The growing urgency to provide more homes to millions of households in Nigeria, and the remarkable rate of illegal construction and housing production processes in the country calls for a paradigm shift in housing policy, urban planning and building practices.

In order to hasten speedy completion of the ongoing housing construction under the National Housing Programme NHP, across 33 states in the country, the Federal Government has pledged quick disbursement of funds to  contractors.

Homework Development and Properties Limited, a leading real estate company in Nigeria, has commenced work on one of its new mini estates with units ranging from one-bedroom and two-bedroom flats as well as three and four-bed terraces dubbed Dunvale Court, as part of  its efforts in ensuring provision of affordable luxury property in the country.

The Association of Abuja Block Producers, AABP, has appealed to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mustapha Bello, to approve a permanent place for moulding blocks for them.

Leading indigenous retail giant, Hubmart Stores Limited, has continued in its tradition of bringing satisfaction close to the homes of its teeming customers by opening in Lekki, Lagos, a new outlet located  at Lennox Mall ’The Place’, Lekki Phase1.

The management of Ikeja City Mall has expressed satisfaction with the efficiency and quality of work done at its premises by No-Slips Limited, a Lagos-based non-slip floor treatment company.

Last week, rights groups, labour leaders and activists got together in a rountable to examine moves by Lagos State Government to privatise water distribution in the state, especially the Adiyan II Waterworks.

The president of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, NIA, Festus Adibe Njoku, an architect, has disowned  recent publications in Nigeria’s newspapers that the institute took its regulatory body, Architects Registration Council of Nigeria, ARCON, to court.

Homework Development and Properties Limited, has restored the trust foreign investors once had in the Nigerian real estate sector.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has nullified the claim by the Nigerian Institute of Architects, NIA, that the Architects’ Registration Council of Nigeria ARCON, the regulatory body of architecture profession in the country, has been dissolved and therefore has no power to sanction erring members of NIA.