International Treaty on Biosafety last week marked its 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the international agreement governing the movement of living modified organisms, LMOs across national borders.

The Galma multi purpose Dam which has attained about 95 percent completion level, would improve the economic value of the people of Kaduna State

A Lagos-based property development firm, Messrs Propertygate Development and Investment Plc, has given a boost to housing provision in the popularLekki peninsular corridor with the completion of a highbrow mini residential housing estate.

WHEN President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Stakeholders Retreat on Housing and Urban Development, promised that the Federal Government will revolutionalise the housing sector by translating the National Housing Policy and National Urban Development Policy into a road map for housing development, it was expected that many would be enthusiastic.

No genuine national transformation would be achieved without the well articulated inputs of builders. This claim was made by participants at the just concluded 43rd annual general meeting, AGM of the Nigerian Institute of Building, NIOB, in Abuja.

Members of the Aworo family of Odogbo in Atakunmosa East Local Government Area of Osun State have dragged the Owa Obokun of Ijesa Land, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran before an Osun State High Court in Ilesa, challenging the propriety of his attempt to take over about 4, 000 acres of land which make up Odogbo from them.

Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen has identified investment in physical infrastructure, such as roads, houses, power and water as essential for the growth of the economic growth of Africa.

IF the promise of the British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Peter Carter, is anything to go by, British investors will soon key into the multi-billion naira Lagos Blue Line (Okokomaiko-Marina) Rail Project. This is in addition to the support of the British Government via the Department for International Development (DFID).

* It will scare away potential investors —Experts
* Govt gets plaudits from road users…
“Good afternoon; thanks for your enquiry. LCC has no comment at this time. Should we consider it necessary, we will issue a public statement in due course. Regards”. That was how Mr. Charles Imevbore, who heads the Communications and Commercial department of Lekki Concession Company, LCC, responded through a text message, to our enquiry on why the 30-year concession the company had with the Lagos State Government to upgrade, expand and maintain the 49.63 kilometer Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe Expressway, was terminated.

Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen has called for the amendment of the Company and Allied Matters Act to allow companies to contribute 3–5 per cent of their pre-tax income into an Infrastructure Development Fund, IDF.