Tag Archives: Housing

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 ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has asked the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria to blacklist any quantity surveyor who flouts the ethics of the profession. According to Fashola, many practitioners find it tough to uphold their professional ethics, a development that is impacting negatively on the nation’s economy. The minister, who spoke at the recent ...

The construction of National Housing Projects is really exiting traders and suppliers that are involved in the construction of the projects as they said that the on-going projects had ratcheted up their well-being since its commencement Speaking with journalists, a representative of the workers, George Mataga, stated that the host community had benefitted considerably from the project. He added that ...

Motorists plying  Numan-Gombe Federal road have expressed concern over the slow pace of the on-going reconstruction of the road particularly from Numan-Lafiya Lamurde in Adamawa state to Cham town in Gombe state. One of the motorists, Amos Aboki, a commercial bus driver, lamented that the construction firm handling the road, “lacks the capacity, manpower and construction machines to reconstruct the ...

Members of the Representatives on Wednesday urged Federal Ministries of Power, Works & Housing as well as Defence, to work out modalities for the return of unutilized expanses of land forcefully acquired for military barracks to host communities. According to Afe Olowookere (APC-Ondo), who sponsored the motion, one-quarter of the land area of the cities were acquired by the military ...

Lagos-based property development firm, Messrs Tetramanor has announced plans to expand its housing firm in the mainland area, with 40-units of homes in the Ebuta-Metta axis of Lagos. The new project called; TM Meadows, about five-minutes from the Third Mainland Bridge consist of 40 units of two, three and four bedrooms all fully finished and having maid’s rooms. The estate ...

A housing expert, Mr Festus Adebayo, has said Federal Government needs to make the Family Home Fund (FHF) scheme effective in 2018 to alleviate the housing challenges in the country. Adebayo, the Managing Director of FESADEB Communications Ltd., convener of the annual Abuja International Housing, made the call on Tuesday in Abuja. “Federal government needs to alleviate housing challenges”, he ...

The famous Abraham Manslow’s Hierarchy of Needs places shelter as a basic need of every human. In other words without shelter man is less bothered about social activities, self-esteem or other offerings of the society. Sadly, what should have been a basic provision has become a luxury in Nigeria. To resolve the deficit in  sector, efforts to Nigeria’s housing increase stocks are ...

The Rivers State Govt. on Friday restated its desire to hand over the development of housing estates in some parts of the new city currently undergoing construction to private investors. Chief Ferdinand Alabraba, the Chairman, Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority (GPHCDA) reassured on government’s intention at the signing and hand-over ceremony of Olive Crest Estate site to Afriprops. He said ...

Mr. Emma Okas Wike is currently the second vice president of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, the founding as well as the principal partner of the firm of Emma Wike & Partners.  In this interview with EMMANUEL BADEJO, he bares his mind on sundry issues that affect real estate in Nigeria and also proposed Ministry of works, power and ...