Godwin Okri, a lawyer turned property investment strategist with about two decades of experience as a property investor in the UK, USA and South Africa, has advocated provision of low cost housing across Nigeria as solution to the mind boggling huge deficit in housing in the country put at whopping 17 million units.

Lagos State Government said it has completed construction of 360 additional housing units for commissioning soon as part of its efforts to tackle the challenge of housing deficit in the state.

In a bid to restore sanity to the built environment, the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria, CORBON, has concluded plans to digitise housing construction with a view to checkmating the incessant incidents of building collapse in the country.

Lagos state government weekend warned those who have encroached into Festac phase 2, as their action is inimical to the housing project being proposed by the federal government on the expansive land located in Egolima District beside 7th Avenue, Festac phase1, Lagos.

Ceramics experts who gathered at the launch of ceramics foundation in Lagos last week, organised by Oaikhinan Ceramics Foundation, were not happy that the country had not been paid attention to a critical sector of the economy as ceramics with huge potentials for growing national gross domestic product as well as boosting job creation.