Last Wednesday, the Executive Council of President Goodluck Jonathan announced the contract for the award of the channelization of the Asa River in Ilorin Kwara State. The Minister of Environment, Hadiza Mailafia Ibrahim who made the announcement gave the justification for the award as perennial flooding of the plains along thei river.

Worried by the high cost of construction projects in Nigeria, the Federal Government last week, charged Quantity Surveyors to collaborate with the anti-graft agencies in order to strengthen the fight against corruption and unethical practices in the award of contracts.

Civil servants who were living in government-owned quarters at Abuja were during the monetization policy, given the option of expressing interest in buying the houses which they occupied.

Apparently worried by the activities of roadside estate agents who dupe innocent home seekers, the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers NIESV, which has consistently promised to sanitise agency business in the country, has once again promised to revolutionise estate agency practice in Nigeria. This time around, the Institution is promising action and not mere rhetoric.

Do you intend your house to stand out in your neighbourhood and you are engrossed with thoughts about what to do? Well, you may try covering the roof of your house with shingles instead of the popular long span aluminum or zinc being used by many home owners.