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Flooding of urban and rural dwellings remains a major problem during the rainy season in most parts of Nigeria. This is mainly caused by very poor drainage infrastructure and inevitably leads to impossible living conditions for the inhabitants of the area as well as destructive erosion problems. Some of us do have heavy flood experiences we would not want to ...

Noise pollution is a harmful or annoying level of noise, as from airplanes, industry, etc. Dwelling on noise pollution as it concerns our residential surrounding, one would hope to stay away from all form of disturbance at the sight of one’s shelter but that isn’t the case. The lack of proper town planning creates room for and opens individuals to ...

According to wiki, “A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated.” That definition does little or no justice to what the word ghetto ...

The need for proper housing cannot be overemphasized. The focus today is the word ‘proper’ Many find themselves living in pathetic buildings and in environments that are hazardous to health just because they need a roof over their heads. Sometimes I wonder if the owners of such buildings are to blame for putting out such structures for rent or the ...

I asked a colleague in the office how he fairs with his landlord (awkward question you will say…LOL) and the response to that question, which came in form of a story, erupted both deductive and inductive argument. The gist goes thus: “My colleague resides in a twin duplex apartment whereby his landlord occupies one and him the other. The twin ...

Welcome to another edition of #ShelterMatters. We got a letter last week from a reader and we decided to share with you. Please read and give your candid opinion in the comment section below: My name is Akintunde Adejobi. After my secondary school education, I got the opportunity to travel to the United States of America to further my education ...

The thought of buying a land and erecting your own building to your own taste is good but isn’t buying an entire house anew without going through all the preambles better? Many people have actually reached a deadlock in an attempt to take a decision on the aforementioned premise. On #shelterMatters we would be looking at your preferences. To buy ...

The menace of Omo-onile in Nigeria have been and still remains worrisome. The extortion of innocent property owners by touts and  street urchins known as Omo-Onile or Agajungbale in different parts of Lagos State has brought to the fore the nuisance which the group, which calls itself the “sons of the soil “ and “children of original land owners,” is ...

In Nigeria, having enough money to pay for the type of apartment you wish to rent for a period of time isn’t enough to secure you a decent rented apartment. So many other factors are considered such as age, gender, occupation, ethnicity, status, and so on. Today on #shelterMatters, we’d be dwelling on ethnicity. Speaking writing from a personal experience, ...

There are issues going on around that you probably haven’t heard about just because you haven’t or didn’t have to pass that path in life. Our journey might be rough but not necessarily on same path. Now I am beginning to sound inspirational but that’s not the point. Today, I am considering why landlords have issues with spinsters and bachelors. ...