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The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Wasiu Anifowoshe, has said that the relocation of the Oko-baba saw millers to Agbowa-Ikosi area of the state from the current location in Ebute Meta will be accomplished in the first quarter of this year. Anifowoshe stated this during a tour of the site of the new sawmill, which ...

Human settlement experts under the aegis of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners have commenced moves to re-position the profession for excellence. Some concerned town planners last week in Lagos organised a colloquium where stakeholders identified better ways of making the profession more visible to the benefit of all. Planners in both the public and private sectors identified some of ...

The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, has decried the neglect of no fewer than 4,723 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at various locations in Taraba. A statement issued by the commission’s Deputy Director, Protection and Investigations, Lambert Oparah, on Sunday in Abuja said that Mr. Angwe made this known while on an official visit in Taraba. The statement said ...

More details are emerging about the social protection programmes of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, including a scheme to grant soft loans to about one million artisans and market women in the proposed 2016 budget, Premium Times report. A senior federal government official who described the current controversy in the Senate regarding two versions of the proposed budget as a “distraction ...

No fewer than 80 students have been displaced from their boarding house accommodation at the Don Bosco Secondary School and Youth Centre, Obolo Obosi, near Onitsha following a fire incident. The Rector of the school, Charlse Uzoeto, who conducted journalists around the charred remains of the hostel on Sunday, said the fire broke out while the students and teachers were ...

You might not know it but more than 41 Nigerians are reported to have been dead following the outbreak of Lassa fever. The death toll has exceeded the figure recorded during the outbreak of the Ebola Virus in the country two years ago. Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by Lassa virus, a member of the arenavirus ...

Biodun Adedeji is the Managing Director of Ire Clay Products Limited. In this interview he highlights why despite the availability and relative affordability of clay products, they are still unpopular for building construction in the country. He says the government must reopen moribund manufacturing companies to create employment for the youth Read excerpts below: Despite the availability and relative affordability ...

The Government of Osun State again added another state of the art school to its growing list of modern schools as the state capital, Osogbo, went agog for the commissioning ceremony of the Anthony Udofia Government Elementary School in Osogbo. The newly commissioned complex has the capacity to seat 960-pupils with 24 classrooms of 40 pupils each, an ICT room, ...

Concerned about illicit money flowing into luxury real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would begin identifying and tracking secret buyers of high-end properties. The initiative will start in two of the nation’s major destinations for global wealth: Manhattan and Miami-Dade County. It will shine a light on the darkest corner of the real estate market: all-cash purchases ...

The federal government has approved a $200 million loan for Lagos State to enable the state finance its infrastructural projects. The loan will be sourced through a World Bank unit, International Development Association, IDA. Rising from the Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday, the minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the approval ...