IN SPITE of the poor road directions across country, the federal government has revealed that Nigeria’s roads are far better than what some other countries in the world can boast of as road infrastructure. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, made this disclosure at the just concluded 23rd National Council of Works meeting in Abuja, pointing out that the country can no longer depend solely on road maps which do not cover notable places in the country.

THE deplorable state of Nigerian roads can best be described as a national shame and embarrassment. This is because most of the roads across the nation, whether Trunk A roads which are federal, or Trunk B which are state roads or Trunk C roads which are local government roads, are in decadent state, and there is hardly any part of the country that can boast of decent motorable roads.

FOLLOWING allegations by some environmentalists and Lagos residents, penultimate week, that Eko Atlantic City, located beside the Bar Beach along Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos was partly responsible for the severe flooding that submerged the entire Victoria Island and Lekki corridor due to torrential rainfall that weekend, the management of the ongoing emerging city has debunked the allegations.

GOVERNOR Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has disclosed that the Olusosun dump site which has been an eyesore, as well as other dumpsites in the state would be closed, after Visionscape, the new environmental agency championing Cleaner Lagos Initiative CLI, would have built engineered sanitary landfill sites and transfer loading stations/material recovery sites where the collected waste would be properly managed in line with international best practice across the state.

THE Building Collapse Prevention Guild BCGP, a non-governmental advocacy body championing prevention of building collapse in the country has urged the Standards Organisation of Nigeria SON, to create a specialised department for building. He also raised the alarm that more incidents of building collapse are imminent in the country except urgent necessary actions are taken to arrest factors responsible for that.

THAT Nigeria has a housing deficit of 17 million units is no longer news. But what will interest Nigerians now is to identify the problems associated with housing provision in the country and find solutions to these problems in order to drastically reduce this huge deficit”.

Lafarge Africa is committed to facilitating affordable housing across Nigeria with its Easy Home initiative

MESSRS A. J. Missri & Company Limited, operators of poultry farms in Aba, Abia state, has decried unlawful occupation of its landed property located on 23, Breadfruit Street, Lagos Island by the Lagos State Urban Renewal Agency, LASURA.

LAGOS Mega City project has been given a boost by Oworonshoki Water Front Estate located inside the Oworonshoki urban village in the central area of the state.

TO strengthen engineering education in the country, the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, NAE, the apex engineering body in Nigeria, has called for collaboration with relevant organisations is paramount.

COREN and CORBON must intensify their monitoring role for both engineering and building projects

MESSRS A. J. Missri & Company Limited, operators of poultry farms in Aba, Abia state, has decried unlawful occupation of its landed property located on 23, Breadfruit Street, Lagos Island by the Lagos State Urban Renewal Agency LASURA. The property in question is an expansive bungalow comprising 25 lock up shops occupied by traders as tenants built 30 years ago.

TO address the shortfall of quality housing units for middle income earners in Lagos mainland, Messrs Tetramanor Nigeria Limited, a Lagos-based real estate development firm, weekend, commissioned 14-unit TM Gardens in the Iponri area of Lagos metropolis.

IN order to meet the engineering challenges of the 21st century in the country, Nigerian Academy of Engineering, NAE, the apex body of engineering profession in Nigeria, has observed the need for collaboration between the Academy and relevant organisations to up engineering education and practice in Nigeria, just as the body has said only innovations can meet engineering challenges of the 21st century.

AGAINST the backdrop of the huge infrastructure deficit of the country which requires N3 trillion annually to close the gap, the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS, has called for attention to the project finance option as a way of developing Nigeria’s infrastructure projects.