Housing
8 Oct 2019
Industry regulator, the National Pension Commission (PenCom), has said there will be a significant development in Nigeria’s housing sector if contributors devoted a percentage of their Pension Fund Assets (PFA) under management as equity injections for residential mortgages.
6 Oct 2019
The Niger state government has provided land for the construction of 200 housing units to reduce the burden of accommodation among residents. Mr Lukman Komolafe, Managing Director, Happy Home Builders Nigeria Ltd. disclosed this in an interview...
17 Sep 2019
To address its eight million units housing deficit, the Lagos State government has expressed readiness to partner with interested and capable investors in the real estate sector.
7 Sep 2019
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has inaugurated the N1.2 billion Ta’al Orange Market site and Services for mads housing scheme at Mararaba Gurku, Karu Local Government Areas of the state.
2 Sep 2019
Amid a growing spate of dredging and reclamation activities in several parts of Lagos State, experts have called for caution, as the enormity of such activities along the commercial capital shorelines is capable of causing havoc on buildings and infrastructure.
12 Aug 2019
Determined to reduce the nation’s housing deficit, two real estate firms have provided the platform to empower citizens to become house owners with less stress.
7 Jul 2019
To bridge housing deficit in the country and make it easier for middle class to purchase landed property, LandWey, a real estate firm, has partnered an online savings and investment platform, PiggyVest. Unveiling the partnership in Lagos, the companies said their coming together was borne out of the need to reduce the financial burdens on…
1 Jul 2019
In practice, the Nigerian state implements domination, not of the dominant class in society but that of the state-bearing nation. At the turn of the last century, the Economist of London noted that Nigeria was a badly divided country and likened it to its football team with talented individual players who however do not play…
6 May 2019
The Managing Director of Family Homes Fund (FHF), Mr. Femi Adewole has said that the programme was set to boost cooperative housing through its rolled out funds. Adewole made this known at a cooperative housing workshop organised by the Nigeria Integrated Social Housing (NISH), Affordable Housing Limited in collaboration with Family Homes Funds (FHF),…
6 May 2019
It was the biggest gamble to merge Power, Works & Housing into a humongous Ministry in 2016 following the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari. A more focused nation would never dare that. It was clearly an unthinkable thing to do. No nation still wallowing in the throes of development would attempt to place the most…
23 Apr 2019
The Parish Priest of St Andrew’s Catholic Parish, Oro, Kwara, Rev. Fr. Joseph Awoyale, has urged elected public office holders in the country to fulfil the promises made to the electorate during their campaigns. He made the appeal in a sermon he delivered during a thanksgiving service. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that…
16 Apr 2019
Bisi Kalu, a software developer in his late twenties, would love to have a place he can call his own. But being unmarried, he had a hard time convincing house owners of his suitability to be an ideal tenant. That’s apart from realtors devising clever schemes to extorting him. “The landlord, a sixty-something-year-old man, said…
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