Real Estate News

The Debo Adejana Real Estate seminar comes alive this month, and if you’ve never attended before, this is an opportunity of a lifetime to join the going train of real estate in Nigeria. This edition promises to be educative, impactful and insightful especially for landowners who are on the verge of starting construction work on that piece of land in ...

The overflowing population – more than some countries in Europe and Africa – makes Lagos the destination of choice for dreamers, entrepreneurs and investors from within Nigeria, Africa and around the world. It also makes it the most expensive city in the entire African continent for 2016, irrespective of drop in rents, according to real estate firm Savills. In a ...

The Federal Government, on Sunday, announced plans to shut indefinitely the collapsing Ijora-Apapa Bridge to traffic for palliative work to be carried out from today, saying the measure became necessary in order to save lives and property. The Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who made the remark at a stakeholders’ consultative meeting on the defective bridge ...

Sometimes in June, there were reports that circulated online accusing Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Tukur Buratai, and his two wives of jointly owning a second choice property in Dubai. Albeit, is there more to the reports than meets the eye? A legal practitioner and human rights activist, Ugochuk­wu Osuagwu, has said the accusations of impropriety leveled against the ...

The Kaduna State Government on Friday paid out over N80 million compensation for the expansion of Lokoja Road Primary School, Rigasa in Kaduna metropolis. Usman Hassan, the Commissioner of Works, Transport and Housing, who issued out the cheques to owners of properties around the school, said the expansion was necessary to provide more classes to the school. He noted that ...

While we still go headlong with the power situation in Nigeria, a village in Thailand have opted for an alternative but strange means of generating electricity. Nestled in a deep pocket of forest that lies off Thailand’s electrical grid, villagers in Pa Deng have become early adopters and evangelists for an unusual alternative energy source: poop. After successfully lighting up ...

The good book says, the Kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violent take it by force. Following the incessant attacks on some communities in Nigeria by ruthless gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, many of the communities have decided to defend themselves since the government has refused to come to their rescue. Albeit, things got ugly yesterday in Niger ...

Following the prediction by Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET, that high level of flood will occur in Lagos and other states this year, Head Operations and Logistics, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Mr. Femi Giwa, explains how Lagos will tackle the looming disaster, during a UNICEF organised workshop on emergency preparedness response forum in Ibadan as reported by VANGUARD There ...

The latest outbreak of violence between Share and Tsaragi communities in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State reportedly claimed the lives of five people on Tuesday, with the police arresting five people in connection with the incident. In a swift reaction to the outbreak of violence in the state, Kwara State government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the ...

As the clamp down continues on the atrocities of blood-thirsty militants that recently besieged some communities in Lagos and Ogun state, especially the riverine areas, Governor Ambode of Lagos State has come out to lend his voice to the unfolding drama. The treacherous hoodlums who usually leave trails of sorrow and sadness in their wake, might bitten more than they ...