The Chairman of a leading property development and management company, Urban Shelter Limited, Malam Ibrahim Aliyu, has said the potential for housing in Nigeria will not be realized until the current mortgage rate is brought down below 10 per cent Malam Aliyu stated this during a courtesy visit on the company in Abuja recently by officials of Media Trust Limited, ...

CHAIRMAN, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ibadan branch, Adedamola Falade-Fatila, has bemoaned the rate at which cases of building collapse are being witnessed in the country. Falade-Fatila expressed his displeasure while briefing journalists on the programme of activities lined up for the 2019 engineering week celebration of the society in Ibadan. He noted that reported cases of building collapse had ...

The real identity of the man electrocuted in Nasarawa has been revealed and the victim who was earlier reported to be a staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company AEDC is neither a staff nor affiliated with the Power company. Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC has brought to our attention inaccuracies surrounding an electrocution accident which happened in Nasarawa recently. ...

The national president of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), Akinola George, revealed this in Lagos on Monday, March 25 He said that this is majorly caused by half-baked development who often use faulty construction designs Akinola George, the national president of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) on Monday, March 25, urged the federal government to deal with the ...

Ahead of the World Bank’s opening session on Land and Poverty Conference 2019, it has been revealed that most women in the world are not able to proclaim equal land and property rights in spite legal protections. Members of a new global campaign warned formally before its launch on Monday that “women in half of the countries in the world ...

A defence witness, Ebenezer Ologuntoye in the ongoing trial of the Registered Trustees of Synagogue Church of All Nations, (SCOAN) and the two engineers that constructed the collapsed building that killed 116 people in Lagos has told a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere that the foundation of the collapsed building did not fail. Ologuntoye, a geotechnical expert also told ...

The Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) on Monday called on the Nigerian government to address the menace of building collapse and sub-standard construction across the country. Akinola George, National President of the guild, made this call at a press conference in Ikeja, Lagos State. The BCPG comprises professionals from seven bodies, including the Nigerian Institute of Architect (NIA), Nigerian Institute ...

Controversial OAP, Daddy Freeze has again descended on General Overseer of Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo after his Real Estate Project surfaced online. Information had earlier gone viral that the renowned pastor unveiled his Mega Real Estate Housing Project which he reportedly called “Canaan City” However, the Free The Sheeples founder who is not relenting in his fight against Nigerian pastors, ...

Former Commissioner for Housing in Lagos State, Hon. Bosun Jeje is confident that the incoming governor, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, would regenerate buildings in Lagos Island to curb the incessant menace of building collapse in the area. Jeje during an interactive session with journalist in Lagos at the weekend said indication towards that was Sanwo-Olu’s assurance when he visited the site ...

An Ilesa High Court in Osun again ordered the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) to restore electricity supply in Ijesaland, Osun State. Justice A. L. Adegoke, who gave the order on Monday, said that partial compliance with the order of the court would not be tolerated. It was reported that on March 18, the court ordered the IBEDC, to restore ...