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The Cross River State Geographic Information Agency has been named Nigeria’s most improved state GIS and digital land administration agency at the 2026 Nigeria GovTech Public Service Awards, with its director general also honoured.
The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission says concessionary loans, mortgage support and risk-sharing have drawn about $125 million of private investment into the Renewed Hope housing scheme, cutting its effective cost by roughly 30 per cent.
A Housing Development Advocacy Network report says African developers are building for a buyer class that does not exist in sufficient numbers, leaving affordable stock underserved even as demand for housing keeps rising.
Knight Frank's H1 2026 Lagos Market Update shows prime Lagos rents more than doubling since 2023, Grade A office rents steadying near $55 per square metre and values in Abuja's Guzape districts rising 20 to 30 per cent.
Jordan Wike, son of the FCT minister, has been petitioned to the EFCC over a failed $2.1m transaction for land in Katampe and Guzape, while a civil suit over the same deal returns to court on 1 December.
Residents of Fere and Oniporogun in Obafemi Owode Local Council say ancestral land was cleared for a Chinese-backed industrial project without consulting village heads, and are asking Governor Dapo Abiodun to intervene.
The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria approved more than N208 billion in housing and mortgage loans in 2025 and disbursed over N120 billion, its managing director said at the World Habitat Day commemoration in Abuja.
Governor Uba Sani has directed the Kaduna State Geographic Information Service to allocate plots and farmland to communities in Igabi whose land has been disputed with the military, saying thousands of displaced residents must be resettled with decent shelter.
The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has urged the Kano State Government to compensate traders whose shops were demolished in June 2023, saying many lost their only source of income.