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Property News
FG to patronise local building industry
The Federal Government and its agencies will patronize manufacturers of tested and proven local building materials products and technology as a measure to encourage them to lift and maintain a good standard in the building industry.....read more
Alleviating poverty through innovation
Access to water for better sanitization has been a challenge for Nigerians due to poor infrastructure. However, the need to maintain a clean environment, especially managing the toilet, remains salient to attaining good health and maintaining a clean envi....read more
Vision 2020: Committee insists on town and city development
In spite of years of several development planning, Nigeria's towns and cities have remained inefficient and non-competitive in the present era of globalization and requires urgent attention from all Government and her people to deal with the urban crises.....read more
Effective alternative tool against tree felling
The Government’s efforts to combat the felling of trees by Nigerians, especially the rural dwellers, have been very challenging. This was largely due to the lack of alternative options available to replace wood as the main source of cooking fuel in the ru....read more
Renewable Energy: 25 million jobs by 2050
Global efforts aimed at reducing the dependence on oil and promoting the development of other energy sources promises to be huge. Experts have said that the renewable energy sector would be the industry of the future.....read more
Alao tasks Nigerians on clean environment
The Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Arc. Halimat Alao, has called on Nigerians to keep a neat environment as a measure to prevent all the negative effects of poor sanitary habits on the population and the society.....read more
UNDP to build ministry capacity on climate change
The Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development Arc. Halima Alao has said it will take another 30 years before all the current efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change will bear fruits.
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Maximizing GHS facility for national safety
make it easier for handling by anyone irrespective of the country of manufacture or usage. Thus, it promotes easy management of chemicals during event of unintended exposure irrespective of the country.....read more
The challenge of combating Nigerian environmental problems
Recent reports and government pronouncements on the state of the environment and the challenges it poses to both the government of Nigeria and the people have not been very inspiring. In this reports our correspondent Patrick Osadebamwen examines the effo....read more
SON decries sub-standard building products
As the problem of collapsed buildings continues unabated in the country, the Standards Organization of Nigeria, SON, has lamented that the public has deliberately refused to heed to warnings against importation of fake and sub-standard goods into the coun....read more
UNDP, Fortis partner on greenhouse emissions
The United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, and Dutch-Belgian finance group, Fortis has announced the first project agreement of the new Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, Carbon Facility, a joint effort to support greenhouse-gas-reducing development....read more
Meyer Paints embarks on capacity building
DN Meyer, makers of different brands of paints in the country, has declared that its 2008 Annual National Conference for marketing executives across the country in Abuja, was to sharpen the personnel’s skills and prepare them for the challenges of pleasin....read more
Consortium signs MoU on affordable housing
As the issue of slum dwellers takes the front burner in world’s politics, a consortium of firms and the United Nations, UN, Habitat have disclosed their intentions to provide affordable housing to some African countries by the year 2020.....read more
Minister reads riot act to fraudulent land officials
The Federal Government has warned officials who collude with outsiders to encroach on federal plots of land to desist or face the wrath of law.....read more
Niger to construct 250 housing units
Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, has laid the foundation stone of 250 housing units in Bida in order to enable the people secure decent accommodation at affordable rates in the state.....read more
FHA sets up committee on title documents, debt recovery
The Federal Housing Authority, FHA, has set up a committee to follow up its title documents at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, just as it also set up another committee to recover the authority’s debt.....read more
Jigawa govt suspends housing contractors
Worried by the non-challant attitude and slow pace of work at the Shuwarin Road 400 housing units, Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido has suspended all five contractors handling the projects at the site with immediete effect.
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Nigeria gets admission on GEF
Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs. Halima Alao, has disclosed that Nigeria has been admitted into the membership of the Global Environment Facility, GEF, along with 20 other countries.
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