UNILAG pioneers environmental sustainability innovation
“Though it has become a menace, plastic is what our society will still require at every point of social and economic development. Taking our campus for example, given its location beside the Lagos Lagoon, socio-economic activities herein have major impacts on the coastal environment.”
Lagos plans huge investments in wastewater infrastructure
In order to implement the five-year sustainable sewage and sanitation infrastructure strategy and facilitation of public private partnership in wastewater management, Lagos State Government last week commissioned Wastewater Management Office’s administrative headquarters located along Obasa Street, Off Oba Akra Avenue, Ikeja.
Architects target June 2011 completion date for Lagos building
More than a decade after it was conceptualised and its foundation stone laid by the immediate past Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) building at Idowu Taylor Street, Lagos is now slated for completion in June 2011.
How to house homeless Nigerians by former Lagos NIQS chairman
Mr. Jide Oke is the immediate past Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS). In this interview with Jude Njoku, Mr Oke who until recently was the Head of the Property department of Oceanic Bank Plc, speaks on how homelessness can be checked in Nigeria.
Reps seek N500 billion-intervention fund for highways
To avoid imminent total collapse of Federal highways in the country, the House of Representatives Sub-Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has asked the Federal Government to inject over N500billion as an intervention fund to rescue the sector from the current deteriorating status.
Contractor gives February 2011 for completion of Egbeda-Idimu-Ikotun Road
MOTORISTS who have gone through hell plying the Ikotun-Idimu road may soon heave a sigh of relief. This is because Messrs Plycon Nigeria Limited, the construction handling the project has pledged to complete work on the road in February 2011. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Idimu, the company said the project is progressing satisfactorily.
