Real Estate

The Edo State Government has cautioned real estate developers in the state over the antics of individuals and groups who impersonate government officials to defraud developers, adding that state officials would not demand and collect cash on construction sites. In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Erimona Edorodion, the government warned that impostors ...

A Professor of Architecture, Adedeji Daramola, has suggested the use of locally-made Stabilised Earth Bricks (SED) by the building construction to ensure durability of structures in the society. Daramola, also the Rector of Redeemers’ College of Technology and Management (RECTEM) in Mowe, Ogun, described the stabilised earth bricks as a mixture of laterite or natural soil with some little quantity ...

The government of Nigeria has begun rehabilitation, reconstruction, and expansion work on the Agbara-Seme Border section of Lagos-Badagry Expressway. Director Highways, South West, Mr. Funsho Adebiyi confirmed the reports and said that the government will be reconstructing, rehabilitating, and expanding various sections of the highway and that the work was from Agbara to Badagry border post while Badagry to Seme ...

The minister of power, works and housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has said that the federal government has issued a five-year notice for public buildings to construct ramps and lifts to protect the physically-challenged in the country. Fashola made the disclosure in Abuja during the unveiling of National Infrastructure Maintenance Framework (NIMF), Leadership reports. It was gathered that the minister said ...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by Adhyay Foundation based in India and a Nigerian company, Fasbir Construction Limited, to build a kidney and other related ailments treatment hospital in Dass, headquarters of Dass local government area of Bauchi state. The disclosure was made in Bauchi state by the chairman of Adhyay Foundation, Samer Khan. Khan was in ...

The National Housing Programme North Central, Zonal Director, Mr. Valentine Nwaimo, on Sunday said the 536 housing units being constructed in the zone under the National Housing Programme are ready for inauguration and allocation. Mr Nwaimo, who disclosed this in an interview session, in Abuja, on Sunday, said the 536 houses being constructed in the six states of the zone ...

Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers ( NIESV) has faulted the current asset declaration procedure where a public officer on his own lists his assets and fixes values of his choice to the assets being declared, saying that it was counterproductive and negates the rules of checks and balance Briefing newsmen in Asaba, Delta State, President and Chairman, National ...

The Lagos State Government has asked property owners within Federal Government acquisitions to obtain valid development permit to prevent their buildings from being sealed or demolished. The General Manager, Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority, Mr. Funmi Osifuye, said the validation was necessary to prevent disruption or demolition by LASPPPA due to lack of building plan approval. Osifuye said the ...

Suspected arsonists on Sunday night set five houses on fire at Igangan in Atakumosa East Local Government Area of Osun State. Newsmen reports that the hoodlums who attacked the community at about 8.pm also destroyed property worth millions of naira. The assailants were also said to have shot one Miss Rukayat Balogun at Iwara in the early hours of Saturday. ...

Lagos – Following a partially collapsed section of a building under construction located within the University of Lagos (Unilag), Akoka campus last week, the Architect Registration Council (ARCON) visited the site seeking for a full investigation. The visit was to get first-hand information on the incident. The varsity’s on-going building project that experienced the partial collapse is a seven-storey project, ...