Property & Environment

Collapsed Buildings: experts renew call for passage of building code

Collapsed Buildings: experts renew call for passage of building code By Dada Jackson Senior Correspondent, Lagos Against the backdrop of...

Nestlé reaffirms commitment to environmental sustainability

In pursuit of its commitment to environmentally sustainable business practices,...

NCF honours late Obot, launches Orchids Centre

A year ago, Professor of Botany and the former Executive...

Enugu govt pioneers GIS-based land asset management

By Dada Jackson Senior Corresponendent, Lagos As part of efforts...

WED 2013: Reducing food waste to sustain the environment

WED 2013: Reducing food waste to sustain the environment In the spirit of this year’s World Environment Day (WED) celebrations, the Lagos State Government has apparently taken up a campaign to address the worrisome issue of food waste in the light of its socio-economic and environmental implications.

Lagos, Takoradi, Nairobi typify Africa’s ‘New Cities’

Gleaming skyscrapers towering over upwardly mobile professionals and flashy cars...

Highlighting two years of FG’s Green Transformation

Lawrence Ojabo, Deputy Director, Press & Public Relations in the...

Nigeria’s first cable-stay bridge emerges

Nigeria’s first cable-stay bridge emerges The striking Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos has emerged as Nigeria’s first cable-stay bridge. The landmark project was formally opened last Wednesday by Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN).

Group asks FG to produce EIA on Zungeru Dam project

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has...

Lagos to go tough on telecoms operators

By Dada Jackson Senior Correspondent Lagos As part of the...

Realising Nigeria’s N10b Great Green Wall of trees

Realising Nigeria’s N10b Great Green Wall of trees The “Great Green Wall” brings together 11 countries to plant trees across Africa to literally hold back the advancing Sahara Desert with a swathe (or wall) of greenery that will serve to lessen the effects of desertification and improve the lives and livelihoods of communities.

Lagos, developer to build 680-unit estate

By Dada Jackson Senior Correspondent, Lagos Lagos State Government through...

Ekwunife, Amosun underline environmental priority

Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Uche Ekwunife, has said that...

Post COP 18: Activists underline need for emission cuts

Post COP 18: Activists underline need for emission cuts The civil society in Nigeria has said that, in line with the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Legislation fails to curb Lagos landlord-tenant face-off

Legislation fails to curb Lagos landlord-tenant face-off In an apparent response to the endless bickering between landlords and tenants in Lagos State over the issue of rent and the need to put an end to it, the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on August 24, 2011, appended his signature to the new Lagos...

Lagos threatens to take over FG’s chanelisation project

Lagos threatens to take over FG’s chanelisation project Apparently irked by the shoddy job being carried out by the Federal Government at the Lekki 11-Ikota River chanelisation project, the Lagos State Government has threatened to take over the chanelisation work after due consultation with the appropriate authority.

Housing: Lagosians and affordability question

Housing: Lagosians and  affordability question Few weeks ago, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State commissioned a housing estate at Government Reservation Area (GRA), Ikeja which was named after the former Commonwealth Secretary General, Emeka Ayanoku.

Surveyor urges senior colleagues to enhance professional standard

President of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), Agele...

How govt can actualise fresh housing mandate, by experts

How govt can actualise fresh housing mandate, by experts By Dada Jackson/Lagos It all started during the administration of...

Lagos reels out riot out to worship centres

Lagos reels out riot out to worship centres By Dada Jackson/Lagos Apparently worried about the noise being churned...

Study reveals high cost of degradation, drought

The global community is losing up to five percent of...

Group seeks trial of environmental violators

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has...

Nigeria sets standards for wood cooking stoves

The International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED) in...

We have succeeded in reducing the incidence of quackery – NIOB chief

By Dada Jackson Senior Correspondent, Lagos   As he sets...

Mixed reactions trail proposed road agency

Not long ago, the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, hinted that the Federal Government was considering the establishment of a Federal Roads Development Authority (FRDA) to drive the process of ensuring the rehabilitation, maintenance and reconstruction of all federal roads in the country.