The 774 local government areas in Nigeria should domesticate the National Water Supply and Sanitation Policy and create Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) departments, adequately staff them and provide funds for their operations

The Lagos State Public Works Corporation (LSPWC) last week appealed to Community Development Associations (CDAs), Local Government Councils as well as market men and women to cooperate with the Corporation in its ongoing campaign to stamp out road abuses in the state.

More people in the UK are putting their properties on the market but in most cases, with London being the exception, there are not enough buyers, according to the latest report from Rightmove published last week.

Amidst fears that property prices may hit the roof tops following last month’s commencement of the implementation of the Lagos building control law which made it mandatory for a developer of a three-storey building and above to provide insurance certificate as a pre-requisite for government approval, the insurance methodology to be adopted by the insurance companies

Rising from the 23rd biennial meeting of governments in the Governing Council of UN-Habitat in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital last week, the 973 delegates from 90 countries, including 563 government representatives, approved the work programme of the agency and increased its budget for the next two years.