A LAGOS-based real estate development and investment firm, Messrs Propertygate Development and Investment Plc and residents of Olusi community in Sangotedo in the Lekki axis of Lagos State, have embarked upon the upgrade of Olusi Street, the road which links Lekki-Epe Expressway to the community.

MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Senator Bala Mohammed said last week that the Administration approved a total of 69 building plans within an interval of 12 days

THE rapid propagation in recent years of infectious diseases such as Malaria, Chikungunya and even Ebola is one more example of how climate change threatens global health security.

Deeply worried by ncidents of collapse of buildings across the country the Nigerian Institution of Structural Engineers, a division if the Nigerian Society of Engineers NSE, has called on the three tiers of governments to engage the services of the qualified structural engineers in all their construction projects.

ABUJA – The Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Ban Ki-Moon has called on African leaders and other private institutions to listen to the yearnings of slum dwellers in their countries with a view to meeting their needs and making life more meaningful for them.

In furtherance of its drive to provide affordable housing in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA has allocated parcels of land in the city to the Federal Housing Authority, FHA, to enable the housing agency fulfill its mandate of building decent and affordable housing for Nigerians.

The European Union has unveiled plans to award N210 million grants to civil society organizations, CSOs and non-government organizations, NGOs for the implementation of community-based actions that will boost sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene services delivery in urban and small towns in five Niger Delta states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Rivers.

As Nigeria intensifies efforts at bridging her housing deficit, a major player in the real estate sector and Managing Director, Grenadines Homes, Mrs. Noimot Olatunji has called on government at all levels to urgently put measures in place to fast-track timely and cost effective housing delivery in the country by simplifying the approval processes of land titles.

TRUSTBond Mortgage Bank Plc, one of the recapitalised national primary mortgage institutions, PMIs in the country, has assured its shareholders of uninterrupted operations in its real estate activities.

The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam has charged members of the recently inaugurated National Steering Committee and Technical Committee on Environment Statistics to ensure that Nigeria puts the United Nations revised framework on environment statistics to use in developing the country’s environment.