The Federal Government has disclosed that a total of 1, 350 houses have been completed at various locations in Abuja and Lagos and their letters of allocation will be ready for distribution. The beneficiaries (civil servants) are under the Federal Integrated Staff Housing (FISH) programme. FISH programme, which is the initiative of the Head of the Civil Service of the ...
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We assisted 30,000 civil servants to build their houses – Loans Board
Dr. Hannatu Fika, the Executive Secretary, Federal Government Staff Housing Loans Board (FGSHLB), said that the board had helped over 30,000 civil servants to access loans to own houses. Fika made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Monday in Abuja. She said that public servants were the engine room of good governance, adding ...
Read More »Senate urges NEMA to rebuild homes and provide relief materials for windstorm victims
The Senate yesterday urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to immediately intervene in Ebonyi by providing relief materials and rebuild homes, worship places and schools of victims, following the recent destruction of lives and property by windstorm in the state. Accordingly, the upper chamber also called on the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and other relevant government agencies to be ...
Read More »Expert urges youths to start building their own houses
Mrs. Ibukun Adebayo-Adedayo, a financial adviser, has urged the youths to embrace the mortgage policy to own their homes early in life instead of paying rents for the better part of their lives. She explained that money spent on rent payment could be better channeled in mortgage finance in order to own a home and live a stable and accomplished ...
Read More »Fashola demystifies mortgage to provide affordable houses
The federal government of Nigerian has pledged to provide affordable houses via mortgage so that people can pay for it throughout their working life. The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who stated this on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, said part of the change agenda of the ruling All Progressive Congress is that “Nigerians would no longer have ...
Read More »Investment: Would you rather choose a N25m house over a N35m car?
Your choice of investment can make or mar your future. You see a young man in his early thirties without any profitable investment living lavishly with reckless abandon. The sad part is that when you ask such a man what he wishes to have at the moment if given freely, there is a 50% chance he would go for a ...
Read More »5 killed, 50 houses raised as Igala and Bassa Kwomu communities clashed in Kogi
No fewer than five persons have been reportedly killed in a fresh communal clash between Igala, and Bassa Kwomu speaking tribe in Kogi State. It was gathered that over 50 houses were raised at Aloko-Oguma in Bassa Local Government Area following a communal clash that engulfed the community on Friday morning. Sources have it that the crisis erupted following a ...
Read More »Kaduna residents sue El-Rufai over planned demolition of houses
More incompetent teachers to be sacked, Kaduna govt. declares OVER 192 residents of Zaria, in Kaduna State, have sued Governor Nasir El-Rufai over threat to demolish their houses. Counsel to the aggrieved parties, Bello Ibrahim, alleged that the government trespassed on the property in contention. He said the houses are located in Nasarawa, also known as Bayan Library, in Zaria ...
Read More »NNPC pledges to build affordable houses for staff members
The Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Properties Ltd, Mr. Danny Sokari-George, has said that the company is determined to deliver quality and affordable houses with the best funding options for staff of the corporation. Sokari-George, who disclosed this recently at the maiden edition of NNPC Properties Ltd (NPL), Festival in Abuja, however, cautioned the staff against ...
Read More »LASG shuts down more houses, arrests several others over illegal development
The Lagos State Building Control Agency, LASBCA, at the weekend shutdown eight more houses at Ebute Metta and Surulere areas of the state for illegal development of buildings. The agency also arrested nine people found on site during the enforcement exercise carried out in collaboration with task force officials. Last week, LABSCA had shutdown a Redeemed Christian Church of God, ...
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