence the return of all property belonging to the state, which was forcefully taken over by the Federal Government. In a statement, the monarch urged Gbajabiamila to use his position in the national leadership hierarchy to help ...

A woman simply identified as Carol and her daughter, Favour has been reported dead with three others seriously injured as fire on Saturday razed down building in Eku Community, Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State. Property including a commercial shop in the building and a caravan within the area were also engulfed by the inferno. Details as to the ...

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) has been dragged before a Federal High Court, Abuja for allegedly taken over a multi-million naira property belonging to a private investor. The investor, D. B Mangal Ltd is praying the court for an order stopping the panel from sealing off its property and forcefully ejecting, harassing and intimidating ...

Ekiti State Commissioner for Natural Resources, Gbenga Agbeyo, said on Monday that the state government had impounded 497 illegal planks and 16 logs of Teak billets allegedly evacuated illegitimately from forests in the state. Agbeyo assured that the perpetrators, who escaped on sighting his vehicles, would be fished out and sanctioned accordingly. The commissioner said that the planks and logs ...

Julius Berger Nigeria Plc on Thursday announced that it made a profit of N6.1bn in 2018, up from the N2.5bn recorded in the preceding year. It disclosed the 142.37 per cent rise in profit in its 2018 annual report, which was presented at the 49th Annual General Meeting of the construction giant in Abuja. The company said its group revenue ...