… 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.