The Minister of Transportation Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has said the federal government hasn’t secured the necessary funds to commence the linking of the major cities by rail. The minister also said the FG is willing to welcome investors that will volunteer to muster capital to invest in Nigeria’s railways. Mr. Amaechi disclosed this yesterday during the 2019 Budget Defence before ...
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11Plc renovates 21 classrooms in host community
11Plc, formerly known as Mobil Oil Nigeria Plc, has said it renovated two building structures consisting 21 classrooms at Baptist Primary School, Marine Beach, Apapa Local Government Area, Lagos State, as part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives in its host community. The company said the multimillion-naira infrastructure upgrade was embarked upon as part of its cardinal programme of giving ...
Read More »Whose responsibility is it to fix your leaking roof?
We’ve heard so many tales of landlords and their shenanigans. Someone once opined that the reason landlords behave the way they do is that LORD in their name while they treat their tenants like the ANT in their name. So back to our question, whose responsibility is it to fix your leaking roof? This question should have been a very ...
Read More »NSCDC ejects illegal occupants at defunct Nitel office
The Bayelsa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Wednesday restated its commitment to its core mandate to protect critical national assets. Mr. Pedro Ideba Pedro, Commandant of the NSCDC in Bayelsa, restated the commitment when he led officers and men of the command to evict some illegal occupants at the defunct NITEL building in Yenagoa. ...
Read More »Mortgage rate must be below 10% to spur housing development – Aliyu
The Chairman of a leading property development and management company, Urban Shelter Limited, Malam Ibrahim Aliyu, has said the potential for housing in Nigeria will not be realized until the current mortgage rate is brought down below 10 per cent Malam Aliyu stated this during a courtesy visit on the company in Abuja recently by officials of Media Trust Limited, ...
Read More »Ibadan NSE boss bemoans state of Building Collapse
CHAIRMAN, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ibadan branch, Adedamola Falade-Fatila, has bemoaned the rate at which cases of building collapse are being witnessed in the country. Falade-Fatila expressed his displeasure while briefing journalists on the programme of activities lined up for the 2019 engineering week celebration of the society in Ibadan. He noted that reported cases of building collapse had ...
Read More »Man dies during illegal operation – AEDC reveals
The real identity of the man electrocuted in Nasarawa has been revealed and the victim who was earlier reported to be a staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company AEDC is neither a staff nor affiliated with the Power company. Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC has brought to our attention inaccuracies surrounding an electrocution accident which happened in Nasarawa recently. ...
Read More »36,000 buildings in Lagos might collapse – Group warns LASG
The national president of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), Akinola George, revealed this in Lagos on Monday, March 25 He said that this is majorly caused by half-baked development who often use faulty construction designs Akinola George, the national president of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) on Monday, March 25, urged the federal government to deal with the ...
Read More »World Bank reveals women still lack rights to land, property despite laws
Ahead of the World Bank’s opening session on Land and Poverty Conference 2019, it has been revealed that most women in the world are not able to proclaim equal land and property rights in spite legal protections. Members of a new global campaign warned formally before its launch on Monday that “women in half of the countries in the world ...
Read More »Foundation of collapsed Synagogue building intact – Witness
A defence witness, Ebenezer Ologuntoye in the ongoing trial of the Registered Trustees of Synagogue Church of All Nations, (SCOAN) and the two engineers that constructed the collapsed building that killed 116 people in Lagos has told a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere that the foundation of the collapsed building did not fail. Ologuntoye, a geotechnical expert also told ...
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