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Housing experts say the Federal Government's plan to build 100 social housing units in every local government area was set without a needs assessment and could leave thousands of units unoccupied.
Communities around the National Cereals Research Institute say makeshift structures, workshops and block-making businesses have taken over parts of the premises, bringing security and environmental problems and prompting demolition exercises.
Ogun State will break ground on 12 November for a 450-hectare industrial park being developed by multinational Lee Group along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway near the Sagamu Interchange, with 29 factories planned.
Governor Uba Sani says Kaduna has paid about N7 billion to households whose homes, businesses and utilities stood in the way of township roads, with a fresh N2 billion tranche for 865 households in Zaria, Giwa and Shika.
A Leadership investigation traces how agents, forgers and fake developers sell plots that do not exist or have been sold several times over, as regulators admit weak consumer protection.
Lagos has suspended reclamation of wetlands, floodplains and lagoon fronts where developers lack environmental and drainage approvals, with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu warning that building over wetlands is worsening flooding and coastal erosion.
Subscribers of Valington Premium City Estate in Idu, Abuja, have asked the FCTA to establish who owns the land after a competing title claim by Cityview Landmark Corporate Realty left their plots in doubt.
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights has asked the Lagos State House of Assembly to secure a six-month extension for motor spare parts and scrap dealers directed to leave their Abule Egba premises by October 16.
The Federal Government wants to lift the maximum mortgage loan from N50 million to N85 million and channel up to 40% of mortgage bookings to informal-sector workers, Housing Minister Muttaqha Rabe-Darma said at the national lands and housing council in Sokoto.