Why completing abandoned buildings for habitation is dangerous —Experts
Completing abandoned uncompleted buildings for habitation carries major safety and financial implications including structural degradation and high renovation costs. To ensure the buildings are safe for use after their completion, the issue of structural degradation and others must be adequately addresed, according to construction experts.
NIQS president unfolds strategies to better position quantity surveyors’ profession, members
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.
NIQS embarks on comparative study to eliminate corruption in construction industry
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 raises N1 billion from local investors for its Banana Island housing project
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.
Combating housing deficit: Sterling bank partners Sterling Court on housing provision
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.
Demolition: Property owner accuses Nigerian Railway Corporation of violating court order
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.
