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The Lagos State Building Control Agency says it will tighten enforcement across the building lifecycle, promote a maintenance culture and encourage building insurance to reduce collapse risk and investment losses in the state.
Tanzania’s e-Ardhi digital land administration platform now allows citizens to sign title deeds without travelling to the region where the service originated, land officials said during a public education session in Ruvuma.
Eight people were injured when a building collapsed in Mamboleo, Kisumu County, with all residents evacuated as multi-agency teams responded, the Kenya Red Cross said.
KwaZulu-Natal said foreign nationals affected by a shack fire at the Swapo informal settlement in Copesville will not receive emergency housing assistance, after a verification process found 19 foreign nationals had been living in the destroyed structures.
More than a dozen property owners in Ikono Local Government Area have rejected compensation approved by the Akwa Ibom State Government for land acquired for the N117.5 billion Ibom Medical City project, saying the amounts fall far short of what it would cost to rebuild.
Anambra State's Ministry of Justice is reviewing about 180 criminal cases arising from land disputes, with the Attorney-General saying files that are essentially civil will be discontinued while genuine criminal cases will be prosecuted.
Nairobi's 30-kilometre mass rapid transit underground rail blueprint identifies five county bills plus land value capture and transit-oriented development policies to govern construction and development around stations.
A five-city seminar will address the rising arrest, detention and prosecution of Nigerian real estate agents over property transactions, its organiser Dr Prince Joel has said.
President William Ruto says Kenya has a pipeline of 137 police housing projects totalling more than 28,000 units, with 870 units completed and about 12,000 under construction.