A former President of the Nigeria Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS), Obafemi Onashile has been elected the president of the newly inaugurated 10th Board of the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria (QSRBN).
A statement issued by the Registrar of the board, Abdullahi Alkali, said that Onashile was unanimously elected by the new members of the board after their inauguration by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa in Abuja.
Alkali stated that the inauguration ceremony also had in attendance the Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Abdullahi Gwarzo and the Permanent Secretary, Sir Marcus Ogunbiyi.
He noted that QSRBN established by Decree 31 of 1986 and subsequently made an Act of the National Assembly under the Laws of The Federation of Nigeria 2004 is the statutory agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria responsible for the regulation of the training and practice of quantity surveying services in Nigeria. It is the body that certifies persons (individual or corporate) who can practice quantity surveying in Nigeria.
Alkali said that the board, under the Act, is saddled with establishing and maintaining a register of those who are qualified to practice and be addressed as quantity surveyors in Nigeria, adding that under clause 9 of the QSRBN Act, the board is also responsible for determining what constitutes relevant training to become a registered quantity surveyor and as well approve educational institutions (universities and polytechnics) locally and abroad that have convincingly demonstrated adequate capacity to teach the quantity surveying course efficiently.
He said: “In fulfilling its mandate of maintaining a register of quantity surveyors in Nigeria, the Act gives power to the board to investigate and discipline any quantity surveyor that has been proven to have erred in unethical behaviours or involved in misconducts unbecoming of a registered quantity surveyor.
“Depending on the gravity of the proven misconduct or offense, the board has the power to direct the striking out of the name of such a quantity surveyor from the register of quantity surveyors in Nigeria.”
Members of the board are Abubakar Gengle, Vice President of the Board; Samuel Pemi, and Patrick Edem. Oribu Georgewill; Dr Fatima Bello; Dr Aminu Bashir, NIQS Deputy President; Bamidele Mafimidiwo, NIQS Vice President; and Priscilla Akabudike. Others include Bede Ejiekwu; Anas Adamu; Prof Joshua Dada; Brendan Ofoegbu; Dr Kasimu Mohammed, and Idris Abdullahi.
