Tag Archives: Housing

Premium Times reports that the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property on Tuesday said that the federal government may soon take over empty houses in Abuja and sell them. The chairman of the panel, Okoi Obono-Obla, who is also the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, made this known when the Say no Campaign, ...

“The Federal Government said it has created 54,680 jobs in housing sector since inception in 2015. Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, who disclosed this at the sixth National Council on Land, Housing And Urban Development, in Abuja, noted that out of this figure, 13,680 people got direct jobs, while 41,000 got indirect jobs.”- All Africa ...

The Nation reports that the Nigeria Union in South Africa has protested the forceful takeover of house belonging to a Nigerian Baptist missionary by South Africans in that country. Chairman of the union in Johannesburg South Theodore Ezeunara, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday that persons claiming to be members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a political ...

“Although, Magodo, one of the highbrow estates in Lagos has recently been making headlines for the wrong reasons, property experts and developers believe the location is fast becoming a destination of choice for investors and renters.”- The Guardian The high demand for property and renters within the estate, they said, was indicative that the estate is inhabited by upward mobile individuals, ...

“The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday said that the construction of mass housing projects in 33 states, 2, 736 affordable housing units, across the country has commenced.”-Daily Post The Minister, who disclosed this at the sixth meeting of the National Council on Lands, Housing and Urban Development, told delegates at the event that with ongoing housing ...

According to PM News, the Federal Government says it is determined to revitalise the land, housing and urban development sector for socio-economic development. Alhaji Mohammed Bukar made this known on Wednesday at the sixth meeting of the National Council on Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Abuja. Bukar noted that the Federal Government demonstrated its determination on the sector through the ...

“Governments at federal and state levels have been urged to give tax incentives, such as a holiday, for cooperative societies investing in real estate to enable them increase housing supply and ultimately drag down house prices for buyers, especially the low income earners.”- Business Day Meckson Innocent Okoro, an estate surveyor and valuer, who made this call recently, also urged ...

“Housing Circuit Magazine in conjunction with the Senate Committee on Lands, Housing and Urban Development, National Assembly is hosting a two-day Conference on: Addressing Housing Stock Deficit in Nigeria: A Holistic View.”- The Guardian This brainstorming event is scheduled to hold at the Abuja Sheraton Hotel and Tower from September 26 -27. The Conference, according to the Clerk of the ...

Many people are stuck with the decision to have a live-in or part-time maid. This is because either of these choices have advantages and disadvantages. Some people do not even subscribe to having a maid at all because of the many cases of infidelity, loss of property, house damage, maltreatment of children and the rest. We often hear of domestic ...

“The continued shortage of affordable housing in the country remains a sore point for experts and other stakeholders in the built environment.”- The Nation The experts, like the Managing Director, M.I. Okoro and Associates, Mr. Meckson Okoro, have not ceased to wonder why, in a nation of over 180 million people, not up to 20 per cent of them can ...