THE 6TH FLOOR: FANNING THE FLAME (3)

   By Olumide T. Agunbiade

MRS. Labi was inconsolable as she continued to cry. Hot tears continued to flow down her cheeks and her beautiful figure was shaking vigorously as she wept. As she continued to weep, deep in thought, I   remembered an incident that happened few months back at the hospital where I took my family for medical check-up.

On that memorable day, the scenario was quite different between other couples. As I sat at the reception on that day, I saw a man walking up and down the hospital corridor, deeply worried. He had brought in his heavily pregnant wife, just a few minutes before. She was due to deliver and had been wheeled into the labour room. He was quite anxious and disturbed as he paced up and down the hospital corridor.

               “Oga, come and sit down,” one of the nurses had said rudely, “you are disturbing others with the way you are walking about. Are you not a man? People bring their wives here to deliver everyday and they don’t disturb us like you are doing now.” She concluded her verbal outpour with a contemptuous hiss.

THE 6TH FLOOR: FANNING THE FLAME (2)

By Olumide T. Agunbiade

 THE lady that walked into my office was drop dead gorgeous. She walked in with an air of confidence, smiling and greeting me and Mr. Raymond but we did not reply her immediately because we were too busy staring at her  as if she was an alien from another planet. Honestly, she looked exactly like a gorgeous lady should -- natural, sexy and extremely beautiful.

She seems to be used to getting this kind of attention from men. Still smiling, she greeted us again and this time we responded.

THE 6TH FLOOR: FANNING THE FLAME 1

By Olumide T. Agunbiade

I was busy checking my mail on my laptop at about 10am on that day when he entered my office on the sixth floor of a 10 storey building at Ikeja and settled his bulk on a couch beside me.

He looked every inch a comfortable man. He was around 65 years old and had a belly on him that could have been mistaken in the dark for a pregnancy. He was tall dark and shy handsome, he wore a buba and sokoto a white cap and a white pair of shoes that shone even in the office.

HOW TO REDUCE HOUSING DEFICIT IN NIGERIA

      By Olumide T. Agunbiade 

In development terms, the last few years of the 20^th century and the first few years of the 21^st century have been a total failure. Housing is one of the basic of human needs. The provision of houses through the creation of mortgages is taken for granted in developed countries; however, remains a major challenge in developing countries, especially in Nigeria.

                                                                

DEFICIT SPECIFICATION
YEAR	FIGURE	POPULATION	PERCENTAGE	CAUSE
1993	8M	98M	8.06%	Mortgage
2007	12-14M	143M	9.79%	Low supply
2010	16M	156M	10.25%	Overcrowding
2011	17M	160M	10.62%	Population
2012	18M	167M	10.77%	Slum housing
				Poverty

SOURCES: PROPERTYMAX DATA & STATISTICS

      IMF

                    CIA WORLD FACTBOOK