Trinity Mall located along the ever-busy Awolowo Way in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital, has officially opened for business. The three-storey shopping complex constructed with about N600 million, is the flagship commercial project of OMAIS Investment Limited, a Lagos-based real estate development company. The construction of the mall comprising 40 shop spaces of various types, was formally flagged-off on December 13, 2011.

The Nigeria Civil Service Union (Federal Council) has unveiled plans to build over 600 affordable housing units to address the problem of accommodation faced by workers in the nation’s capital.

The immediate past Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS, Mr. Olayemi Shonubi has attributed the high cost of procuring civil and heavy engineering projects in Nigeria to the non-utilisation of quantity surveyors who by training are equipped to give value for money on all construction projects.

As part of efforts to tackle the challenges confronting the operations of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, LCBC, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Mr Sanusi Imran Abdullahi, an engineer, has unveiled plans to implement a five-year investment plan, expected to gulp about 91,000,000 Euros.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere has restrained the Lagos State government from further demolition and dismantling of a property located at plot 49, Martins, street, Lagos by the agents of the Lagos State Building Control Agency, LSBCA.