In furtherance of its drive to provide affordable housing in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA has allocated parcels of land in the city to the Federal Housing Authority, FHA, to enable the housing agency fulfill its mandate of building decent and affordable housing for Nigerians.

The European Union has unveiled plans to award N210 million grants to civil society organizations, CSOs and non-government organizations, NGOs for the implementation of community-based actions that will boost sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene services delivery in urban and small towns in five Niger Delta states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Rivers.

As Nigeria intensifies efforts at bridging her housing deficit, a major player in the real estate sector and Managing Director, Grenadines Homes, Mrs. Noimot Olatunji has called on government at all levels to urgently put measures in place to fast-track timely and cost effective housing delivery in the country by simplifying the approval processes of land titles.

TRUSTBond Mortgage Bank Plc, one of the recapitalised national primary mortgage institutions, PMIs in the country, has assured its shareholders of uninterrupted operations in its real estate activities.

The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam has charged members of the recently inaugurated National Steering Committee and Technical Committee on Environment Statistics to ensure that Nigeria puts the United Nations revised framework on environment statistics to use in developing the country’s environment.

In spite of the efforts of Lagos State Government and other concerned organisations to bring the incidents of building collapse in the state to the barest minimum, occupants of public buildings in (such as Barracks) with structural defects are not cooperating with the government to achieve a building collapse-free state.

Worried by increasing level of corruption in the construction industry, Nigerian Quantity Surveyors have called on the he Federal Government to set up a Nigerian Construction Industry Transparency Initiative, NCITI to promote probity, accountability and transparency in this construction industry.

Three national primary mortgage institutions, PMIs – Messrs Imperial Homes Mortgage Limited, TrustBond Mortgage Plc and Abbey Mortgage- have concluded plans to come together as a syndicate to finance the development of Grand Lake Estate.a housing project in Ajah area of Lagos.

By Jude Njoku & Caleb Ayansina The Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development and two of its agencies – the Federal Housing Authority, FHA and the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria FMBN, added 43,126 housing units to the nation’s housing stock between July 2010 and last month. The Minister of Lands, Housing and […]

London house prices fell last month (September) for the first time in more than three years, and prices nationwide showed their smallest increase in 15 months, a major house price survey showed on Thursday.

NIGERIA has called for a practical, pragmatic and action-oriented new urban agenda that will transcend the Habitat Agenda. The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi who made the call recently at the first preparatory conference for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban development, Habitat 111, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, called for the emergence of “a new Urban Agenda that will exert similar lasting influence, building on agreed relevant international sustainable development goals, and with clear goals, principles and plan of action”. The new agenda will also ensure “that we leave future generations with a prosperous future”.

QUANTITY surveying professionals have very critical roles to play in every facet of the power businesses in Nigeria by converting the sectoral aftermaths to opportunities”. This piece of information was given to the construction cost experts by the Chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Dr Sam Amadi at the 6th annual distinguished lecture organised by the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS, last week.

Almost one month after a Guest House at Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun area of Lagos metropolis collapsed, killing over 115 persons and permanently disabling many others, reactions have continued to trail the ugly incident.

THE multi-million Onitsha shopping mall being promoted by Messrs African Capital Alliance, a private equity investment company in collaboration with the Anambra State Government, has attained a 64 percent completion level and would be ready for commissioning by mid 2015. The project is anchored by Shoprite, the popular South African retail company.

THE reconstituted board of the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria, ARCON, was last week inaugurated in Abuja by the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Akon Eyakenyi who charged the members to check the incursion of quacks into the profession.