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Local media reports that a huge fire engulfed at least two residential towers in the northern UAE emirate of Ajman on Monday. The fire erupted at a building in the Ajman One residential cluster of 12 towers and spread to at least one other tower, Gulf News daily reported on its website. Ajman police said one pregnant woman was hospitalised ...

An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court on Thursday granted bail to Robert Nyong, the Managing Director of Lekki Garden Homes, where a five-storey recently building collapsed killing 35 people. The Chief Magistrate, Afolashade Botoku, also admitted Taiwo Odofin, the contractor of one of the collapsed buildings, to bail in the like sum of N10 million with two sureties in like sum. ...

The Minister of the Environment, Hajia Amina Mohammed, on Monday described partnerships as a thrust of the President Mohammed Buhari administration. The minister spoke at the inauguration of the Imani-Shell Estate Phase 2 located in Maitama District of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory. The project was developed by Shell Nigeria Closed Pension Fund Administrator in partnership with Imani and ...

Press release The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI), the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners and Lifemate Furniture Company, have endorsed the Lagos Housing Fair. By this, they have become the official partners of the fair. The specialized fair has attracted over 180, 000 persons since its debut in 2001. The fifteenth edition holds ...

The immediate past Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Toyin Ayinde, has said the spate of building collapse in the country is a signal that quality is being compromised. Ayinde, who spoke at this year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Association of Town Planning Consultants of Nigeria (ATOPCON), stated that aside the quantity of building materials, ...

The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Sani Sidi, yesterday described the increase in building collapse as worrisome. He said lives and property have been lost as a result of building collapse. According to him, there is need for contractors to abide by the rules and regulations while building houses, to protect them from collapse. The director-general ...

As the country continues to fight the problem of huge deficit in the number of houses available to the people, former Director General of the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P in Niger State, Alhaji Hassan Nuhu, has said that adopting alternative technology in the construction of houses would go a long way to end the problem He suggested that ...

If you wanted to acquire a land today in Nigeria, you’d probably have to go through a convoluted process of searching for reliable agents, hoping they don’t stab you in the back when you’re not looking. That’s the exact problem the new website is attempting to solve. Lands.ng is an online marketplace solely for land listings and its associated services in Nigeria. With increased ...

The Nigerian Institution of Estate surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Lagos Branch has urged its members to improve the practice of estate surveying in country. The programme, tagged: “Head of Practice Forum 2016: International Property Measurement Standard and its Impacts to the Nigeria Property Market”, held at Agidingbi, IKeja, emphasized the importance of proper valuation in the real estate sector in ...

Chief Olabode Afolayan is the Chairman of Housing Developers Cooperative Society (HDCS) and past President, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN). In this interview he notes that the Housing sector has been identified as a sector that can create a lot of employment for the people and will help jump start the economy. Read excerpts below: Now that we ...