Tag Archives: NREH

The Lagos State Government has disclosed plans to review the Ikeja Model City Plan, which became operational in 2010. According to a statement by the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, the review is part of the state government’s efforts to create a better environment where infrastructure will be adequate and of a standard that befits the status of ...

Nigeria is losing about 3.5 per cent of its forest, or between 350,000 and 400,000 hectares to deforestation and other economic activities such as logging on an annual basis, conservation experts have said. According to the experts, who spoke at the 14th S. L. Edu Annual Memorial Lecture organised by the Nigerian Conservation Foundation in Lagos, the country’s forest area ...

Giving the environmental challenges facing the country, the federal government has called for collective responsibility and actions from all stakeholders in both the public and private sector, including the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in combating the problems. The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, who made the call at a Stakeholders’ Forum in Abuja, reiterated that environmental protection was top ...

According the eprop.co.za, a commercial property news site, Eris property group has unveiled plans for Agbara Estate in Lagos, Nigeria. The development plans for the estate represents MAREF (Momentum Africa Real Estate Fund) and its partners Land Afrique and Eris Property Group’s commitment to investment in Nigeria and in the city of Lagos. The 100 acre development sites are expected ...

A principal suspect in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, PENGASSAN, N559.5 million housing fraud (names withheld), has jumped bail and gone into hiding as operatives of the fraud unit, Panti, Lagos, intensify investigation into the scam. NREH has earlier reported the scam that has put the umbrella body for senior staff in the nation’s petroleum industry in ...

Due to the increasing incidents of building collapse, building construction experts have called for more awareness on the role of foundation in sustaining a building. At a stakeholders’ forum conveyed by the Building Collapse Prevention Guild, Kosofe Cell, for foundation experts, drillers and other professionals, it was noted that the foundation was one of the major causes of building collapse ...

The Ogun State Government has relocated villagers at Itoku-Elewe Irepodun along Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway to a new settlement within the area, where it has built 96 modern houses for them. The Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Taiwo Adeoluwa, disclosed this on Friday while briefing journalists on the programme of events for the state’s 40th anniversary celebration. He said the relocation ...

The Lagos State Public Works Corporation has chosen April as the completion date for the rehabilitation of the bad portion of the Ile-Epo end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. According to a statement signed by the Head, Public Affairs, LSPWC, Mr. Yomi Oladapo, the state government has renewed its commitment to speedily complete the construction of the drainage alignment and the ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared his administration’s resolve to provide quality education infrastructure across  the state. He said the aim was instituting a world class education system. The governor stated this at the weekend after inspection of ongoing construction road and school projects. He said his administration would develop a boarding system for the secondary school education sub-sector ...

The trial of a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on a 23-count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds, continued on Monday with the anti-graft agency presenting its witness before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja. Mr. Dariye is accused ...