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.