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More details are emerging about the social protection programmes of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, including a scheme to grant soft loans to about one million artisans and market women in the proposed 2016 budget, Premium Times report. A senior federal government official who described the current controversy in the Senate regarding two versions of the proposed budget as a “distraction ...

No fewer than 80 students have been displaced from their boarding house accommodation at the Don Bosco Secondary School and Youth Centre, Obolo Obosi, near Onitsha following a fire incident. The Rector of the school, Charlse Uzoeto, who conducted journalists around the charred remains of the hostel on Sunday, said the fire broke out while the students and teachers were ...

As a way of increasing the number of artisans in the country, masons have been advised to teach their children the trade of bricklaying, block-laying and stone craft in order to avert a decline in the workforce. The President, Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), Mr. Kunle Awobodu, gave this advice at the Annual General Meeting of the Lagos State Bricklayers ...

Biodun Adedeji is the Managing Director of Ire Clay Products Limited. In this interview he highlights why despite the availability and relative affordability of clay products, they are still unpopular for building construction in the country. He says the government must reopen moribund manufacturing companies to create employment for the youth Read excerpts below: Despite the availability and relative affordability ...

The Government of Osun State again added another state of the art school to its growing list of modern schools as the state capital, Osogbo, went agog for the commissioning ceremony of the Anthony Udofia Government Elementary School in Osogbo. The newly commissioned complex has the capacity to seat 960-pupils with 24 classrooms of 40 pupils each, an ICT room, ...

Angelo Mastropietro spent £160,000 turning this 250-million-year-old cave into his dream house. From the outside this rocky dwelling looks pretty normal, but inside it has all the furnishings of a regular house. Angelo, 38, spent 1,000 back-breaking hours transforming the historic cave in Wyre Forest, Worcestershire. The real-life Fred Flintstone was living a high-flying life as the head of a ...

The federal government has approved a $200 million loan for Lagos State to enable the state finance its infrastructural projects. The loan will be sourced through a World Bank unit, International Development Association, IDA. Rising from the Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday, the minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the approval ...

Some applicants seeking loan from the Federal Government Staff Housing Loans Board have accused the board of fraudulent practices. The applicants made the accusation in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. Some of the applicants decried the lack of information on the status of their applications three to four years after fulfilling all ...

Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government is fully committed to addressing the nation’s housing deficits. The Vice President also reiterated that the Buhari-led administration would deliver other promises made to Nigerians during the electioneering campaigns last year. Vice President Osinbajo made the statement while performing the foundation laying ceremony of 2,000 ...

Mr. Osunremi Olukayode Sola, Manager of Prime Assets Cooperative Multipurpose Society who also doubles as a credit analyst for the cooperative society, enlightens us on what cooperative society is all about and shares 5 benefits of cooperative society in this interview with Elsie Godwin of Nigeria Real Estate Hub (NREH) “Cooperative Society is an institution where two or three people ...