Fellow Nairaland,

I am in the process of developing a piece of land at Lugbe 1 area at Abuja. It is a one storey residential development. All the drawings including Architectural, Structural, Plumbing, Electrical, Civil etc. were completed in August this year and forwarded to Development Control for approval. What I am hearing now is that Development Control has suspended approval of any new development in Lugbe 1. This is because the entire Lugbe area is being re-designed following proposed re-location of Abuja gate to Lugbe. I find this heard to believe and am hoping somebody in this blog will point me in the right direction.

hello ank,

i posted something similar in respect to your present predicament. in the posting earlier i mentioned discussing with a reliable source in the development control office, it was actually the director of development control mal yahya yusuf who is like an uncle to me.

i was discussing development in areas that has not been serviced yet with infrastructures as regards approval for same and subsequently he brought up lugbe issue, he said, the city gate will be moved back further toward the airport area of which lugbe will be encaptured in the whole scene and as such they will monitor the kind of structure to be erected as this will serve as an entrance point to abuja (they will be requiring a befitting and welcoming structure if i was to understand him, but modality to achieve that i cant really say).

that was our last discussion without further details as it was not a main subject.

Wow! They r moving d City Gate.

That is not good o.

@ abujabooks

hw r u doing and thanks for the nice works, i guess u most be in bauja too.

the city gate adjustment will be more of credit to the capital city, as we all knw

first impression matters a lot. it will also bring the govt close to these areas such as

lugbe, pyakasa, alita, even kuje as regards infrastructure. these areas will definately take credit for it

given the principle of externalities. remember abuja is the eye of the country in the

global perspective