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Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu budgets N15b for rehabilitation and construction of roads across the 18 local government areas of the state this year. The Ondo state Governor plans to spend N3 billion out of the amount budgeted on the reconstruction of roads in the rural areas in other to ease transportation of farm produce to urban areas. These formed part of ...

Decent and affordable housing is one of the basic needs of individuals, family and the community at large. As a pre-requisite to the survival of man, housing ranks second only to food. This article views the challenges of housing delivery in Nigeria Housing as a unit of the environment has a profound influence on the health, efficient, social behaviour, satisfaction ...

Land grabbers won’t be called land grabbers if their activities were legal. According to WIKI, Land grabbing is the contentious issue of large-scale land acquisitions: the buying or leasing of large pieces of land in developing countries, by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals. This article looks into the menace of land grabbers in Nigeria and how their activities affect the common ...

Mudslide is one of the most unpredictable disasters in the world. The unfortunate incident in Isheri,-Magodo Lagos drew our focus to the unpopular natural disaster. Last week, a building located at Orisha Street, Isheri, Magodo caved in during a heavy rainfall. The building which was a bungalow collapsed when mudslides from the cleavage of a hill beside River Ogun besieged ...

In a country where only few houses are home-worthy, it shouldn’t be hard to tell a quality housing. However because of our constant exposure to economic hardship and poverty our idea of quality housing may have been compromised. So when a Nigerian says he lives in a house of high quality; a house that lives up to expectations and the ...

There are two fundamentally different forms of legal ownership: freehold and leasehold. Although estate agents tend to gloss over it, the difference can be between a home that is worth buying and one that isn’t. Many people who don’t sort this out when they buy a home end up regretting it – getting it wrong can be hugely expensive. For ...

Professor Timothy Olugbenga Nubi, a lecturer of Estate Management and former Head of Estate Management Department in the University of Lagos, spoke to JUDE NJOKU of vangauard on why PPP is the best approach to projects delivery in present day Nigeria. According to him, “a nation is like any family. You can never have all the resources to meet your ...

The Nigerian Society of Engineers, Lagos State has said that until all levels of government in the country evolve more punitive measures and stricter punishment on all those found culpable in any case of collapse building, the ugly trend would continue to defile solution. These concerns were expressed last weekend at the annual lecture of the Nigerian Society of Engineers ...