IT is now mandatory for property owners, tenements and occupiers to landscape and beautify the perimeter areas of their properties in Lagos State and violation of this order shall attract a penalty of N250,000. Similarly, it is now an offence to walk on lawns and gardens, spit, urinate or defecate in any area of the 128 landscaped gardens and 14 parks in the State.

THE Federal Government has assured that massive reconstruction work on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway will commence at the end of the rainy season. The government has also decided to enforce the concession agreement entered into with Bi-Courtney Highway Services Ltd on the reconstruction of the ever-busy highway.

CONCERNS for the expansion of the Sahara Desert and the devastating effect of climate change found a voice in one of Africa’s novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, who urged government and corporate organizations to respond to the threats.

THE National Chairman of Urhobo Political Movement, UPM, in Delta State, Chief Ominimini Chris Obiuwevbi has appealed to the Federal Government to provide adequate funding to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to enable it complete the dualisation of the East- West highway projects at the stipulated time.

Mrs Abike Afolyan (not real names) runs a maternity home in Sari-Iganmu, a sprawling slum in the Apapa Local Government Area of Lagos. Her desire to expand the Home led to the search for a bigger accommodation. She registered with one of the Agents with the sum of N5,000 to retain his services.

The Nigerian Institute of Building NIOB, has reiterated its call for the review of the Public Procurement Act (2007) to include an elaborate provision for construction project tender durations validity.

After over four years of rigorous planning, Messrs Landmark 2007 Global Realty Limited, a member of the Landmark Group of companies will today, formally draw the curtains on the construction of its nine-storey Towers Building in Victoria Island Lagos.

Two non-governmental organisations, Clean Coast Nigeria, CCN and Ocean Conservancy, will on Monday, September 24, flag off a week long cleaning of parts of the Lagos coastline.

The Federal Government has restated its commitment to the building of a robust engineering capacity in the country.

GOshen and Alpha Beach Estates were developed as highbrow residential estates in the Lekki Peninsula axis of Lagos. But the once serene neighbourhoods have been hit by coastal erosion which has forced some of the residents to relocate to more secure areas.

Crossover Savings & Loans Limited, one of the new players in the Nigerian mortgage industry, has signed an agreement with an American Construction Company, Messrs Frontera Global Company, to develop affordable houses in the country.

The Federal Government has inaugurated an inter-ministerial steering committee for the management of polychlorinated byphenyl, PCBs, in Nigeria.

The Lagos State Government has awarded the contract for the replacement of the failed pedestrian bridge at Ilasamaja on Oshodi- Apapa Expressway to Messrs P.W. Nig. Ltd.

“For which of you intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it. Lest after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him saying, this man began to build but was not able to finish”.

The seven professional bodies in the nation’s built environment under the aegis of Building Collapse Prevention Guild BCPG have proffered solution to the rising occurrence of collapsed buildings in the country.