Real Estate

Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said that every citizen of Kaduna State is entitled to a house but Government cannot provide for everyone. They would provide opportunity for people to borrow and buy a house. The Governor who made this known while presenting 24 Jeeps to High Court Judges, as part of efforts to enhance the welfare of judicial officers in ...

Residents of Bariga Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in the eastern part of Lagos State have reaped what could be termed “bountiful dividends” of local government autonomy entrenched in the State. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was in the area on Friday to inaugurate 11 road network recently completed by the council chairman, Hon. Alabi Kolade. Governor Sanwo-Olu’s intervention accelerated the completion ...

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has disclosed that the Calabar-Itu road will be funded from the Sukuk bond later this year. Fashola, who made the disclosure at Ugep, Cross River State while on tour of federal projects in Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, said President Muhammadu Buhari was committed to providing quality infrastructure and diversifying the ...

According to the provision of section 4 (1) (e) of the FCT Act, the FCDA is charged with the responsibility of the coordination of the activities of all ministries, departments, and agencies of the Government of the Federation within the Federal Capital Territory. This provision provides the window for the requests by Federal Ministries, Agencies and Departments, including foreign organizations, ...

The Presidency has said the sale of over 1,094 housing units completed by the Ministry of Works and Housing in the Federal Capital Territory and 34 states across the Federation would commence soon. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement today. He, however, did not specify the 34 states ...

The Borno Government on Wednesday says it has commenced construction of 1,000 houses in Monguno to resettle persons displaced by Boko Haram insurgency. Malam Isa Gusau, the Special Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy to Gov. Babagana Zulum, said this in a statement in Maiduguri. Gusau said that Zulum had inaugurated the housing estate project on Monday as part of ...

Some stakeholders, on Wednesday, have called for the review of the operations of the National Housing Fund Scheme in order to meet with the housing challenges of civil servants.  The Nigeria News Agency reports that the scheme was established in 1992 to enable Nigerians in all sectors of the economy to own their homes. Also, Minister solicits more FG empowerment ...

Verraki Partners, a business solutions company, has called on the federal and state governments, working in partnership with private sector stakeholders to replicate the Lekki Corridor also known as ‘New Lagos’ across other parts of Nigeria. With deliberate government policies to attract private capital leading to huge construction projects and fast-developing real estate market, the Lekki Corridor is believed to ...

The foresight of the founders of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme for establishing a platform that gives youths across the country opportunity to contribute to nation-building has been praised and commended.  The commendation was made by the Governor of Gombe state, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya while at the Gombe State House of Assembly Complex for the unveiling of a ...

Kano state government has expressed readiness to key into the National Housing Scheme to provide an affordable home to civil servants in the state. Commissioner for housing and transport, Abdullahi Musa Lawan spoke about the scheme at the weekend when he received the management of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) in Kano. Lawan, who reeled out the Kano state ...