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In addition to its infrastructure upgrade and environmental transformation, the Lagos State government is using its pace-setting home ownership mortgage scheme—the LagosHOMS—to drive urban regeneration that would ultimately dovetail into its dream mega city status. This regeneration which has already seen some footprints in some parts of the state, particularly Ikeja and Lagos Island, involves the demolition of obsolete housing ...

A Utah County woman has changed her plea to guilty in a real estate fraud case in which she was accused of using straw buyers and inflated appraisals to obtain loans to purchase houses that were sometimes a $1 million in excess of the actual selling price. Portia Louder, 43, Highland, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of ...

Last Month, UAE’s Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced Dubai’s newest mega-project, the Mall of the World, located along Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai. Occupying a total area of 48 million sq. ft., the project will include the largest indoor theme park in the world, which will be ...

It is no longer news that the deadly and dreaded Ebola virus has been spotted in the nation, already killing its Liberian harbinger, Patrick Sawyer and the Matron who treated him in a Lagos Hospital. There is considerable panic among Lagosians especially as everyone is beginning to take extra precautions in their hygiene and in their inter-personal relationship with people, ...

While it appears to be a laudable project, it does not bode well with some residents of Abuja, the nation’s capital city. It is a case of mixed feelings for some Abuja residents over the plan by the Federal Capital Territory Administration to commence the construction of the Phase two of the Ultra-modern Jabi Lake Resort this year. The project, ...

Eight months ago, during the launch of the Nigeria Mortgage Refinancing Company, NMRC, the President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan promised to provide affordable housing to the millions of homeless Nigerians by the end of the second quarter of the year. This pledge was made good last week when the government launched the first 10,000 mortgages for  the presidential Initiative on ...

We work so hard to put up structures in real estate; residential, commercial, recreational etc for so many reasons, but in recent years, and more recently since the beginning of this year, a terror group has unleashed untold destruction of lives and properties in such wanton manner that begs our humanity upon our nation. No doubt, security is on the ...

It’s no secret that Nigeria has over 160 million people,and Lagos is teeming with the majority of them. To of course cater for these enormous population is no small feat. Housing is one of the major malaise within the State as many have no roofs over their heads or are living in less than suitable environments. The decision therefore, to keep ...

How to Successfully Change Careers How does it happen? Perhaps you just begin to lose interest. Perhaps you find something that interests you more. Perhaps your company is downsizing. These are just some of the numerous reasons people find themselves on that precipitous cliff looking back on their career just as the dirt begins to crumble beneath them. Credits:www.mscareergirl.com Are ...

So the recent Lagos International Trade Fair held from the 2nd to 11th of November 2012. Okay we are reviewing it as we saw it and heard people talk about it especially at the fair. Because lets face it, at the end its supposed to be a fair of the people, by the people and for the people. Jokes aside, ...