To enhance quality of practice for effective national development and physical planning and ensure sustainable environment, town planners have been urged to discharge their duties to the public in accordance with the ethics of their profession.

A front line real estate developer and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Propertygate Development and Investment Plc, Mr. Adetokunbo Ajayi, in this interview with Vanguard Homes & Property reviews the essence of taxation and how non-compliance with taxation rules by many operators in the real estate sector of the economy, coupled with government’s lethargy towards enforcement, have created loopholes for unfair advantage at the expense of responsible corporate citizens.

Minister of Environment, Ibrahim Jubril, has lauded the efforts and commitment by Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development, SRADev Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation, towards complete phase out of mercury in products to ensure a safe environment across the country.

Disturbed by incessant building collapse across the country which observers attribute to poor application of cement, stakeholders in the nation’s building/construction industry gathered at a meeting of the Technical Committee on Cement of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, to review standard for cement (NIS 444 – 1: 2014), with a view to upgrading standard of all cement grades in Nigeria.

Against the backdrop of the need to meet the huge housing deficit confronting the nation which is estimated to be about 17 million units, the Chief Executive Officer of Mannor Gates Limited, a Lagos-based budding real estate development company, Mrs. Ajoke Ogunlaja,  has revealed that bridging the huge gap should be a collective effort by both government and private developers, pointing out that government alone cannot do it.