Apart from sanity being restored, great relief has come the way of Apapa and its environs as the task force team of Lagos State Government comprising the Police, Military, LASTMA and KAI officials swung into action last week to clear off illegal structures, trailers and tankers parking along Apapa/Wharf Road especially at Liverpool Bridge, Marine Beach and Navy Dockyard area.

Poor maintenance culture has often be adduced as the major reason for the collapse of Nigeria’s 195,400 kilometers of roads infrastructure. Against this backdrop, construction experts have called for a cost effective solution to road construction and maintenance in the country.

Apparently complying with ministerial directive that open man-holes that dot Federal roads in Lagos should be closed without further delay, the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency FERMA has commenced the closure of open man-holes in the state.

The world’s poorest countries have issued a bold plan to make the UN climate change talks more likely to reach their goal of having an effective and legally binding agreement ready for governments to adopt by 2015.

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola has described the Climate Change Club in Lagos Schools as the home-grown solution to the global scourge of climate change.

Government is yet to fashion out a suitable mortgage finance system that will ensure improved access to housing for Nigerians.

Professionals in the building sector have declared that the housing crisis in the country will persist if deliberate measures are not taken by stakeholders to ensure the use of indigenous building technology and materials.

That many Nigerians spend several millions of Naira to build and furnish their exotic homes is not in doubt. But the irony is that these Nigerians would not spend a Kobo to insure such properties. The reasons are not far-fetched: While many see insurance as an additional form of taxation, others say they do not have confidence in the insurance industry.

In line with the transformation agenda of the Federal Government and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the FCT Administration said last week that it has mapped out strategies to tackle the housing needs of all residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

The month before the London 2012 Olympics, another event will take place which will deal with more urgent issues, concerning the present and the future of the Earth. Unfortunately, this event has been by-passed by the information super highway.

Artisans in the building industry last week in Lagos, called on the Federal and State Governments, corporate organisations and individuals to desist from hiring the services of foreign artisans to work on construction projects in the country.

The Lagos State Government has unveiled plans to issue new Certificates of Occupancy, Cs of O to title holders in the state. Governor Babatunde Fashola who disclosed this at a press briefing to mark his 1,800 days in office, said the new Cs of O would be a more secure document, said the transition from the old certificate to the new one, would be seamless.

The greatest challenge for the management of Lagos and similar cities is how to make its running costs affordable and compatible with the earning capacity of its citizens.

A one-day National conference on sustainable alternative material to road construction will hold in Lagos on Thursday. The conference is being organised by the Cement Manufacturers Association of Nigeria CMAN in partnership with Business Day Media Limited, publishers of Business Day Newspapers, and Prize Communications Limited.

Top estate surveyors and valuers, private property developers and mortgage operators have decried the absence of a virile mortgage finance system which has led to the “cash and carry” syndrome in housing transactions in the country.