Real Estate

To improve affordability for low-income earners in Nigeria, stakeholders in the built environment have urged government at all levels to make housing a top priority. The stakeholders, who spoke at the launch of a book “Affordable”, authored by the founder of Northcourt, a real estate advisory firm, Tayo Odunsi in Lagos, said there is need for a paradigm shift through ...

The minister of works, power and housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has given contractors ultimatum to complete the federal road projects in Yakubu Dogara, the House of Representatives Speaker’s hometown. Fashola gave the ultimatum order that they should complete all the projects before ending of May 2019 while on inspection tour to Bogoro LGA of Bauchi state. He said the APC administration ...

In this new article, I will be focusing on bringing you facts about the most expensive homes in Nigeria with picture proofs as well. We’re in a country where everyone is trying their best to outdo the person next to them, be it a friend, colleague or foe. Nowhere is this best showcased than in the real estate space, where ...

Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar has promised not to leave abandoned projects and also support Federal Government’s mass housing scheme after his tenure as Bauchi State governor. He made the promise in Bauchi Tuesday night when he received the Minister ‎of State, Ministry of Works, Power and Housing, Mustapha Baba Shehuri, who paid him a visit. He said he will strive ...

The Federal Government has committed over N3 trillion into infrastructure development in the country. The Minister of State II for Power, Works and Housing, Suleiman Zarma made this known on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy visit on the Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Reports show that the minister, in the company of some ministry’s officials was in the state ...

The minister of works, power and housing, Babatunde Fashola, rejected some projects in Kebbi. He stated that the federal government will not accept the projects until they are done in compliance with the contractual agreement. One of the contractors promised to effect the corrections noted by the minister and deliver the projects on time The minister of works, power and ...

The Ministry of Power, Works and Housing on Wednesday threatened to terminate the contract for the dualisation of the Abaji-Koton-Karfe road due to “negligence” by the contractor for five months. The Director of Highways Constructions and Rehabilitation of the ministry, Dayyabu Mamman, made the recommendation on Wednesday during an inspection by the Minister of State II for Power, Works and ...

The Lagos State Lands Bureau on Tuesday said that over N11.85 billion had been approved as compensation for property owners affected by the alignment and right of way for construction, reconstruction and dualisation of roads. The Special Adviser to Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode on Urban Development, Mrs. Yetunde Onabule, disclosed this to newsmen at the ongoing Ministerial Briefing to mark the ...

The Lagos State Lands Bureau performance dropped in revenue generation by N10.19 billion accruing from land transaction in 2017, representing a 50 percent fall in land revenue. In 2016, the Lands Bureau recorded an all-time high in revenue generation from land transaction as it hit N20.77 billion, but this was half into two in 2017 as it generated N10.579 billion, ...

Residents of Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have embarked on a peaceful protest to request the Nigerian Agip Oil Company to construct a two-kilometer access road to its oilfields in the area. Hundreds of community members, who sang solidarity songs and danced around the riverside settlement, made the demand during an advocacy rally at Ikarama ...