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As the Africa Housing Awards 2023 beckons, The Executive Director, Housing Development Advocacy Network (HDAN), Barrister Festus Adebayo, has harped on the importance of recognizing and promoting excellence in Service delivery ahead of the prestigious end of year dinner and Awards event.
The Executive Director of the pioneer housing Advocacy Organization stated this during an interview with Newsmen in Abuja. He said that the Africa Housing Awards has become imperative today because it is the ultimate platform for encouraging Excellence and spurring better achievements in the Real Estate sector. He also emphasized the need to continually encourage the good aspirations and giants strides of players in the sector so as to set the pace for better performance in the following years.
He said “this is the fifth Edition. This has been our way of appraising good performance and encouraging excellence in the Real Estate sector. It is always a time for stakeholders to gather together, dance and dine after a tedious 12 months. It is also a way to recognize excellence and encourage those with good aspirations to do more. The Awards event also recognizes the performance of Governors who are housing-friendly will be appreciated. To us it is a time for relaxation, to thank God for a successful year.”

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The Association of Professional Women Builders of Nigeria (APWBN), conferred the convener/founder of Africa international housing show and CEO of Housing TV Africa, Festus Adebayo, with the award of patron of the association.
Festus Adebayo was conferred with the award in view of his numerous giant strides in Affordable housing Advocacy and support for the association.

Giving the Award was the chairperson of APWBN, Mrs. Florence Akinyoade , who extolled the virtues of Festus Adebayo, Labelling him as a monolith worthy of Emulation and a person of value to the society. She also commended him for his laudable contributions to Housing development in Nigeria.


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Nigeria’s leading affordable housing advocate, Festus Adebayo has announced the establishment of the first Housing TV station in Africa.
According a statement released by Adebayo in Abuja on Friday, he noted that the purpose of establishing the housing tv on Startimes Channel 149 is basically to bring awareness campaigns down to various homes in Africa.

He further stated that the TV channel will be extended to DSTV before the end of the year, adding that the new TV channel will teach the airwaves from December 1st 2024, and would be launched by the Honourable Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa.

For Adebayo, the TV station will capture not less than 65% housing related contents, leaving the remaining 35% to contents around educative, political, sports, religion, entertainment, among others.

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Pioneer Civil Society Organization in the Nigeria Housing Industry, Housing Development Advocacy Network (HDAN) has expressed dismay with dissatisfaction about a report published in one of Nigeria’s national dailies, Premium Times on how Mr President was misinformed to sign the bill on real estate regulation in Nigeria which has not passed through necessary legislative processes at both the House of Reps and the Senate.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Executive Director, Festus Adebayo on Sunday in Abuja.

While expressing his shock over the incident, Adebayo noted that HDAN was yet to understand why there was so much desperation on the part of some stakeholders to get the bill signed into law by Mr President, even when it has not gotten the necessary legislative nod.

“For us at HDAN, we have been monitoring the movement of the bill before it suddenly disappeared which prevented us from knowing how far the bill has gone. The last information we heard concerning such related bill was the passage of real estate regulation bill for FCT. We wondered how many interest groups are pushing for different bills that will serve their selfish interest rather than the overall interest of the sector under the real estate regulation bill”.

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Nigeria’s leading affordable housing advocate, Festus Adebayo has announced the establishment of the first Housing TV station in Africa.
According to a statement released by Adebayo in Abuja on Friday, he noted that the purpose of establishing the Housing TV on StarTimes Channel 149 is basically to bring awareness campaigns down to various homes in Africa.

He further stated that the TV channel will be extended to DSTV before the end of the year, adding that the new TV channel will teach the airwaves from January 1st, 2024, and would be launched by the Honourable Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa.

For Adebayo, the TV station will capture not less than 65% of housing-related content, leaving the remaining 35% to content around educative, politics, sports, religion, and entertainment, among others.

He therefore calls on all Nigerians, and Africa as a whole to be on the lookout for this new innovation set to promote and create more consciousness among African leaders on the news to provide housing for their citizens.

Read more: https://www.housingtvafrica.com/festus-adebayo-to-pioneer-first-housing-tv-station-in-africa/

Just In: Tribunal dismisses APM’s petition against Tinubu, Shettima

The Presidential Election Petition Court PEPC has struck out the Allied Peoples Movement APM petitions against President Bola Tinubu and his Vice President, Kashim Shettima, for lack of merit.
The PEPC dismissed and described APM’s case filed to nullify Tinubu’s election as “incompetent”.

The court held that issues raised by the APM in its petition contained pre-election matters that could only be determined by the Federal High Court.

