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The proposed agenda, which is consistent with research findings and policy advocacy that the agency have pursued over several years, harped on the need to transform cities as engines of wealth creation and ensure access to decent income, decent housing, safe drinking water, and affordable transportation.

AN office complex being developed by a Lagos-based firm architectural firm, Messrs Design Genre Consultants is among the 57 entries shortlisted for the 2014 World Architecture News commercial Award (WAN) in the commercial category.

FOLLOWING the infiltration of estate agency practice by quacks that creates negative perception about genuine professionals in the country, members of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) have commenced programmes to rescue the practitioners from public opprobrium and reposition them in the scheme of things.

INSTEAD of dissipating energy on the agency aspect of the profession, realtors under an aegis, the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV), Lagos State Chapter, has been urged to drive creation of more new neighbourhoods in the state.

ONE of the foremost professional groups in the building industry, Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), will on Thursday begin a series of annual lecture tagged Distinguished Lecture Series.

LIKE a heavy cloud, a deep sense of disquiet now hangs over the Okobaba sawmill, following a renewed effort by the Lagos authorities to upgrade the present blighted location, towards improving its urban regeneration in  Ebute Metta, Mainland area of the state.

THE illegal incursion of foreign architects into the country has continued to be a source of concern to all local architects, plying their trade in Lagos.

AN independent investigation into causes of the collapse of a seven-storey structure belonging to Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), has indicted the religious group, alleging series of structural compromise.

WITH debate raging, on ways to overhaul the persistent narrative of extreme poverty in the midst of growing wealth, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN–Habitat) has proposed a seven-point housing and urban agenda, if adopted by the in-coming Buhari administration could transform Nigerian cities into functional, productive, equitable, resilient and safe places to live in.  

IF the incoming General Muhammadu Buhari-led administration gives consent to some of the proposals from members of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESVs), fresh deals on valuation jobs would in few weeks from now be thrown up.

UNITED Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stepped up pressure on the richest nations and investors to detail how they will meet a pledge to provide developing nations $100 billion a year for climate-related programmes by 2020.

FOLLOWING the poor implementation of environmental legislations in some sectors of the economy, especially, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) law, the House of Representatives Committee on Environment has advocated a review of the environmental legislations in the country, with a view to adequately address the challenges, which conspire to produce deleterious effects on the environment.