… As LAWMA introduces waste banks, buy-back programme
Blocked drains, gutters and canals that emit foul odour have continued to be a regular feature of Lagos metropolis and indeed other urban centres in the country. The unfortunate aspect of this development is that many Lagos residents have come to accept it as part of city life.

Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA has provided parking lots for trailers and tanker drivers in seven states across the nation. The Agency has also paved the shoulders of Abuja-Kaduna Road for brief parking of trailers and tanker without obstructing traffic flow on that route.

Worried by the continuous decay of the nation’s infrastructure, Lagos based quantity surveyors have called for the de-regulation of the petroleum downstream sector, but not as dictated by the World Bank.

The setting was the Federal High Court, in the highbrow Ikoyi area of Lagos. A politician from one of the eastern states who was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly enriching himself, had just being granted bail by the court.

The move by the Federal Government to revitalise the housing and urban development sector through the development of social housing schemes, has received the backing of estate surveyors and valuers.

Built environment experts have called for a thorough investigation of buildings around the scene of the Dana plane crash at Iju-Ishaga in order to determine their structural stability and fitness for habitation.

Nigerians were thrown into mourning penultimate Sunday when a Dana airplane which took off from the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja, crashed into a three-storey building at Iju-Ishaga, about 11 nautical miles from the Murtala Mohammed Local Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

Environment Minister, Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia has assured German investors of Nigeria’s willingness to partner with them in the establishment of waste recycling facilities in the country.

IN order to reduce emissions from automobiles and generating sets in Lagos, an environmentalist Dr Newton Jibunoh has called on the State government to expand the operations of Bus Rapid Transport BRT, saying this would assist in ridding the city of of the menace of smoky vehicles which constitute the major cause of pollution and degradation in the mega-city.

The three tiers of government have been called upon to streamline the roles of fire and rescue and emergency agencies, to ensure discipline, orderliness and professionalism during emergencies as experienced in Sunday’s Dana plane crash at Iju, Lagos.

The transformation agenda of the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led administration in Ogun State appears to be yielding fruits going by the harvest of completed and ongoing projects in various parts of the state.

THE Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria, ESVARBON and the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, NIESV, have begun fresh moves to increase the number of registered estate surveyors and valuers in the country, currently put at 2,888.

Messrs Briscoe Properties Limited, a subsidiary of R.T.Briscoe (Nigeria) Plc last week, unveiled its latest housing estate, an 18-unit service apartment known as Heliconia Court. The gated estate is located along Connal Road, Off Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba.

The Nigeria Youth Climate Action Network, NYCAN has lauded the House of Representatives for the passage of a Bill for the establishment of the National Climate Change Commission.

With a housing shortfall estimated at between 16 -17 million units, Nigeria is believed to have one of the highest number of homeless people in the world. Majority of these people fall within the low-income or vulnerable group. Apart from the non-availability of land as a result of the Land Use Act of 1978, dearth of housing finance has been fingered as the greatest factor inhibiting the provision of shelter for the Nigerian masses.