The Women wing of the Nasrul-lahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT) has urged the Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to provide affordable housing for Lagosians. According to NASFAT, the homes sold by Ambode’s predecessor were out of the reach of the poor. Speaking yesterday during a visit to The Nation as part of its activities for the 16th Women’s Week, NASFAT National Women ...
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Cement Company of Northern Nigeria Pays N260 m to Resettle 3 Communities in Sokoto
The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN), Sokoto state, has disclosed that it had paid N260 million as compensation to three communities that were relocated from the company’s quarry site, to Sabongida Alu community, to enable it carry out its excavation of limestone. The Managing Director of CCNN, Mr. Alf Karlsen, made the disclosure recently, while handing over facilities built ...
Read More »Who is to blame for this real estate scam?
Welcome to another edition of #ShelterMatters. We got a letter last week from a reader and we decided to share with you. Please read and give your candid opinion in the comment section below: My name is Akintunde Adejobi. After my secondary school education, I got the opportunity to travel to the United States of America to further my education ...
Read More »NIOB sets growth path for construction industry
Members of the Nigerian Institute of Building have called on the Federal Government to create an enabling environment for the building and construction industry to thrive in the country and for the economy to become prosperous. At the 45th Builders’ Conference and Annual General Meeting of the institute, which ended in Ibadan last Friday, the NIOB President, Mr. Tunde Lasabi, ...
Read More »CORBON endorses FUTA’s building technology department
The Federal University of Technology, Akure, says the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria has described its Department of Building Technology as world class in terms of its curriculum and configuration. FUTA said in a statement that the leader of the CORBON Accreditation Panel, Prof.KabirBala, stated this during a statutory visit to the Building Technology department of the institution recently. ...
Read More »Ebonyi State & German firm to plan Salt Lake City
The Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Dave Umahi, has directed the Ministry of Land to engage the German Environmental Sanitation Development Company in further discussions on modalities for the establishment of a new city to be known as Salt Lake City and the development of a piece of land belonging to the state government in Abuja. Governor Umahi gave the directive ...
Read More »‘Paw Paw’ Ventures into hospitality business, building in progress
Nollywood actor, Osita Iheme, is not an actor who lavishes his money on luxury things just like some of his counterparts. Not relenting in his efforts, the actor has revealed that he is currently making plans to join the league of hotel owners in the country as the building is in progress. He shared the above picture of the structure ...
Read More »REDAN’s weak interface, a bane of housing development in FCT
Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), FCT Chapter, has attributed its weak interface with relevant statutory agencies of government as the bane of housing development in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The association also identified the lack of finance, access to land, delay in approval processing, overlapping layouts, conflicting land use, lack of infrastructural provision by government, failure in ...
Read More »“I feel comfortable doing real estate businesses in Dubai than in Nigeria” – Mariam Chindo Mohammed
You won’t be wrong if you describe her as smart, sassy and street wise with a knack for leaving her imprints in the various areas of business she is involved in. Not contented with seeing the sky as her limit, CEO, Saturns gates Real Estates, Mariam Chindo Mohammed sees the sky as her stepping stone. she noted that she feels ...
Read More »Former AGF, Aondoakaa loses bid to claim N50m Abuja property
A former Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Michael Aondoakaa, on Monday lost the bid to claim a N50 million property at the Abuja Prince and Princess Estate. Mr. Aondoakaa, and his brother, Ordoo Aondoakaa, were locked in a legal tussle with an Abuja-based business man, Friday Audu, over the ownership of a two-bedroom house in the estate. Claiming to ...
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