ABUJA- In a bid to cut down on energy poverty in the country, the Federal Government, has launched the Rural Women Renewable Energy Security, RUWES, initiative.

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe has summoned the contractors handling the Skill Acquisition Centre in Ikot Nakanda, Cross Rivers State to his office in Abuja to explain the reasons behind the slow pace of work at the site in spite of huge funds committed to the project.

The Senate has explained the reason for the delay in the passage of Social Housing Bill, saying it was due to further deliberation on some grey areas at the committee level.

THE Managing Director of Gran Imperio Group, a Lagos-based firm of infrastructure and real estate development, Mr. Adeyeye Ogunwusi said the company ventured into the construction of upscale but affordable housing to bridge the housing gap in the country estimated at 17 million units.

BARELY one month after his inauguration as the Chairman of the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria, ESVARBON, Elder William Oruka Odudu presided over the induction of 113 newly registered estate surveyors and valuers, vowing to use everything at his disposal to fight quackery in the profession. He also pledged to double the numerical strength of registered estate surveyors and valuers in the country before the expiration of his tenure in 2016.

THE leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and its local partner Kriston Lally Ngeria EPC, recently visited Athens, Greece to meet with their foreign partners, Kriston-Lally Enterprises and Attikat on the NLC/Kriston-Lally N960 billion Workers Housing Scheme in Nigeria. The NLC was led by its President, Mr. Umar Abdulwaheed.

The Federal Government has commenced the construction of Zaria Water Supply expansion project. The project located in Zaria and Kaduna states was started in 2006 with the construction of Galma multipurpose dam by the Federal Government mainly for supply of raw water to various communities, as well as irrigation and power generation.

Common Sense Estate Limited, a subsidiary of Common Sense Group, CSG, last week, unveiled a 100-unit housing estate that would be used for both commercial and residential purposes.

The Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA has acquired 100 Tata mini trucks for effective management of refuse in the state. The acquisition was informed by the need for proper coordination of refuse or domestic waste in some areas where heavy duty refuse disposal trucks cannot access.

SEVEN months after the demolition of 106 houses in Odoragunsin in the old Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State, by officials of Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, the affected home owners, under the aegis of Residents and Property Owners at Odoragunsin, RPOO, have appealed to the Lagos House of Assembly to come to their rescue.