Participants at the just concluded 7th Lagos State Summit on Climate Change have advised the state government to continue to invest in climate change in order to promote environmental sustainability and assured future for human existence in Lagos.

First World Communities Limited, a Lagos-based real estate firm that champions the delivery of affordable homes to low and medium-income groups in the country has reiterated its commitment to its primary mandate of delivering affordable homes to Nigerians.

Housing microfinance, otherwise known as microfinance for housing or incremental financing, is regarded as the application of a microfinance based approach to housing finance. While the concept ‘housing microfinance’ is relatively new in development circles, the practice is not. Access to housing and access to housing finance by low income earners is a critical development issue facing most countries around the globe. Many households in Africa are unable to access mortgage finance either because it does not exist or because it is inaccessible.

Mr. Joseph Olusegun Ajanlekoko is the new President of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy, CASLE.

The James Pinnock Place, Lekki, Lagos offers an exceptional lifestyle living and doubles as an excellent investment opportunity as the Lekki axis continues its phenomenal development.

Lagos State Government last week gave the reason for altering the design of the much awaited Fourth Mainland Bridge along the Lekki Peninsula. According to the government, the redesign of the bridge component of the 23 kilometres road project became imperative because of the challenges the original design posed for it (government). The bridge itself is about four kilometres.

“In Lagos, we have continued to landscape and beautify hitherto open spaces and loops that were then hideouts for miscreants.

Barely 45 days to the inauguration of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) as Nigeria’s next President, built environment experts have called on the incoming administration to give urgent attention to the provision of infrastructure and housing development.

As part of its effort to take over the real estate industry in Nigeria, Le’ Venue Property Development Company Limited, a real estate development and construction firm has completed the registration of contractors, appointed a marketing company and a PR Firm to drive publicity for its numerous real estate developments across Nigeria.

Managing Director, Eezyoffice.com, Mrs. Nwamaka Okoye who disclosed this, said the One Africa Media office project which has been variously described by professionals as refreshing and ingenious was a defining moment in the company’s operations. “When One Africa Media came to us and asked if we could design an aesthetic open space office for their staff of mostly young people in their 20s, we knew we had to come up with something vibrant and authentic.

3INVEST, a real estate development advocacy firm has struck a partnership deal with Houston EB-5 in order to raise capital for Marlowe in the Houston area of Texas. Houston EB5 is a real estate investment company offering potential investors, the opportunity of investing in real estate development in Houston Texas.

WATERAID has launched its new four-year “Healthy Start” campaign showing the devastating impact that a lack of safe water and sanitation has on the health of children in developing countries. The launch which was part of activities to mark the 2015 World Water Day, shows that annually, nearly half a million babies die in the first month of life because they are born into unhygienic conditions and one in five deaths of newborn babies in the developing world are caused by infections strongly linked to dirty water or unhygienic conditions.

Apparently determined to get back their land despite the many challenges confronting the execution of a Supreme Court judgement which ordered the release of 549 plots of landed property in Shangisha-Magodo Town Scheme II in Ikosi-Ketu Local Council Development Area, LCDA in Lagos State, the original owners of the property have begun a new move to repossess their land.

Africa will take a common position on the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, (Habitat III) slated to hold in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016.

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed has handed over 21 hectares of land in the Central Business District for the N700 billion (about 3.5 billion US Dollars) Abuja City Centre project.