Since the current Minister of Environment, Hajia Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafia was appointed, she has demonstrated her passion to further the course of Environmental Governance especially at the federal level.

Successive Nigerian governments have paid lip-service to the need for alternative sources of building materials in view of the escalating cost of the conventional or imported ones.

The Nigerian road network covers a total of 195,400 kilometers. This figure is made up of 34,300 kilometres of Federal roads, 30,500 kilometres and State roads and 130,600 kilometres of local government roads. But only a paltry 60,000 kilometres are paved and this falls short of the 300,000 kilometres of paved road required to meet vision 20-2020 target in the road sector.

Determined to give Umuahia, the Abia State capital a new look befitting its status, the state government has begun moves to relocate traders from the old Umuahia main market. The government is developing a model market in the city whose construction has reached an advanced stage.

The Quantity Surveyor Registration Board of Nigeria, QSRBN, has called on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, to urgently set up Project Cost Auditing and Monitoring departments in order to curb corrupt practices in the award of government projects.

Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat last week, unveiled plans to construct seven pedestrian bridges in different parts of the state. The Commissioner also debunked allegations that the road construction and development agenda of the Fashola administration favours some localities over others in the state.

To ensure speedy provision of basic engineering infrastructure to the Federal Capital Territory, the FCT Administration has formalised a new policy called “land for infrastructure swap model”.

A lot of words have been spoken by the Federal Government over its commitment to tackle the challenges of Climate Change in Nigeria. The challenges are no longer in the realm of will-be. They are here in Nigeria and they are taking tolls on the country increasingly.

Bayelsa State government last week, unveiled a new environmental sanitation policy with the empowerment of the State Environmental Sanitation Authority as an autonomous body and cancellation of contract removal of waste in the state capital.

Going by a recent global report, about 60 percent of gaseous emissions come from energy generation which is said to be contributing significantly to global warming, leading to climate change.