Real Estate

We’ve seen houses built on trees, hills and even water, but have you heard of a church built in the middle of a lake? Away from the hustle of big cities stands the Church of Andrew the Apostle, built on a tiny island on Lake Vuoksa in Russia. This Orthodox chapel is in the Guinness Book of Records as the ...

Environmental experts have maintained that improper waste disposal and management is causing devastating effects on the climate. They added that environmental pollution and its challenges pose a threat in economic development in Nigeria. According to Vanguard, the experts made this known during the annual International Conference and Conferment of ‘Fellows’ Award’ by the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Mitigation ...

Solonzo’s appearance at Realty Point Limited frayed some nerves and raised suspicion. He knew where he was headed and he needed no guide. He had even walked past the reception without looking in the direction of the front desk officer. Though, not too many persons had seen him walk into Martins’ office, the MD saw him leave. Solonzo brushed shoulders ...

According to Vanguard, the Oyo State House of Assembly has frowned at the indiscriminate construction of fuel stations in hazardous locations across the state. Vanguard reports that this followed a motion by Mr Segun Ajanaku (APC-Ibadan South West II) during the plenary session on Tuesday in Ibadan. Ajanaku, who is the Chairman House Committee on Parliamentary Matters, said that the ...

In a bid to address the severe shortage of skilled manpower within the construction industry, the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) has partnered with an Abuja-based firm Construction Skills Training and Employment Services (C-STEMPS) to train artisans. The Guardian reports that DFID’s Communications Adviser, Halimat Alawiye told journalists in Abuja that the organisation has secured the approval and recognition ...

Nigerians have been urged to increase the use of clean cooking energy, to protect the environment from the negative effects of global warming. According to The Guardian, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki expressed this while hosting the members of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cook stoves who paid him a courtesy call. Saraki noted that apart from saving lives, the use of ...

The  2016 Lagos chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB) conference will focus on a range of housing and infrastructural developmental issues especially, the shortage of skilled artisans. The Guardian reports that the two- day event tagged: Festac 2016 with the theme: Vocational Training: Bedrock for Nigerian Housing and Infrastructural Development”, will be chaired by the Lagos State Commissioner of Housing, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, with the President ...

The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, yesterday, made it known that the Federal Government would put forward the sum of N6,866,335,052,740 as budget for 2017. According to The Guardian, the Minister told members of the Senate Committee on Finance, led by its chairman, John Owan Enoh (PDP, Cross River Central), that government would present the figure because it spends over ...

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has requested the support of the Federal Government, corporate organisations and well-meaning individuals to tackle the devastations flood, erosion and herdsmen’s attacks have caused across the state. According to New Telegraph, the governor made the call yesterday when a delegation of the Indices and Disbursement Committee of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, led by its Chairman, ...

The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello, on Monday, told herdsmen in the FCT to move their cattle out of Abuja, saying animals and humans should not be allowed to co-habit in the city’s centre. In a release made available to National Mirror by Deputy Director/Chief Press Secretary in FCT Administration, Muhammad Sule, the minister said the decision ...