Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State Wednesday said his administration had in the last seven years expended over N45 billion on tertiary institutions in the state. He made the disclosure in Ibadan during the inauguration of the newly-constructed Oba Akinbiyi Model School II, Mokola by his administration. It was gathered that the governor also inaugurated the constructed Efunsetan-New Garage road ...
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Ambode assures applicants housing schemes would be ready in six months
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Thursday assured that all housing schemes spread across the state would be ready for residents who applied under the Lagos Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme within the next six months. Ambode, who gave the assurance when he inspected the Igando Lagos HOMS project, said the 492 units scheme was in the final stages of ...
Read More »School of estate launches online courses
School of Estate, Nigeria’s leading real estate focused training institution launched its online platform yesterday 14th May 2019. The platform is poised to offer a unique user-centric approach that will guide real estate enthusiasts and practitioners at every level of experience through its continuously expanding real estate curriculums. The launch was well attended by top professionals and real estate industry ...
Read More »Twitter user shares story of Akara seller cum homeowner
A lady on twitter narrated how a widowed woman who sells beans bake (Akara), puff-puff, pap, and fried yam became a landlady who owns two 3-bedroom flats and still lives in a one-room (face-me-I-slap-you) apartment. The lady who is a banker said the woman’s husband passed away some years back and the woman could not provide for herself and her ...
Read More »SGF donates N.5m to Jigawa gateman house project
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha has donated N500,000 to a Jigawa gateman Malam Musa Usman, who rejected a house offer for a borehole to his community. Usman, who was working for an Indian national in Lagos, Mr. Varkey Verghese, who is also the Managing Director/CEO of Jawa Pharmaceutical, rejected an offer by his boss to ...
Read More »Obaseki awards contract for flood control in Benin GRA, others
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has awarded the contract for flood and erosion mitigation works in Upper Adesuwa Road and several adjoining streets in Government Reservation Area (GRA) in Benin City, the Edo State capital. The project is being implemented in conjunction with the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) and covers streets in the GRA axis of ...
Read More »Minister proposes replication of 6 medical warehouses
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has proposed a replication of standard medical warehouses in the six geopolitical zones as the ministry signed management contract with MDS Logistics Ltd. for two zonal Federal Medical Warehouses. Mrs. Boade Akinola, Director Media and Public Relations of the ministry, made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. The Federal ...
Read More »Lagos govt to demolish 69 houses within Ojodu-Berger community
The Lagos State Government has announced a plan to demolish no fewer than 69 buildings within Ojodu-Berger community in the state. The decision, according to the Commissioner of Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Rotimi Ogunleye, was purposely to facilitate the expansion of Kosoko Road into a dual carriageway. Ogunleye, while speaking on Tuesday, at a stakeholders’ meeting ...
Read More »FG moves to provide housing projects in 34 states, makes national ID criterion
As some government initiated housing projects across the country near completion, the federal government has said plans were afoot to roll out these facilities to eligible Nigerians, pointing out that the criterion for accessing those homes would be the national identity card. The project facilitated under the pilot national housing scheme with funding from federal mortgage bank of Nigeria (FMBN) ...
Read More »Dangote Refinery awards $368m worth of contracts to local contractors
Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical has so far awarded $368 million to 120 local contractors at the site as part of its contribution to Nigeria content development initiative. The Group Executive Director, Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Dangote Industries Limited, Mr. Devakumar Edwin, who made this disclosure during the tour of the Dangote Refinery by members of Nigerian Union of ...
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