Government awaits Tin Can Island-Apapa road design
Minster of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola. Expectations were high at the weekend for the planned rehabilitation works on the Tincan-Apapa Port Road expected to start on November, as...
View ArticleProperty developers offer fresh prospect for UK investors
Vice Chairman, South EnergyX, Ronald Chagoury Jr.(left); CEO Fine & Country, Mrs, Udo Okonjo; former Governor of Anambra State, Mr, Peter Obi; Publisher Business Day, Mr. Frank Aigbogun, MD/CEO,...
View ArticleLagos cooperative buys into N25 billion FESTAC Phase II project
Real estate An independent real estate business club leveraging on the power of numbers in expanding wealth creation possibilities among members through real estate investment has move to seal a deal...
View Article‘Lack of enforcement, bane of substandard building materials’
The challenge in the buit environment sector is institutional, says the new President of Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), KENNETH NNABUIFE NDUKA .He argued that the materials, especially the ones...
View ArticleAssembly laments Rivers’ exclusion from N1.6b flood victims fund
Experts to provide floodplain mapping Faced with over 1,000 flood victims in Rivers State, members of the State’s State House of Assembly have frowned at the Federal Government and the National...
View ArticlePrime office space in global cities becoming too expensive
Skyscrapers in Hong Kong are the most expensive commercial real estate in the world, according to new analysis using rental values and yields. Private real estate investors driving up commercial office...
View ArticleChartered surveyors urge enabling environment for real estate sector
Real estate Members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Nigeria group have called on the Federal Government to create an enabling environment for real estate sector, which will...
View ArticlePaint producers urge government to develop local raw materials
Faced with dwindling foreign exchange earnings, the Paint Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMA) has urged the federal government to attach importance to the development of the raw materials base...
View ArticleIndians, Pakistanis held in Nepal with live chimpanzees, others from Nigeria
Fifteen years after four gorillas were shipped from Nigeria to Malaysia on falsified export documents, another major controversy is brewing as the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police...
View ArticleESVARBON plans estate surveyors, valuers assembly
The Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON) has concluded arrangements to host its 2017 Estate Surveyors and Valuers Assembly in Lagos. The maiden edition of this annual...
View ArticleDoctors back Lagos waste management reform
PHOTO: ekekeee.com With growing body of evidence suggesting that built environment plays a significant role in health and well-being, the chairman, Lagos Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association...
View ArticleInvestors eye $100b climate finance, FG’s NDC projects
Director, Climate Change Department, Federal Ministry of Environment, Dr. Peter Tarfa Climate specialists have flagged off Nigeria Climate Investment Initiative (NCCII) to bring both private and public...
View ArticleBuilders lament governments’ neglect, urge professionals’ collaboration
Concerned about the prosperity of the profession, the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), has expressed regrets that despite its unique roles in the society, governments remained hesitant towards...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists warn Cross River against climate change disaster
Worried by the high rate of deforestation, environmentalists have raised alarm on an imminent climate change disaster in Cross River state, if urgent measures are not taken. This warning came recently...
View ArticleReal estate pros advocate stratified sector for affordable housing prices
An housing estate owned by Lagos Homs Government. PHOTO: LAGOS HOMS To address the real estate market in a more focused way, experts have called for stratification of the sector to ensure social and...
View ArticleRivers partners developer in 3,000-unit estate
Illustration of a proposed estate Plans to prepare for the thousands who’ll descend on the Rivers State capital have begun in earnest, as the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority signed a...
View ArticleUN climate summit opens in Bonn to fast-track Paris goals
Climate change: Courtesy of www.fairobserver.com On the heels of extreme weather events globally, about 197 Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will...
View ArticleNIQS holds conference, general meeting in Abuja
The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) biennial conference and General Meeting will hold this month at NAF Conference Centre and Suites, Gwarimpa Expressway, Kado, Abuja. With a theme,...
View ArticleExperts harp on new trends in building construction
Tonye Oliver Braide Amid the existing huge deficits in the housing sector, professionals in the built environment have stressed the need for property developers to adopt emerging technologies and...
View ArticleHow to achieve pollution-free environment
Environmental pollution. PHOTO: www.google.com Giant manufacturing conglomerates should key into an extended producer responsibility plan aimed at protecting the environment and consumers, says VICTOR...
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