LAGOS, which the state government considers as a work in progress mega-city, is not new to buildings collapse having recorded several tragedies in that regard in the past few years. Indeed Lagos has once again been in the news since Tuesday following the collapse of a five-storey building in the Lekki area of the state that claimed over 30 lives.

Against the backdrop of the current economic realities of the country which has compelled most business owners to adopt belt-tightening approach, the Managing Director of Alpha Mead Facilities & Management Services Ltd (AMFacilities), a Lagos-based facilities management firm, Mr. Femi Akintunde has advised businesses to embrace a long term approach to facilities management contracts.

IN spite of the downturn in the Nigerian economy and the falling Nigerian currency, real estate enthusiasts are optimistic that the phase one of the World Trade Centre (WTC), Abuja, an upper strata of luxury real estate, will be delivered this year as projected by the developers.

Lifestyle living connoisseur, Haven Homes, a Lagos-based real estate development firm, has delivered its 2016 home designs much to the expectations of its teeming subscribers, according to the company’s Assistant General Manager, Ms Ufuoma Ukueku.

THE Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC and the office of the Head of Service of the Federation, may have begun investigations into alleged fraudulent falsification of documents and subsequent elongation of service by the Director of Architectural Services in the Federal Ministry of Power, Works & Housing, Mr. Sani Gidado, an architect.

The Managing Director of Raumplus, an international interior and furniture design company with its operations in Nigeria, Mr. Adeyanju Adelakun, has urged operators in the furniture industry in Nigeria to focus on customer satisfaction and top class quality in order to bring desired development for the industry.

AS part of its corporate social responsibility to host country, the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC), contractor handling rail track from Abuja to Kaduna, has agreed to build a property worth N362 million and donate a building to the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul Hospital, Kubwa, Abuja, a catholic hospital.

Participants at a one-day stakeholders’ workshop on phase down on dental amalgam use in Lagos state with the theme “Towards Mercury-Free Dentistry in Nigeria” organised by Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev), have called for coordinated collaborative efforts by stakeholders in order to achieve the desired phase down of the harmful substance.

THE UN Deputy Secretary-General, Housing and Sustainable Urban, Kumaresh Misra and other stakeholders in the ongoing United Nations Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting in Nigeria, last week called on African leaders to develop rural areas to solve challenges of urban cities in the continent.

FOLLOWING revelations in the investigative report on relative positions of lands at the troubled Ilamoshe community in Oke-Afa-Ejigbo area of Lagos carried out by Lagos state office of Surveyor-General, land owners and landlords of the affected area have agreed to abide by the report signed by the state Chief Surveyor, Adebukonla Adeyemi on behalf of Surveyor-General.