The newly inaugurated president of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), Mr. Femi Onashile, has unfolded strategies to better position the institute and its members in readiness for exponential growth of the professional body such as compartmentalisation and cell structure to enhance greater interaction within the institute in order to reduce friction.

Determined to curb incidents of over- inflated projects and corrupt practices in award of contracts, the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) at the weekend said it has embarked on comparative study to prove relationship between the cost of projects in Nigeria and other countries.

Sujimoto Construction, a Lagos-based real estate development company has just raised over one billion Naira from local investors for its ongoing mystery project in Banana Island, Lagos.

In its bid to reduce the widening housing deficit in the country, Sterling Court Development, a Pubic Private Partnership Development initiative in collaboration with Lagos State Government through Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area, in financial partnership with Sterling Bank Plc, is set to offer a solution to the acute housing shortage being experienced in the nation particularly in Lagos State due to its population which grows geometrically.

The proprietor and chief executive officer of Kings Suite Hotel located beside railway lines in Ijora Badiya, Lagos, Mr. Ifeanyi Ekwueme, has accused the management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Lagos office of violating court order by demolishing his hotel thereby committing contempt of the court.

A Magistrate’s court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has adjourned a case of alleged impersonation and forgery against two fake land surveyors accused of fraudulently presenting themselves as registered surveyors and members of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors NIS, for further hearing, just as the Association of Private Practising Surveyors of Nigeria APPSN, Lagos State Branch, has called the attention of the general public to numerous fake survey plans in circulation.

CONTRACTORS and all persons engaged in building activities must comply with safety standards required in construction sites set by regulators of the industry. A “Person” according to the LSURPDA Act 2010 means “an applicant for or holder of development permits under this Law and includes for the avoidance of doubt, an owner, his servant or agent, consultants, an independent contractor or a builder or a corporate or an unincorporated body registered under the relevant Acts.” In other words, all stakeholders in the building sector are required to comply with these standards.

IN its effort to make housesavailable and at affordable cost, to all strata of the society, Pertinence Limited, a Lagos-based real estate development company and owners of ABC Gardens and VIP Gardens, weekend, held its 13th edition of promo launch in Lekki to give opportunity to prospective home owners to get free plots of land and other star prizes.

AGAINST the backdrop of the need for sustainable infrastructure to drive development, and the fact that infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railways, etc., are necessary for socio-economic growth of any nation or state, Edo State Government is not leaving any stone unturned to ensure development of sustainable infrastructure in the state.

PRIVATE Sector Participation (PSP), refuse operators under the aegis of Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria (AWAM), last week decried the deplorable state of dump sites at Olusosun, Ojota and Solous, Igando, Lagos, calling on the Lagos State Government to do something fast about the dump sites, as a lack of accessibility into the sites to dump refuse, is crippling their waste collection business.