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Former Attorney General Justin Muturi has warned against alleged plans to subdivide and convert part of the 301,330-acre Galana Kulalu agricultural project in Tana River into private real-estate holdings, saying the land must remain a strategic national asset.
An uncompleted four-storey hotel building under construction at Independence Layout in Enugu collapsed in the early hours of Sunday, killing one person and leaving four others hospitalised, officials said.
Property developers and landowners have welcomed Uganda's three-month suspension of special certificates of title but want Parliament and the Attorney General to tighten the Land Act against repeated land fraud.
The Apapa GRA Residents Association wants Lagos State to suspend permits for warehouses and commercial developments in the estate, saying the approvals are changing the character of the low-density residential area without consultation.
Authorities in Accra have started demolishing structures inside the protected buffer zone of the Kpeshie Lagoon at Laboma Beach, following a 21-day ultimatum issued by the Greater Accra Regional Security Council.
Lagos State says it will provide sustainable infrastructure across government-owned housing estates, including a shift to solar power for sewage and water treatment plants to cushion rising electricity tariffs.
Uganda's state minister for lands, Harriet Ntabazi, warned officials in eastern Uganda against grabbing public land as the government's national land inventory rollout reached Mbale.
Former REDAN president Aliyu Wamakko has described real estate as a conduit for money laundering, urging the government to cut cement taxes and consider subsidies while calling for passage of the Real Estate Regulation and Development bill.
Former residents of Buxton in Mombasa and human rights groups are pressing the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to disclose the status of its investigation into how six acres of public land were transferred for an affordable housing project.