THE central spot in each household is the living room because that is where families spend their time while at home and receive visitors. Visitors know your stuff or taste through what they see in your living room. It is not all about how expensive your chairs or sofas are but how they fit the space and match the interior. That is why many go all the way to look for both comfortable and stylish pieces that will fit their interior while some will just put anything so far as people can sit on it.

AGAINST the backdrop of ever-growing infrastructural deficit in the country due to lack of open spaces for development in our congested cities, stakeholders in tunneling and underground space engineering are now canvassing the concept of tunneling and underground space as a viable alternative to bridge this gap.

Iya Loja General of Lagos, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, has called on market men and women and the entire Lagos residents to support the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) of the Lagos State Government, saying that the programme is in the best interest of the residents.

The Minister of Power,Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the federal government would liaise with state governments to construct its mass housing estates in suitable locations that would be acceptable to residents of each state.

THE Office of the Surveyor- General of the Federation, OSGOF, has pledged to rake into the government coffers over N1 billion from its Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, this fiscal year as parts of efforts to pull the country out of recession.

AFTER one of our publications recently on how to manage the entrance to your home, it was discovered, from the feedback, that clustering the entrance with shoes and slippers happens mostly with Muslims because of their religion.

Eko Atlantic, a new city being built adjacent to Victoria Island, Lagos, has announced that the Great Wall of the sprawling city has surpassed six kilometres in length.

Against the backdrop of ongoing road reconstruction projects and repairs on Apapa bridge in Apapa, Lagos which have crippled commercial activities in the area, Apapa G.R.A. Residents’ Association, has decried the untold hardship which construction activities by the federal government in the area are causing the residents.

IT is not just enough to acquire skill without the funds to start up an entrepreneurship of your own these days of economic recession where unemployment rate in the country knows no bound. It is against this background that AG Mortgage Bank Plc, a foremost primary mortgage institution in Nigeria, at the weekend announced its readiness to partner Lashone Links skills acquisition centre, a subsidiary of Lashone Links Group of Companies comprising real estate development among others to grant loans to graduates of the centre who wish to become self-reliant by setting themselves up rather than waiting for employment that is never there.

Against the backdrop of security challenges confronting the nations such as kidnapping, ritual killings, militancy, armed robbery, insurgency etc, concerned organisations and individuals have expressed fear over the influx of foreigners into Nigerian cities particularly Lagos who settle along the coast and become communities from where they carry out their havocs.

THE economic recession that has been pummelling the country for sometime now is beginning to take its toll on the indigenes of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital as they have started selling off their ancestral homes located in the city and other high brow areas of the state to cushion the effect of the economic hardship.

THE theme for this year’s International Women’s Day celebration says “Be Bold For Change.” Being bold for change should not be limited to accelerating gender parity but to also help our young girls and women to be organized from home as everything one becomes in life has roots in who you are from home. Before a woman can be bold to take over the world, such should be well organized as charity begins at home.

THE Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), has concluded plans to hold a two-day seminar on ‘Essentials of Building and Engineering Contract Documentation and Administration next week Wednesday and Thursday. The seminar which is expected to hold simultaneously in centres across the six geo-political zones of the country such as Akure, Calabar, Kaduna, Minna, Owerri […]

We demand for your urgent investigation of our claims and appeal that you ensure compliance with all Lagos state government’s building codes, regulations, standards

MINISTER of State for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Shehuri, has assured that the present administration is determined to bridge the 17 million housing deficit confronting the nation.