Stakeholders have endorsed a 10-year physical development action plan for Ijeododo, a settlement with expansive wetlands and rain forest zone in Ojo Local Government of Lagos State.

The failure to implement wholly the Lagos city resilience strategy unfolded early this year by the Lagos authorities has left many stakeholders bewildered.   Launched in collaboration with Africa Global Resilient Cities Network, the strategy contains three pillars, 10 goals and 31 initiatives, which provide a framework for improving the capacity of the city to…

With the prevailing property market and the attendant impacts on investors, property owners in Lagos are changing the use of their properties to meet the need of tenants and prospective clients.

One of the starkest reminders of the misgovernance of the nation by past leaders was the seemingly deliberate effort to stifle the industrial sector that was expected to tackle unemployment. As many analysts now agree, Nigerians’preference for imported goods has also weakened the few existing industries...

For Nigerian settlements to become growth activators, there is the need to criminalise non-implementation of approved and operative physical development plans. This was the submission of the Managing Director, MOA Planners Limited, Moses Ogunleye at the 8th annual lecture of the College of Environmental Sciences, Bells University of Technology, Ota. He said, the authorities must…

Town planners have called for proactive measures against the devastating impact of floods, which has led to the loss of 18,000 buildings and 200 lives in 12 states of the federation.

Amid exponential growth in city’s population, a former Lagos government official last week revealed that the absence of National Spatial Physical Planning Policy framework...

The Chairman, Lagos International Housing Fair Committee, Moses Ogunleye, said professionals, researchers and government must partner on matters affecting the sector.

The business environment in which town planning consultants operate have been described as diverse and complex, thereby unfavourable to the practice of the profession.

The chairman, Beachland Resources, organisers of the fair, Moses Ogunleye disclosed that the choice of the theme ‘Quality management in housing delivery,’ is hinged on the need to again put searchlight on the production of...

With the recession leaving major players in the real estate bruised, experts have said that the return to growth of the nation’s economy should be driven by the construction industry.