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One of Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption coalitions, the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), has challenged all the 36 ministers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, to publicly declare their assets in the light of the ongoing war against corruption In a statement Sunday, the coalition said through its chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, that by publicly declaring their assets, the ministers would be ...

President Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend assured that de­spite the fall in oil price, mea­sures taken to block revenue leakages would ensure enough cash to fund the 2016 N6 trillion budget. The President presented the national budget to the joint session of the National Assem­bly last Tuesday in Abuja. He said anybody convicted in the $2.1billion arms deal would forfeit ...

The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Lagos State branch, has lent its support on the planned reintroduction of toll gates. Its Chairman, Samuel Ukpong said it was a right decision but noted that for it to be successful, stakeholders must be carried along. Ukpong, who spoke on the sideline of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Institution ...

President Muhammdu Buhari on Wednesday admitted that Nigerian roads are dead and required urgent attention of the Federal Government. The president spoke at a dinner he hosted in honour of senators at the new Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja Wednesday night. The event was also attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; a national leader of the All Progressives ...

Mr. Shehu Mallam Mikail has said that “ Merging ministries of works/housing with power, which requires enormous work, investments, supervision and regulation to enhance electricity generation would not allow for efficiency in the system. This type of merger would pave the way for conflict and contradiction in administrative procedures.” He said this in a chat with Sunday Vanguard in Lagos, ...

Considering the poor state of infrastructure in Nigeria, it was expected that professionals in the sector will dominate President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list. Alas, it will be a “cabinet invaded by lawyers”. For this reason, the cabinet may not excite some professionals in the infrastructure sector. Architects, quantity surveyors and valuers decried their non inclusion. They express worry that government ...

The Nigerian constitution actually makes it mandatory for the President and other officials/officers of the state, especially the elected/appointed officers to declare their assets which include their real estate acquisition and investments while taking over and leaving their offices with the Code of Conduct Bureau. But whether such declaration should be made public for the sake of transparency is a ...

THE National President, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, REDAN, Rev. Ugochuckwu Chime has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to develop a new housing policy which will enable the common people, (the Talakawas) who voted him into power to have their own houses. The REDAN boss who made the appeal  at the end of a one-day multi- stakeholders interactive workshop ...

Nigeria’s construction industry has been near standstill for the past few months due to the triple combination of the inability of the Federal Government to roll out its economic policies, huge debt owed contractors and the advent of the rainy season. The industry which contributes about 70 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, GDP, is having serious multiplier effects on ...

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Wednesday urged the President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to address the plight of workers in the country. Mr Ifeanyi Okechukwu, the Chairman of TUC in Anambra, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka. The labour leader called on the president-elect to make the National Housing Fund useful ...