Real Estate

The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Umara, on Thursday inaugurates panel to review the ownership of houses in four government housing estates within Maiduguri, the state capital. The estates made up of about 3000 houses were built between 1999 and 2011 by governments of late Mala Kachalla and Ali Sheriff. Mr. Sheriff’s administration built three of the estates while the ...

Abuja – Housing Development Advocacy Group of Nigeria, an NGO has urged the leadership of the ninth National Assembly to introduce policies that would enable affordable housing in Nigeria. The President of the NGO, Mr. Festus Adebayo made the call to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja. Adebayo said that after decades of neglect, the newly inaugurated ninth national assembly must ...

Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has launched a website to “allow Nigerians track the status” of the ongoing construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge. The federal government had in November awarded the construction giant a N206 billion contract for the work. Julius Berger, in a statement issued by the company’s media office, said visitors to visit www.secondrivernigerbridge.com, saying the website will ...

The Ogun government, in partnership with the World Bank, is to bring succour to rural dwellers in the state through the provision of needed infrastructure and social amenities that would lessen poverty in the communities. READ ALSO: Osun partners World bank to boost agribusiness General Manager of the State Community and Social Development Agency, Sakirudeen Salami, who disclosed this yesterday ...

Property worth millions of naira were yesterday lost to an early morning fire at No. 5. Olugbosho Street, Agege area of Lagos State. There was pandemonium as smoke suddenly covered the air from the compound made up of residential building and a church, Saints Assembly Church. The fire with billowing smoke was coming from some of the rooms, which made ...

Ikeja – A 45-year-old teacher, Temitope Ogunlolu, on Monday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly forging her uncle’s house documents. The police also charged Ogunlolu with conducting herself in a manner likely to cause breach of the peace by forcefully and unlawfully displaying “Not for Sale” on her uncle’s apartments. The defendant, who resides at No. 22 ...

Ahead of the submission of committee report on the dispute over valuation practice in the country, the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has formally responded to the petition by the Estate Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON). The board had written to the immediate past minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola that the COREN ...

Farmers in Achalla, Awka North local government area of Anambra state are still counting their losses following the devastating flood that ravaged the farmlands in the area. Over 50 hectares of rice farm in the council area was said to have been destroyed by flood after heavy rainfall that lasted several hours. Newly planted rice seedlings, as well as other ...

Umuahia – Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has approved the release of N6 billion for the completion of ongoing road projects within the first 100 days of his second term in office. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr. Onyebuchi Ememanka, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, to Newsmen in Umuahia on Monday. It said the state ...

The National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ), Chris Isiguzo, on Monday in Lagos called for legal termination of a stalled housing project for journalists in Lagos. Newsmen reported that the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists/NUJ in 2016 signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build 800 housing units for journalists at Abaren Village in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area ...