Category: Housing/Construction
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EFCC Returns Recovered Properties to Arthur Eze in Enugu
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Command on Friday, January 28, 2022, returned eleven houses recovered in different parts of Enugu to Chief Arthur Eze. The properties were recovered by the EFCC from the duo of Olisaebuka Okechukwu Eze and Onyeka Nnadozie Eze, administration and finance manager respectively in Arthur Eze’s…
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Search ends in Delta building collapse, three confirmed dead, eighteen rescued
Three persons have been confirmed dead after a church building collapsed at Okpanam community in Delta State. A woman and two girls lost their lives to the incident which occurred on Tuesday in Oshimili North Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in Delta, Bright Edafe, confirmed the number of…
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FCT Minister Tasks Cooperative Societies on Housing
Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has charged cooperative societies across the country to lend support in further bridging the national housing deficit gap. This is even as he applauded the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council’s AMMC Cooperative Society for initiating a 404 unit staff housing estate for its members. Performing the…
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Borno set to demolish 1,300 houses over flooding
Borno State Government on Wednesday said 1,300 houses standing on waterways and river banks in the state capital, Maiduguri, have been marked for demolition. Parts of the state capital in the last two months have been submerged by floods. Speaking during a press conference on Wednesday in Maiduguri, the Executive Secretary, Borno Geographic Information Service,…
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Our reasons for borrowing justified, FG insists
The Federal Government says the funds it has borrowed so far are justifiable because they are being used for the development of critical infrastructure that will benefit Nigerians The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this at the Obafemi Awolowo terminal end of the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project. The News Agency…
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FCTA demolishes 134 houses in Apo
The Federal Capital Territory Administration on Saturday demolished 134 houses in the Apo Akpmajenya indigenous community, to pave way for the construction of a major road network in the area. The exercise was coordinated by the FCT Task Force on City Sanitation led by its chairman, Ikharo Attah. Briefing newsmen after the exercise, Director, Department…
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Enugu govt levels house of man who demolished airport fence
The Enugu State Government on Friday pulled down a twin duplex belonging to one Jonathan Emejulu two days after he demolished the perimeter fence of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi had on Thursday vowed to send a strong message to Emejulu for allegedly daring the state government by demolishing the airport fence…
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FCTA demolishes 25 houses over land grabbing
The Federal Capital Territory Administration Department of Development Control on Wednesday demolished 25 houses in the Kyami District of Abuja. This is happening barely one week after the department pulled down 102 houses built on waterways and flood plains in Gwagwalada. The Director of the department, Malam Muktar Galadima, who led the exercise told newsmen…
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One rescued as three-storey building collapses in Lagos
A three-storey building has collapsed on Cemetery Street in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos State. It was gathered that emergency responders, who stormed the scene of the incident, rescued a yet-to-be-identified victim trapped in the rubble of the collapsed building. The Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, while reacting to…
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Three confirmed dead in Lagos building collapse as survivors recount ordeal
Three persons have been confirmed dead while nine others were rescued alive, underneath the rubbles of two buildings which collapsed Saturday in Freeman Street, at Lagos Island area of Lagos State. SGTV had earlier reported that the building collapse left one person dead while rescue operation was ongoing. The two buildings involved are a three-story…