Why completing abandoned buildings for habitation is dangerous —Experts
Completing abandoned uncompleted buildings for habitation carries major safety and financial implications including structural degradation and high renovation costs. To ensure the buildings are safe for use after their completion, the issue of structural degradation and others must be adequately addresed, according to construction experts.
Money bags ‘ll not hijack new Lagos mortgage scheme – Jeje
The Lagos State Government has concluded plans to commence its Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme, HOMS, in the first quarter of next year.
Nigeria needs N500bn to fix ailing roads – Onolememen
A whopping N500 billion would be required annually for the next four years to fix Nigerian ailing roads and bring them to sync with road infrastructure development in other thriving nations in the world. This was disclosed recently by the Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen.
‘No landlord has right to lock out tenant for non-payment of service charge’
DOes a landlord, his agents or caretaker have the legal right to lock out a tenant who has duly paid his rent on the ground that the tenant is yet to pay the service charge on the property? This is the issue agitating the mind of a Lagos-based Pentecostal Pastor whose church in a rented building, was sealed off last week by the landlord’s agent because it (church) has not yet paid the service charge.
Quantity Surveyors hold key to stem corruption in construction sector – Don
After a tutelage which spanned a period of eight years, Mr. Olayemi Shonubi was penultimate weekend inaugurated as the 11th Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS.
FCTA backpedals, restores 3,645 plots to original allottees
ABUJA – In view of overriding public interest, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the immediate re-instatements of 3,645 plots that were revoked in the Federal Capital Territory.
