For several years, residents of riverine areas in Ojo, a Lagos suburb, had lived in constant fear over waterways’ navigation in the area.

Worried by property owners’ circumvention of approvals while erecting structures in Lagos State, the state government has approved a six-month relaxation of its property regularisation policy.

For architects to remain relevant within the sub- sector of the construction industry, as well as abreast with developmental issues that border on transparency and discipline among members of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, NIA, the professional body and its regulatory body, Architects’ Registration Council of Nigeria, ARCON, have been charged with the responsibility of instilling discipline and ensuring high professional standards in the practice of architecture.

Visionscape Sanitation Solutions, VSS, an integrated environmental utility company engaged by Lagos State Government to manage waste across the state, disclosed at the weekend that it is concentrating its attention on clearance of illegal dump sites otherwise known as black spots that litter the state before embarking on door-to- door collection of refuse.

Women Association of Quantity Surveyors of Nigeria, WAQSN, a sub-group of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS,  which recently celebrated International Women’s Day, has called for the development of built environment professionals in the country with the pace of digital construction economy. The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day was Uncharted Territory of Growth for Professionals in a Digital Construction Economy.

The chairman, Abia State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, NITP, Nelson C. Nwaosu, has called on the federal, state and local governments in the country and urban planners in the built environment to take holistic view on urban transition with a view to promoting healthy urban development.

The new Lagos state Land Use Charge Law 2018 known as LUC, has continued to generate concern and criticism from citizens, particularly stakeholders in housing provision.

The Ag. Director-General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, NCF, a foremost conservation foundation in Nigeria, Joseph Onoja, has noted that global celebration of forests provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of all types of woodlands and tree, and celebrate the ways in which they sustain and protect the earth.

The Federal Government has signed treaty obligations within the West African sub-region and beyond to regulate the amount of load any goods vehicle can put on an axle and by extension, on the road in order to do business within ECOWAS and beyond,

TAGEXPO has partnered with “Kreativ Management Limited” for financial advisory in the fourth coming 2018 edition of the Real Estate Exhibition and Trade Show in Lagos.

As part of measures to mitigate negative effects of the climate change, as well as protect the environment, the Federal Government has set aside N2 billion of the Ecological Fund for planting of trees across the states in 2018.

An expert in property law, Prince O. Williams-Joel, Managing Partner, Prince Joel & Associates, has said the rising prominence of credit bureaux and the increased sophistication of the identity authentication system—SIM card, Bank Verification Number, BVN, and National Identity Number, NIN, among others contributed to Nigeria’s 24 spots jump in the Ease of Doing Business Index.

A committee comprising seasoned professionals from the seven built environment professional bodies set up the Building Collapse Prevention Guild, BCPG, to examine and take a position on the recently re-enacted Land Use Charge Law by Lagos State Government, has picked holes in the Law.

EXPERTS in the real estate sub-sector of the nation’s economy have reiterated that the sub-sector remains one of the potential revenue drivers for the Nigerian economy in 2018. This is based on the sector’s performance so far in the year as well as outlook for the rest of the year. Although the economy was in recession at the beginning of the previous year, the exit from recession in the second quarter of 2017, has created an opportunity for rekindled activity and subsequent recovery for real estate, according to the experts. 

The Group Managing Director, Alpha Mead Limited, Nigeria’s leading total real estate solutions company, Femi Akintunde, an engineer, has described the deplorable state of the nation’s infrastructure as a major reason for the dwindling inflow of Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, into the country.