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Lagos Recruits 200 Building Control Officers

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Towards providing effective monitoring of building construction works in the state, Lagos authorities have employed over 200 built environment professionals to increase the staff strength of the Lagos State Building Control Agency(LASBCA). Towards providing effective monitoring of building construction works in the state, Lagos authorities have employed over 200 built environment professionals to increase the staff strength of the Lagos State Building Control Agency(LASBCA). As part of the induction programme, Building Collapse Prevention Guild held a technical session with the agency’s staff at their headquarters in GRA, Ikeja. Speaking at the forum, LASBCA General

Developer Transforms Ore to N20 Billion Sunshine City

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Proposed Ore Sunshine City. Apparently to fast-track urban development in the commercial town of Ore in Odigbo local council, the Ondo State Government has commissioned the first phase of the multi-billion naira Ore Sunshine City (OSC). The ultra modern city located at the site of the dismantled tollgate in Ore, along Lagos/Benin Expressway covers 167 hectares of land and estimated to gulp N12 billion in the next 15 years. Developed under Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement by the Ondo State Government, that has 40 per

Chattel Realty’s HELLO Boosts Affordable Housing Delivery

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Efforts toward addressing housing deficits and ensuring affordable housing delivery in Nigeria has received a boost with the launch of new housing model tagged HELLO in Lagos. With a population now estimated to be more than 180 million people, it is believed that more than one million housing units yearly is required to reduce the current housing deficits of about 17 million to avert housing crisis by 2020. This is not just dangerous but could indeed blossom into a catastrophe of

Revised Ikeja Master Plan Will Address Infrastructural Challenges

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Lagos State Commissioner of Physical Planning and Urban Development, Anifowoshe Abiola Wasiu. Current efforts by the Lagos State government to revise the existing Ikeja Model City Plan is to address infrastructural challenges in the capital city with a view to making it more sustainable, organised, liveable and investors friendly. The State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Abiola Anifowoshe disclosed this at the public presentation of the final draft of

FG Releases N72bn for Lagos-Ibadan Rail Line

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Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday disclosed that the Federal Government has released its counterpart fund for the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan mordernisation railway project. He put the figure at N72bn. The minister said this at the Second Presidential Business Forum which was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.