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.