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Lagos State has asked residents and businesses along the Agric-Egan-Igando corridor to stop illegal occupation of the right-of-way reserved for 33kV transmission lines serving an ongoing mixed housing scheme.
A registered estate surveyor and valuer writes that Nigeria's housing deficit, weak mortgage system and costly land administration make affordable housing the country's biggest unfinished economic reform.
Nigeria's Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering and the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria have moved to tighten compliance in the property sector, warning developers that registration alone is not enough as the country prepares for its Mutual Evaluation.
The Kano State Government plans to build 5,000 houses under its Gida-Gida Mega City programme at Rijiyar Gwan-Gwan, with the wider housing and infrastructure package put at more than N150 billion and delivery projected within eight to 24 months.
The Kano Economic City project at Dangwauro, along the Kano-Zaria Highway, is being developed on 117 hectares with plans for 80,000 square metres of warehousing and 12,000 shops and stalls, with several blocks already completed and occupied.
Experts say reclaiming land can create new space for Lagos to build on, but without proper engineering, infrastructure and planning it will not make housing cheaper or better serviced.
Town planners say Nigeria's rush to build housing estates on the edges of major cities is converting farmland and family land faster than planning controls can keep up, threatening food production.
Housing experts have called on Lagos to convert abandoned and underutilised public buildings into affordable homes, arguing that government should maximise existing assets before committing scarce resources to new estates.
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.