UNILAG pioneers environmental sustainability innovation
“Though it has become a menace, plastic is what our society will still require at every point of social and economic development. Taking our campus for example, given its location beside the Lagos Lagoon, socio-economic activities herein have major impacts on the coastal environment.”
Tejuosho shopping complex may get completion date extension
MESSRS Stormberg Engineering Limited, the company developing the the multi-billion Naira ultra-modern Tejuosho Shopping Complex located in the heart of Yaba Business District, may not meet the May 2011 completion target which they had earlier set for themselves.
Fashola plans more gardens for Lagos
The importance of recreation in mental and physical development of human was demonstrated at the weekend as Lagos State Government in its quest to develop all open spaces within the metropolis into recreation and relaxation spots formally handed over the Oworonsoki Mini Sports Complex to the community.
More floods coming – Says Climate Scientists.
The global deluge that swept through Australia, Brazil and Sri Lanka in the new year is a warning to the emerging trends in rain, drought and extremes weather that will assail countries in the tropics and subtropics in the years ahead as its temperature rise.
There are worries that the global atmosphere is containing more water vapour resulting from rising temperatures.
Why we are against influx of foreign architects – Delano
Arc Roti Delano is the President of the Association of Consulting Architects of Nigeria (ACANigeria). A former Honorary Secretary of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), Arc Delano who is also the managing director of FMA (Femi Majekodunmi& Associates) in this interview, spoke on the invasion of foreign architecture and the rampant incidents of buildings collapse in the country.
Nigeria’s mortgage industry is still toddling – Operator
A primary mortgage operator, Mr Wale Osisanya says the mortgage business in Nigeria is still at its lowest ebb. Mr Osisanya who is the managing director of Jubilee Life Savings & Loans Limited rated the industry a paltry 20 per cent.
Lagos plans huge investments in wastewater infrastructure
In order to implement the five-year sustainable sewage and sanitation infrastructure strategy and facilitation of public private partnership in wastewater management, Lagos State Government last week commissioned Wastewater Management Office’s administrative headquarters located along Obasa Street, Off Oba Akra Avenue, Ikeja.
Architects target June 2011 completion date for Lagos building
More than a decade after it was conceptualised and its foundation stone laid by the immediate past Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) building at Idowu Taylor Street, Lagos is now slated for completion in June 2011.
How to house homeless Nigerians by former Lagos NIQS chairman
Mr. Jide Oke is the immediate past Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS). In this interview with Jude Njoku, Mr Oke who until recently was the Head of the Property department of Oceanic Bank Plc, speaks on how homelessness can be checked in Nigeria.
Reps seek N500 billion-intervention fund for highways
To avoid imminent total collapse of Federal highways in the country, the House of Representatives Sub-Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has asked the Federal Government to inject over N500billion as an intervention fund to rescue the sector from the current deteriorating status.
Contractor gives February 2011 for completion of Egbeda-Idimu-Ikotun Road
MOTORISTS who have gone through hell plying the Ikotun-Idimu road may soon heave a sigh of relief. This is because Messrs Plycon Nigeria Limited, the construction handling the project has pledged to complete work on the road in February 2011. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Idimu, the company said the project is progressing satisfactorily.
