Real Estate News

The Managing Director, Alpha Mead Facilities, Mr. Femi Akintunde, has said that the conventional building method will be inadequate to address the housing deficit in the country. According to him, innovative solutions that save costs and deliver quality housing of international standards is the way out. Akintunde spoke at the unveiling of the partnership between AM Facilities and Wall-Ties and ...

The Cement Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (CEMAN) has been called upon to work with its members and stop the illegal re-bagging of cement. The Building Collapse Prevention Guild, in a letter dated July 2, 2015 and signed by its President, Mr. Kunle Awobodu, urged CEMAN to hold regular forum for cement distributors and retailers, where the implications of re-bagging of ...

Good news it may finally seem for residence of Ikotun/Ejigbo/Cele in Alimosho local government. The Lagos State Public Works Corporation says construction will soon commence on the long stretch of road linking Ikotun-Ejigbo in Alimosho Local Government to Cele Express Bus Stop along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. The PUNCH had two weeks ago published a story on the deplorable state of ...

The Ogun State Property Investment Corporation has commenced the construction of a new estate at the OPIC estate, Isheri along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The new estate is called MTR Gardens and will consist of over 600 units of two and three-bedroom flats. According to a statement made available to punchng correspondent by OPIC, preliminary work on the site was completed ...

Enugu State govt. approves 10% equity contribution to alleviate workers’ housing needs Towards reducing the accommodation problem to some category of civil servants, the Enugu State Government on Thursday approved N35 million as its 10 per cent equity contribution for one-bed room apartments at the newly completed Elim Housing Estate at Ibagwa in Nike.. However, the Commissioner for Information, Dr. ...

Renewed Ebonyi, Abia boundary dispute – One person was shot dead and many injured in renewed clashes between Ishiagu community in Ivo local government area of Ebonyi state and Lokpanta community, Umunochi LGA of the neighboring Abia state over boundary dispute premiumtimesng reports Also one person identified as Chukwuma Akwa was declared missing. The renewed boundary dispute between the two ...

The controversy over the temporary relocation of an agency of Kwara State government to the temporary site of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN)  has been resolved by the state government and the University authorities, Abdulwahab Oba, the Chief Press Secretary to the Kwara Governor, has said. At a meeting with management of the University led by its Vice Chancellor, Prof. ...

Two years after a tribunal of inquiry into collapsed buildings in Lagos State was set up, the building collapse tribunal report has not been acted upon, while more defective buildings are going down, MAUREEN IHUA-MADUENYI writes A tribunal of inquiry into collapsed buildings was set up by the Lagos State Government on May 20, 2013 to determine the causes of ...

The Nigerian Institute of Building has said, there is a need to create more awareness about the National Vocational Qualification Framework, an initiative of the National Board for Technical Education that was approved by the Federal Executive Council for the qualification, management, administration and accreditation of builders. The NIOB in a statement signed by its national president, Mr. Tunde Lasabi, ...

UK fights foreign Dirty Money in Real estate, cites James Ibori as an example Declaring “there is no place for dirty money in Britain,” U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday he will take on those using shell companies to invest ill-gotten gains in London real estate. The U.K. government came under criticism this week after an official at the ...