PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT

A business consultant, Mr Nerus Ekezie, on Thursday called on the Federal Government to  explore more Public Private Partnership (PPP) models as  measures to tackle the country’s $3 trillion infrastructure deficit. Ekezie, who is a former Director, of National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises,(ASME), made the call in an...

Mr Umar Dankane, Executive Director, Business Development and Portfolio Management of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria has said that the bank  needed N500 billion recapitilisation fund for optimal performance. Dankane made the disclosure on Wednesday in Calabar at the bank’s Southern Zonal Retreat, with the theme “Motivating the Informal...

    As reconstruction work begins on Monday (September 2) on the 600-metres stretch between Ojodu Berger and the beginning of Kara Bridge, raffic would be diverted at the Lagos end of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Adedamola Kuti, who stated this Thursday during an inspection...

By Lansar Aghaji & Co In a bid to invoke transparency, earn the citizen's trust and fight corruption (in its many forms), virtually all the countries of the world (world bank puts the statistics at over 150 countries) provide a structured medium for ensuring that elected, appointed, recruited or contracted...

  The Federal Controller of Works in Anambra, Mr Adeyemo Ajani, on Saturday said the second Niger Bridge may be redesigned to prevent suicide attempts. Ajani stated this when the Abuja branch of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) inspected the on-going works at the Ogbaru site of the project,...

  A building whether a private or public building or a national or state building is not restricted to only mortar and bricks. There are more to it, such as the infrastructure for the provision of human comfort, the productivity contributed, the environment which is intended to enhance people’s health,...

  Mr Salisu Dahiru, the National Coordinator, Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), has said that Nigeria ranks the highest with deforestation rate in the world. Dahiru said this on Tuesday in Benin, while delivering a lecture, entitled “managing land degradation in Nigeria: the challenges, action and remediation,” at...

  The Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE), Lagos Chapter, on Monday urged operators in the building construction industry to continually be updated with new technologies and practices of the profession. Mrs Omolola Adetona, Chairman of NICE, gave the advice during a ‘Project Management Training for Engineers’ organised by the...

  Commences emergency clean-up of the Apapa gridlock Trucks, tankers to vacate Port Access Roads within 72 hours from this morning   A Presidential directive has been issued for the immediate clearing up of the Apapa gridlock and the restoration of law and order to Apapa and its environs within...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) and the National Executive Council are to deliberate on the indiscriminate tree felling across the country with a view to taking a decision that will be binding on the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, made...