Lagos
Coastal ground, heavy rain, and a permit path that runs through planning and building control.
Read LagosAreas
Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Kano, and Gombe.
The site covers five cities. They are not the same building problem. Lagos is a coastal, humid city with a lagoon, low-lying estates, and a formal split between planning permission and building control. Abuja is a planned capital on higher ground, with district rules and a dusty dry season. Ibadan is an older inland city drained by the Ogunpa, Ona, and Ogbere. Kano is the northern commercial city, with a short wet season and a long hot dry. Gombe is a younger northeast capital, cut by gullies running off the escarpment.
The pages below are written separately on purpose. A sentence that is true of Lekki is a poor guide to Bodija, and a Maitama setback is not an Ibadan hillside. Read the city you are actually in, then send the neighbourhood with the quote. Inside Abuja, the district pages cover the estates, the formal plots, and the older commercial streets. Start with the Abuja hub for the territory-wide rules, then open the district that matches the plot. Offices, shops, sheds, and institutional buildings in the FCT belong on Abuja commercial construction, not on a house page.
Abuja
A planned capital: district rules, harmattan dust, and a long rainy season on the plateau.
Read AbujaIbadan
Older fabric, three river systems, and hillsides that have flooded before.
Read IbadanKano
Northern commercial capital: dense old city, markets, industrial yards, a short wet season, and a long hot dry.
Read KanoGombe
Northeast state capital on an escarpment edge, where gullies and downstream floods shape the plot.
Read GombeAbuja commercial building
Abuja commercial construction
Offices, shops, warehouses, and institutional buildings in the FCT, quoted as workplaces rather than houses.
Read the commercial briefAbuja districts
Gwarinpa
A large planned estate where repeated house types still sit on different ground and different drains.
Read GwarinpaMaitama
Larger plots and more complex houses, where the hard part is access, setback, and an honest structure.
Read MaitamaKubwa
Further out: estate houses, longer material runs, and a plot that is not the one in the centre.
Read KubwaLugbe
Newer private houses on the way out of the capital, where the supply line is part of the build.
Read LugbeGarki
Older streets where houses, flats, and shops share a building, and a renovation often happens while trade continues.
Read GarkiWuse
Plaza frontages with little room to store materials, and roofs or upper floors worked while the shops stay open.
Read WuseAsokoro
Large formal plots where the compound, the gate, and the setback decide the week.
Read AsokoroJabi
Newer flats and offices close together, with shared stairs and a neighbour still in the next unit.
Read JabiLokogoma
Current private houses, often with a flat deck or a pitch, where a missing fall shows up in the rains.
Read LokogomaQuestions
Before you send a request
Do you cover the whole of each city?
The city pages discuss real districts. Abuja also has pages for Gwarinpa, Maitama, Asokoro, Garki, Wuse, Jabi, Lokogoma, Kubwa, and Lugbe, plus a commercial construction page for offices, shops, and warehouses. Name the neighbourhood on the form so the visit is not a guess.
What about a city that is not listed?
Choose “Another city” and write the place. The city hubs are Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Kano, and Gombe. Other places can still be discussed.