Nigeria: 20,000 Houses Deal With Malaysians Delayed - Governor - Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has explained that the delay of the proposed construction of 20,000 housing units by a Malaysian firm in the state to provide more houses for civil servant is due to what he described as sudden increase in the cost of building materials in the country. [AA Construction]
Nigeria: Bayelsa Govt Demolishes Ovom Shanties - For residents of the Ovom slum some distance away from the new Judiciary Complex and the on-going Bayelsa State government owned Amusement Park, this is certainly not the best of time especially with the daily heavy downpour. [AA Urbanisation]
Nigeria: New Buildings Must Have Manual Booklet - NIB - In furtherance of its crusade against building collapse and the phenomenon of fire outbreaks, the Nigeria Institute of Building (NIOB), says before any building will be commissioned, it must be accompanied by a manual booklet that guides the proprietor on the maintenance of the structure and the electrical installations in the building. [AA Construction]
Nigeria: Indiscriminate Siting of Banks Illegal - Fashola - Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State yesterday warned financial institutions in the State against indiscriminate siting of their branch offices within and around the metropolis, saying he would come down heavily on erring banks . [AA Construction]
Nigeria: Lagos Builds New Schools - The Lagos State Government has awarded the contract for the building of 13 more secondary schools, the Deputy Governor, Princess Sarah Adebisi Sosan has said. [AA Construction]
Nigeria: National Mosque Rehabilitation Near Completion - The Abuja national mosque renovation work is to be completed very soon, Daily Trust can report. The rehabilitation contract was awarded to A &K construction company in November 2007 at the cost of N752 million with a period of 40 weeks (ten months) to complete. [AA Construction]
Nigeria: Leadership, the Root of Our Problems - Mallama Zainab - Mallama Zainab Goggo Bayero has been a human capacity builder, educationist, researcher, trainer and consultant with some United Nations agencies such as UNICEF, UNAID, UNDP, and the British Council and the BBC World Trust, for about 20 years on. [AA Urbanisation]
Nigeria: Gwarinpa - a City On Its Own - There's definitely no way you can talk about the capital city of Abuja without talking about the largest estate in West Africa, which is Gwarinpa, due to its massive landscape, we call it "a city on its own". [AA Urbanisation]
Nigeria: Nasarawa Engages Firms for Cement Factory, Hotel - A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Nasarawa State government and two Abuja based companies for the construction of a five-star hotel and a feasibility study for the establishment of a cement factory. [AA Construction]
Nigeria: First Bank to Construct N125 Million Vip Center - First Bank of Nigeria Plc at the weekend disclosed that it has concluded plans to construct a VIP Centre valued at N125 million at the University of Nigeria Nsukka before the commencement of the Nigeria University games which will be hosted by the institution. [AA Construction]
Nigeria: More Than 800,000 Residents Evicted From Abuja From 2003 to 2007 - More than 800,000 residents were forcibly evicted from informal settlements in Abuja, Nigeria, from 2003 to 2007, during the administration of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, according to The Myth of the Abuja Master Plan: Forced evictions as urban planning in Abuja, Nigeria, a new report released by the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) and the Lagos-based Social and Economic Rights Action Cen
