Worried by the rising wave of building collapse across the country, pressure group – Building Collapse Prevention Guild, BCPG, has adopted a grass root measure to check the increasing occurrence of buildings collapse in the country.

Poised to tackle the rising wave of building collapse as well as generate a forum to uplift the building sector in Nigeria, Atlantic Exhibition Nigeria Limited, AENL, Lagos, has unveiled plans to bring together over 100 local and international exhibitors to showcase modern building construction machinery.

With the coming on board of the Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam, and her familiarisation tour of parastatals and agencies under the Ministry, expectations are high that the new Minister will take concrete steps to address the daunting challenges facing the Ministry and the Nigerian Environment.

Whereas mortgage finance contributes between 50 and 80 percent to the gross domestic product, GDP, of European countries and the United States of America, it (mortgage finance) contributes less than one percent of Nigeria’s GDP. In fact, only about five percent of the 13.7 million housing units in Nigeria are financed with mortgages.

Determined to take professional women engineers in Nigeria to greater heights, the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria, APWEN, has brokered a partnership deal that would ensure placements of upcoming female engineers in manufacturing companies when they need to undergo internship in engineering.

The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Works, is currently executing 184 road contracts across the the six geo-political zones in Nigeria.

Piqued by the inability of the Federal Government to constitute and inaugurate the National Council on Public Procurement, seven years after the Act was signed into law, Nigerian quantity surveyors have called for the immediate inauguration of the Council as stipulated by the procurement legislation.

Home owners having problems of dirt or leakage with their roofs, can now heave a sigh of relief. This is because of the introduction of a scientific approach to roofing by Messrs Plus Word Roofing.

With the coming on board of the Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam, and her familiarisation tour of parastatals and agencies under the Ministry, expectations are high that the new Minister will take concrete steps to address the daunting challenges facing the Ministry and the Nigerian Environment.

By JUDE NJOKU & CHRIS OCHAYI Thirty-one years after Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande left office as the first civilian governor of Lagos State, his legacies in the housing sector are still speaking for him. Although most of the houses built by Jakande are today in distressed conditions due mainly to lack of maintenance culture, they […]