Except the challenge of sub-optimal nutrition among infants and other unmet health problems confronting Nigerian children are adequately tackled

The cost of housing provision is still very high because the cost of the components is very high. Land cost is high, land preparation cost is high, land regularisation cost is high. In the same vein, the cost of construction and labour cost are also very high”.

Verandas are traditionally semi-enclosed out-door spaces usually off the external wall of a building for various uses or purposes.

A large gathering of some 150 people assembled last weekend at the Biosphere environmental museum in Montreal to mark this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity and celebrate the forests of the world.

Appalled by the lack of uniformity in the growth and development of most Nigerian cities, built environment professionals have called on the Federal and state governments to adopt measures that would make Nigerian cities more liveable.

Mr Ajele John Alufohai who was sworn in as the 21st President of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors

Rats constitute a health and environmental hazard to many homes. In fact, they have assumed such a notoriety that people ascribe some demonic powers to them.

House prices in Britain will fall for the next five years in the longest slump for at least half a century, leading economists warn today.

Barely five days to the end of the present administration, civil society groups and some concerned legislators have urged President Goodluck Jonathan to sign the Climate Change Commission Bill into law. The bill seeks to create a commission to coordinate Nigeria’s response to the growing disasters caused by climate change.

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf has become an Honorary Councillor of the World Future Council (WFC). Using the slogan “Biodiversity is Life.

The ongoing urban development and slum renewal programme embarked upon by the Lagos State Government aimed at making Lagos metropolis a befitting mega city has received a boost with the completion of the model city plans as well as land use and infrastructure master plans.

Most homes, no matter how beautiful they appear to look from the outside, there is always a vital missing link with the arrangement of items in homes resulting to cluttering of items all over the place. However, there are ways and means by which problem of cluttering of items in homes.

With less than one week to the swearing in of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and other newly elected governors, built environment experts have tasked the new administrations to give the construction industry a preeminent position in which of its role as the engine that drives other sectors of the economy.

Messrs Lekki Concession Company Limited, the concessionaire handling the 49 kilometre Lekki -Epe expressway said last week that it has mapped out strategies to make the road safer for motorists, motorcyclists and pedestrians. A statement signed by Veronica Jacobs explained that making the road safe is a key element in encouraging the people to use the road more efficiently.

Lagos State Government is set to establish facilities for the take off of its waste-to- wealth programme in the five divisions of the state. The facilities will convert various types of waste to different useful components by different proponents as recommended by the standing technical committee on the establishment of waste-to-wealth in the state comprising relevant line ministries and agencies.