People of Gwarimpa and its environs in Abuja can look forward to better times, as their shopping stress will be alleviated by the coming of SPAR supermarket to Lifecamp, Gwarimpa Abuja. Artee group, the operators of SPAR supermarket recently signed a lease agreement with Topwide Ventures Limited for 3000sqm space as the anchor tenant in the ongoing Mountview shopping centre ...
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Mixed reaction on Dangote’s plan to build new cement plant in Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans have taken to social media to express mixed views following indications by Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote that he plans to invest in the southern African country. Dangote, who is considered Africa’s richest man, said on Monday he planned mining and power generation projects for investment-starved Zimbabwe, as well as to set up a large cement factory. This came after he ...
Read More »Probe PTF’s abandoned road contract, Lawmaker urges Buhari
A lawmaker representing the Arochukwu/Ohafia Constituency in the House of Representatives, Uko Ndukwe Nkole, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the circumstances that lead to the abandonment of the Ohafia-Arochukwu Road rehabilitation contract awarded by the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) during Buhari’s tenure as chairman. Nkole raised questions on the issue when he undertook an inspection of the road, which ...
Read More »Oshiomhole insists $700m second Niger Bridge money missing
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has called on a former minister of work, Mike Onolememen, to explain to Nigerians the whereabouts of $700 million (N140 billion) released for the unexecuted second Niger bridge project. Mr. Oshiomhole said in a statement by his chief press secretary, Peter Okhiria, that he stood by an earlier statement that $700 million was drawn ...
Read More »How Noisy Can Lagos Get?
Noise is not inherently harmful to humans or environment. It is when noise becomes unusually loud and uncontrolled that it diminishes the quality of air and adversely affects the environment, public health and welfare. Noise pollution is one of the environmental hazards affecting humans as well as climate. In most urban areas of the third or developing countries of the ...
Read More »“REDAN is a serious stakeholder in housing development” – Hajia Binta Ibrahim
The Chairperson, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), Federal Capital Territory (FCT), chapter, Hajia Binta Ibrahim, in this interview with Dele Ogbodo, said that the only way houses can be made affordable is when there is serious intervention from all the stakeholders in the sector and government has to realize that REDAN is a serious stakeholder in housing development. ...
Read More »Ekiti disburses N144m for housing and vehicle loans to teachers
Ekiti State Government has disbursed a sum of N144 million as housing and vehicle loans to 712 teaching and non-teaching staff in the state teaching service. The State Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Chief Toyin Ojo, who made this known, in Ado- Ekiti, said N63million of the amount was disbursed as car loans to 257 teaching and non-teaching staff ...
Read More »States With The Highest And Lowest Property Taxes In America
You reside in America and think your property tax rates are high? It’s all relative. To try and give you a sense of the property tax rates overall, the Tax Foundation calculated the average amount of residential property tax actually paid, expressed as a percentage of home value. That should produce a more even result since it factors in the ...
Read More »Top 10 Most Mysterious Locations on Earth
There are many mysterious buildings in this world, buildings where only certain category of people can inhabit or visit, most of them historical buildings and monuments. Also, there are some locations in this world that are under the control of external forces or forces of evil that oppose any contrary being that strays into their dwelling place; places with an ...
Read More »6 dead in fire at Saudi oil giant housing complex
At least six people were killed and 206 injured in Saudi Arabia Sunday when a fire broke out at a residential complex housing employees of oil giant Saudi Aramco, authorities said. The fire started in the basement of a tower in the eastern city of Khobar, the kingdom’s civil defence said on Twitter. It added that several of the injured ...
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