Architects root for urban mass housing to reduce shortfall
Worried by Nigeria’s huge housing deficit, which UN statistics put at between 16 -17 million units, Lagos-based Architects have called for the construction of mass housing in the urban centres to bridge the huge gap which requires the construction of 720,000 housing units per annum in the next 10 years.
FG knows those behind insecurity – NAS
PRESIDENT of National Association of Seadogs, Calabar chapter, Cross River State, Dr. Ofem Enang, weekend, accused the Federal Government of knowing those behind the insecurity in the country but lacked the political will to prosecute them.
SRADev raises fresh concerns over Zamfara lead poisoning
Three years after the Zamfara Lead poisoning disaster, a non-governmental group NGO – Sustainable Research Action for Environmental Development SRADev has raised fresh concerns over the harmful effects of the disaster on the environment and lives of the people of Zamfara State.
Mortgage bank disburses N1.36bn housing loan in Kano
A Kano State-owned mortgage bank, the Dala Building Society, says it has disbursed N1.36 billion housing loans to no fewer than 2, 400 civil servants in the state. The Acting Managing Director of the bank, Alhaji Abdulnasser Abdu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Saturday that N480 million were disbursed 2,000 workers from May 2011 to date.
SERAP urges CJN to probe abandoned FG projects
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, to appoint an independent counsel to investigate allegations of corruption in the abandoned roads and other projects by the Federal Government nationwide.
