Dubai: Did you know that if you buy a one-bedroom apartment in Dubai today, you would spend nearly Dh400,000 less than you would about six or seven years ago? Analysts said that if you’re planning to buy an apartment or villa, Dubai’s relatively low property prices, coupled with a slight decline in home loan rates, make 2015 one of the best times in years to invest in real estate.

Lafarge Africa Plc has reported decline in key performance indicators for its financial year ended December 31, 2014 with the profit after tax falling by a 43 percent. Highlights of the 2014 results released, weekend, showed that the it recorded N34.661 billion as profit after tax for the year as against N60.953 billion achieved in the same period in 2013.

EKORI—PROPORTIONAL peace has returned to Ekori community in Cross River State where three persons were killed in an orchestrated violence between the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, faithful in the area over political rally. Schools, markets and hospitals in the town were shut down as a result of the crisis and until the police intervened, the political thugs, who held the entire community hostage as they shot now and again, were not prepared to simmer down.

Hon. Chijoke Edoga special assistant to the president on National Assembly Matters was a former chairman of the House of Representatives committee on information at the onset of the present democratic dispensation in 1999. Edgoa who is from Enugu State and an enthusiastic supporter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in […]

IKOT OBIO NDOHO— WHEN the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Obong Godswill Akpabio, breached protocol while on a state function, September 14, last year, by making a spur-of-the-moment stopover at the rural Ikot Obio Ndoho community, Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of the state, his security aides and other members of his entourage were taken aback.

The storm has been brewing in the Lagos State health sector over the months, broke yesterday as doctors under the aegis of the Medical Guide made good its threat to embark on indefinite strike over irreconcilable matters with the Lagos State government.

EKET—INHAIBITANTS of Nduo-Eduo community, Eket Local Government Area, Akwa-Ibom State, have commen-ded the chairman of the area, Mr. Aniekan Akpan, for establishing a multi-purpose 50-bed capacity Cottage Hospital in the town. Niger Delta Voice gathered that the hospital, which is 95 per cent completed, will undertake the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of children-related ailments, women and adults health challenges.

GAC Motor’s Trumpchi GS5 is one of the most talked about compact sport utility vehicles, SUVs, in the country at the moment.

Nissan jumps ahead of the industry average in annual dependability study of three-year-old vehicles with new reporting model 2012 Murano ranked most dependable in Midsize SUV class.

Microsoft Mobile Devices and Services yesterday announced that it will be working with three successful indigenous entrepreneurs to mentor eventual winners of the ongoing ‘From Passion to Empire’ campaign to ensure full attainment of the goals of the initiative.