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In today’s Nigeria, the landscape is littered with abandoned building projects, roads, rails, ports and other infrastructural projects at all levels of governance from local government through the state government to the federal territory. It is quite unfortunate that many of building and infrastructural projects in Nigeria are out-rightly abandoned even at conception. When we talk of abandonment, we mean ...

“The Lagos State Government on Monday disclosed that there are over 60 abandoned buildings belonging to the Federal Government on Lagos Island Central Business District, CBD, which have been converted to criminal hideouts by hoodlums.”- PM News Special Adviser to the Governor on Central Business District, CBD, Agboola Dabiri disclosed this on Monday at a ministerial press conference in Alausa, ...

The on-going exercise by operatives of the Lagos State Special Task Force on Environmental and other Related Offences to rid Lagos of miscreants and other criminal elements, has led to the arrest of illegal occupants of abandoned buildings, hemp smokers and hoodlums suspected to have been terrorising some areas in the state. Those arrested were three female teenagers and 90 adult ...

The rising cost of renting houses in thriving Nigerian cities of Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja, which goes beyond the reach of potential tenants stretches the number of homeless people beyond borders. This development is worrisome in view of the huge housing deficit in Nigeria. Yet there is an increasing number of vacant homes; buildings that should have families albeit ...