The newly introduced Land Use Charge has generated controversy in recent times. To this end, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Abiodun Tobun representing Epe Constituency I, speaks on the grey areas of the LUC. The lawmaker who is also the adhoc committee chairman on Works and Infrastructure says the bill is not as difficult as people are portraying it, rather, the rich in Lagos are making efforts to frustrate the government of Govenor Akinwunmi Ambode. Excerpts

The Lagos State Government has said N11.8 billion was paid as compensation to property owners whose structures were demolished for construction, reconstruction of roads, flyovers and ramps among other public infrastructure across the state in the last 12 months while N10.5 billion was generated from land sales in the same period.

Eaton, a global power management company, has identified the need for a stringent policy on the administration of the Fire Code as the solution to incessant electrical fire outbreaks in commercial and residential buildings in Nigeria.

After the survey of Lagos in terms of human needs, a socio-political group, Project Loud, has disclosed that the most pressing need of every resident in the state remains access to affordable housing, even as the group hinted that the actualisation of fourth Mainland Bridge would be determined by residents’ inputs.

As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s World Facilities Management Day tomorrow, stakeholders in facilities management sector in the country are expected to gather at a roundtable in Lagos to examine how facilities management plays an integral role in enabling positive experience for all stakeholders in the real estate value chain of facilities management providers, customers, employees, government and others.

As part of the strategy for capacity development and the need to inspire the next generation of Facility Managers, the International Facility Management Association, Nigeria Chapter will be celebrating the 2018 World Facility Management Day tomorrow with the students of the Government Technical College, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos. The theme for the celebration is: Enabling Positive Experiences: Inspiring the Technical Students for a Better Tomorrow.

Lagos State Government has warned against indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the sprawling city, pointing out that it has strengthened its environmental enforcement law to deal with environmental offenders across the state.

Young engineers who desire to become entrepreneurs have been told that all they need to be successful as entrepreneurs is a mindset for success.

A proposed Amendment to the Federal Government Staff Housing Loans Board, FGSHLB Act  before the House of Representatives, may have set the stage for federal public servants to derive their full benefits which they have made as contributions to the National Housing Fund, NHF.

Professionals in the built environment in the country have been urged to work with the determination to change the odds which have for several years denied them the opportunities to execute major projects and programmes in the country, even as they lamented the Federal Government’s preference for their foreign counterparts for execution of projects.

Disturbed by the men-ace of open defecation in the country, environment stakeholders last week in Lagos inaugurated National Mirror Committee on Sustainable Non-sewered Sanitation System known as ISO/PC 305 and Community Scale Resource-oriented Sanitation Treatment System known as ISO/PC318, to provide a standard solution to the issue of a sustainable and affordable sanitation that will alleviate the problem of open defecation in Nigeria.

The need to involve Lagos residents at the grassroots in the campaign against building collapse, was stressed at the weekend by the Coordinator, Building Collapse and Prevention Guild, BCPG, Ikeja Cell, Mrs. Iyabode Bolarinwa who is a former vice- chairman, Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria, CORBON, the regulatory body of the Nigerian Institute of Building, NIOB.

Following global and local market dynamics, rents are expected to remain at their current levels as companies strive to secure a firm growth trend. It is also anticipated that there will be more relocations to newly built, and better managed facilities, as the general business environment improves.

Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Works, Akparawa Ephraim Inyang-Eyen in this interview explains some issues surrounding the activities of the state government in the past few years with regard to why  the state government is patronising local contractors in road construction and elimination of  middlemen in the payment of compensation to property owners, among others. Excerpts.

Zvecan Consulting and Engineering Limited, a Nigerian firm, has entered into a partnership deal with the Federal Government and a Chinese firm, Wengfu Company Limited, to build 5,000 housing units  under the Federal Integrated Staff Housing, FISH, programme.