The Federal Government has stated that the 2010 budget implementation had been extended till March 2011. The Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, made the clarification while briefing State House correspondents following the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.

INDICATIONS have emerged that Dockworkers plan to shut down port operations nationwide before Christmas over delay by Terminal operators to review their conditions of service six months after the subsisting one elapsed.

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has declared that the prospects of investing pension funds in housing development in Nigeria will remain dim until some necessary conditions are put in place.

The Ogun State government has mobilised 19 land revenue consultancy firms to take land title documentation services to the grass roots through a house-to-house campaign, as part of efforts to fast-track land title documentation.

The federal government is in partnership with an estate developer to build bungalows and duplexes for residential purpose in Minna , Niger state, worth about N350 million.

Some experts in the built environment in Nigeria have contended that mortgage financing is yet to take off in the country, noting that to even describe the sector as emerging is a misnomer.

WE were ushered into the sitting room of one of the most influential individuals in the world at about 11.45
a.m. on Friday for a 12.00 noon appointment. Knowing that the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye is very time conscious, we sat down hoping to relax for about 15 minutes, but four minutes later he strolled into the room throwing the delegation lead by Vanguard Editor, Mr. Mideno Bayagbon for that Thank-You Visit in a momentary confusion.

The bane of housing development in Nigeria is that its funding is largely dependent on household income. This was the summation of the presentation of the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, at the commissioning of a privately built residential estate in Lagos recently.

The global market collapse precipitated by the implosion of the American mortgage and housing markets between 1997 and 1998 have created one of the most enduring lessons for business leaders. Global business leaders are still smarting from the harsh realities of what may indeed be the first real worldwide business disruption over the past 100 years.

Alhaji Mohammed Tukur is well known in aviation circles as he has spent almost all his life working to improve the Nigerian Aviation industry. He is the Assistant General Secretary, Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON). Born 53 years ago in the university town of Zaria, Kaduna State, Tukur had his primary education in Zaria and secondary education in Government Secondary School, Kaduna.