Real Estate News

The widow of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca, has opposed an application by her husband’s son, seeking to be joined as a defendant in a suit she filed against the family over property. Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Jr., Ojukwu’s second child, filed the application dated May 24, before Justice Abdulfattah Lawal of the Lagos State High Court, ...

Lagos State Government has said the proposed medical park that will cost a consortium of investors from the United States of America, about N49 billion will be completed within the next 20 months in Ikoyi area of the state. The Special Adviser to the Lagos State governor on Overseas Affairs and Investment, Dr Ademola Abass, who disclosed this to journalists, ...

According to the president, to avert housing crisis by the year 2020, at least, 1 million houses must be built across the country yearly. Buhari stated this during the 35 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and International Symposium of Shelter Afrique held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja on Wednesday June 1, 2016 with the theme ‘Housing Africa’s Low Income Urban Population.’ The president, ...

Minister of Power , Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, Friday , said the contractors handling Federal Government roads across the country abandoned the roads because they were not paid by the previous administration in the last three years. Fashola who spoke at the commissioning ceremony of the 24 km Itori-Ibese concrete road constructed by AG-Dangote in Ewekoro local ...

Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) has commenced the construction of concrete roads in Lagos, Bauchi, Kogi and Kaduna States, beginning with the Itori-Ibese concrete road in Ogun State. The 24 kilometre Itori-Ibese concrete road, which construction was flagged off at the weekend, in Ogun, would be constructed by AG-Dangote Construction Limited, its joint venture company, with Andrade Gutierrez (AG), the leading ...

Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State on Sunday said the renovation of 4,000 primary schools across the state would gulp N60 billion. He made the disclosure at the 50th anniversary of Nuhu Baturen Makaranta Primary School at Anguwan Kahu, Samaru in Zaria-City, Kaduna State. He said government had so far spent N6 billion in renovating some selected 400 primary schools ...

Akin Opatola is the General Manager/Chief Operation Officer of Brokerfield real estate. In this Interview with NREH correspondent, Elsie Godwin, he shares analysis on how the Real Estate business has fared in the year 2016 based on his firm’s experience and from dealings on the Lagos Island. He said the government should focus on housing for low incomer earners. “2016 ...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has sworn in Abdulmumini Sadiq, as commissioner for Works, Land and Housing, among other commissioners into office. The ceremony took place at the Government House auditorium in Lokoja, the state capital. Mr. Bello announced that he had trimmed the number of ministries in the state from 20 to 15 to cut the cost of ...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh on Thursday said 11 states had provided 55,000 hectares to establish ranches to curb farmers and pastoralists clashes in their states. Mr. Ogbeh made this known at a news conference in Abuja. The minister said the states were Plateau, Kaduna, Kano, Gombe, Katsina, Taraba, Niger, Adamawa, Jigawa, Sokoto and the FCT. ...

The immediate past President of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors, Mr. Bern Akhigbe, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to carry surveyors along in establishing grazing reserves, which his administration is proposing to create across the country. According to a statement made available to punhng correspondent on Friday, Akhighe made the call in his speech at the 2016 Annual General Meeting ...