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The Taraba Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Media Network on Wednesday urged the state government to expand the pipelines in Gembu town to accommodate the growing population due to the planned commencement of the Mambilla power project. Chairman of the WASH media network, Alhaji Sadiq Adamu made the call at the quarterly review meeting of the network in Jalingo. Adamu ...

The federal government will spend the N150 billion Sukuk bonds being issued by the Debt Management Office (DMO) in financing 44 ongoing highway projects across the country. Minister of State for Works and Housing Engr Abubakar D. Aliyu disclosed this on Thursday at the summit on National Policy and Development in Abuja. He said due to paucity of funds, the ...

The discussion for affordable housing will continue to occupy the centre stage so long as available houses continue to remain unaffordable, while housing demand and deficit are constantly rising. The projection of IPA could not have been more accurate when it foretold the ultimate population of Abuja City to be 3.1 million, and the entire territory with the regional areas ...

The Federal Government has completed 2,500 housing units in 34 states, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said. Fashola, who disclosed this at the National Policy on Development summit in Abuja, also stated that the government was currently working on 500 roads and bridges across the country. He further noted that as part of efforts to bridge ...

LAGOS – Professionals in the real estate sector have urged both the federal and state governments to find lasting solutions to some of the challenges affecting the sector.  The practitioners who spoke at the just-concluded fourth edition of the Real Estate Outlook Conference themed ‘Repositioning Nigeria’s Real Estate Industry for a new decade’ outlined the challenges to include: inadequate appropriation of ...

The police have arraigned a 30-year-old woman, Kudirat Balogun, before Tinubu Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stabbing a tenant living in her father’s property with a broken bottle. Balogun, who resides at Iduwo Eletu Street, Awoyaya, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos, has been charged with two counts of conspiracy and attempted murder. The prosecution counsel, ASP Ben Ekundayo, told the court that the ...

Counsel to the Kwara State Government and Asa Investment Ltd yesterday narrated why out-of-court settlement on the disputed property collapsed. Following the discussions on the resolution of the disputed land on which the Ile Arugbo was built, Justice Abiodun Adebara of a Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, has fixed March 25 for the hearing of the suit challenging the ...

The Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University Kano, Muhammad Yahuza Bello with the school management staff, students and members of the school community have lauded the federal government on the rehabilitation of internal school road projects within the school premises. The school management expressed their appreciation to the minister of Works and Housing during an award ceremony to him while thanking him ...

Motorists and commuters on Sunday lamented the hardship they faced on the Long Bridge and the Kara end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway despite the reopening of a lane of the road after two months of reconstruction. Newsmen had reported that the Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr. Adedamola Kuti, had said that the Berger/Kara section of the road would be ...

Subscribers of the Nationwide Workers’ Housing Scheme have called on the Federal Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to stop Goodhomes developer from alleged selling of civil servant’s land in Apo-Tafyi. Chief Emeka Anuna, Chairman of the Concerned Subscribers, made the call at a joint news conference with NLC on Monday in Abuja. Anuna expressed concern that the project ...