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A professor of Housing and Urban Regeneration in the Department of Estate Management, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Timothy Nubi has canvassed for the enactment of a Nigerian Housing Act and active government participation in the building industry. Nubi who doubles as the Dean, Faculty of Environmental Sciences said during his inaugural lecture on the topic: Beyond Bricks and Mortar, that ...

A school, Abu Naima Primary and Secondary School, located in the Bukuru area of Jos, the Plateau state capital, collapsed on Sunday evening. The death death toll the collapse at the Abu Naima Primary and Secondary School in Jos, the Plateau state capital, has risen to 10. Twenty-four other pupils are said to be injured and admitted to the Plateau ...

Governor Aminu Tambuwal on Saturday visited some communities ravaged by flood in Tangaza and Gudu local government areas where he appealed to the Federal Government to come to the aid of the state in its plan to resettle some villages. The Governor, who visited Sakkwai and Kutufare villages in the affected local government areas, said the damage caused by flood ...

The Edo State Government has committed N200 million to the renovation of the dilapidated Ogida police barracks, as part of government’s efforts to boost the morale of policemen and their families resident in the barracks. The State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, announced the government’s plan at a reception organised for the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, in Benin City, to celebrate ...

The General Manager, Lagos State Public Works Corporation, Mr. Ayotunde Sodehinde, says the state government plans to rehabilitate more roads in the state. Sodehinde, who stated this during a tour of the ongoing Ikotun-Ejigbo Road project, said the state government had recently awarded the rehabilitation of a bad portion of Regina Mondi, in Mushin Oloosa, and had also directed that ...

The President of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP), Dr. Femi Olomola, has said that the draft of the Land Use Planning Report will soon be unveiled. Olomola said the document would be ready before the institute’s national conference and annual general meeting coming up in Ilorin in October. “Be rest assured that a draft of the LUPAR will ...

Quantity surveying professionals have said reduction in corrupt practices will help to improve project delivery in the country. The President, Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveying, Alhaji Murtala Aliu, said this was an important step in nation building. Aliu, who is also a former Minister of State for Power and Steel, spoke at the institute’s second research conference with the theme, ...

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Mr. Olatunji Odunlami, has said the Lagos State Government’s rent-to-own policy under the Homeownership Mortgage Scheme will soon commence “We are finalising the rent-to-own scheme; it takes some time for the government to bring out a policy or programme because it must be looked at critically,” Odunlami said at a meeting with allotees from ...

The Senior Magistrate Court sitting in minna has issued a bench warrant for the re-arrest of one Charles Chukwura Chairman of a Foreign Construction firm Italworks Nigeria Limited for jumping bail. The court had granted bail to the accused person about two weeks ago even when he did not appear before it on two occasions. Charles Chukwura guarantor a woman ...

Africa’s largest producer of the building material, Dangote Cement, has cut prices of cement in its home market, Nigeria. CEO of Dangote Cement, Onne van der Weijde, said in Lagos that the price cuts to its 3X cement brand by N6,000 ($30.23) per metric tonne, translating to N300 reduction per 50kg bag, and allows Dangote to still achieve strong returns. ...