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A new statistics released last week by Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) shows that Nigeria ranks very low in road network and housing in the comity of nations. The Director General/CEO, Nigerian Building & Road Research Institute (NBRRI) Prof Danladi Matawal made this declaration during this year’s Public Lecture of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering which held at ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday officially commenced the construction of 100,000 mass housing units for workers across the country. According to the government, the houses will be for workers in all states of the federation, adding that it was collaborating with the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress on the project. President Goodluck Jonathan said this while performing ...

Distributors and developers have accused the management of Dangote Cement Plc of silently increasing the price of its product to N1,745 per a 50kg bag instead of the N1,000 that it announced early last month. Although the firm did not formally announce any increase in price, our correspondent gathered that it sent out text messages to its distributors on Monday, ...

Mrs. Olanike Olaribigbe, the owner of Felab Marine Venture, has been forced to vacate her house due to a debt she could not pay back, and she is pleading for help. The house, a four-bedroom building in the Mowe area of Ogun State, had been taken over by Olaribigbe’s creditors over a N12m debt. She has since taken solace in ...

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Monday opened the reconstructed Agodi Gardens, saying that it has the potential to generate over N500 million to the state government annually. The Gardens, now renamed “Agodi Resort and Conferences” is sited on 62 hectares of land in-between the State Government Secretariat and the popular Premier Hotel in the heart of Ibadan. Governor ...

The Federal Government, last weekend inaugurated the Technical Board, TB and Interim Management Board, IMT, of the Federal Housing Authority, FHA, with a charge to turn around the dwindling fortunes of the authority in the next 18 months. The Government said it is dissatisfied with the performance of the agency which has failed to fully achieve its mandate since inception ...

Ogun State government has distributed 5,000 Certificates of Occupancy (C-of-O) and other land title documents to property owners across the state, under its Homeowners’ Charter programme which is aimed at deepening the property market in the state. Governor Ibikunle Amosun said that government initiated the scheme to assist property owners in the state through the regularisation of title document and ...

Driven by a need to have befitting edifice that would among other things shore up its revenue base, the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), has shown stronger appetite for property acquisition and development and thus it has unveiled a six-storey complex that would serve as its Lagos Secretariat. The umbrella body of all legal practitioners in Nigeria has also commenced construction ...

A 27-year-old man, Michael Abodurin, has been stabbed to death by hoodlums called by his landlady, Mrs. Idowu Adenekan, in the Oworonsoki area of Lagos. According to PUNCH, the problem started after the deceased’s friend could not pay back the N200 he borrowed from the landlady last year. It was gathered that after it dawned on Adenekan that the debtor ...

The coroner probing the September 12 Synagogue building collapse, Magistrate O.A. Komolafe, has dismissed an application seeking a temporary suspension of the inquest. Komolafe, while dismissing the application on Wednesday, described it as an abuse of court processes. The Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, filed the application asking Komolafe to put on hold further ...