PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT

The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says road construction has enabled the government to create jobs and promote procurement. Fashola made this assertion on Tuesday during his inspection tour of the Jebba-Mokwa-Bokani road in Niger. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the road is one of...

The Federal Government says it will commence the allocation of the first phase of the National Housing Project (NHP) in 2020. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola made this known at the 2-day inspection tour of five highway projects in Niger state on Tuesday. According to him,...

  Mr Abubakar Aliyu, Minister of State for Housing, has said that resolving Nigeria’s housing deficit required massive synergy with development partners. Aliyu spoke in Abuja on Thursday at a One-day Sensitisation Forum on Lands, Housing and Urban Development Multilateral Programmes of Collaboration and 10th Session of the World Urban...

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would deploy the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to tackle infrastructure challenges in the state. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu made this known at a stakeholders engagement of the Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA), at Onikan, with theme ”Private Partnership on...

The Federal Government on Friday began demolition of illegal fences under some bridges in Lagos, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent who monitored the exercise reports that the demolition exercise began with a fence of about 250 metres built under the descent of the Apongbon Bridge...

Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has assured residents and motorists that the Agege Pen Cinema flyover bridge will be completed and commissioned for use by June ending or early July 2020. The governor, who toured the project site on Friday in company of his cabinet members, said the bridge has reached...

  Motorists will have to endure additional 12 months of nerve-breaking traffic on the Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki-Ojota highway for the rehabilitation of the road to be completed, according to the Federal Government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that driving on the highway has been a huge nightmare for motorists since...

Echostone Nigeria has concluded the construction of 252 units of two-bedroom flats in Idale Badagry LGA of Lagos state, as part of its ongoing projects, to drive mass housing delivery in Lagos state. Speaking during the inspection of the site, Commissioner for Housing, Lagos State, Moruf Akinderu Fatai said, “I’m...

  Nigeria leads Africa in the total annual number of premature pollution-linked deaths, the 2019 Global Pollution and Health Metrics published earlier in December showed. The West African country is ranked third in the world behind leader India and China. Nigeria also leads Africa in air pollution-related deaths during the...

  Lagos State government, at the weekend, signed a Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) agreement with six private property developers to deliver 8,272 units of hostel in 18 months at the Lagos State University (LASU) campus thus making it a residential institution after 36 years of existence. The deal will...