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The prime objective of Nigeria's new housing policy is to “ensure that all Nigerians own or have access to decent, safe and sanitary housing in healthy environment with infrastructural services at affordable cost, with secure tenure”. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/social-housing-the-south-…
In rural Nigeria, 80 percent of small scale farmers are women. Yet very few own land -- held back by a lack of resources and conservative male attitudes. Activists are calling for more rights for women farmers, including access to land and credit.
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By: Maxwell Awumah
Nigerian architect Kunlè Adeyemi is re-conceiving African’s water slums as floating cities or islands.
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The farmer and the cowman, the musical Oklahoma tells us, should be friends. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a remarkable young African woman who campaigns for land rights for her pastoralist Mbororo people, would agree.
She believes grazing and cultivating communities can benefit each other, in a…
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has disclosed that private sector investments in the country’s agric sector has reached about N760 billion in the last two years.
Former Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Sonny Echono, an architect, disclosed this in Abuja at a seminar…
By: Channels Television
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Channels Tv.com
It may not be business as usual for land grabbers in Ogun State, South West Nigeria whose activities have been responsible for many deaths and breakdown of law and order.
The Police authority in that state has reiterated…
By: Segun Adebowale
Date: March 9th 2016
Source: The Eagle Online
Kadeem said the state government was seriously concerned about the menace of land grabbing, especially as activities of land grabbers have escalated in recent times, and that it would no longer be tolerated henceforthKadeem said…
By: Johnson Okanlawon
Date: March 13th 2016
Source: National Mirror
Towards ensuring that women in rural areas are empowered, particularly in the area of agriculture, an international organisation committed to the eradication of poverty, Oxfam has said that it would engage Nigerian government and…
By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights activists condemned the Nigerian Senate on Thursday for rejecting a gender and equality law that pledged to eliminate discrimination in politics, education and…
By: Eromosele Ebhomele
Date: April 22nd 2016
Source: The News Nigeria
A bill for a law to prohibit forceful entry and occupation of landed properties in Lagos state, western Nigeria is being planned for passage. The bill seeks to criminalise what has come to be known as land grabbing in the state…
By: Ogechi Ekeanyanwu
Date: May 7th 2016
Source: Development Cable
A lot of widows in 35 countries, including Nigeria, do not have equal land inheritance rights.
In March, the gender equality bill, a bill to ensure gender parity, equal economic opportunities, and equality in marriage especially in…
By: Uwaisu Idris and Gazali Abdou
Date: May 6th 2016
Source: Deutsche Welle
A continued strife over control of fertile lands in Nigeria has resulted to the deaths of many farmers and their livestock. Analysts say land disputes pose the greatest security risk after Boko Haram.
It was too late…