Chairman of the panel, Justice Haruna Tsammani, read the ruling.

https://www.housingtvafrica.com/just-in-tribunal-dismisses-apms-petition-against-tinubu-shettima/

The Presidential Election Petition Court PEPC has struck out the Allied Peoples Movement APM petitions against President Bola Tinubu and his Vice President, Kashim Shettima, for lack of merit.
The PEPC dismissed and described APM’s case filed to nullify Tinubu’s election as “incompetent”.

The court held that issues raised by the APM in its petition contained pre-election matters that could only be determined by the Federal High Court.

Chairman of the panel, Justice Haruna Tsammani, read the ruling.

The tribunal also dismissed the APM petition against the Independent National Electoral Commission and four others.

Listed as 1st to 5th respondents are INEC, All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, Kashim Shettima and Kabiru Masari.

The tribunal ruled on each of the arguments put forward by APM.

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Tsammani said the petitioners failed to prove their arguments and the petition was void of merits.

The judge also upheld preliminary objections raised by all the Respondents to challenge the competence of the petition.

Tsammani held that since the petition centered on the qualification or otherwise of Tinubu to contest the presidential election, the APM ought to have gone to court within 14 days after Tinubu was nominated by the APC.

He held that since the cause of action bordered on a pre-election matter, the APM lacked the locus standi to challenge Tinubu’s nomination.

Tsammani also held that the law did not allow a political party to query the process adopted by another political party in nominating its candidate.

The judge also held that invalid nomination or double nomination did not qualify as a ground for disqualification in respect of the presidential election as provided in sections 131 and 137 of the Constitution.

According to the report, the APM asked the court to invalidate the votes of the President on the grounds of the double nomination of his vice, Shettima.

The APM argued that at the time Shettima became the vice presidential candidate of the APC, he was also a senatorial candidate in Borno State.

The case of the APM was opened and closed on June 21 after calling one private witness. https://www.housingtvafrica.com/just-in-tribunal-dismisses-apms-petition-against-tinubu-shettima/

Justice Haruna Tsamani, the lead judge of the Presidential Election Petition Court, has dismissed the drug trafficking claims against Bola Ahmed Tinubu by the Labour Party (LP).
LP had claimed that Tinubu was involved in a drug trafficking case in which he forfeited $460,000 to the United States of America via a case determined by a US District Court.

The judge agreed with the submission of Tinubu’s counsel, citing a letter issued by the US Embassy in 2003.

The allegation is one of the grounds upon which the petition of the LP was instituted against the declaration of Tinubu as president-elect after Nigeria’s February 25 presidential election.

The embassy had communicated with Tafa Balogun, the Inspector-General of Police at the time, that a records check conducted to establish Tinubu’s involvement in drug crimes came back negative.

The court proceeded to read the contents of the letter from the US embassy in Nigeria.
https://www.housingtvafrica.com/just-in-tribunal-rejects-tinubus-charges-of-drugs-trafficking/

The authorities of Ilobu, the administrative center of Irepodun Local Government Area in Osun State, have replied to the claim of land snatching made against the Nigerian Army by Ifon-Osun town, headquarters of Orolu Local Government Area.
This is in addition to a public statement issued by the Nigerian Army last Tuesday debunking the allegation, while also explaining its role in securing every part of Nigeria against internal and external aggression.

Led by their regent and Eesa of Ifon-Osun, Babatunde Oyetunji, the residents staged a protest and addressed the media, accusing the Nigerian Army of hijacking their community’s land allegedly in connivance with Ilobu community.

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The Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has warned land grabbers, locally called “Omo onile,” extorting developers and disturbing their workers at building sites in the state.

The governor gave the warning against the backdrop of petitions flooding his office over attacks on artisans and contractors at building sites across the state.

The governor’s warning was contained in a statement by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, and made available on Tuesday.
I have received several petitions from Osogbo, Ife, Ilesa, Ikirun, Iwo, and almost every major town in Osun state. Recently, I received more than three petitions from Osogbo alone, where perpetrators allegedly maimed and even killed some site workers,” the governor said.

“I have reports of seizure of work equipment belonging to artisans and even illegal detention of contractors and site workers. All these must stop forthwith.


“I have subsequently directed security agencies to conduct special operations to go after perpetrators. Our administration will not tolerate brazen lawlessness and unwarranted disruption of the livelihoods of innocent citizens.
“I’m also requesting victims of these untoward activities to report the incidence to law enforcement agencies for appropriate actions,” the governor was quoted in the statement.

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