The Lagos state government said last week that the demolition of the fence of St. Peters Claver Catholic Church, in Ajao-Estate was not an attempt to take over anyone’s property. The government claimed that the demolition was based on the overall public interest, as the said wall should not have been annexed in the first place.

Stakes are high for the African Ministerial Conference on Environment, AMCEN which began yesterday in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo. AMCEN and African civil society groups expect that the conference will define a concrete blueprint that will guide the continent to discussions on the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs to be concluded in New York and Paris climate change conference that is likely to agree on a new climate change agreement, which will come into effect by 2020.

UN-Habitat last week, launched call for applications for the Urban Youth Fund. In its seventh year, the Fund provides grants to projects led by young people aged 15-32 years who are piloting innovative approaches to employment, good urban governance, shelter, secure tenure and risk rehabilitation.

Despite the delay in completing the second phase of the ongoing N220 billion Lagos-Badagry expressway expansion, the Lagos State government last week, reaffirmed its resolve to complete the massive project.

The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG has commissioned a N2.2 million storm-water drainage system the church donated to the Langbasa Community in Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State.

The Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development last week, flaunted the housing scorecard of the Jonathan administration, saying the government increased the nation’s housing stock with 61,000 affordable housing units in the last four years.

Valuations are widely used and relied upon in financial and other markets, whether for inclusion in financial statements, for regulatory compliance or to support secured lending and transactional activity”. This was the submission of Mr. Jimmy Olayinka Omotosho, a portfolio executive at Broll Nigeria at the training forum of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, NIESV Lagos state branch.

The United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP has invited nominations for the 2015 Champions of the Earth-the United Nations flagship environment award, which recognises outstanding environmental visionaries and leaders and seeks to build momentum for the transition to a sustainable future.

MESSRS Rainbow Town Development Limited, a Port Harcourt-based leading real estate development company and developers of the famous Rainbow World Estate located in Trans-Amadi business corridor of Port Harcourt, recently hosted investors to a one day subscribers’ forum in Port Harcourt with a promise to deliver quality service to the subscribers.

Nigerite Limited, a complete building solutions company has launched a new product called Unique Ceil, an embossed ceiling which comes with a tastefully finished pattern, into the competitive Nigerian building industry. The new product unveiled at the company’s premises in Lagos last week comes in a standard dimension of 1.22m x 1.22m (4feet x 4feet) and 3mm thickness. The new product which is grey in colour can also be painted to any colour of choice by prospective consumers.

Are UK house prices rising or falling? Two national indices published last week had painted sharply contrasting portraits of the UK property market, adding to erratic data over the past month that has left economists increasingly puzzled.

The Managing Director/Chief Executive, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Mr. Gimba Ya’u Kumo, has said that the bank is looking at the possibility and process of lifting embargo on Estate Development Loan (EDL).

The role of of infrastructure development to the economic growth of Nigeria with particular reference to the country’s building and construction sector; has once again been emphasised.

The mortgage industry in Nigeria is just starting if you look at the size of our contribution to the GDP is less than one percent but my target before I leave here is that we should be able to contribute at least 15 percent. That is why we are putting a lot of issues on ground to be able to drive this process.

In view of the continued emergence of topical environmental issues that require urgent attention, World Bank has reinstated its commitment to help Nigerian government in its effort to tackle the challenge of Climate Change in the area of adaptation.