Real Estate

Edo State Government has commenced the issuance of computerised Certificates of Occupancy to landed property owners in the state. Speaking after signing the first batch of the new electronic Certificates of Occupancy, at the weekly Executive Council meeting, on Wednesday in Benin, Governor Godwin Obaseki, said the new recertification process would ensure ease of doing business in the state. Obaseki ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has approved the establishment of 30 road camps across the country along critical designated corridors. The Corps Marshal, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, disclosed this at the Fourth Quarter 2018 Strategy Session with 12 Zonal Commanding Officers and 37 Sector Commanders in Abuja on Tuesday. It was reported that the session was the last in the ...

The Federal Government has advocated need to fund the various road and housing projects in the South-South region outside annual budgetary provisions. Minister of State for Power, Works, and the Housing, Mr. Mustapha Shehuri, who said this during a three-day inspection tour of projects in the South-South region, yesterday, said there was a need for other sources of funding besides the ...

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has commissioned an ultra modern market for Livestock sellers in the state. Amosun, after the commissioning the handover ceremony of Itoko Livestock Market to Egbe Eleran Iso, in Itoko market, Abeokuta, said “our mothers must not be selling in the sun, but in a conducive environment for their trade.” The governor stated that the ...

The Enugu State Housing Development Corporation says it is on the verge of completing a world-class museum to be named after the first president of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe. The Managing Director of the corporation, Mr. Chukwuemelie Agu disclosed this on Wednesday in Enugu while speaking with journalists. Agu said that the museum that would be known as Zik Centre was ...

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, has called on members of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers to create data on unoccupied houses in the country. Fashola made the call in Abuja on Wednesday during a courtesy visit by a delegation from the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria, led by its Chairman, Nweke ...

Until recently the real estate sector was entirely a male-dominated sector. Though Nigerian women are gradually giving the men a run for their money, there is still so much to be done if women are to outsmart and outnumber the men. This article tells us why women are still not investing in real estate and why more Nigerian women should ...

Dutse, the Jigawa state capital has a population of 153,000 people according to 2006 Census, but despite the population size, the state capital is one of the cities in the country where tenants pay rents through the nose. Our reporter gathered that some of the factors contributing to the high rate of rent in Dutse, capital of Jigawa include shortage ...

This article gives us seven reasons why we should live some blocks away from our workplace. In view of this era of economic recession, it is expedient we find ways by which we can reduce the resultant effect of the economic downturn on our lives. One major reason that should override every other reason the average Nigerian should live close to ...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has initiated a process to improve funding to its contractors through commercial banks. At a stakeholders’ meeting on Tuesday, The Managing Director of FAAN, Mr. Saleh Dunoma, said the scope involved working with selected financial institutions to provide liquidity to the agency’s major contractors, through direct and contingent funding. Dunoma, who was represented ...