AMID increasing glut in the Nigeria’s property market as a result of the economic recession currently facing the country, the Chief Executive Officer of Sujimoto Construction Limited, a Lagos-based real estate development company, Mr. Sijibomi Ogundele, has revealed that the surge in the number of empty apartments in Ikoyi, Lagos, is due to over pricing.

IN its quest to bridge the housing deficit in Nigeria, the Federal Government has solicited the support of China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund) to finance housing development in the country.

THE Federal Government is targeting the provision of mortgages at single digit interest rates and long tenor as it plans to unveil a new housing finance initiative.

Climate change is said to have inevitably become the defining issue in Akwa Ibom State on account of the state seriously facing various forms of environmental degradation attributable to its geographical location and other natural and human induced factors.

As part of activities marking the 2016 World Environment Day WED, Civil Society Organisations CSOs, in the country have urged Nigerians to adopt good sanitation habits and personal hygiene practice on daily basis.

The new President of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers NIESV, Bolarinwa Patunola-Ajayi has said that the Federal Capital Territory FCT, is littered with unoccupied buildings, because majority of them are proceeds of corruption, calling on the federal government to be serious in introducing property tax to address housing problem in the country.

THE Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Haven Homes, a Lagos-based real estate development firm, Mr. Tayo Sonuga, has noted that his company which is ten years old in business by this year became truly the first commercial developer of real contemporary homes in Nigeria.

THE Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria ERA/FoEN, has commended the federal government for keeping to its promise of commencing the implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP, assessment on Ogoniland.

AGAINST the backdrop of artisans in the country which is one of the major challenges confronting housing delivery in Nigeria, Lagos state government at the weekend officially announced its planned take off of Master Craftsman Project aimed at exposing craftsmen and artisans in the building construction industry to the training needed to offer suitable services to the people.

PRESIDEBNT Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his administration’s commitment towards addressing housing problem in the country, just as the Shelter Afrique raised alarm over looming crisis in housing sector in Africa. The President stated that for the government to avert housing crisis in Nigeria by the year 2020, it had kicked start the process by earmarking N40b in this year’s capital budget for a comprehensive housing programme for the low income earners in the country, while still retaining housing standard.