Real Estate

The FCTA has approved the extension of the period for payment of arrears of ground rents and sundry bills to August 9, 2018. This is to afford property owners in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) that have not cleared them to effect payment. The FCT Director of the Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS), Dr. Isa Jalo said this while inspecting ...

For residents of Agbashi Community, Headquarter of Ekye Development Area of Doma Local Government in Nasarawa State said the only access road connecting villages and hamlets under the community is a source of nightmare. For years, they have cried out and made persistent pleas to the government to construct the 30-kilometer road, What they have however got in return was ...

Gombe State Governor, Dr. Ibrahim Dankwambo Friday, July 6, 2018, commissioned some projects executed by his Delta State counterpart, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, using the exercise to urge northerners living in the state to obey the culture and norms of the people. Dankwambo who commissioned Abavo Circular Road, Abavo phase 1 with a spur to Ogbekile Street in Ika South ...

In a bid to attain an open defecation free Nigeria, UNICEF engaged the services of SMEDAN in the construction of toilets to millions of homes across the country. MBAKAAN KWEN (Abuja) writes on the journey so far. Open defecation is the human practice of defecating in the open environment rather than into a toilet. People may choose fields, bushes, forests, ...

The Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Ahmed Dangiwa, says the lender has created more than N80bn mortgages since inception. Dangiwa stated this during the tour of Sedona Housing Estate in Igbogbo, Ikorodu, Lagos, which was financed by the FMBN and developed by Sedona Business Consults, an Abuja-based firm. The figure shows a 10.4 per cent increase in ...

The Managing Director (MD) of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Mortgage bank, Hayadeen Atiku Auwal, over the weekend handed over keys to 35 eligible contributors who have fulfilled all the basic requirements to access the National Housing Fund (NHF) facility in Gombe, the Gombe state capital. While handing over the keys to the cheerful beneficiaries, Atiku said the scheme was ...

The Federal Government is planning to construct over 10 trucks transit parks by 2019 in a bid to reduce the number of trucks induced accidents on Nigeria roads as a way to prevent the unnecessary loss of lives and property due to road accidents. Briefing the media at the conference for African Transportation Ministries, the Director for Road Transport and ...

When it comes to putting up your property for sale, it is important to know that the property’s value is directly proportional to the amount of money it will command in the market. A dilapidated house with dirty and shrunken features will not command the same market price as a beautifully house with a nicely mowed lawn. According to real-estate ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), through the Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD) has flagged off the rehabilitation of Abaji-Rubochi 10.2 kilometers road, at the cost of N490 million. Speaking during the flag-off ceremony yesterday, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, revealed that the administration has paid 15 per cent mobilization fee to an indigenous ...

Babatunde Fashola‎, minister of Power, Works and Housing said the federal government has concluded plans to recapitalise the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) to a N500bn capital base, which would enable it play a more determinant role in closing the housing deficit in the country. The FMBN current capital base is currently put at N2.5 billion, of which the ...