Tag Archives: Property

“Notwithstanding the negative growth recorded in 2016, the real estate sector is expected to grow at an average rate of 5.39 per cent between 2017-2020.” The Guardian The growth, experts said, would however depend on the supports from private and public investments, agricultural revolution, favourable oil prices, increase in volume of oil production and capable political leadership. This is the ...

According to Business Day, Nigeria has led advocacy campaign for the promotion of women’s property rights in Africa, saying it is a panacea to achieving women economic empowerment in the continent. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, hosted Africa’s women parliamentarians at a side event at the ongoing UN Commission on the ...

“Access Bank Plc has sued the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, for allegedly allocating a piece of land belonging to it to a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Ishaya Ibrahim (retd.). The contentious land is located at No. 7 Ojora Street, Ikoyi, Lagos. The bank, in a suit marked, LD/3767/LWM/2016, claimed that though the land belonged to ...

“A 46-year-old landlord of a house on Hassan Close, Itoki, Ogun State, Omotayo Sanda, has been beaten to death by his neighbour’s son, Joseph Isiwele.”- Punch reports Twenty-six-year-old Joseph reportedly rained blows on Omotayo and fled the area after the landlord fell and died. PUNCH Metro learnt that Joseph’s elder brother, Michael Isiwele, had packed some sand from a pit ...

Nigerian tribune reports that at the commemoration of the 2017 International Women Day (IWD) across the globe last week, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), Oxfam Nigeria, while appraising the poverty index of women in Nigeria, re-emphasised its earlier position that women’s deprivation of access to land has a significant contribution to their poverty level. Citing the United Nations (UN) Report ...

According to The Nation, a 49-year-old man, Abiodun Adeyinka, who allegedly damaged  property worth N5 million belonging to the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), on Monday appeared before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Adeyinka is facing a six-count charge bordering on malicious damage, conspiracy, unlawful assault and manner likely to cause breach of peace. The accused, however, pleaded innocence ...

A vox pop was conducted on social media recently and the question asked was where people would like to settle down if nothing like family, career, money or children were in the way. We gathered that many people would like to live outside Nigeria, in fact, an approximate 60% of the people who commented would prefer to live and settle ...

Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State has invited foreign and local investors to take advantage of the rapid developmental strides of his administration to invest in all sectors of the state’s economy, in order to create jobs. “He assured that first-time investors in sectors such as tourism and hospitality, housing and property development, as well as  agriculture and ICT skills ...

The Nigerian Air Force has threatened to demolish structures encroaching its over 200 hectares of land located along Ilorin International Airport, Ilorin in Kwara state capital According to This Day, already, about 1000 illegal structures have been erected on the land and this development has been given the leadership of the air force a source of concern. The Flag Officer ...

“Further to the recent unveiling of Praiz Adejo as The Big Church Group Brand Ambassador for the Year 2017, King Andrea Realtors, the Real Estate Division of the Group has also accomplished a significant feat.”- PM News According to PM News, they have added another feather to the Brand Ambassadors cap, by donating to him landed property in the Federal Capital ...