100 Resilient Cities, 100RC, an outfit that helps cities around the world become more resilient or adaptable to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st Century, has announced Dana Omran as the new managing director to oversee the African portfolio of the company.

Construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria, JBN, has introduced a new technology to construction of roads in the country, which would ground the old asphalt, treat and use it to increase the thickness and height of the asphalt for enduring roads.

Going by the improvement in   the nation’s economy and the positive projections for 2018, the real estate sector is expected to ride on the back of these and other strides it ought to make, and put in a better performance in 2018.

In a renewed move to attract more real estate investors and encourage effective property documentation in the country, shareholders are seeking Federal Government’s intervention to ease land documentation process and fees charged on documentation.

Environmentalists who joined the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s World Environment Day, WED, last week, urged government at all levels to intensify campaign against the dangers posed by indiscriminate dumping of plastic waste products all over the country, pointing out that Nigerians should be educated on the need to recycle the plastic waste rather than dumping the product in every available space

Against the backdrop of the widening housing gap in the country, new partnerships and initiatives supported by the federal and state governments to address the housing shortfall  which is a daunting challenge, are being put in place, thereby raising the hope that governments can actually help provide the over 17 million new homes needed across the country in the next 15 years.

Access to affordable land resource for young salary earners who desire an investment in real estate in a controlled and serviced area with augmented living such as durable community roads with good drainage infrastructure, leisure and business parks with constant electricity and devoid of harassment by land grabbers known as Omo-oniles, has now been made possible with the development of Fairmont Estate by Propertymart.

Riding on the successful delivery of Lekki County Homes Estate, Lagos-based real estate development firm, Megamound Investment Limited, developers of Lekky County Homes, Lekki, and Carlton Gate Estate, Chevron Drive, Lekki, Lagos, has introduced yet another scheme known as County Apartments within Lekky County Homes, Ikota, along Lekki-Epe Expressway for prospective home owners or property investors.

In highly performing economies in the world, the government agencies know their briefs or mandates and keep to them without any attempt to interfere or encroach on other bodies’ statutory responsibilities. By so doing, businesses, industries and commercial activities experience smooth and steady growth. But in Nigeria, the situation is different because of over-lapping of functions among the Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.

Apparently not pleased with the attitudes of some of the contractors handling federal road projects in the South-East geopolitical zone of the country, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has noted that his ministry will henceforth commence on-the-spot visit to ongoing projects in the zone which includes Enugu, Abia, Imo, Ebonyi and Anambra states, to evaluate the performance of the contractors as part of the conditions for awarding contracts to them in the future.