Nigeria: Stop Delta Demolitions, Rights Group Warns - Amnesty International is calling for an immediate stop to planned demolitions by the Rivers State Government of houses along Njemanze Road in Port Harcourt, Nigeria warning that hundreds of people could be left homeless following the exercise. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Making Fortunes From Demolition Sites - It was a case of one man's misfortune being another man's blessing at the Ifesowapo Iron Market, along the Lagos-Badagry expressway, at Orile Iganmu. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Lagos Residents Protest Demolition of Houses - Over 2000 residents of the Ishefun Community in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State yesterday protested against the demolition of their houses and the re-allocation of their and to politicians and friends of the government. The residents who gave the state government a two week ultimatum to return their lands to them, threatened legal show down after the expiration of the ultimatum. [AA Construction]

Ghana: Sodom & Gomorrah Eviction On Course - The brouhaha surrounding the eviction and demolition of the popular slum, Sodom and Gomorrah, has taken a new twist, with the relocation of the Agboloshie food hub, lorry station in the area. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: FCT Battles Building Owners in Court - Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Adamu Aliero, has vowed not to soft-pedal on the administration's legal battle with owners of 21 palatial buildings marked for demolition in Gwarinpa Housing Estate, Abuja for violating building code. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Bank of Industry Building - a Year Ago, Lagos Made History! - IT will be exactly a year ago tomorrow, when the proactive administration of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola scored another first, this time, a technological feat - the pulling down of the 22-storey Bank of Industry (BOI) building without any casualty, not even the slightest damage to surrounding structures. [AA Construction]

Zambia: Council Demolishes Houses in Kitwe - THE Kitwe City Council (KCC) yesterday demolished more than 400 houses built on illegally allocated plots, sparking a protest during which Kawama township residents damaged property belonging to the ward councillor. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Anger Over Demolition of a Mechanic Village in Lagos - Mechanics in Lagos State are angry and threatened; they feel let down and dejected. Many of them do not know where their next meal will come from because of the activities of land speculators, who want to grab the land that was allocated to them by the state government. [AA Construction]

Nigeria: Demolition of Agbo Malu Sparks Fresh Concern - THE DEMOLITION of residential buildings in Agbo Malu in Apapa layout by suspected agents of the Lagos State Government has continued to generate mixed reactions from the residents and some concerned members of the public. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Water Fronts - Opposition to Amaechi Suffers Setback - Opposition to Governor Chibuike Amaechi administration 's decision to demolish water fronts in Port Harcourt suffered reverse on Tuesday as over 4,000 landlords and tenants of Bundu water front, announced their pull out from the litigation against the government. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Kubwa Flood - FCDA Marks Houses for Demolition - As residents of Kubwa in the FCT begin to count their loss due to Monday's flood, they have watched in utter disbelief as the FCT Department of Building Control marked their houses for demolition. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: FCTA Scraps Lugbe Village - Where will I sleep this night?" the Eze Igbo, Eze John Okonkwo cried out yesterday as officials of the Department of Development Control pulled down the entire Zone 8 village of Lugbe village. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: FCDA to Demolish More Houses at Lugbe - Officials of the Development Control Department of the FCDA on Friday demolished some buildings at the Zone 8 of Lugbe area of the FCT. [AA Construction]

Nigeria: Waterfront - Communities Back Amaechi's Planned Demolition - Landlords from Afikpo, Ojike, Urualla, Elechi Beach and Abba waterfront communities in Port Harcourt have pledged their support to Governor Rotimi Amaechi and his government's decision to demolish shanty waterfronts in Port Harourt and subsequently redevelop them into world class surburbs. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Rivers Demolition - I Am Ready to Die - Commissioner - Rivers State Commissioner for Urban Development, Barrister Osima Gina has maintained that despite repeated threat on his life as a result of the planned waterfront demolition exercise by the state government, no amount of intimidation would deter him from working within the ambits of the law to implement a blue print for urban development in the state. [AA Urbanisation]